Top Chef

Previously on Top Chef...

It's restaurant wars. - Whoo!

- Into the void. Here we go.

It's turning into chaos real fast.

You want me to take over for a little bit?

- No, I can do it. - Let Paul do it,

and let one person stay doing it.

- Judges are ing pissed

that it's taking this ing long.

Why are you plating with a ing plastic spoon?

- Lindsay and Sarah are definitely treating me

like a child.

- If I took it out on you, I apologize,

but you were ing up my dish.

- Lindsay worked with you on your dish for a long time.

- The chef who really brought us the best food

is Beverly.

Whoa!

- Either one of you could go home

for this mess that was called Canteen.

Ty...

Please, pack your knives and go.

Seven chefs remain, all hoping to win

a feature in Food & Wine magazine,

a showcase at the annual Food & Wine classic in Aspen,

$125,000, furnished by Healthy Choice,

to bring their culinary dreams to life,

and the title of Top Chef.

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- Well, congrats, Bev. - Thank you.

- Congrats. - Yeah, congratulations.

You deserved it. Enjoy yourself.

- I'm happy that we are the winning team

for restaurant wars, but it's still a little bittersweet

for me because I think that Lindsay should have won.

I felt like she really was the glue

that held us all together.

I think you guys have been really strong.

I think it was just a bad day.

And everyone has a bad day.

- Definite last words for them were, "step it up, guys.

Step it up."

It was very,very tough.

Hey, chefs.

No!

- You're headed back to San Antonio tonight.

See you there, okay?

- What? - Home.

Headed home.

- Hey, Bev, you gonna share that wine tonight?

Ed!

- Let's do it, Paul. - Let's do it.

Been a long, long trip. - Good-bye, Austin.

- I'm the only that hasn't won.

I've done different things every time.

I've never done the same thing again.

- No, I haven't repeated a single thing.

- The other girls are probably pissed that Beverly won.

- I think so. - Oh, yeah.

I definitely think so.

- As we're going back to San Antonio

and the girls are quiet, I definitely feel like

there's some sour grapes feeling from Lindsay.

It was still hard for her to accept that I won the best dish.

But I won that fair and square.

- You know, it was hard, like, trying to get all those servers

to help me set up that room and then brief them and all that.

You know, like... - Yeah.

- I have very high standards, and when someone drops the ball,

I tend to lose my , but I know that it was justified

to keep us on the top.

Came back home.

- You gonna toast it? Oh, nice call, Paul.

I'm getting really close to the final four,

which is where I truly believe I belong,

and I really want to fight tooth and nail to get there.

I think from here on out

it's just gonna be, like, individual...

- Now it's gonna test creativity.

- Yeah. - It, just bring it on.

Competition's gonna heat up.

Ed's gonna be pretty tough to beat.

He has a lot of experience with different types of food,

and Sarah's classically trained and she knows her flavors.

- You ready, guys? Let's go make some gravy!

Lock up the house.

- When I walk into the kitchen, I see Eric Ripert.

- Hello, chefs. - Good morning.

- He's a legend in the culinary world,

and to be in his presence is an honor.

- Welcome back, Eric. - Thank you very much.

- I notice this conveyor belt in the back

and that's something new.

I have no idea what's going on,

but I know it's gonna suck for us.

- Chefs, this challenge is about quick thinking.

- There are times when you have days

to think and rethink your plan for a perfect dish.

There are more challenging times

when you have to make quick decisions in a kitchen.

- Chefs, we're giving you 30 minutes

to create a sophisticated dish.

When time starts, this conveyor belt

will start moving with a variety of ingredients on it.

You must pick three ingredients from the belt,

and you must use them all in your dish.

Everything else can come from the pantry.

- New ingredients will come out constantly.

The longer you wait, the better the chance

of getting a great ingredient,

but you will have less time on the clock to cook.

- The winner of this quickfire

will have immunity in the elimination challenge.

There's only seven of us.

Every chef is gonna be under the microscope at this point.

In order to survive as long as I can,

immunity is so important.

- Your 30 minutes starts now!

I see cookies, goldfish.

I decide that I should run and start getting basic things

so that whenever I do see something,

I can start cooking.

Ah,.

- I see a big bowl of macadamia nuts and I grab it,

'cause I think this challenge is nutty.

Bev, you gotta move it all to your side, please.

What is that?

All of the sudden, I see a jar of sauerkraut,

and I love sauerkraut, but now I just screwed myself

'cause I also got macadamia nuts,

and what am I gonna do with those now?

- I'm just kind of, uh, you know,

waiting to see what comes up, and just making some things

I think that'll go nicely with a variety of different stuff.

So we'll see.

I don't know if this is a good strategy or not.

I don't know much right now except that pop rocks

ain't gonna do it in a dish.

- I start a carrot white wine sauce,

and I'm hoping that, by the end,

I'll have a good piece of fish to go with it.

- Oh, man, they took it off. - Those ing bastards.

- Those lobsters? - Yeah, Ing took it off.

Coming through!

- The hardest part about this challenge is the waiting.

I'm looking at the clock and I get impatient

and I just grab the saffron and some bread.

I saw the bitter melon go around a few times,

and I don't know why I picked bitter melon.

No matter how you prepare it, it's still a little bit bitter.

Those ing bastards.

Damn it!

Damn them.

Ing bastards.

- Careful, the flame's coming.

- I just start creating a dish with stuff

that we have in the pantry, because if you wait

on the conveyor belt, you just lose valuable time.

Maybe this was a trick.

Maybe there aren't gonna be, like, super-awesome items.

Or maybe it's gonna be five minutes left

and I'm not gonna have time to cook.

So I grab the saltine crackers.

It's definitely a risk.

It's a fun challenge.

- I'm really running out of time,

so I have to grab rice krispies.

I take the tofu, canned black-eyed peas...

Damn it!

Because those are things I can definitely

fuse with my style.

I know that my flavors are what get me through the challenges.

- Jonesy, lobsters are back!

- Nice catch, nice catch.

- This challenge is nuts. - Very, very hard.

- Ten minutes, ten minutes!

- I wait until the last possible minute,

because I want the best ingredients for my dish.

I see a small grouper come and then immediately grab clams,

with barely any time left,

and my best bet is to do bouillabaisse.

My God, I am making bouillabaisse for Eric Ripert

and he is gonna rip it apart.

Awesome.

Okay.

Behind, coming through.

- Hands up. Utensils down.

Boom!

The curried rice krispies are right next to my plate.

I didn't put them on.

I'm just really so upset.

- Please welcome the queen herself,

Oscar-winner Charlize Theron.

Wow.

- The ingredients were macadamia nuts,

sauerkraut, and black truffle.

So what I made for you is a sauerkraut soup,

shrimp cooked in brown butter, and shaved truffle.

- Did you toast them or not? - Yes.

- You toasted the macadamia? Okay.