"Such is taken who believed to take", one thinks when Stéphane Rotenberg announces the result of the second round of the semi-final… The one of which Sarah gave the theme: to make in 1h30 a dessert with bone marrow , sea urchin, citrus fruits and pollen.
“I have a number of bird names that come to mind,” Matthias responded.
Yet it is he who caps it at the post by equalizing on the wire.
As a reminder, the semi-final is played in three moves. To each of the three candidates still in the race - red Mohamed, violet Sarah then blue Matthias, in order - to challenge the other two. All three will cook, but only the chalengés can score a point if, after blind tasting, they are better classified than the author of the test. As referees, Michel Sarran, now without a candidate after the elimination of Pierre Chomet last week, and a guest chef: the MOF and 3 stars Christophe Bacquié for the first, and Romain Meder, also 3 stars, for the second.
It was her theme, therefore, and she had to be sure of herself, Sarah, that she knew this ground on which she intended to face the technicians Mohamed and Matthias.
"I hope that she will embarrass everyone, but not her", wants to reassure Paul Pairet who asks: "You have already done it?
".
" No ".
Ouch.
“I don't like to redo what I have already done, she slips.
There is a way to do something crazy, ”she smiles.
"No, but you're off!
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“The kitchen is a huge playground, if you have a slightly open mind, you can go very far”. So she plays, aware of the unconsciousness of the gesture, obviously beautiful. Beautiful as when she warns Matthias twice that his preparations are burning. These three are pals and don't want to win because the other failed. "Is sea urchin caramel good?" “, Asks Pairet again. “In my head, yes,” she replies.
"No, but you're off! », Says Philippe Etchebest, learning that she is improvising. That's why we love her, Sarah instinctively. Only the others have none the less, instinctively. And it phosphorus everywhere with these four well-marked ingredients. Marrowbone crumble, Pollen cream, sea urchin tongue, white chocolate and lemon ganache… Finally, it is Mohamed who, inspired on the wire, will win, ahead of Matthias. Each scores a point.
"Wabi sabi, as the Japanese say, perfection in imperfection", exclaimed Romain Meder when he discovered the plate of the Rouge.
Back to the sender, one might say, since previously Sarah had outclassed Mohamed on his own test.
Scoring only a point.
However, she had started by sulking the pleasure of the competition and the challenge launched by the Rouge around the stuffed macaroni.
Macaroni in a cannelloni
It didn't inspire him, but then not at all. The pouting woman, quickly cropped by Pairet who got angry at her pout on bad days. “There is nothing funky, it pisses me off,” she blurted out. “At some point, you have to put yourself in I want to go to the final mode,” he says, before completely dropping her: “Okay, well you're all alone there”. "We haven't been pissed off all these weeks for you to drop the case." Electroshock, hug and tears - "I don't believe in myself, but others do, obviously it moves me", she confides - and here she is back on the dark side of the farce.
"I played the fool," she admits. He reframed me, made me understand that behaving like that was a lack of respect for the other candidates eliminated. "And while Mohamed, too confident, wastes time to end up in a panic -" It's not possible, it's a hidden camera! », Warns Hélène Darroze - she finds the idea: to slip macaroni into a cannelloni, like an abyss of the theme. For his part, Matthias, also confident, does too much, and drowns his noble foods, truffles and foie gras, in a proposal that is too rich.
It is therefore Sarah who scores a point, not him. "Sarah the hack is past, incredible," she is surprised. Each candidate counts one point. Next week, it will be up to Matthias to challenge his opponents. "Everything will be decided on my event, it's still not nothing", he slips. To discover the first images, we guess the twisted side of what reserved them.
