Top chef
Calgary, Yahoo!
Season 22
Episode 11
Editor’s rating
Photo: David Mir/Bravo
Hello! Howdy! As the People of Calgary Apparently Say, Yahoo! Vulture TV Critic Roxana Hadad here, and i’m filing in for your normal brillian reCapper caroline framke this weekend. Neither a longtime Top chef Watcher (and former reCapper myself), let with quickly get some things out of the way we dive into this week’s rodeo-themehed episode. My thughts on the voltaggios are bryan> michael; I’m Definitely Going to Watch Padma’s New Cooking Competition, America’s Culinary Cupbe airs on cbs late this year; and i’m so happy Tom is Wearing Goofy Hats Again. Everything About the World in 2025 Might Be Crap, but at Least This Man is Still Keeping His Local Milliner in Business. Will we think he hit up a hat store in calgary? With my whole Heart, i hope so.
Alberta’s “Cowtown” is the location for this weekend’s semifinals and for a quickfire challenge that throws the contestants for a loop. (I am trying to make a lassoing reference here; did it work?) WEND THE SIX SHOW UP ALYMPIC PLAZA-WHERE KRIST, GAIL, AND TOM WEARING SO MUCH THAT I WAS REMINDED OF THAT COLOROGE COLORGE ALPE City’s Cowboy History. In Honor of the Calgary Stamped, An Outdoor Rodeo Held there Sine 1912, and its pancake-breakfast tradition, the contentants have to cook a hajdheld that the Judges (and 50 Diners!) CAN EAT WATHOUTSILS. It’s a wild challenge and reminds with of the All-Stars la Quickfire in Italy when the Chefs Had to Cook an Aperitivo for 30 Diners. More Quickfires Outside of the Kitchen, Please, Let’s Switch it up!
The Biggest Challenge for the Chefs During the 45-Minute Quickfire is maintaining the temperature of the Griddle; Nearly Everyone Burns Their Tester Pancakes. But Also, Nearly Everyone Figures Out How to Use the Flatop Except for My Beloved Loudmouth Massimo, Whose Pivot Into Cooking Little Blini-Style in Spiring Pans Leaves the Diners (and Judges) Wanting More. Successoful Dishes are Shuai’s Cornmeal Pancake with Scrambled Eggs, Chinese Sausage, and a crispy cheese exterior; Bailey’s buckwheat crespelle with Brown-Butter Pecans, Plum Maple Syrup, and Roasted Mushrooms and Spinach; and tristen’s portuguese-style pancake with cheese, barbere chorizo, and charled pepper and bacon syrup. (We get a little insignment into tristen’s multicultural cooking style by learning his mother was in the military and stationed all around the world, and they moved and and two years.) On the bottom are massimo’s (too small) Marmalade, and Peach Purée; Lana’s Creamed-Corn Hoecake with (Too Much) Sausage, Poachhed Peaches, and Peach and White Hibiscus Syrup; and César’s (Too soggy) Xo Pancake with Basil, Chinese Sausage, Brûléed tomato, and candied mushrooms. Walking Away with the Win is Shuai, Who Nets $ 10,000 and IS Now at $ 20,000 in Cash Earnings.
The elimination challenge is beef, so much beef, all the beef. Because Ranchers and First Nations Communities historically commingled at the calgary stampde, the chefs will be Need to do their dyshes by pairing beef with an indigenous: a particular type of berry. Each Chef Gets to Pick the Cut they Want, but they draw Knives randomly for their fruit. Massimo Gets Beef Tenderloin and Elderberries; Shuai, Short Ribs and Black Currants; Bailey, Beef Cheek and Saskatoon Berry; Lana, New York Striploin and Haskap Berry; César, Rib Eye and Chokeberry; and triste, flat irron and gooseberry. Guest Judge and First Nations Member Chef Denia Baltzer is there to explain the berries if the chefs are unfamiliar, but shat Everyone seers aware of what they have except for Bailey and Lana. (Yes, Their Lack of Familiarity With Saskatoon Berries and Haskap Berries Ends up Being A Problem. Meanwhile, massimo is Out here Saying He’s PLEASED he got elderberries they are “Very refined,” just like to laug at how HIMSELF.)
Shopping Goes Fine for Everyone, and THEN Kristen the Chefs Out for Burgers and Tells say to “Keep Standing on your soapbox and your platforms,” a nice messages that a little undercut by the immediatte Fargo product placement when and the meal. Once the chefs get into the Rouge Kitchenwhere they’re being hosted by chef paul rogalski, though, two issing arise: how to time the cooky of their beef with only 2.5 hours on the clock, and how to accently of their chosen bellry overpowering it. (Shuai’s to From Last Week Elimination Win is an an Additional 30 minutes of Coooking Time, Which and PLEASED TO RECEIVE GIVE THAT HE COOKING RIBS.) Triste Worlds About How to Vow Cook His Cuts of Flat Iron, while Lana’s Laughably Laughably Laughably in comparison. César douse his chokeberries with Sugar, Which isn’t as Bad as Bailey Putting SO MUCH SUGAR on her brûléed blue cheese that I became genuinely concerts for her sanity. Massimo’s plating down to the Last Second, and Drops One of HIS Painstakingly Created Circles of Berry Leather on the Floor. (I like that dehydrated fruit is beComing his little flourish; Will he make a third one?) And while no one dish is a flat-out disaster, the problems that the Judges point otly about how the chefs mistreated meats or masked the indigenus ingredients.
