"Previously on top chef..." "Welcome to Washington, D.C." "I think it would be awesome to be the first African American to win this bad boy." "This is a high-stakes quickfire." "The winner will receive $20,000." "Check." "Check." "Damn." "Kenny, he's fast." "Yeah!" "I wanted everyone to be like," ""wow, this guy is truly the Alpha male."" " You have 20 minutes." " It's all good." "The winner of our first quickfire is Angelo." "Whoever is gonna go against me, there's gonna be blood on the stage." "I want to give the judges a piece of who I am." "I'm a strong enough chef to beat everybody." "The winner tonight is Angelo." "I win." "John, please pack your knives and go." "This season, one outstanding competitor will take the title of top chef and the grand prize..." "A feature in Food  Wine magazine, and a showcase at the food  wine classic in Aspen." "$125,000 to help turn their culinary dreams into reality, furnished by Dial Nutriskin." "Top chef season 7:" "Hail to the Chef." "♪ Top Chef 7x02 ♪ Outside the Lunch Box Original air date on June 23, 2010" "Oh, hell, yeah." "I like that." "I was waiting for you, man." "So John gets sent home." "I kind of felt bad, because I know that he had high hopes for himself, but I'm here to win, so it's like, it is what it is." "So you don't like any butter, do you, in your stuff?" "No, no, I like to keep it really low-fat." "I have to." "I have a disease." "Any disease that allows you to eat that much butter is awesome, and how can I get it?" "I know that Angelo has an edge up because he's won two challenges in a row at this point, but I think I can beat Angelo." "I think I can beat anybody here." "Everybody, let's go." "All right." "Good morning, chefs." "Morning." "Please welcome assistant white house chef and food initiative coordinator Mr. Sam Kass." " Morning." " Welcome." "Good morning." "Sam Kass from the white house, he's a pretty important person, you know, feeding the president of the United States." "A successful government is bipartisan, so you'll be competing in a top chef biparti-sandwich quickfire." "You and your teammate will have 30 minutes to create a delicious sandwich." "It's ridiculously easy to make one sandwich in 30 minutes between two people?" "You guys will be paired in eight teams of two people each, and that will be determined by a knife pull, and the winning team will get immunity." "In my opinion, it's irrelevant who gets immunity." "I feel pretty confident doing what I do, so I'm looking at, like, you know, chopping each one off week after week." "Please draw knives to find out who your partner is." "Two." "One." "Three." " Six." " Seven." "Seven." "I guess you know who you're working with." "It would be extremely embarrassing to lose this quickfire, because I have a sandwich shop in New York City." "Five." "In fact, I think I would have to close the shop down." " Eight." " Number one." " Eight." " Number three." "Number six." "Two." " Four." " Five." "Number four." "And before you start, there's one more thing." "Why wouldn't there be?" "I knew there was some kind of Twist, because 30 minutes seemed like a long time, and Padma's like, "oh, by the way..."" "You'll be competing in these aprons." "Oh, no." "." "Oh, my God." "This is genius." "Who got high and came up with this idea?" "This means you can only use one hand each." "I suggest you leave your egos at the door, forget about taking credit, and just get to work." "Come grab your aprons, and your time starts now." "I think we should do one or the other." "At this point, I really don't know too much about ed other than the fact that he's left-handed, and I'm actually right-handed." "We're just gonna go from there." "All right, what do you want to do?" "No, that's like-- that's a-- this one looks sexy." "So I'm partnered up with Angelo, who not only owns a sandwich shop, but he's won both the challenges so far." "We have a whisk." "We have a spatula." "We got a whisk and a spatula." "I've had this secret crush on him." "All of a sudden, I get to have my arm around him for 30 minutes." "It couldn't be better." "I am with Tamesha, and she says," ""I'm gonna be on the right."" "And I'm just like, "you don't want to Rochambeau for it?"" "Basically, I don't think I can trust her holding a knife and I holding the bread." " I need you to hold it." " Yeah." "You need to calm down." "If you" "I'm not going to cut you, dude." "My partner is Alex." "The big challenge is, he's afraid that I'm gonna hack his hand off." "Whoa, whoa." "That's not gonna work for me." "I need my hands." "Let's just make slices." "Every time I grab the knife, he's like," ""Tim, Tim, don't cut me, please." "Please, don't cut me."" "I'm like, "I'm not gonna cut you."" "Go slow." "Okay, slow down, please." "At least not--not yet." "Got the oil." "And we got tomato." "We got lettuce." "We're talking BLT." "Yeah, like chicken club." "All right, there we go." "I get Jacqueline." "So we decided on the chicken breast, white bread, bacon mixed in with the balsamic onion." "I'm thinking, taste-wise, we have a pretty good chance of winding up in the top." "17 minutes, everybody." "Arnold and I look around, and it is just mayhem." "Peel them quick, and then we're gonna add the wine vinegar." "Excuse me." "Everybody's just panicked and using their