" Previously on Top Chef..." " We are cooking 200 steaks to medium rare." " Damn, I cut myself." "I need a medic right now." " How long are those [bleep] shrimp gonna take her to do today?" "You spent a lot of time working on shrimp." "I'm not really sure what else you did." " Totally was uncalled for to call me out like that." " The winner of this challenge is Heather." " [Laughs]" " You know, chef, usually it's really difficult to send someone home, but tonight you really made it easy." " Whitney, please pack your knives and go." "12 chefs remain all hoping to win a feature in Food  Wine magazine, a showcase at the annual Food  Wine classic in Aspen," "$125,000 furnished by Healthy Choice to bring their culinary dreams to life, and the title of Top Chef." "♪ Top Chef:" "Texas 9x07 ♪ Game On Original Air Date on December 14, 2011" "== sync by elderman ==" " Tonight was extremely tough to get through." " Pinot." " I couldn't believe how harsh Heather was on Beverly." "And no matter if you like a person personally or not, there's no room for that kinda stuff." "It just says a lot about her integrity." " I'm kinda squeamish when it comes to cats, but I'll look at it." " I've been in the bottom far too much." "To just narrowly skate past elimination, it's very humbling." "And I know that if I'm gonna stay in this competition," "I need to make sure that I showcase the chef that I am." " There's only 12." " Dirty dozen." " Ohh." " The dirty dozen." " Dirty dozen." " We walk into the kitchen, and I'm like, holy crap!" "I see Tim Love." "He's a very well-known Fort Worth chef and a Top Chef Master." " Good morning, chefs." "All:" "Morning." " Please meet Tim love, chef and owner of the Lonesome Dove Western Bistro in Fort Worth." " Behind him is all these Don Julio tequilas." "Tim Love and Tequila, sounds like a great way to spend the morning." " Welcome to Texas." " Thank you." " Thank you, chef." " Chefs, these are all variations of Tequila Don Julio, the original ultra-premium Tequila." "We want you to choose one of these tequilas and make a dish that pairs well with what you've chosen." " I love Tequila." "I've been to Jalisco, Mexico, where Tequila comes from." "This is a challenge that I can definitely rock." " Good Tequila is made to be sipped." "You know, similar to a wine or a nice craft beer." "Generally, you want some intense, long-lasting flavor in the food to go with the Tequila." " We've set up a Tequila tasting for you." "Come up here, find the Tequila you like, start cooking." "The winner of this quickfire will not receive immunity." " I definitely was hoping that there would be immunity." "As we get down to the best chefs, one mistake and you go home." " They will, however, win $5,000." "You have 30 minutes to taste and cook." "And your time..." "Starts now." " What do we got here, boys and girls?" " Behind you, left." " Anything awesome in here?" "Chef Tony Mantuano and I have a tradition." "Every time we fly, we always have a shot of Tequila at the airport." "And it's always blanco." "I'm making a fennel risotto and seared sea scallops." "The blanco has this really fresh aloe vera kind of, like, greenness." "And I think it's gonna go really nicely with fennel." "Mmm." "Delicious." " 21 minutes." " Does somebody have all the limes?" " Grayson." " Thank you." " Did you grab all that?" "I love Tequila, but it's not the easiest thing to work with." "Spirits are so high in alcohol, there's so much heat involved, that you really have to have a dish that settles that out." " I'm in Kentucky, so we're more familiar with bourbon up where I'm from." " This is kind of a variant of a dish that I fabricated while I was on the beach in Thailand." "I'm using the 1942 Tequila Don Julio." "I'm gonna try and pick up on some of the caramely, woodsy notes." "My style of cooking-- warm, southeast Asian flavors-- will pair perfectly with the Tequila." "I've been known to make a mean Margarita on the playa in my day." " [Chuckles]" " Soy." " Cactus sharp." " The dish I'm making is a raw oyster." "I'm using the Tequila blanco 'cause it's really crisp and clear, and it's gonna mesh well with the oyster." "I smell Tequila." "Tequila reminds me of vacations, relaxing, beachy." "And I just want it to be simple and fresh." "Ty, you still have agave?" "Thank you." " Coming through!" "I really love oysters." "I want to do a cold smoke with green tea." "I know that smokiness is gonna go well with the reposado." " Catch." " What's the time?" " Ten minutes." " I picked the 1942, which is my favorite." "The 1942 has a sweet, smoky, earthy flavor to it, so I'm just gonna do a very simple pan-roasted lamb chop." "I think it's pairing beautifully." "This is so smooth, and shooken up with some ice, it's pretty tasty." " Nyesha, do you need all that basil?" " I'm actually treating the Tequila with what I would normally make a sauce with Sherry." "I lived in Mexico for three years." "I'm comfortable pairing food with Tequila." "I'm going hard." "I'm making pan-seared salmon with a caramelized fennel puree." "The fattiness of the salmon is gonna be a nice vehicle for all the different flavors." " I need