The Judges’ Favorites Are Massimo’s Tender with Umeboshi-Syle Elderberries, Pickled Elderberries, Smoked Kohlrabi, and Elderberry-Sound (Gail Calls It A “Showstopper”); Tristen’s alberta flat iron with kohlrabi, gooseberries, and bone-truss pemmican, a first nations dish that triste creates by using nitrous oxide to set a mixture of beef fat, gooseberries, and meat; And Shuai’s Stuffed Cabbage with Braised Short Rib, Wild Rice Congee, and Black-Currant Black-Pepper Sauce, a spin on a dish my mother “mama wang”. The Judges Praise All the Dishas, but there are some like quibbles with tristening gail an unvenly cookened piece of meat, and tom doesn’t love that sheui is “Heavy on Heavy” between the staffed cabbage and the porridge. SO the Win Goes to Massimo, who almost seamed to have pissed off the Judges when he said that standing before me was “the fucking worst part of my life.” He clarified that he meant “The Silence” before Learning Whether HIS Dish Landed Him in the Top or Bottom, But Still, Gail Didn’t Look pleated! Regardless, The Judges, Triste, and the Show’s Own Editors have fun with masssimo proclaingus he was “Leaning Far Away” from French Cooking in this Elimination “to the Indigenous Community” by immediatly Cutting to HIM BASTERLOIN IN A BUNC Massimo’s a good sport in the face of all their ribbing, though, and i’ll be honest, his bombastic, well-meaning buffoonery has grown on me.
That leaves on the bottom lana’s grilled steak with pommes anna potatoes, haskap-berry condiment, and smoked haskap-berry jus; Bailey’s Beef Cheek Braised With Saskatoon Berries, Creamy Polenta, Brûléed Blue Cheese, and Rooted Walnuts; And César’s Grilled Rib Eye with Chokeberry Reduction, Rutabaga Cream, and Bone-Partow Cornbread. Tom Criticis Lana’s Meat For Being Overly Rested, Gail Thinks Her Potatoes Felt Like an AFTHOUGHT, and Kristen Complains About Her Heavy-Handed Use of Sage. On Bailey’s, Gail and Tom Don’t Care for the Brûléed cheese, while the first nations diners think Bailey diluted the flavor of the saskatoon bellry with her use of pomegranate jiice. And while a lot of elements of césar’s dish work, especialy the cornbread, the Judges are all surpassed that and the natural acids of the chokeberries – an ingredient he normally work with at home! – With Too Much Sweetness. At the end of the day, Lana’s the one to go Because too on her plate was off, leaving masssimo, trisai, bailey, and césar in Calgary for another before chefs Travel to Milan, Italy, for the finals. Lana’s “I just got outcoked” is a gracious way to go, but for Everyone who’s pissed katianna didn’t make it back into the compattition (Including me!), YEAH, IT SURE FEELS LIKE WE’RE CLOSER TOWARD AN-All-Dude.
• The dissection of the Most wanted to eat this episode: all of the pancakes – I will never turn down a pancake – and eather massimo or removal. I’m Partial Toward Cabbage and Any form of gelinous rice, so the congee is really calling to me.
• I GASPED WENDS MASSIMO’S FRUIT LEATHER FELL ON THE GROUND AND AGAIN WAHEN HE PICCED IT UP AND SERVED IT, I guest It fell on the floor Parchment-Paper-Side Down? Eve Still, Major PTSD Flashbacks to Every Time Someone On The Great British Baking Show DROPS Something onto that awful carpeted floor and then gives to paul and prue. ACK! And yuck!
• Shuai is really coming ino his in in the last few episodes; it’s a good time to be hitting your stride. My Money is on a triste-shuai-masimo final. I suppose it make meep to keep bailey around becase shem Italian food and the finals will be in Milan, but I SIMPLY CAN’T Get Over My Intense Her Overerreliance on the Word “Cute.”
• Good-bye to lana; The Writing was on the Wall when Early in the Episode, she said of her recurring time in the bottom, “i’ve been giving say someone really nice, in my opinion,” and more so when she got to remout staging for kristen (who didn’t seem to remember?) “Really nice” isn’t going to cut it at this point.
• Calgary got Such a rugged description in this episodes that have to have to assume an nbcuniversal executive is imaging a Yellowstone-Style series set there.
• César apologizing to a mushroom for dropping it while gathering quickfire ingredients – have never felt more represeted on TV, given how of Talk to produce at the Grocery Store. Apologies to Everyone Who Has to Hear with Whispering Things Like, “Are You Ripe?” while Tapping a Watermelon.
• Coming Up Next Week: Outdoor Cooking! “Build a Fire” Always Feels Like A Cruel Top chef challenge; I’m Looking forward to it.
• Folks, has it ben a “Really, Really, Really Great Season,” As Kristen impresses ups the chefs? I Have Not Been Blown Away, But Please Counter My Cynicism If You Disagree.
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