mouth to open jars and their knives to open other things." " You got it." " This is really awkward." "It's very weird." "I trust you, though, honey." "It's like, if anything, you'll give me a manicure." "Arnold and I are making a spicy-marinated grilled chicken breast..." "And then we will slice this before it goes in, right?" "Topped with a cucumber raita." "Lime." "Ed and I are making a Korean chili-marinated grilled tuna, and we have a mango and cucumber slaw, so at this point," "I feel very strongly that it's a winning sandwich." "More--more sugar." "The idea is to do an Asian-style fish sandwich with this beautiful Japanese sauce." "I like to call it liquid love." "It's a little sex on a plate, baby." " How we looking?" " Let me look." "It's a little thick." "Let me tighten it down." "I'm with Lynne." "She immediately says, "veal saltimbocca."" "Heavy on the seasoning and keep the method simple." "I'm thinking, "yeah, baby, I got this one in the bag."" "I think you should try cracking eggs with your right hand." "You guys have five minutes left." " We gonna make it?" " I hope so." "There we go." "Jesus Christ." "Twist this off." "Come on!" "Sorry." "Let's go." "57 seconds." "57 seconds." "Just kind of put it underneath the bread." "Okay." "Three, two..." "Time's up!" "Hands up, utensils down." "Hello." "Hello." "How was this challenge?" " She's like my twin sister." " Yeah." "But not identical, obviously." "What is this?" "This is a flounder." "We marinated it in a little fish sauce, little spiced sriracha mayonnaise, and just, like, a beautiful, herbaceous salad." "That's tasty." "What did you guys make today?" "Kind of have a Philly Cuban, if you will." "We roasted the pork, a little pickle, whole grain mustard sauce, and a little bit of gruyere cheese." "I like that pickle in there." "Thank you." " Hello, ladies." " Hello." "We just have a grilled sandwich with sliced prosciutto..." " Swiss cheese." " Swiss cheese." "A little bit of Dijon mustard." "And a pepper salsa." " Thank you." " Thank you." "How did you find working together?" "It was challenging." "Well, we both do classic French cuisine, so this is our interpretation of a croque madame." "So there is some ground lamb, a little mornay, and a little egg." "Right here, we have the American-Italian connection." "We have Saba vinegar onions with the California avocado and chicken." "I would love to win the second quickfire challenge just to be immune for a moment to breathe." "What did you make for us?" "Today we did a Korean chili-rubbed ahi tuna." "We did a cucumber and mango slaw, open-faced on a multigrain bread." "I like the little Spice you got in there with the chili." "What do we got here?" "This is our play on South Asian street food." "So we did a curry-rubbed grilled chicken with a bit of honey and Indonesian sambal." "Pretty tasty." "We did a flatbread saltimbocca sandwich." "It's a little hard to eat picking it up." "It's more of a knife and fork kind of sandwich." "How did our chefs do?" "I think we see how difficult it is to form consensus and work in a cooperative way." "Who had the most difficulty?" "Stephen and Jacqueline," "I thought it lacked a little bit of creativity and then just plain white bread." "Lynne and Tiffany had the saltimbocca that-- it wasn't great texture." "Whose sandwich was on the top?" "Well, I liked Tracey and Angelo's sandwich a lot." "I thought it was really bright and lively." "The herbs really brought a lot of vibrancy to the sandwich, and the heat of the sriracha was just really lovely." " Thank you." " Thank you." "I also really liked Kenny and Ed's sandwich." "I loved the Asian slaw." "It had a lot of flavor." "The tuna was beautifully seared." "Who had the most successful biparti-sandwich?" "Hei'm gonna have to go with..." "I was thinking about doing gnocchi." "If you Up gnocchi in front of them..." "I would not Up the gnocchi." "It's not going to look that great." ""Take one for the team" is not in my vocabulary." "Who had the most successful biparti-sandwich?" "I'm gonna have to go with Tracey and Angelo." "It was absolutely delicious." "I'd eat that every day." "Angelo and Tracey, you now have immunity in the next elimination challenge." "I've won two quickfires and an elimination challenge, so once again, I feel the eyes on me." "At this point, I'm little heated." "I'm a little hot." "I'm like, "man, what more do I need to do?"" "You can just feel the love over there, dude, can't you?" "I know." "Angelo has been winning the challenges every single time." "It's like, "come on." "Freak." "Everything he touches is that good, honestly?"" "For your elimination challenge, you're going to be taking on a cause that's very important to the president, the first lady, and to Sam." "The first lady launched her campaign let's move to end the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation." "What we're trying to do is to bring together chefs to play their part in this." "So we are looking to do a school lunch." "Our school lunches were horrible." "We didn't eat it." "It's gonna be a little tough." "You'll be feeding students using the same restrictive budget that our public schools have:" "$2.68 per child." "That's $134 for all 50 kids." "Of that $134, I'm gonna take $4 away, because for the $2.68 that schools