one of the fire baskets." " You have five minutes left." " Whoo!" " As I'm cooking, I notice that Chris Jones is overcooking his chicken breast." "He could be in a little bit of trouble." "Sorry, I didn't mean to freak you out." " Can I use some of your olive oil?" " Yeah." " I see Ty-lor using clams, I'm like, [bleep]." "That's genius." "That's, like, a perfect pairing to have something salty and briny and sweet with Tequila." " 30 seconds." "Make sure your Tequila's poured." " I like this." " I'm on it." " Get on it, get on it." " I have a great feeling about this dish, and it's one of the first times" "I've been able to show myself in one little bite." "[Timer beeps]" " Hands up, utensils down." " I'm very happy with how the sauce came out." "The puffed quinoa is delicious." "But the chicken, I feel, is dry because I really rushed it." " Hello, Ty." " Hi." "I did some steamed clams today in a Thai-style fish caramel sauce." "I paired it with the 1942." " Sweetness to the clam." "It's pretty good." " Thank you." " I chose the reposado." "I made a salad with mango, avocado, and corn." "I thought that it would pair well with the mango." " I'm still trying to really pair it with the Tequila." " Got it." " I like light, clean flavors." "I taste the reposado." "It won't overpower an oyster." "And then I cold-smoked the oyster with green tea." "It has a little bit of sweetness with the reposado." " I think you do get a little bit of smoke off of it, which is interesting." " I chose the blanco." "I made a fennel risotto." "I glazed the rice with the Tequila, finished with some fennel pollen and some caramelized shallots." " And you used the blanco the whole time?" " Yes." " I chose the anejo because of the depth in it." "So I did a crust salmon over a caramelized fennel puree and used the anejo to emulsify my brown butter sauce." " Skin's nice." "Thank you." " All right, thank you." " Bye." " What I made was basically a bok choy lettuce wrap." "It's got a quick-marinated lamb T-bone." "Underneath it is a cactus and mango salad." "This is a little Korean fermented chili paste." " Very interesting pairing." " Thank you." " I used Don Julio blanco." "The puree in the bottom is actually a lime vinaigrette." "You have coconut bitter greens with touches of honey." " I think it's a real playful dish." " Thank you very much." " What did you select for your Tequila?" " Anejo." "I have a sesame cod, and I made a Tequila brown sugar glaze." "I never drink Tequila." " Where are you from?" " Wisconsin." "I'm a beer girl." "[Laughter]" " Today I made raw oyster with a Tequila and lime tapioca pearl and then also there's caviar, a jalapeno, cucumber liquor with a little sea salt air on top." " Makes me feel like I'm at the beach, which" " I know." " Wow." "Thank you very much." " I chose the 1942, which I paired it with lamb T-bone." "Keep it really, really simple." "I did a medjool date and [indistinct] pistou." " Think that kinda medjool date is really sweet." "Thanks." " How did our chefs do with this Tequila quickfire?" " I felt like some people really looked at it as a pairing, whereas others really just didn't live up to the challenge." "Heather, felt like you just were thinking," "I like to drink Tequila, and then I'm gonna make this rock shrimp dish." "To me, I felt like it was a new special at a new chain restaurant." " Ouch." " Chris, I felt like the chicken itself was dry on the palate." "It was stuck in my teeth." "One highlight of the dish was the quinoa unfortunately." "The other one at the bottom is Sarah." "You put the Tequila with it, it felt like I was putting lemon juice into cream." "And I felt like the risotto was a little undercooked as well." " I've been training with experts in Italy in how to make risotto." "I'm not gonna change how I cook risotto due to somebody's palate." " One of my favorites was Chris." "Of all the tequilas that we had, the blanco was the hardest one to pair with." "You came with a real briny oyster with the caviar on top." "I thought you did a really great job." " Thank you." " Next is Lindsay." "I felt the salmon was cooked really nicely, and you took the flavor of the Tequila and flowed it all the way through the dish." " Thank you." " And Ty." "The spiciness of the dish really was a good contrast to the Tequila." "And the greenery in there was really good too." " Thank you." " Chris, Lindsay, and Ty, one of you will win $5,000." " Nice." " Tim, who's our winner?" " I think all of them displayed well in pairing the Tequila, but there obviously was one standout." "It was just simple, clean." "And that winner is..." "[Suspenseful music]" "♪" "Ty." "[Cheers and applause]" " Yes!" "Thank you, chef." "This quickfire challenge was my shot at redemption." "I succeeded, and I'm gonna fight to stay here and show my food is rocking off the chart." " Congratulations, Ty, you win $5,000." " Thank you." " Don't drink it all in one sitting." "[Laughter]" " This is a twist I didn't see coming." " [Chuckles]" " This is really gonna get some tempers flaring." " For your elimination challenge, the game is on." "Hopefully you like who you're standing next to because