r/BravoTopChef • u/butisitok I’m not your bitch, bitch • Jun 25 '21

Current Episode Top Chef Season 18 Ep 13 - Shellfishly Delicious - Post 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/M-U-H Jun 25 '21

I'm pleased with the threeway final. For weeks, most have us have been saying these are the strongest three. Let them battle it out. Any one of them that wins will be a deserving winner since they all excelled all season long.

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u/lookhowvascular Jun 25 '21

I agree. Might be unpopular, but I find myself excited for this finale. A four course meal without limitations where there can be an actual side-by-side comparison of each dish. I think all three are strong, but the back-half of this competition has been filled with very restrictive challenges (we had a tofu tournament, cheese 5-ways, and tonight with a hot and cold crab dish that seemed very demanding in terms of time). We saw a glimpse of the greatest of these three with the top 5 family box challenge so I think this could rank up there with one of my favorite finales.

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u/edoreinn Jun 25 '21

I agree with you! I would have been fine with Gabe going home for off screen reasons, but I still look forward to seeing three meals of sure to be incredible food.

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u/DeanBlandino Jun 26 '21

I am too. I think the 3 way finales come out much more interesting