have to serve lunch, that includes labor and supplies and anything it takes to get that food to the plate." "So $4 is actually a real gift." "I don't think the feeding of 50 is a challenge." "It's the budget." "When I go out, I spend $130 on myself." "What does a meal for a child consist of in our schools?" "A main course, a couple side dishes, certainly a vegetable and a fruit, and most often dessert." "But you must make it delicious, because kids will not eat food that does not taste good, and they will tell you about it as well." "You'll work in teams of four to create a menu for 50 children each at the Alice deal middle school." "Every chef on the team is responsible for one item on the menu, but each of you will be judged on your individual performance." "Angelo and Tracey, as the winners of the quickfire, you get to pick which other pair of chefs will be on your team." "We're gonna go with Kenny and ed." "I feel that Angelo sees me as his biggest threat, and if for whatever reason we're on the bottom, he knows that instead of, like, a 25% Chan of me going home it's a 50% chance," "because Angelo and Tracey have immunity." "It is strategy, yeah, major." "Remaining chefs, you now have to decide who you're going to cook with." "You guys?" "Yeah, that sounds good." "I got kids." "I can help out." "Andrea and I, we both have children." "Tim has a child, so we kind of know what children want and what they're looking for." "So you have 30 minutes to plan today before shopping at restaurant depot." "Later today, you'll have 2 1/2 hours to prep and cook here in the top chef kitchen." "And tomorrow you'll have one hour to heat up your meals at the school before the lunch bell rings." "And you can take off your aprons." "Your menu plan time starts now." "I know every kid likes chicken nuggets and burgers and hot dogs and stuff like that, because that's what they like." "And if we take what they're eating now and make it healthy, I think it'll work." " Let's do a burger." " Okay." "So wait, this is obviously the main course." "The food at school growing up was garbage." "You know, none of it was healthy." "But my burger is gonna be a healthy burger." "The vegetable..." "Kids love peanut butter and celery." "But what is healthy about it?" "The celery with peanut butter, I mean, that's a vegetable." "I think that we do chicken thighs, and we braise them, braise it in Sherry and the chicken broth." "I was thinking about doing gnocchi." "If you Up gnocchi in front of them, they're gonna slam you for Up the gnocchi," "I would not Up the gnocchi." "It's not gonna look that great." "People like Amanda I try to stay away from, and I'll keep peace that way." "If you clash with me, then you're done." " I want to do the chicken." " You got it." "I'll do dessert." "I would do a chocolate banana pudding." "I could make a dessert, but I don't want to, because people who make desserts go home." "If I can pass that bullet along to someone else," "I'll do it." ""Take one for the team" is not in my vocabulary." "So it's actually surprisingly low-sugar." "They think it's junky, but it's actually really healthy." "Yeah, you know, tasty pudding is good." "I feel really confident about this challenge because I love feeding kids." "My parents went through a pretty nasty divorce when I was in High School." "After that, I sort of took over as the mom for my youngest sister, keeping her out of Foster care." "What's our main dish?" "I'm thinking of trying to do something with Mac and cheese." "Mac and cheese would be good." "Mac and cheese, something like with coleslaw." "I'd like to take on dessert." "I'd like to do something with melon." "Tacos, I think kids Love tacos." "And we can make them super healthy, like roast pork." " What kind of tacos is this?" " Gonna be a soft taco." "I could use feta." "That's all low-fat." "A lot of kids are not on feta." "I'm not so happy to work with Kelly, because Kelly's trying to take control." "So we are going to do pork carnita tacos, some pickled onions." "Do you think onions are weird for children?" "No, trust me." "They'll love them." "That's just my two cents." "My teammates are a little panicked, but I feel confident that I can lead this group." "I think that we need to be in agreement, all of us." "I'm not going home for somebody else." "If I go home, I'm going because I messed up." "I started off in the middle." "Now I'm at the bottom." "What the heck?" "I'm not going home." "Chocolate..." "To feed 50 children a four-course lunch, we have $130 total." "Cornstarch." "I haven't seen any alcohol." " Do you have alcohol?" " Liquor?" "Yeah, like Sherry for cooking." "My plan is to do braised chicken thigh with a Sherry jus, and we don't really know how far that $130 is gonna go." "22 minutes!" " This is the same price." " I'll just use that." "Everything we got to get is, like, a lot." "It's 10 bucks, though." "Let me go look at cheaper pasta." "Finding everything you need?" "Most of my competitors are very concerned about the budget, but this is where you sort of have to think outside of the box." "It's doable." "It happens every day in every public school." "Ten minutes!" "Hey, guys, do you want to get a subtotal and check out?" " Where are we at?" " Oh." "Bad, we need to do some cutting back." "It kind