we're pairing you in teams." "The person next to you will be your partner." " You and I got this." " I would have rather gotten paired with anybody else besides Bev." "I don't think that she's really a team player." "I've seen selfish behaviors from her." "She doesn't think like a chef." " Last time me and Ty-lor were teammates, we both got our asses handed to us." "And hopefully history doesn't repeat itself." " Chefs, I'm hosting a game dinner tomorrow night at my restaurant, except I want y'all to be the cooks." "Got all my friends flying in from around the country, and they all really know how to cook game." " I love to cook game meats." "Shoot it, kill it, take out the buckshot, and cook it." " Okay, Tim, let's meet your friends." " In walk all these great chefs." "Being from L.A., I notice Jon and Vinny from Animal." "They're right down the street from me, so I wanna do as good as I can, because I wanna be able to go into their restaurant without them saying," ""you made that horrible dish for me."" " You'll be serving six courses at the dinner." "Each team will be cooking a protein that's a favorite of your assigned chef." "Nyesha and Dakota, you'll be cooking venison for Bryan Caswell from Reef in Houston." "Sarah and Paul, you'll have squab for Anita Lo from Annisa in New York City." "Grayson and Chris, you'll be cooking elk for Tim Love." "Chris and Lindsay, you'll have boar for Jon Shook from Animal in Los Angeles." "Heather and Beverly, you'll cook duck for John Currence from City Grocery in Oxford, Mississippi." " Hi." " And Ed and Ty-lor, you'll be cooking quail for Vinny Dotolo, also from Animal in Los Angeles." " In Kentucky, where my restaurant is, we always do, twice a year, a game dinner." "So I have a lot of experience cooking different kinds of game." " You'll also have to cook a few extra plates for your fellow chefs." "Because all of you will be judges too." " Oh." "[Laughs]" " [Chuckles]" " This is a twist I didn't see coming." "This is really gonna start to get some tempers flaring, because you gotta be honest." "I would hope that people will not put personal relationships in the middle of judging, but karma's a bitch." " You'll choose three dishes that you liked the least, and those teams will face elimination." " Wow." " The judges will make the final decision about which team goes home." " Oh, my God." " That's right." " Double elimination." "It's definitely a risk because you have to trust your partner solely." "If you're on your own, all you have to do is blame yourself if you mess up a dish." " However, the team that wins will split $10,000." " Oh, yeah!" " Good luck." " Get the cart, get the cart, get the cart." " Yeah, get the cart." " Okay." " So it's like a duet of duck." " Let's not call it a duet though." " With pistachio nuts?" " No, too much, I think." "Get juniper!" " Juniper." "Heather's definitely bossy, which makes communication very difficult for me." " We got all the spices for the duck breast." " Uh-huh." "But I'm definitely a team player." "And hopefully we are able to work together today." " We probably don't need that much." " Oh, okay." "We can take it out." " You get salsa." "For the salad, it's gonna be the nectarine, the arugula." "I've cooked a lot of venison, but I haven't cooked it in a really long time." "The double elimination definitely adds another element of fear to the whole competition." "I did not get the onions." "I think we can just do without." " 11 minutes!" " Let's go that way." " Okay." " Thinking slab bacon, that way we can slice-  it's an old carpenter's technique." "I'm gonna soak them overnight tonight in a salt solution so they get flexible." " Uh-huh." "And I'm just gonna carve them so that we can make links out of them." " Okay, you promise this [bleep] is gonna be banging?" " I promise you." " All right." "Chris Jones makes me really nervous." "He does a lot of crazy stuff, and I don't." "So I hope to God he doesn't go overboard." " This is something I've done 100 times." " Three minutes!" " Beverly, this way." " Whoo-hoo." " Behind you." " Okay." " I was hoping they were gonna give us something like roadkill or some huge, dead carcass of an elephant or something, but quail's good." "No complaints here." " Coming around, hot." " Let's make the spice links first." " You wanna just try it and see how it tastes?" " Yeah." " I have never cooked elk, but I've heard really getting those temps right when you cook it can either make or break your dish." " Does anyone have a cherry or olive pitter?" " I'm just cutting one down, see if you like it." " And I'll start boning breast for the sausage meat." " I think Sarah's a little nervous about her sausage, but I'm confident that she can pull it off because that's what she's passionate about, and she's good at it." "She's a great chef." " Roll them in the skin and make a long tube, so it's one, and then we'll slice." " Wanna do all of these ducks?" "What do you think?" " Sounds like a plan." " I'm gonna make a spice rub, the [indistinct] spice." " I just wanna make sure, Bev, that the whole dish isn't too Asian, 'cause that's not my style." "And I'm not going