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The most dangerous, most extreme cooking competition on television is back for another course of sweets, savories, and sabotage! Recaps by James Craven, GSNN
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A Few Good Ramen
Season Premiere March 16 |
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Alton Brown’s International
House of Sabotageᵀᴹ is open for the third season of
Cutthroat Kitchen, so let’s not waste another minute.
Welcome to our willing vict, er, contestai - Millie,
Brandon, Davina, and Johnny - all of whom get the
mandatory $25,000 for auctioning and as always, the
winner keeps whatever is left in their kitty at the end
of the show. So, for our first round, let’s make a BLT (Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato) sammich. (NOTE: The author can’t have BLTs since December 2010 because of a quad bypass, and he dislikes raw tomatoes.) In our auction, Davina pays $7,100 for three baskets that will force their opponents to use these items, and gives the “B” basket to Johnny replacing his bacon, Millie gets the “L” basket replacing the lettuce, and Brandon gets the “T” basket, giving up his tomatoes. Millie pays $10,000 to swap out Johnny’s bread for bread crumbs, while Johnny forks over $8,000 for the use of a shovel to cook on to Brandon, then mid-round, Brandon buys the right for Johnny to stop cooking and make mayonnaise. Judge Simon Majundar arrives, gets more “B” than “L” and “T”, Brandon is pleased with his turn on the BLT, likes Davina’s perfect (no sabotage) version, but has a disdain for Johnny’s “soup”. However, Brandon is cut, and has to give back $21,300. Checking the scoreboard after the opening round, Davina has $18,000, Johnny has $17,000 and Millie has $15.000. And we have a chance in the middle challenge to have some ramen noodles. Ah, we’re going with a college diet theme here in honor of preparing your brackets for a certain basketball tournament. Johnny buys replacement vessels for $11,900, gives the empty Cup O’Noodles containers and a boiling pot to Davina and a small pot and chopsticks to Millie. Millie pays $1,300 to replace Johnny’s broth with tea, and then forks over $6,400 to make Johnny use something other than noodles. Later, when Alton catches Millie using another vessel to try to poach an egg, she is penalized $500. For the tasting, Millie and Davina are okay except for the fact that her shrimp isn’t cooked well enough, and Johnny isn’t down with his daikon radish noodles, but Davina is the one returning $17,000. With the completion of the middle battle, Johnny has $5,100, and Millie holds onto $6,800. What can you do with a dessert souffle? That’s what our two survivors will cook in the final showdown, and Millie pays $4,000 to make Johnny use pop candy instead of sugar, and Johnny pays $2,900 to force Millie to wear a fat suit for her cooking. After all is done, Simon returns and says that Millie’s souffle is nice, Johnny’s version is grainy. And the final verdict is that Johnny wins, taking home $2,200, while Millie has to return $2,900. Well, that’s it for this week. Next week, the fun continues. To see this episode in its entirety, go to foodnetwork.com/cutthroatkitchen. |
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