of looks like Jacqueline thought the $130 was an individual budget." "We can't afford chocolate." " Let's take this out." " Nix the broccoli." "Is there anything you guys can take off?" "All I have for my dessert is bananas and milk." " What two vinegars do we have?" " No, one of them is Sherry." "What are we taking off?" "We need to get rid of $100." "Can we do yam and ice cream, with yams?" "Take off the plantains, please." "What about the sugar?" "We don't need sugar?" "We are having to compromise our food right now because of budget, which is probably what happens on a regular basis for school lunches." "Do we want to look for a different chicken?" "We don't have time." "This is actually my idea." "I really have an issue of you having claimed stuff today when we did everything together as a group." "I totally agree." "We head back to the top chef kitchen at the Hilton, and we're working in teams to prepare a meal to feed 50 kids." "Oh, we got twins." "That's lucky." " This is all we can use, right?" " Yup." "Check it out first." "Check your dough." "Tortilla's too thick, and I think she has too much oatmeal." "Get a pasta machine and cut it into squares." "Arnold is doing, like, a roasted corn and tomato salsa." "Lynne is doing the black Bean with sweet potato." "And I'm doing caramelized sweet potatoes with abuelita chocolate." "Kelly is doing the pork carnitas." "What did you guys do?" "I am making some whole grain tortillas because I'm making some carnitas tacos." "There's gonna be a little salad on top." " Cool." " This is actually my idea." "Kevin, Tim, and myself," "I think we had a good grip on what kids like to eat." "I'm gonna check on this cabbage." "Alex and I are working coleslaw and chicken." "Kevin's got the dessert." "Tim's got the Mac and cheese." "We all are very clear on our jobs." "You don't think this is too long?" " No, I think this is great." " Okay, fine." "I don't know how to tell you to fix it, but it's not right." "We're working in harmony during the whole prep time." "We're tasting each other's food." "We're clicking on all eight cylinders." "Angelo is preparing a piece of celery with peanut butter mousse, ed is making a sweet potato puree," "Tracey is doing a chicken burger, and then I have an apple bread pudding." "I'm not really feeling all the dishes." "It just doesn't seem like it's gonna be as nutritious as it should be." "My mood while I'm cooking is stressed." "I'm making a sherry-braised chicken thigh," "Steve is making a rice pilaf," "Tamesha is making a green Bean salad, and Jacqueline is making strawberry and banana pudding." "Hot, very hot." "The bananas, despite the fact that I've been cooking them for 20 minutes, they taste like white bread." "They're very starchy." "I decided to add more sugar, and that will hopefully break down the starch." "That's why I told you to use some tomato paste." "I don't want to use tomato paste, but thank you." "Amanda's using Sherry cooking wine." "Essentially, I didn't think it was a wise choice when cooking for kids." "And I'm like, "if I get in the bottom four because of you," "I'm gonna kick your ass."" "Coming through." "Five minutes." "I am responsible for the carnitas." "So then yours, do you have everything for yours?" "I think it's everybody's effort, so..." "We are a team." "Kelly's talking about our challenge, and everything that she says is, "I, I, I, I, I, I," "I, I, I, I, I."" "And I'm like, "okay, well, we worked as a group for the greater goal, and there was no 'I' involved."" "All right." "Everybody, let's go." "Whew." "Wow." "This is a different kind of challenge." "I feel like it's important, especially..." "You know, I have a kid at home." "Right now, we're focusing on this unhealthy eating." "I mean, crap, sometimes she has hot dogs for breakfast." "I've been raising my girlfriend's daughter for 3 1/2 years." "I'm ashamed to say that we eat fast food probably once a week." "I need to work harder at setting an example, and this is a great challenge." "You have to miss her so much." "Yeah, I can't wait to go home and see her." "I mean, ugh, it's awful." "I mean, if I were to talk about her at length, then I would start to cry." "Kids are so much more important to me now that I have one in my life." "I looked over, and I was like," ""get a pasta maker." "Have cookie cutters." "Do it."" "We decided;" "I didn't decide that." "If I'm gonna go home, I'm gonna go home for my ideas, not for yours or yours." "You know what I mean?" "Let's come over here." "A few things bothered me from working in the kitchen with Kelly today, and I wouldn't feel good about myself if I didn't say something to her." "I really have an issue of you having claimed stuff today when we did everything together as a group." "I totally agree." "But everything that I would hear out of your mouth was, "I, I, I, I, I."" "You would use the word, "I, I, I."" ""This is my idea." You said, "this is my idea."" "I didn't make everything, but I troubleshooted." "Like, "okay, that press isn't gonna work." "Use a pasta machine."" "I'm flabbergasted that he came at me with this." "He feels like I have taken too much credit, but each one of us have to stand up and defend a single dish." "I would never..." "But I feel, also, that I got my Done really, really fast to help