home, Bev." "Bev cooks pan-Asian, and I cook American farm-to-table plates, so our styles don't necessarily meld." "But at this point, I'm focused on making my food really great." "Hopefully that's a good match." "Okay, Bev, as soon as I'm done with this, you do your dry rub, right?" "We might wanna, like, think about the name of our dish too." "I don't want it to appear to be, like, a completely Asian dish." " Beverly and Heather are having a little bit of friction." " We can put some orange peel in there." " Yeah." " I respect Beverly." "She's a talented chef." "And honestly, Heather's being a complete bitch." " Hot, hot." "Behind, behind, behind." " Five minutes, everything packed up to go." " Holy crap!" "I mean, we can pack it if you want to, but I don't think we need it." " Paul, it's a touch medium, but that stupid grinder was-- kept smearing on me." " Tomorrow, all of us are gonna pick the bottom three." "Our team's gonna be screwed if the sausage doesn't pan out." "And if she goes home, then I go home." "So it's more pressure than we've ever had." "[Timer beeps]" "Let's get out of here." " Whoo!" " Re-render it closer to service time?" " No, I think we should render the fat, just the one side, just render it so it's super, super crispy..." " Yeah." " As soon as we get in there." " Okay." "Heather's been very abrasive and controlling today." " There's no way it won't be crispy." " Okay." "There was a time in my life" "I was in a very abusive relationship, someone who physically, emotionally abused me." "And then one day when he was at work," "I--I ran away." "You know, I took all my stuff out of there." "And, um, since I've been out of that," "I've learned so much, 'cause now I have such an amazing relationship." "I've become such a strong person and will never let that happen again." "Then we'll put it back on, get it crispy, and then sear on the other side?" " Exactly." " Maybe put a little butter." " Yep, I have it, yep." " It's really disappointing." "This is not like cooking normally." "This is the hardest thing I've ever done." " Careful, it's slippery back here." " Is there pans big enough for us to cook the pork in?" " Yeah, I'm gonna get to that next." "Lindsay and I are the first team that's gonna be serving today." "We've cooking for Tim love's friends at his restaurant, the Lonesome Dove Western Bistro." "It's difficult having Tim as one of the judges because he cooks game meat for a living." " It is hot." " What?" " You know it." " Preps are in the cooler." "Greens are in the cooler." "Seasons and salts are out." " The stakes are high for this challenge." "There's $10,000 on the line." "This is a double elimination, and we have to taste each other's food and throw three teams into the fire, which adds an extra layer of stress." " Grab me two cutting boards?" " Yep." " Any of the water on the floor over here is coming off my face." " You guys don't need the fryer, right, guys?" "We have an hour and a half to prep, cook, and plate duck breast, crispy duck leg, and duck jus." "In a normal kitchen, that would be plenty of time, but this is the tiniest..." "Right behind." "Hottest..." "Oh, we're sweating to death?" "Kitchen I've been in." "You don't like that pan?" "What's happening?" " Yeah, I'm gonna just strain it." "It's hard to strain it with all the ducks in there." " It is so hot." " All the fat." " Okay, I need some burners." " Bev, we need to give them some burners." " Got it." " Right now I'm making the fried garnish for the plate, which is gonna be a sweet potato chain." "[Bleep] You, Chris." "Agh!" " What?" " Potato link is brittle." "I'm gonna have to go with a different plan." " I was really worried about Chris Jones and his bag of tricks, but at the same time, I don't wanna be like," ""Yeah, way to go, you [bleep]ed up the sweet potato." "Now we're gonna be in the bottom."" "But you [bleep]ed up the sweet potato." "Are you okay?" " I really [bleep] us here." "I think I'm gonna have to scratch the whole chain idea and just do a sweet potato fry." "I am really pissed at myself." "I should have nailed this." "It's something that I've done before." "I got fries coming up." " Thank you all for joining us." "All:" "Cheers." " And thank you, Tim, especially for letting us join your game dinner." " Who's hungry?" " Which animal are we eating?" " First?" " On the wall?" " Behind you, that's the red deer." " No jackalopes?" " [Laughs]" " Ten minutes." " Chris, I say we pour the pork in too." " That's gotta reduce." "Let it stay on the back." " I know." " Bev, don't move 'em too quickly." "Just let them hang out." " I think that-- - yep, just let 'em render." " They're gonna render slow." " Yep, just let 'em render." "Beverly asks a lot of questions like a sous chef would ask." "She doesn't think like a chef." " Put the onions on there too or no?" " I think so." "I think this looks good." "It's like a knife to the heart." "You don't wanna go home because somebody else makes a mistake." "You don't like it?" " I don't like the onions." "I don't know why." " Really?" "This is part of my rustic style, so we're gonna have to compromise." "Okay." " Three minutes, 