Top Chef - Second City in the Windy City

The quickfire challenge, with guest judge, pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini, is to make a dessert. Most of the chefs start to groan right away. Well, it's hard to come up with something original when you are staring at a table full of desserts! Some of the chefs had their own "special" dessert and pulled it out for this challenge. Good thinking since a few chefs in the past have lost challenges because they were saving their specialties. Spike ends up in the bottom three with his souffle' but gets kudos from Johnny for trying. I thought sure Dale would win with his Hawaiian ice but Richard won with his banana "scallops" with guacamole and chocolate ice cream, yummo! The chefs are treated to a show at Second City. For those of you who do not know, Second City is an improvisational troop. During the show, the actors ask the audience for colors, emotions, ingredients and veggies. Nikki is the first to figure out that those will be the dishes they have to cook and she was right. Only they will be cooking for the Second City actors. The chefs pair up and chose their dishes. With names like orange turned on asparagus, yellow love vanilla, purple depressed bacon, green perplexed tofu and magenta drunken polish sausage, this should be interesting. Antonia & Lisa rebel saying they won't cook with polish sausage and use chorizo instead and only using a tiny bit on top of sea bass. When Spike & Andrew started making soup, they find out that all of the electrical equipment, including blenders, have been removed from the kitchen. Then the second surprise, they have to pack up everything and move to the house where they will finish cooking and serve. All those people trying to cook in one kitchen? OK. In this case, there really will be too many cooks in the kitchen! Dale & Richard make a great team. Who else would think to take tofu and marinate it in beef fat to make it taste like a steak and make everyone love it? Antonia & Lisa's decision not to use polish sausage did not escape the judges attention and earned them a spot at the bottom. They also used a touch of tequila which the judges were expecting a shot to go with the dish. Antonia & Lisa totally missed the mark with no sausage and no "drunkenness". Spike & Andrew's yellow squash soup and Dale & Richard's tofu steak and curry were the standouts. Jen & Stephanie had the orange turned on asparagus which put them at the bottom with Antonia & Lisa. They were trying to get the asparagus to stand up like a phallic symbol or something then topped it with some kind of orange cheese. Under all that cheese, nothing is going to stand up. Maybe they should have tried Viagra. They tried to be all sexed up during the presentation going as far as to perform a culinary B.J. on the asparagus. Poor asparagus, what did that asparagus ever do to you to deserve that?! The dream team, Dale & Richard win the reward. Each of them received $2500 worth of kitchen equipment. Jen & Stephanie had too many things on the plate for the judges taste and Jen was told to pack her knives and go. My prediction is that it will come down between Dale & Richard with Richard winning. You heard it here first! Double D