the entire team get everything else done." "You did." "So now judges are gonna be, like," ""oh, my God, Arnold made a salsa." "Awesome."" "We arrive at Alice Deal Middle School." "It brings back tons of memories of when we were in school." "It's important to me to win this challenge." "I work with my local elementary school on a program very similar to let's move." "And I really want to knock Angelo off his winning streak." "It was two plus one Mayo." "I'm gonna need a backup, most likely." "I'm gonna reheat with the skin and then take it off." "Are we good?" "Kitchen there is not a lot of space at all." "I guess I just thought it would be larger." "40 minutes, everybody!" "40 minutes!" "You want me to chop cilantro?" "So I go to put my peanut butter into the foam gun, and the valve is broken." "All I hear is, "shh..."" "And there's no peanut butter that comes out." "It's just air." "I know Kevin has another whipped cream gun." "Hey, Kevin?" "Do you have a top that I could use?" "Come on, Ba, I only have three of them." "Angelo's team wants to use one of our foam guns." " No." " Got it." "Angelo and Kenny, they're definitely the team to beat at this point." "I'm on a mission to break Starsky and Hutch over there." "This is broken." "Oh, is it?" "Angelo is very attentively working on his peanut butter mousse, but he's not helping the team." "You know, this is a challenge that's kind of near and dear to my heart." "My mom ran a school lunch program for 20 years, and I know how difficult it is to make a nutritious meal given the limited resources that schools have." "Hey, chefs." "How are you?" "So what are you making?" "You got some skewers here?" "Compressed melon skewers served with a yogurt foam." "A yogurt foam, okay, you probably don't see a lot of that in school lunch, huh?" "No, no, no." "I think it's smart, because kids, sometimes they don't like yogurt, but they love whipped cream." "I think they'll eat it without even realizing they're eating yogurt, so it could work out really well." "Hey, Jacqueline." "Hello, chef." "What are you making?" "I was gonna make chocolate pudding, but we couldn't afford cocoa or chocolate or eggs, so I'm making banana pudding." "Did you have it when you went through the checkout line?" "Yeah, but we just realized that, you know, there was about 10 bucks left in the budget." "But that kind of handicaps you, doesn't it?" "It does, so I'm a little worried about that." "But it has really good banana flavor." "It's not too sweet." "I'll let you get back to work." "Good luck." "Jacqueline chose dessert." "She's working on a banana pudding with strawberries and strawberry sauce." "It sounds good." "Hey, chefs." "Hey, chef." "So what are you working on?" "What are you making?" "It's taco day today at the school." "Our tortillas, we made with oatmeal." "It's carnitas." "I'm ultimately responsible for the carnitas." "Okay." "We all really helped each other a lot." "I tried to get my stuff done really, really fast just to be there for the entire team to troubleshoot wherever." "I actually don't like when they say, "we all did it."" "That's why they're forced to take responsibility for one thing." "If someone's completely on their own and it's a failure of a dish, they have nowhere to hide." "How's it going?" "Good, good." " You okay?" " Great." "Tracey and Angelo have immunity here, right?" "Yes." "So if this team loses, there's a 50% chance you're going home." "Those aren't good odds." "Everybody else has a 25% chance of going home if they lose." " Yes." " You realize that?" "Okay." "Okay, chefs, you got about 15 minutes left." "A little tasty." "Amanda chooses to put Sherry wine into her dish." "And alcohol, it's inappropriate for kids." "And I think the name of the dish, we could change it for the judges." "Ten minutes!" "I'm thinking that I have to lighten this up." "I added a little bit of salt." "I added more skim milk." "Then I just put it in a piping bag." "I'm actually very confident and comfortable, because I turned a rock into a wheel." "I personally think that needs a little salt." "I agree, but I tasted the other components, and I think it works all together." "There's a little tension floating around with Arnold." "And this is not the time to do that." "This is the time to dig deep and come together as a team." "We got one minute." "All of a sudden, these kids just start running into the cafeteria like a stable pen that opens up, and everyone's just running out." "You got to control the herd." "You can't let the herd control you." "You hungry today?" "Chocolate milk, please." "We decided to go with kind of a picnic theme." "We kind of took some steps to make this meal more healthy." "How did you do that with the coleslaw?" "Because it looks like it still has mayonnaise in it." "It has a little bit of mayonnaise, but it has a lot more yogurt." "And the barbecue sauce on the chicken has apple cider instead of sugar." "On the chicken, we took all the skin off so it's nice and healthy." "We grilled it, and then we roasted it." "And what's the crust here on your Mac and cheese?" "It's a whole wheat crust that we did with skim milk and low-fat cheese." "What did you make for us?" "Melon, the yogurt looks like whipped cream, but it's healthier and better for you." "Thank you so much." "Right