Approaching the end of the season Top chefsport often takes precedence over cooking, and the outcome of the events is then played out by chance, square posts or hands in the surface.
This episode 14 was no exception to the rule and, in a mix of calamities and counting injustices, gives us a top 4 that is certainly nice, but not crazy, let’s face it.
Event 1: fly to the wind
School trip: the five remaining candidates are invited to visit their former colleague from Top chef Jean Imbert at the Plaza Athénée to kill him in a test. Jean Imbert, king of the friendly chat and friend of the stars, is divisive like coriander within the community of foodies. Those who love him took great pleasure in hearing his banter gastrocool, those who don’t like it too much threw their TV out the window (internal poll). The event, around the vol-au-vent, invited us to revisit this classic, but obviously the thirteen previous episodes have so distorted the candidates with pork ice cream and off-piste skiing that this slalom exercise around the fundamental markers of he dish was, let’s say it, a fiasco.
Ah, and the sweetbread was overcooked, too.
Michael
To give a note
Second in the race, heading to race 2.
Pascal
To give a note
Third place, heading to race 2.
Arnaud
To give a note
Fourth in the race, heading to race 2.
Sebastian
To give a note
Last place and sent directly as a last chance.
The puff pastry is slammed, but the spoons are impeccable.
Louisa
To give a note
First in the event, Louise is in the quarter-finals.
From there to call the bite in Skype, it’s a bit too much.
Test 2: tomato to the tomato
Single-product test with pure line: the tomato, to be carried out by three candidates exceptionally accompanied by major chefs, to avoid a scandal in the vote by the usual coaches. Generally speaking, scandals are good to avoid in a room full of knives (and tomatoes).
Mickaël feat. Alexandre Gauthier
To give a note
Mickaël leaves as a last chance, but no regrets about the tomato water: we are very strict about the rules, and Alexandre Gauthier clearly helped him by opening the cell door for him. Mega-forbidden.
Photograph transmitted to the authorities.
Pascal feat. Alexandre Mazzia
To give a note
Second place out of three candidates, qualified directly for the quarter-finals! While Mickaël, who came second out of five candidates, had to stuff himself with all the tests until he was completely tired. Couldn’t they have simply taken the first two of the first event (more difficult because five participants), and the first of the second event with three participants? Are we clear or not? Mickaël would have been qualified and we would have been in a better mood to write these notes.
Arnaud feat. Dominique Crenn
To give a note
First place in this event and qualification for the quarters!
Last chance: Mickaël vs Sébastien on the lamb
No fight: Mickaël is completely cooked, finite, krawa, nothing left in his legs, tries a purely cosmetic dish (tartar in ink) which, beyond the effect of surprise, does not take the risk of cooking, whereas he is so gifted in this field . Seb, on the other hand, came back like a cuckoo clock, made a daunting rise in glucose and unrolled a magnificent land-sea lamb cooked to perfection. He wins the race and steps on the still smoking body of Mickaël without any particular homage.
We’re sad, he was one of our favourites, this Mickaël, gone in a fake meat nag costume to develop techniques and dishes of unsuspected finesse, both on his favorite products and on the ingredients more exotic to his universe. . He was one of the most stable mood contenders of the season, and something tells us we’ll miss that balance quite a bit in the rest of the contest. Come and discover the cuisine of Mickaël Braure in his restaurant Le Witloof in Ennevelin, in a pretty little residential area with brick houses, and disconnect a little. Ah, and also Philo Saucisses, in Paris. Good luck to him!
By Henry Michael
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