The top six home cooks will taker over a popular Los Angeles restaurant in the upcoming episode of Fox's hit reality show "MasterChef" season 6.
In "The Restaurant Takeover," TV Guide reports that the contestants will be divided into two teams and prepare a couple of appetizers and entrées for dining customers. As usual, the winning team will have a major advantage coming to the pressure test. The losing cooks, on the other hand, will have to battle it out in creating three different pasta dishes.
The final six, one of the strongest batches in the "MasterChef" history, have been chosen in the last episode. Katrina Kozar, Stephen Lee, Derrick Peltz, Hetal Vasavada, Claudia Sandoval, and Nick Nappi are the only ones left vying for the elusive title of being the best home cook in America. According to Cartermatt, this is one of those instances wherein there is no "clear-cut" favorite. Anybody can take the prize, depending on how each will perform in the next tasks.
But first, they have to go over a livid Gordon Ramsay. In the promo released by Fox, the celebrated chef can be seen blowing his top off in the restaurant takeover challenge. As per his usual, Ramsay will be breathing down the contestants' necks, trying to make sure that each dish that will leave the kitchen is flawless. Which team will feel the brunt of his anger?
Last episode, the cooks found coffee inside their mystery boxes. The judges told them to create dishes using a wide variety of coffee, as well as other basic ingredients in the pantry. As expected, almost all of them went for the dessert route except Lee, who created a chili and espresso-crusted fillet.
However, it was Nappi's vanilla coffee cake with mascarpone cream that impressed the judges the most. He was exempted from the tag team elimination challenge, preparing an elaborate party platter, and got to choose the pairings.
Nappi went for the jugular and matched Lee and Peltz, who have been very vocal about their dislike for each other. On this challenge, however, Peltz decided to step back and allow Lee to take the lead. The result was nothing short than amazing, as even the judges were surprised on how well the two could work together.
Vasavada and Sandoval's platter was a disaster, as well as Kozar and Tommy Walton's. But it was the latter's horrible chicken/raw shrimp combination that the judges deemed the weakest. In the end, Walton was sent home.
"MasterChef" season 6 airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. EST on Fox.