here." "I think the coleslaw is great." "I love the effort with the yogurt to make it healthier." "I think Alex did a great job on the chicken." "And I love the use of the apple cider as opposed to loads of sugar." "Because there's not a lot of sugar in it." "I think Kevin's kabob is tasty." "The weak link here is the Mac and cheese." "I think they did great." "It tastes good." "For the main, we have a chicken burger, chicken mixed with fluffed fiesta rice, just to enhance the flavor." "Peanut butter and celery, a basic tuile, served with a crispy celery garnish." "Next we'll have a sweet potato puree, a hint of cinnamon, and then the finale is the bread pudding." " Do you like chicken burgers?" " Yes." "That's nasty." "This is healthy." "Who made the sweet potato puree?" "Ed." "Those sweet potatoes got, like, a pound of pepper in them." "I don't think you can serve this in a lunch, in a cafeteria." "Heat will just knock off half the kids." "Tom, what do you think of Kenny's bread pudding?" "It's not overly sweet." "It's moist." "What about Tracey's chicken fiesta burger?" "I think it's good." "Let's try Angelo's peanut butter and celery." "I don't necessarily think it's a bad dessert." "I just think..." "It's not a dessert." "Yeah, it's not the dessert." "Why do we have a cookie and the bread pudding?" "Where's the vegetables?" "Would you guys like this meal in your cafeteria?" " Yeah." " Yeah?" "So what did you guys do?" "Kids like sweetness." "I did a black Bean cake." "It's got a little crispy sweet potatoes on top." "And then we have the braised pork carnitas, and we've topped it with a little pickled onions." "I did a roasted corn salad." "I brushed it with a little bit of chili oil." "I did caramelized sweet potatoes without any sugar and a sherbet." "I have to say, I'm pretty excited to see a lot of color on this plate." "What do you think of Kelly's taco?" "I think the taco is really good." "That is a solid taco." "I think Arnold's salad cools it off nicely." "I'm very happy with this." "Lynne's Bean cake was a little spicy." "What did you think of Tiffany's dessert?" "Chocolate sherbet with the sweet potato," "I didn't think I was gonna like it, but it tastes good." "I really enjoyed how they mixed the vegetable with an ice cream." "Tree." "Jinx." "Squirrel." " Hi, guys." " Hello, how are you?" "This is braised chicken thigh in a Sherry jus." "But I got really nice flavor out of it." "I have some sweet onion rice and tomato, carrots, and green onions." "It has about 165 grams of fat." "What?" "Calories, I'm sorry." "And here I have a Bean and tomato salad with some pickled red onions." "I made a banana pudding with skim milk and fresh strawberries on top." "How are you?" "So this is Amanda's low-fat Sherry chicken." "I have to say, the words "sherry jus"" "don't often come into the lunchroom scenario." "I like the flavor of tamesha's salad as a whole." "Jacqueline's banana pudding." "Hold on." "They're analyzing the pudding." "Something happened in there." " It's too starchy." " It's pretty sweet too." "But I like the strawberries on top." "Is it good?" "I think Stephen's rice is tasty but pretty mushy." "In the end, kids eat things that taste good and that have flavor." "I didn't really like the dish over there because it has just rice and all that nasty stuff." "Yeah, that'd be so good." "If they grow up tasting high-fat, high-sugar, high-salt foods, that's what they become accustomed to." "If we can impact them young, we're gonna put them on a course for the rest of their lives." "Taco!" "Taco!" "Chicken!" "Chicken!" "And they came back to stations, you know, for seconds, I was..." "Today my spirits were totally raised." "The desserts sold out super fast." "We did good." "We did good." "I think we did good, so..." "They were very excited, the kids." "All right, so let's go back to judges' table." " School's out?" " School is out." "We know who we're calling." "Regardless of what happens later," "I'm happy with one of the most flavorful cafeteria lunches that I've ever had." "Or I ever didn't have." "Any frustrations we had yesterday," "I think we've definitely worked out." "But as much as I appreciate the help from them," "I feel like they're taking part of my dish away from me." "I'm not saying that you would sabotage the team, because I don't think you're that kind of guy, but, you know..." "Do you think he threw the challenge?" "I think there was some gamesmanship." "Which meal was your favorite meal?" "I liked the macaroni and the whipped cream." "How many people liked the whipped cream?" "It was yogurt, wasn't it?" "Yes, you're right." "It was totally yogurt." "Tell me about the tacos." "Were those radishes?" "No, you know what?" "Those are pickled onions." "Oh." "Oh, okay." "Today's meal was better for all of you." "Yes!" "Good." "Thank you guys so much for letting us come and feed you." "Yes, you can have a hug." "Oh, my God!" "Oh, my God." "Presentation, one through ten, what do you give it?" "I would say it's a ten." "Okay." "Flavor." "I was gonna say 8.5." " Yeah - put you to sleep." "Shh." "Shh, shh, shh." "And that's what-- that's t issue." "Good evening." "We'd like to see two teams:" "Angelo, Kenny, Ed, and Tracey, and Amanda, Stephen, Tamesha, and Jacqueline." "Thank you." "Dun, dun, dun..." "This