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when she and her team were on the bottom. Stephanie is also feeling the pressure since her dishes have been in the middle and she wants to win. She’s missing her late brother, wishing she could call on him for emotional support, and is going to dig deep and try to win the competition in his memory.
kitchen, the chefs find Padma Lakshmi and special guest judge, pastry chef extraordinaire, Sherry Yard. Karen has a bad feeling that this means the Quickfire is going to be dessert-themed and she’s right. “This Quickfire should be a piece of cake,” Padma says with a mischievous smile.“There’s really no difference between an executive chef and a pastry chef,” Sherry says. “It’s all about time, temperature, taste and methodology.” The chefs will have to create a sweet treat using a pantry of basic ingredients and some special ingredients they correctly guess during a blindfolded taste test. The two chefs that guess the most right out of twenty in five minutes will get to cook for an hour, the next two forty-five minutes, and the bottom two only 30 minutes. Padma also adds that the winner of the Quickfire will have a “huge” advantage in the Elimination Challenge.The blind tasting starts one at a time, requiring the chefs to identify things like almond butter, lychee, guava paste, and tarragon using only mouthfeel and smell which is no easy feat. The chefs finish with Stephanie in first place for guessing 15 ingredients correctly, Gregory and Melissa tied for second with 13 , Bryan V. fourth, Karen fifth and Brian M. in last place with only 7 ingredients guessed correctly. Melissa and Bryan V. will have 45 minutes to cook and Karen and Brian M. will only have 30 minutes., but is worried that 30 minutes may not be enough time for it to set. Brian M. also has 30 minutes so he’s going for a cake cooked in the wood-fired oven and, what else, something from the ice cream machine. Hopefully it goes better than last time. Melissa is making anwhich sounds really good. Bryan V. is making a curd and crumble dessert which hopefully tastes better than it sounds. He makes desserts at his restaurant so he’s feeling very confident. Gregory is also going the curd route, planning a chocolate curd dish with cherries and frozen coconut ice. Stephanie is using her hour to make a tarragon, peach, and chocolateWith only two minutes left in their cook time, Brian M. and Karen check their dishes. Brian M.’s cake came out great but Karen’s panna cotta didn’t have enough time to set so it’s very liquidy. She plates anyway and hopes for the best. At the forty-five minute mark, Melissa and Bryan V. both plate up their desserts and Melissa decides to go the extra mile and make an egg custard ice cream using which she pulls off just in the nick of time. Gregory and Stephanie finish up their desserts next. Gregory is worried he’s done too much and his dish is “heavy and unfocused.”After Sherry and Padma taste all of the desserts, it’s time for them to levy their judgments. On the bottom are Karen’s unset panna cotta and, no surprise here, Bryan V. who, even when he puts up a restaurant caliber dish, can’t seem to win a quickfire to save his life this season. Brian M.’s wood-fired cake gets high marks as well as Melissa’s pistachio cake. The winner? Melissa! It’s her first Quickfire and hopefully it gives her a bit of her winning mojo back. The chefs say goodbye to Sherry and find out their next elimination challenge will be cooking for olympic athletes. No pressure.
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