20 seconds." " A little more." " These still feel really rare." " We pull the boar racks out of the oven, and the centers aren't as roasted as we need them to be." "Luckily we have enough boar that we're able to get enough off of it without using the very center cuts, which are under." "So I'm feeling good." " 26 seconds." "What am I missing?" " We need to pick four more." " Cilantro." "Don't forget cilantro." "This one doesn't have slaw." " Ahh!" "[Bleep]." "[Timer beeps]" " Boar rack for sure." " Hello." "We decided to do peach barbecue sauce on roasted wild boar, a kohlrabi slaw, and farro fried rice." " Thank you." " Thank you." "[Sighs]" " Maybe if they would have probably left the marinade off, it might have shined a little bit better." " You know, the slaw I like." "It adds some texture to the dish." "I think the sauce is really good." "It's a nice plate of food." "It's not that exciting." " It's a fun, elegant way to do barbecue." " We're gonna have to nitpick everybody's dish." " Yeah." " This slaw's a little watery." " Hi, sweetie." " As Chris and I come back into the kitchen," "I am a little uncomfortable." "I did hear Paul say that he thought the slaw was kind of watery." "For me personally, it's gut-wrenching." " Behind, please." " Move your whole thing over here." "I need this room for plates." "Okay?" " I would like to do legs a la minute." "We can go, boom, boom, boom like" " From me to you." " Don't worry about the splatters." "I'm gonna clean it up right now." "[Timer beeps]" "Today we made a five-spice duck breast, creamy polenta, pickled cherries, and then the fresh salad." "Thank you." " Thank you." " I don't like the way that the pickled cherries work." " The duck breast, it could have been rendered a little bit more." "It's a little rubbery for me." " It was all just a little too safe." "If I was in their shoes, I'm trying to push myself." " Hmm?" " No crispy skin." " Okay." " Hi, ladies." " Your duck breast is perfect." "It's super tender." " I'm gonna let this sit up here and rest." "The difficulties for our venison and beet gratin is making sure that the gratin is perfectly cooked and seasoned, and Nyesha is very good and making gratin." "[Bleep] Perfect." "Nyesha, can you set your timer at eight minutes?" " I think cooking the venison properly is gonna be our big challenge." "Okay, I'm gonna start on the peaches." "You're four minutes out on your eight-minute call." " Two minutes." "These are not crispy." "They're soggy." "The sweet potato ends up not how I envisioned it." "[Bleep] Ridiculous." "Doesn't look that cute." "These look like [bleep]." "And the whole plate is making me a little nervous at this point." "Don't let your sweat drip in." "Keep wiping." "[Timer beeps]" " The highlight of this dish was the elk rack that we received." "We marinated it overnight, pan-seared it, and then oven-roast it to medium rare." " Is there any particular reason why you cut the sweet potato in that shape?" " I was actually trying to do an elaborate technique that unfortunately did not work out for me." "So it was not as cool" " It is how we wanted it to be." "We just wanted to get height, and we accomplished that." " Thank you." " Don't [bleep] tell them [bleep] like that." " Personally I think this particular piece of meat is seasoned well, it's tender." " Visually, as soon as the plate hit the table" "I was like, okay, 1982, banquet menu." " Okay, listen, we're probably going home, so do not say anything to them about us not feeling good about our dish." " The saving grace of this dish is I may have really [bleep] up on the sweet potato chains, but I feel like I really did a nice job cooking the meat." " The elk was cooked perfectly, Grayson." " Yeah?" " Yeah." " Good." " I wish we had butcher's twine." "If it cracks at all, then that's gonna be a problem." "My main fear is that that dang sausage is gonna be screwed up, 'cause I'm having to troubleshoot at this point, and it's taking longer than Paul and I hoped." " Move the [bleep] plate." "I think the difficulties in cooking a small quail are definitely not overcooking the meat." "Most game meat doesn't have a lot of fat." "It can get dry, and that's definitely nothing that you wanna serve the judges." " I've been hunting." "I have hunted before." "When I was a kid in Florida, we used to go catch gators." "Actually, a lot of people would go in canoes." "I know some crazy kids that used to actually jump on top of the gators." "Small gators, not large gators." "But it's kinda dangerous." "[Laughter]" " Nyesha, you wanna give a pokey-poke?" "Just want your second opinion on these." "I'm thinking steel need, like, another three minutes?" "Think this looks a little too rare?" "Unfortunately, that venison is not cooking." "I don't know if it was just too many people in and out of the oven, it lost its heat." "I'm racking my brain trying to figure out ways to do a quick cook on it." "Just come look at the inside of these." "Maybe just give it a quick sear on there?" " Yep, baste it though." "Dakota's extremely insecure, and I'm trying to, like, build her confidence." " I say eight minutes tops." "No more, right, you