is kind of jacked up." "Usually the winners go in there first, and we don't get called first in to judges' table, so I'm a little nervous now." "I was very confident earlier tonight." "Childhood nutrition has become a huge health crisis in this country." "In this challenge, we were looking at various things." "Part of it's to get kids to eat vegetables and stuff, and whether or not you were cooking food that was appropriate for a school lunch, obviously we were looking for food that was flavorful." "Both you teams had the worst menus of the day." "Stephen, what was in the rice?" "What I tried to do was incorporate a lot of vegetables into the rice." "And we found ourselves at the cash register sacrificing creativity to keep substance in our meal." "The point was that you guys would get tripped up, because that's the problem that the country has." "I had wanted to do a healthy chocolate dessert that incorporated fruit, but that was not possible within our budget." "When we got back to the kitchen," "I immediately realized that the bananas were very starchy." "Did you find that you had to add more sugar because the bananas were starchy?" "I believe there was a total of about two pounds of sugar." "That's what happens when we don't use good ingredients." "You add a lot of that sugar or fat to make them taste better." "Whose idea was the Sherry jus?" "Mine." "And so you had the budget to buy Sherry?" "Let's move on to your team." "Ed, talk to us about the sweet potatoes." "What was in it?" "It was just tossed with a little bit of brown butter and a little bit of chili powder." "It was pretty spicy." "Got to be careful." "We're cooking for kids here." "Loading up with a lot of starch and sugar is the easy thing to do." "The hard work is finding ways to get more vegetables into school lunch, and I think we see the lack of that effort in this in the lack of vegetables." "The lack of vegetables kept coming back around, so we ended up roasting that tomato on the burger." "Tomato's a fruit." "So our vegetable was that piece of celery, essentially." "Would you have done the celery and peanut butter thing if you didn't have immunity?" "I can't answer that right now." "I'm not saying that you would sabotage the team, because I don't think you're that kind of guy, but..." "I mean, I want to interject here." "I mean--I mean, I'm really not certain where this is coming from that, you know--if there was a time that they felt justly like they wanted to do a veg, I mean-- who was the person on the team" "who was looking at the meal as a whole and saying," ""wait a second, guys." "This doesn't have nutritional value for these kids"?" "I was thinking green leafy vegetables." "You know, I was immediately going on that trail." "And unfortunately, sometimes other people come up, and they make up other decisions, and unfortunately, with two people that actually had immunity, we had to come to an agreement." "If I could jump in, I think the fact that somebody knew that they had no vegetables and said they knew they had no vegetables, being Kenny, and let it slide and when it really came down to it," "instead of trying to champion a cause-- so it's acceptable to have pudding that has two pounds of sugar in it, whereas mine had, like, less than eight ounces total-- do you have any idea" "how much sugar is in processed peanut butter?" "It's ridiculous." "It's, like, maybe one of the worst things in the world for children to eat, horribly bad for-- there was maybe two teaspoons of peanut butter." "Do you know how many calories are in that?" "It's ridiculous." "Does Sherry wine even need to be in a elementary school?" "They weren't drinking it, for Christ's sake." "I wasn't serving it by the glass." "Why did you choose to use Sherry?" "Because for me, I just" "I really like chicken braised with Sherry." "Normally, I like it with mushrooms." "I like it too." "There's a lot of things I like." "I love vodka." "Not cooking with it." "You guys can return to the stew room." "Who won?" "When everybody comes back from the judges' table," "I'm thinking, "oh, my God," ""could this be top two, bottom two?" "I don't know."" "You are the champions, you guys." "You're serious?" "Your two teams were the best teams." "I think we learned something definitely about the whole immunity clause." "They got immunity, so their two dishes are irrelevant." " But they're not." " They're not." "Well, that was really interesting." "Yeah, I'll say." "Who do you think had the worst menu today?" "Hands down, Angelo's team." "Unfortunately, Tracey and Angelo, they're safe." "They have immunity." "With Kenny seeing that there was no vegetables, he made a decision that hurt the nutritional value of the food and thereby the kids who were gonna eat it." "It was a big mistake." "And that sweet potato that ed put forth." "I think ed made a nice dish for a restaurant dish." "Did he make a nice dish that worked for this challenge?" "No." "But I'm really curious as to why" "Kenny and ed didn't speak up more." "When two of your teammates have immunity, you're in a lot more hot water than everyone else, and you need to look up and look at those things." "You need to be a leader." "Do you think that Angelo did know that he had the power and he threw the challenge a little bit?" "I