Top Chef - A Foo Fighter Thanksgiving

For the quick fire challenge, the chefs have to redo a recipe from the Top Chef cook book. Everyone picks their dish and are off and cooking when, 10 minutes into the challenge, Padma tells the chefs that they have to make soup with the ingredients they are working with. Poor Leah was making tuna tartar, I don't think that would make a very good soup. She thought so too and came up with a white asparagus soup which won her the challenge and immunity.

The elimination challenge is to make Thanksgiving dinner for the Foo Fighters and their entourage which includes 18 vegetarians. Everyone is thinking, no big deal right? Then they find out the catch is they have to cook the dinner using one burner, microwave ovens and toaster ovens. They divide into two teams with Leah picking her dream team of all of the best chefs so far. She's no dummy! Leah's team call themselves Team Sexy Pants while the other team is Team Cougar, apparently because of Ariane who is the oldest.

Eugene from Team Cougar doesn't waste any time and rigs up a grill using a chafing dish and a grill rack from one of the toaster ovens. The other twist was that they were doing all of the cooking outside and it started raining. You see the production crew trying to put up tents while the chefs are freaking out thinking they will be serving soggy food. I would have been more worried about all those toaster ovens shorting out in the rain.

Aside from the rigged up grill, everyone made do with the micros and toaster ovens and got their meals out on time. Ariane who has been on the bottom from the start, made the turkey for the Cougar team which turned out to be a crowd fave. The Foo Fighters kept going back and forth between the two teams liking dishes from each. In the end it was the Foo Fighters love of bacon and team Sexy Pants' vegan stuffing that won them the challenge and a trip to that nights concert while team Cougar cleaned up the mess. It came down to the desserts to decide who went home and the unlucky chef that heard Padma utter the words pack your knives and go was Richard. Double D