think?" " She says, "I'm confident in cooking the meat."" "I'm gonna say, "you [bleep] rock it out, girl."" " Ed, time, two minutes." " I wouldn't be embarrassed to lose to any of my opponents in this competition." "They're all strong chefs." "You cool with this?" " Yeah." " It's not always the best chef that makes it to the end." "I mean, you can have a hiccup one night, and that's it, you're gone." "Where's the sea salt?" "[Timer beeps]" " Thank you, sir." " Today we prepared for you a sorghum quail, and we have some pickled cherries, also eggplant with a farci of quail." "Enjoy." " The quail shines." "We want the quail to be the center of the plate, and it is." " And they have managed to bring out all the earthy qualities of these ingredients." "[Indistinct chatter]" " Oh, that [bleep] God damn sausage." "The sausage didn't poach all the way through, and I'm not happy with it." "So I have to go into plan B, where I take the forcemeat I had packed," "I tightly roll that, and start poaching a new batch of sausage." "They're not awesome." " Sarah's a perfectionist when it comes to making her sausage." "And it didn't kinda pan out she wanted to." "So I'm very worried about the final cut." "This can't be the challenge where both the people from Texas are gonna go home." " Two coming in hot, hot." " Where's the clock, Dakota?" " One minute, 57 seconds." "The plate is gorgeous." "But no one has to tell me that that meat is raw/rare." "Are you happy with the meat?" "You think it's too rare?" " Do we have a choice?" "I'm freaking out because the venison is not cooked properly." "Just throw it on there." "All Dakota had to do was cook the venison properly." "That should never happen at this level." "[Timer beeps]" " All right, this is extra." " We have a roasted rack of venison with kabocha squash and beet gratin." " Thank you." " Thank you, enjoy." " I like the dish." "My biggest issue is the meat." "It's a little bit blue for me." " The venison flavor, I think, was nice." " Texture's great on the gratin." "And the venison is a little undercooked." " It's a little rare, yeah." " I'm very upset at this point." "It's a really gut-wrenching feeling." " Three minutes, Sarah." "Cutting it really close." " I know we are." " Olive oil, olive oil." " Where's the olive oil?" "Where is it?" " We're at one minute, 17." " Ah, Jesus Christ." "[Bleep]." "This looks like [bleep]." " Don't worry about it, just keep on pushing." "You got four seconds to finish all the pepper on that." "[Timer beeps]" " The scariest thing, it's not that I would be eliminated." "It's that if something I did would make Paul go home," "I'd be devastated." "I probably wouldn't be able to forgive myself." " We prepared the squab two ways." "We pan-roasted the breast and made a sausage out of the legs." " And we have some nectarine pickles with shallots and jalapeno." " Thank you both." " I like the sausage with the nectarines all on the fork together with the watercress." " I would have liked to have seen a little more caramelization on the skin." " Presentation was a little sloppy." "It looked a little rushed." "But I think it's a very nice plate of food." " Acid, I think it overpowers" " What don't you like about it?" " You guys wanna sit down right here in front of the fan?" " I don't wanna sit." "That sausage [bleep] killed me, guys." "It just wasn't what I wanted it to be." "I make sausage every day at work, and it's really disappointing." "This is not like cooking normally." "This is the hardest thing I've ever done." "This is like" " You know what, it's okay to cry." "You know, totally cool." "We all understand how stressful this is, okay?" "We all handle stress differently." " Good evening, chefs." " Hi." " Can we please see Ed and Ty?" "Thank you." " Congratulations." " Congratulations, guys." "[Whistling and applause]" " Ed..." "Ty..." "Congratulations." "[Applause]" " Ed and Ty, you'll be splitting $10,000, furnished by Healthy Choice." "Both:" "Thank you." " I won the quickfire and the elimination." "It feels amazing, especially after being in the bottom." "I want to make sure that I make it to the winner's circle." "I want to win this competition." " I'm really happy for you guys, congratulations." "Ten grand's a lot of money." " Damn straight." "I looked into all those chefs' faces, and I'm like, man, I did not make an ass out of myself in front of you guys." " You'll have, along with your fellow chefs, 15 minutes to decide which three teams to send out to face elimination." "Good luck." " Thank you." " Hey, guys." " It was a beautiful dish." "You guys should be proud." " Absolutely." " What do you guys wanna do?" " I almost wish they could just pick it for us, you know what I mean?" "So we don't have to talk it out." " This is gonna be the toughest decision, but maybe we'll make them make it." " No." " We'll just, like, vote." " You're not gonna vote for yourself." " Neither will you, you know." " I know I don't wanna see Heather go home, 'cause she's a really good friend of mine." "But all of us might have to make some tough decisions." " I hate this, by the way." " It blows." " We're all here." "We