Quickfire:
Wait. Can I have another Willie Wonka-themed episode? No? *pouts* Ok, ok.
Quickfire:
Gail and guest judge pastry chef Pichet Ong inform the chefs that they must create a new candy bar. Nice. (I will be assigning Winner In My Book Awards [WIMBAs] to whoever does NOT use nuts. Because I BLOODY EFFING HATE NUTS.) As the chefs rattle off the delicious ingredients and flavor combinations they’re using, I wonder for the 500th time why come every pastry chef is not morbidly obese. Uh oh. Chris is making two candy bars instead of one, which brings to mind something Tom Colicchio said once after a contestant on Top Chef made two bad ceviches: don’t do two things mediocrely when you can do one thing well. Yes, I paraphrased that, and no, “mediocrely” is not a word. Omg, surprise niceness! Rebecca, whose arm is still in a cast, is struggling mightily and dropping liquid nitrogen vats all over the place, and Orlando, of all people, helps her finish her candy bar. He comes across as such an insufferably self centered know-it-all that I was pretty shocked by that. Good lookin’ out, Orlando.
Katzie: brown butter and caramelized banana jasmine curd with dark chocolate and praline crunch
Carlos: peanut butter crisp with fudge cake and banana pudding covered in chocolate and topped with chocolate pop rocks. (WIMBA!)
Sally: peanut butter, puffed forbidden rice, cocoa nibs, milk chocolate ganache. (WIMBA!)
Hot Matthew: hazelnut feulletine praline with orange vanilla chocolate crème anglaise
Carlos: blackberry port jam in chocolate ganache (WIMBA!)
Chris: white chocolate with banana caramel, milk chocolate with chocolate ganache and nuts
Amanda: earl gray tea white chocolate ganache with bitter orange caramel in chocolate (WIMBA!)
Megan: peanuts, peanut butter, butter caramel, ginger, and feulletine in dark chocolate
Rebecca: granola, panna cotta, orange marmalade in white chocolate (WIMBA!)
Hot Matthew and Katzie are in the bottom; Sally and Rebecca are in the top; Sally wins; she gets immunity. Observation: Amanda looks a lot like Katy Perry.
Elimination:
This is a team challenge, in which everyone must make refreshing and summery desserts for people at a water park. Prediction time! Some desserts will
#1 melt in the heat
#2 be neither refreshing nor summery
An argument breaks out over who all will use the two ice cream machines when and in what order. Oh hello, prediction #1. Johnny time! He enters just as Carlos is yelling the order in which the machine will be used. He is worried by Carlos’s dessert. The dessert Katzie is making, it turns out, is inspired by a restaurant whose owners Johnny knows personally. “Uh oh! You better make it good, girl!” laughs Rebecca. Johnny’s impressed that Amanda’s making funnel cake. As Johnny watches, Katzie’s runs over to save her ice cream, which is spilling out of the machine cuz she forgot to close the door.
Day Two: Katzie: “I’m nervous because we’re serving frozen treats at a water park, and heat can always be a problem when it comes to desserts.” Oh hello, prediction #1. Sally admits she has a lesbian crush on Amanda. (Whatever. Show me more of the Hot Matthew-Chris bromance, dammit.) The chefs head for the water park, and I am LOLed at seeing them in their chef’s coats … over shorts.
- Chris made passion mixer with ginger fizz. He pours serveings through a huge block of ice. It’s boiling hot out, so the judges love that. Johnny: “Well done, chefs.” Dannielle: “It’s hot out here, and this is refreshing.” But then Johnny critiques: “As much as it is acidic and tart, I have a stickiness at the back of my throat now when I’m done, and that’s definitely from the sugar.”
- Orlando made a root beer float-inspired chocolate vanilla cake brownie in steeped milk with nutmeg and root beer foam. The judges say it ain’t at all summery or refreshing. Oh hello, prediction #2. Orlando says he was trying to get away from the traditional root beer float; Johnny says then he shouldn’t have called it that.
- Hot Matthew makes the judges wait, quite impatiently, as he prepares his take on strawberry shortcake: yellow butter cake, whole milk ice cream, sautéed strawberries, and strawberry jus. Gail says the strawberries should have been cold and fresh instead of hot and cooked.
- Rebecca made lemon ice cream between two snickerdoodles dipped in white chocolate, with crushed lemon drops. Dannielle loves it mucho.
- Megan made a strawberry soda float with white peach and basil sorbet. Johnny praises her for making basil kid-friendy; Gail says the strawberry was too sweet.
- Katzie made spumoni with a twist: baked Alaska on a stick with a fizzy cherry. Dannielle calls it nuanced and sophisticated.
- Carlos made a Cap’n Crunch popsicle dipped in white chocolate and sprinkled with Fruity Pebbles. Rolled in Frosted Flakes and adorned with Fruit Loops. I made that last part up. Pichet says it ain’t at all summery or refreshing. Oh hello, prediction #2.
- Sally made a berry smoothie with honey and vanilla bean and white chocolate Rice Krispies. Johnny says he would have preferred fruit- instead of chocolate-flavored Krispies. Sally, who has immunity, probably isn’t even listening.
- Amanda made funnel cake with pineapple jam and coconut sorbet. The judges didn’t like how it got unfresh while it waited to be eaten.
Ok so, I was wrong about #1, but spot-on with #2.
Judging:
Gail requests the presence of Megan, Katzie, and Rebecca. They are the winning team. Pichet proclaims Katzie the winner! Two in a row! Team Katzie!
Sally’s smoothie is hated upon. Sally, who has immunity, probably isn’t even listening. Carlos’s dessert was too sweet, and Pichet doesn’t like his use of breakfast cereals. Amanda let her funnel cake sit too long before serving it; she said that she had to wait cuz her two teammates had gone first; Johnny says she should have spoken up. I gotta agree. I totally would’ve pulled a Hot Matthew and made them wait, quite impatiently, while I prepared my dish fresh.
Gail asks Orlando why he thinks his team’s in the bottom. He replies that he is uncertain. Oh, come on. I get that he has a huge ego, but see above. His and Hot Matthew’s dishes were very much misses and not hits, and Chris’s was only partially a hit. As Orlando well knows. Gail’s facial expression made it pretty clear that his answer annoyed her, LOLOLOL. Dannielle explains that their desserts weren’t practical to the environment. Chris begs to differ about his dessert; Johnny counters that it was sticky and syrupy, which is not refreshing. The judges give Orlando another try: Dannielle asks him if he would change any of the components of his dish. He says no. Wow. Pichet says he would’ve loved Hot Matthew’s strawberry shortcake in a restaurant but not at a water park on a scorching hot day.
Hot Matthew, Sally, and Chris are safe, leaving Orlando, Carlos, and Amanda. Amanda is sent home. Bye bye, Sally’s lesbian crush. :(
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