think there was a little gamesmanship." "I don't know if he threw, but I think there was some gamesmanship being played." "I'm not gonna repeat it." "I was pretty disappointed with the other team's food today." "The other team, the two dishes that got them here were the--was Amanda's chicken and Jacqueline's dessert." "Oh, Amanda's chicken was one of the most unappealing things" "I've seen in a long time." "Yeah, I mean, no school has Sherry in their pantry." "She should've prepared it another way." "You know, braising chicken and then taking off the skin-- it's almost just like someone put a big thing of turd on the table, because the kids wouldn't go near it." "I got to go back to Jacqueline's, you know, pudding." "The amount of sugar in that was just unconscionable." "If I can defend it a little is that there was fresh strawberry in there." "All I tasted was sugar." "At least we didn't forget our fruits and veggies." "Well, we also need to pick a winning team and a winner." "Kelly's team, they got a salad in there." "She made her own taco shells using oats, and then they still had a dessert which wasn't full of sugar, wasn't full of fat, and they got a vegetable into that dessert." "It was amazing that they had the same budget, and they seemed to have so much more food." "I think Andrea's team and Alex's team," "I think they did a nice job as well." "The chicken was very tasty." "I love that she used apple cider." "It was very nice." "Through and through, they found really innovative ways to add healthier ingredients in products that otherwise wouldn't be healthy, so the whipped cream was yogurt." "The coleslaw, there was a little Mayo but also yogurt, which I thought was really brilliant, and getting kids to eat that fruit is a big deal." "I think we know who our winner is." " I think so." " Yeah." "Definitely." "Can we please see" "Lynne, Tiffany, Kelly, and Arnold?" "Thank you." "You had our favorite lunch today." " Thank you." " Thank you." "What did you make specifically, Arnold?" "I did the roasted corn tomato salad." "It looked great, and it tasted great." "I appreciate that." "Thank you." "I want to just talk about the carnitas for a second." "The pork tasted great." "There was crunch from the onions." "It was well-balanced, and it was--the kids loved it." "Tiffany, let's go to you." "One kid absolutely said," ""I don't like sweet potatoes, but I loved them both."" "Also, it had great texture, and usually when you take the sugar and fat out of sorbet or ice cream, you lose texture." "Thank you." "I was impressed by the use of beans." "Making it fun and exciting, I think, was one of the reasons why the kids ate it so much." "That's one of the reasons" "I put the little sweet potato wig on top." "They were so into it." "As our guest judge, announce a winner." "The one that stood out the most was so alive and so vibrant, kept nutrition at the forefront." "I think I'm gonna have to choose..." "Kelly." "Thank you." "Congratulations, Kelly." "This challenge was important for me to win because this is very close to my heart." "Well, good for you, and good for all your teammates." "Nice job." "Thank you very much." "And I need you to call back" "Kenny, ed, Amanda, and Jacqueline." "I know that my team helped me out, but I worked really hard on this dish, and I really wanted to make it great for the kids and healthy and delicious, and I feel like I succeeded." " Who won?" " Who won?" " Who won?" " Kelly." "I'm sorry to say that the judges would like to see" "Amanda, Jacqueline, Kenny, and Ed." "Your challenge today was to create a nutritious and delicious school lunch." "Unfortunately, you're on the two losing teams." "Kenny, I think you could've been a little more assertive, and I think you let the team down." "Ed, same thing." "Both of you put together a menu that were loaded with starches, didn't give us the variety that we're looking for." "Amanda, your chicken just was not appealing." "If it doesn't appeal to a child, they won't eat it." "Jacqueline, your pudding was loaded with sugar." "It was also grainy and not very nutritious." "Unfortunately, one of you will go home for that." "Jacqueline, please pack your knives and go." "Thank you." "I wish I had fought for more than 10% of the budget." "It sucks to have the worst dish and the hardest dish with the least amount of ingredients." "Hey, guys." "Girls, you got a two-bedroom room now." "Aww." "The kids reminded me of why I came here in the first place, and that was such a gift." "Thank you, chef." "You know, I think my family will be proud of me just for getting this far, you know, on my own, by myself." "I'm disappointed, but you have to live with the choices you make." "Next on top chef..." "This challenge is to cook a picnic, but I'm not a grill guy." "I mean, it'll clog the pores way too fast." "Is this too bitter?" "I personally hate chocolate, so..." "Alex is annoying." "He is--he's a slob." "He has no technique." "I mean, I can go on for an hour if you want." "Whoa, hey, whose stuff is this?" "I had it in there before anything was in there." "Yeah, but my name was on it." " Did you steam your pork?" " No, I seared it off-  can you pull the bones out?" " No." "I don't think people take me seriously but I'm still a chef, and I'm going to prove them wrong."