all know what we're doing." "I could start." "Heather and Beverly, like, it's not my style..." "So it's definitely not one of my favorites." " Right." " And Nyesha and Dakota." "I thought your meat was a little tough." "Chris and Grayson," "I felt like the meat was a little dry when I ate it." " I mean, you guys know, you asked me how the meat was." "I thought it was too rare." "You know." " Oh, [bleep] Yeah, I mean" " And you guys's." "I didn't understand the tied bouquet." " So who's your third?" " I can't pick a third." " But we're all going through and doing our" " Oh, I get what you're saying, Grayson." "You don't have to tell me about the process." "I understand." "I understand." " Guys, just to touch in, we've used over half our time." " We gotta make a decision." " So let's go then." "Elk." "Raise your hand if you think elk should go to the room." "Please." "Elk it is." " Elk's in." " Raise your hand if you think duck should go to the room." "Duck it is." " Venison." " I think some of us are probably conspiring a little bit, but if you try and screw over one person today, you might be on their team tomorrow." "So I think the claws still haven't really come out yet." " There we go, that's three." " It's gonna get worse." "All right, you guys, we'll see you in a little while." " Bye." " Bye, guys." "[Suspenseful music]" "♪" " Obviously your fellow chefs felt you served the three worst dishes at dinner." "Tonight an entire team will be going home." " You guys all feel you deserve to be here?" " Well, I don't think we should be here." "I mean, personally I would serve that dish again in my restaurant." " Why do you guys think you're up here?" " Maybe because I was on the top from the last challenge." "I mean, you never know." " I think for the most part these weren't bad dishes." "I think, Dakota, you know exactly what went wrong with the dish." "I thought the entire dish was delicious." "I like the components, but this was a game challenge, and that venison was really, really undercooked." " Time was running out, and we had to either put a very rare piece of meat on the plate or nothing at all." " Nyesha, did it never occur to you, let me just go see if she needs help?" "Or let me just take a look?" "Or..." " By the time I did check back," "I was like, dude, this is definitely way under and" " I'm very disappointed that such an easy thing that I've cooked so many times, that I could just completely let fall out of my grasp." " Overall, I thought the flavor sequence in your dish was really good." "It married really well." "It worked." "It was just the meat." " Grayson and Chris." " I think that we played it a little bit safe with the juniper." " I thought the meat was cooked pretty well." "The potato was like..." "Wah?" " In retrospect, I shouldn't have even put it on the plate." " It sounds like the only reason you wanted it on the plate was to show us this chain link fence thing." " I thought the flavors would go nicely together." " You may be living and dying by that sweet potato fence." " Oui." " Any idea why you're here Beverly?" " Maybe less protein versus" " We're also trying to balance two chefs in one plate." " You know, when the plate arrived the first bite I had of the leg was really good, while the breast still had, you know, another five or eight minutes of rendering." " I thought the duck, although the skin wasn't crispy enough, it was very tender." " And it felt not so much like a finished dish but a collection of ingredients." " We also don't really, like, even throughout this entire competition, we have not seen eye to eye." " I don't think we" " I do, I think our work ethics are completely different." "I do, especially in the last challenge." "In the last challenge, you really had shrimp." "That's really what you focused on for two days." " Wow, that just really hits me, because I have a really strong work ethic." "And that's 400 shrimp to peel, devein perfectly." "She helped me peel them at the very end, but I didn't ask you to." " No, your teammate did." " I'm not liking this conversation." "I think she is an extremely hard-working, strong cook." "I mean, she kicks butt in the kitchen." "Because everybody doesn't see eye to eye, that happens in everyday life." " So how did this manifest itself today?" "You didn't trust her?" " She doesn't trust herself." "Sometimes you don't have enough self-confidence to push through and get the results." " Teamwork is asking questions and making sure we're on the same page." "And I do have confidence, but it comes off in a different way." "I still think that the dish was a very delicious dish, and I stand by it." " Thank you." "That'll be all." " Thanks." " What did they say?" " Yeah, I mean, you know, a lot of things came up." "Bev, I'm sorry if you think that I hurt your feelings, but that's the truth." "I didn't call you out in the last challenge at the judges' table, and you know what?" "I feel like I had no say in our dish." "I kept telling you I didn't want to do anything Asian." "You didn't listen to any of my ideas." " They didn't say they didn't like the Asian flavors." " They thought the whole dish was