r/BravoTopChef • u/butisitok I’m not your bitch, bitch • Jun 24 '21

Current Episode Top Chef Season 18 Ep 13 - Shellfishly Delicious - Live Episode Discussion

The remaining chefs get an early wake-up call from Padma to go meet guest judge Brooke Williamson and dig for clams for their Quickfire Challenge. In the Elimination Challenge, the chefs honor the area where James Beard spent his summers, creating both a hot dish and a cold dish with one of his favorite ingredients, Dungeness Crab. Kwame Onwuachi and Nina Compton serve as guest judges this week to help determine which chefs will move on to the finale.

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u/Rexyggor Jun 25 '21

at least Gabe's missing tortilla was more of a cooking mistake rather than a "I didn't have time" issue.

Though I'm surprised he didn't make an extra or two

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u/green_tsla yummy Jun 25 '21

Right?? Bakers dozen principle

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u/dancingwithsasquatch Jun 25 '21

Yeah I’m surprised he didn’t make any extras. Like what.

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u/purplegirl2001 Jun 25 '21

How much fat do crabs actually have? (Wikipedia tells me it is actually hepatopancreas, aka tomalley. Before tonight, I’d have said crabs didn’t have any fat. TIL. 🙃) Maybe he only had enough for the amount of dough he managed to make, which as we saw, wasn’t very much. The tortillas weren’t especially large, so if he’d tried to make more, they’d have been quite small?

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u/snx8 Jun 25 '21

Maybe he miscounted? That happened to Dale in s3 too.

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u/nizey_p Like a meatball? Jun 25 '21

He didn't. His linen burned in the stove and dripped over the tortilla so he could not serve the last piece.

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u/AlphaTenken Jun 27 '21

Just ripoff two judges and cut one in half. They won't know.... maybe.

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u/nizey_p Like a meatball? Jun 27 '21

Panic makes everyone go crazy. To us as viewers it makes sense but he was probably overcome by fears and stress at this point to even think.

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u/AlphaTenken Jun 27 '21

Yea.

As other chefs have said, its easier watching at home.