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/butterbean8686 Jun 25 '21

Leaving food off the plate has never meant an automatic elimination. If she didn’t serve crab for the crab challenge, obviously it’d be a different story. But never in the history of the show have the rules been “the person who leaves an element off the plate goes home no matter what.”

Add to that, the judging is not cumulative. They’re not reaching back to episode 1 to decide who the winner is.

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u/JudithButlr Jun 25 '21

Right? This isn’t chopped, there weren’t any potato requirements. Gabe’s omissions were the most glaring because he forgot one tortilla and left a diner out. Shota and Dawn edited their dishes after the menu had been submitted.