confusing." " They didn't say they didn't they're not wrong.Ors." " Definitely think Heather crossed the line." "I just don't work that way." "I don't feel better when I put someone else down." "It makes me feel worse." " I just feel like selling her out may have sold you out." " It's not selling her out." " Okay, no, no-- no, stop, stop." " No, you stop." "You guys don't speak up." "Everybody who has worked with Bev on a team, all has--has-- - that doesn't mean that I think she has a bad work ethic." " There's 13 people trying to create a dinner for 200 people, and one person works on shrimp for two days?" "Seriously?" "What would you do if that was one of our cooks or your sous chefs?" "Think about it." " I don't really understand why you would call out your partner, because it's a double elimination." "Like, you're going home too." " Ultimately we worked as a team." "Every decision on that dish is together." "You know what I mean?" " I don't wanna be on the bottom." "I wanna be on the bottom 'cause it's my own stuff, that I did it, that I had control of everything on that plate, that's when I want to get sent home if it's not good enough." "Not because somebody else played a part in what I have put out." " I think clearly the pressure of the competition is starting to wear on some of them." " But that's kind of irrelevant." "We don't really care." "I agree 100% with their peers who sent them back." "I thought this is exactly who should be here." " Yeah, and I think there's a good chance that Grayson and Chris could go home just because of those ideas that he had." "They just weren't well-executed." " First and foremost, think about flavor." "Think about the direction the dish is going to." "And then if you can work that stuff in, work it in." "But don't start with this idea and then everything else has to work around it." " Nyesha and Dakota didn't come through on delivering the main part of the plate, which is the venison." " The rest of their dish was, I think, so good." " It was great." " So delicious." " Really delicious." "I mean, that grating was fabulous." "I was really surprised to hear that Nyesha didn't check in on that venison when it came out of the oven." "Just another set of hands, you know?" " If you're working well as a team, you have no problem with somebody coming over and going," ""is it right?" "Is it good?" "Is it accurate?"" "Heather and Beverly, just--I mean, there were just flaws in their teamwork." " And portion-wise, it was just too big." "It was a big messy plate of food." " Heather was holding it against Beverly for something that happened in previous challenges." "This is Top Chef." "Every day is new." " You gotta have a baseball memory." "If you strike out one me, you get to the plate you can't take about the strike out you had last time." " Yeah." " So you come into the next challenge, you gotta make it happen." " Well, I think we know which team had the worst dish tonight." " Yeah." " Okay, let's get them out here." "[Suspenseful music]" "♪" " Chefs, tonight's challenge was to prepare a game meal." "Your fellow chefs voted your dishes the worst dishes of the night, and we agreed." "♪" "Chris and Grayson, the dish was kind of all over the place." "Very competing flavors." "It just didn't work very well." "Dakota and Nyesha, that venison, just really, really undercooked." "Beverly and Heather, the duck wasn't crispy enough, didn't render enough fat out." "But more importantly, almost like two different dishes." "You guys clearly didn't work together and it really showed." "Tough challenge." "You know, game is very, very difficult to cook." "And unfortunately, for two of you, the game will be over." "♪" "Dakota..." "Nyesha..." "Please pack your knives and go." "I'm sorry." " It's good." " That'll be all." " I am really upset with myself for not taking more control." "Don't even cry." " No." " Nyesha was awesome." "She followed up on everything that she said she was going to do, and I didn't." " The game challenge ended in really, really undercooked venison." " No." " She should not be going home, that's all I gotta say." "It's a stupid thing of not being able to cook venison that I've cooked a million times." "And then I gotta take Nyesha down with me, and that sucks." "All:" "Bye." " Bye, mama." " I'm frustrated that I cannot continue to compete when I know that there's cooks in there that have nothing on me." " I feel like I'm gonna go home d I've disappointed so many people, including myself." " Tonight on Last Chance Kitchen," "Dakota and Nyesha fight to avoid reliving their worst nightmare, another double elimination." "One is filled with guilt." "The other, revenge." "Can either beat winning Whitney and earn a spot back in the competition?" "Next on Top Chef..." " Load 'em out." " We're ready to hit the road, so bring on Austin." " Welcome to Austin." " [Sings indistinct]" " Really freaking cool that Patti LaBelle is here." " It goes down to the wire today." " Rescue, rescue." "That's what I'm trying to do right now, but time is running out." " The dish was just seared too hard." " I expected a lot more from you." "== sync by elderman =="