Top Chef Season 22 Episode 5 Recap: While a former contestant returns, participants face a double eliminationStory by?Gira Rathod
Bravo aired?Top Chef?Season 22, Episode 5, on April 10, 2025. The latest episode featured a few twists and surprises. It would have no Quickfire challenge, but here's the catch: there was a double elimination. Participants were sent to different restaurants to try various cuisines in the latest episode. Later, their challenge was to prepare food for 150 people, and based on that, the winning team and elimination teams were chosen. Former participant and chef Sara Bradley joined the??as they tasted the dishes prepared during the challenge. ? "Because there's no Quickfire tomorrow, you're all heading out to some of these neighborhoods. You'll get to know the food by learning firsthand on how they make it, and even help push out some orders," said Kish. ?then brought the knives, and by drawing them, the teams and their cuisines were determined. She also revealed that there would be a double elimination. The chefs would work at different restaurants, including Greek, Filipino, Indian, Thai, Portuguese, and Caribbean, for the next challenge. The participants' pairs were?-Corwin (Portuguese), Katianna-Cesar (Thai), Vinny-Lana (Indian), Shuai-Henry (Filipino), Paula-Massimo (Caribbean), and Bailey from Last Chance Kitchen, paired with Tristen (Greek), who was safe from elimination. Vinny and Lana were making Chicken Kamasutra at their assigned Indian restaurant. ? "We're helping make the chicken kamasutra. It seems like this is the dish that we're gonna really understand the most," said Lana. Top Chef's Paula and Massimo, at the Caribbean restaurant, worked on Oxtail Hash, consisting of shredded oxtail, brunch potato, oxtail gravy, poached eggs, and curry hollandaise. Cesar and Katiana, while making Thai dishes, worked on making flower dumplings from the Royal Thai Cuisine. Corwin and Kat, with their?, learned more about the Piri-piri hot sauce and how the Chef of the restaurant created it in the pan while cooking the dish. For their next assignment,?Top Chef?participants were assigned a task where they had to prepare dishes for 150 people. While returning from their assigned restaurants, participants talked about what they wanted to create. However, Vinny and Lana had separate ideas for the dish as they wanted to make different food items. ? "Vinny, he wants to do this hollandaise. I'm having a really tough time envisioning it. But he feels so strongly about it that I'm like, "Okay, yeah, let's go with it," confessed Lana. Top Chef?participants were allowed to shop for 30 minutes with a $1000 budget to cook for 150 people. After getting all the raw materials, participants returned to the kitchen and raced to finish cooking. Participants then left the kitchen and reached the venue where they were supposed to serve the food. Soon, people started to arrive, and they saw various dishes prepared by the participants. It included grilled octopus, Thai-style beef, roasted port patty kare-kare, a cod and shrimp bomba, "Serving 150 people, the most difficult part is consistency. Every dish has to be the same. We're doing six plates at a time. We wanna keep everything still hot. We have a lot of garnishes. Hopefully, it doesn't feel like a long wait. "confessed Henry. Soon, the judges arrived along with a returning contestant, Sara Bradley (Chef/ proprietor, freight house). As the judges tested various dishes, they started with ? "Fresh bread cooked to the order is one of the most beautiful things in the world for me. Half of my day at the restaurant is spent making bread. The other half is looking at myself in the mirror, of course," said Massimo. Top Chef?Season 22 Episode 5: Winners and eliminationSoon, participants and judges returned to the?Top Chef?Kitchen for the results. Tristen-Bailey and?-Cesar, as Kristen revealed, cooked their favorite dishes. ? "The winning team is...the blue team, Bailey and Tristen," revealed guest chef Sara. Since they were already safe, they won another immunity for the next elimination.??and Kat were eliminated as their dish tasted too wet and gummy to the judges. Fans can stream?Top Chef?Season 22, Episode 5 on Bravo.
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