In the end, there will only be one left.
The motto of "Highlander" - the film aired Wednesday night on 6Ter - can also be applied to "Top Chef".
But if we lose a chef every week, we do not behead there.
Standing at the piano, we measure ourselves against it faithfully.
The weapons of the evening: soup, cheese and duck breast.
Creativity too, the watchword of the season, and particularly of this episode 5, which sees Guy Savoy participate in the show for the first time.
But first, it was necessary to beat Philippe Etchebest and Paul Pairet, an unprecedented association for an unprecedented "Who can beat Etchebest?"
», In a hidden camera version, almost.
Neither Hélène Darroze nor Michel Sarran was in the know.
Two great mystery chefs, two figures appearing behind a sheet, this is what was announced… They only discovered after tasting the good trick played by their comrades and the production.
“Paul is a traitor, a liar, a good actor!
»Darroze annoys with amusement, in front of the pot aux roses… We weren't going to make a big deal out of this story, the theme of the test for which the ten candidates - also in unpublished duos, the brigades are mixed for the occasion - have an hour and thirty minutes, when the leaders to be slaughtered have only half.
An unprecedented freediving race for Pairet.
"Won't we, my Paulo, we're going to give them a tan?"
"We are short," he repeats, unable to act, while answering Etchebest.
"You have a masochistic side", he plague again at the address of the latter, experienced in the exercise, which will be more clever at the beginning - "Is not it, my Paulo, that are we going to give them a tan?
- that at the end.
Against the clock, their duo of clerks works.
And their number of actors is quite tasty during the tasting in the company of Darroze and Sarran.
“Good actors!
A little Oscar!
Pauline mocks.
"They wore their
cojones
, do that in forty-five minutes", underlines with admiration the blue Matthias.
With their Beaufort soufflé, Pairet and Etchebest will finally be second, tied with Charline and Bruno.
Only Sarah and Thomas outclass them, who directly qualify for the following week.
"A red and a yellow", laughs Darroze.
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The other eight spun in the second round, with the unprecedented appearance in the Guy Savoy show.
He already has three Michelin stars.
The candidates themselves have a bunch of stars in their eyes when they see it coming.
For the fourth year at the top of the list of the 1000 best tables in the world in 2020, Savoy challenges them on the soup.
Their mission, "to transform the fleeting moment of tasting into an unforgettable memory".
A festival of finds
Great pressure on the brigadiers who are allies again by color.
And it's a festival of finds.
Between the soup in the coconut to open with a drill, trapped in eggs to be broken to taste or even in the heart of a hot potato flambéed to serve: the evening devices throw it away.
In their little shoes, the candidates present their dish face to face with Guy Savoy.
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"It's a bit as if God came into your room", slipped one of them when he appeared.
Imagine, serving the soup to God… So strong usually, the yolks of Sarran stall this time.
And it is the very applied Bruno who sticks to it.
Uncomfortable in public, he is even less so against Guy Savoy, while his live infusion device does not work.
Crestfallen, it is he that Michel Sarran will send as a last chance so that he “frees himself”.
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In the game of soup to please, it is the blues of Etchebest who win - finally - hands down with their "casserole".
The others slip away like a cleaver.
Determined to "go solo in the ring" to find out if he is "in the game or not", Baptiste volunteers for the purple.
And wins, this game, brilliantly.
Twice favorite among chefs, it outclasses Chloé for the reds.
She does a titanic job and seduces, too.
Sober, clear and always as elegant on the plate, but a bit below, Bruno stumbles.
“It was short, but it was cool,” he smiles.
“Go ahead, exist, trust yourself,” Sarran encourages him.
For a bit, we would sing France Gall…
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.
Thomas Chisholm (28 years old) and Arnaud Baptiste (33 years old).
Eliminated tonight.
Bruno Aubin (31 years old).
Previously eliminated.
Adrien Zedda and Yohei Hosaka (episode 1), Jarvis Scott (episode 2) and Mathieu van de Velde (episode 3), Pierre Chomet (episode 4).