Top Chef Season 5 - Top Chef New York - Episode 3

Top Chef Season 5 Top Chef New York - Episode 3

Top Chef QuickFire Challenge

The quick fire challenge was classic and intense. Each chef drew a knife from the block with a strange number on it - 194, 78, 44, etc. The numbers were page numbers from the Top Chef Cookbook, and the challenge was then to construct your Top Chef version of the Top Chef recipe you chose!

In typical quick fire production moves - the chefs were stopped mid-challenge and instructed to move their product to a.....

soup! Wow - talk about stress. However, it seemed all the Top Chefs made the transition well and moved foward with it. Leah took the challenge with an interesting cold soup based on a Top Chef Season 3 classic from Hung.

Top Chef Elimination Challenge

The Elimination Challenge for Top Chef New York was an interesting twist on Thanksgiving. Prepare a great Thanksgiving feast as a roadie Top Chef for the Foo Fighters! The Top Chefs were divided into teams based on Leah's selection of her team. The team names - the Team Cougar and Team Sexy Pants both prepared good quality meals in a difficult environment.

In the end Team Sexy Pants took the Foo Fighters and judges votes, and won a narrow victory over Team Cougar. Richard was sent packing with a fairly poor rendition of S'mores. I'm not sure why he chose that desert - but the choice and delivery of it got him sent back to San Diego.

Later Richard and Stay tuned.