Obviously, each week in "Top Chef", a candidate will be eliminated.
And each time, his departure will take on a dramatic air.
After just four episodes, some were attracting immediate sympathy.
Thus Jarvis Scott or Matthieu Van de Velde, who left the previous weeks.
And some seem armed to go far.
So, inevitably, the departure of the day takes a little bit.
It is because we would have put a play on Pierre Chomet.
Paul Pairet also, moreover, who sent him confident last chance.
"Pierre, I think you can go to the end of the competition, but at some point you have to win me something!"
“, He warned, designating him for the ax test.
That he will lose.
One last chance around the tomato and ultimately a failure.
As on a supergiant, at this level, the slightest edge error is paid for.
Despite the audacity, despite the taste and flavors firmly in place, a siphon problem and an uneven foam lead to its dressing in a not very engaging visual.
It costs him his place.
Disappointed, moved, he broods over his failure, annoying at not having done anything “100% well” in this competition.
A beautiful regressive ordeal
It all started around the bakery with Brandon Dehan, pastry chef of Oustau de Baumanière, double starred, who signed a dessert tribute to the elements of bakery.
For this event, the brigades are working in full.
The first are directly qualified, the last go as the last chance, the other two will face Pierre Gagnaire in the second part.
Pairet's violets were not unworthy and Pierre Chomet had taken charge of operations.
A choice of dressage - already - awkward, a lost madeleine that we relaunched at the last moment, and in the end a little too dry, made them miss the direct qualification.
Nice regressive test that this appetizer, where we soak in milk, we infuse, we extract, we caramelize, we “nibble” at all costs to play on textures, and where the war resurfaces according to the debates. between the supporters of chocolatine and those of pain au chocolat.
Chocolatine, the term is strongly claimed by Michel Sarran and used by Philippe Etchebest.
For his part, Paul Pairet is fundamentally pain au chocolat.
And Hélène Darroze?
She doesn't say either, but to close the debate, she was asked the question.
"Chocolatine", she replies by text.
No frills victory for the chocolatine among the fantastic four of "Top Chef", this is sure to be talked about in the cottages.
This event, it is the Yellows, decidedly very strong, of Michel Sarran who win.
The Blues, them, spin in the last chance with a fourth place due to this sacred pear added to the dessert.
And deemed irrelevant ... Yet Etchebest had warned them.
And enraged.
Revisiting the soufflé
In the soft underbelly of the standings, the six members of the Reds and Violets will therefore have to decide individually around the soufflé, an event overseen by the great Pierre Gagnaire.
"It must be like a cloud," warns the star of great benevolence towards the candidates.
“It puts people at ease,” remark Darroze and Pairet, who can only follow the operations on screen.
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Far from deflating, the six in the hot seat rush into the soufflé headlong to cook it, which with liquorice, which with white chocolate, whiskey or even coconut for Pierre Chomet, once again daring.
But in this game, it's Baptiste Trudel - purple like him - who enjoys an insolent beginner's luck with the first soufflé of his life with saffron rice pudding.
He is qualified straight away.
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Two Blues, two Violets and three Reds likely to go as a last chance.
Facing Pierre Chomet, Etchebest sends Charline Stengel, winner of “Objectif Top Chef”, her “little butterfly that needs to take flight”, and Darroze chooses Sarah Mainguy so that she can finally assert herself.
She wins the event with her tomato candies.
Charline is saved on the wire.
Stone falls.
And wipe away her tears.
The four brigades
Hélène Darroze's Red Brigade.
Chloé Charles (33 years old), Mohamed Cheikh (28 years old) and Sarah Mainguy (25 years old).
Blue Brigade by Philippe Etchebest.
Charline Stengel (19 years old) and Matthias Marc (27 years old).
Paul Pairet's Violet Brigade.
Baptiste Trudel (33 years old) and Pauline Sene (28 years old).
Michel Sarran's Yellow Brigade.
Bruno Aubin, 31, chef.
Thomas Chisholm (28 years old) and Arnaud Baptiste (33 years old).
Eliminated this evening.
Pierre Chomet (30 years old).
Previously eliminated.
Adrien Zedda (26 years old) and Yohei Hosaka (37 years old) (episode 1), Jarvis Scott (episode 2) and Mathieu van de Velde (episode 3).