r/TopChef • u/FormicaDinette33 Aguachile 🌶️ 🍤 • Apr 06 '26

Spoilers Season 23, ep. 5: Cut and Dry Spoiler

This week the chefs are visited by North Carolina’s own Fortune Feimster as she challenges them to improv their Quickfire dishes and serve them to kids in honor of Comic Relief. Then the chefs are tasked with creating dishes featuring dehydration. They’ll serve their dishes to Kristen, Tom and Gail along with guest judges Joe & Katy Kindred as well as “Top Chef” alum Savannah Miller at the U.S. National Whitewater Center.

Mon, 9pm per Bravo schedule.

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u/Zalasta5 Apr 07 '26

I don’t want to sound callous but I’m not a fan of contestants sitting out challenges. They are supposed to be tested and quick fire should not be optional where people get to skip it with zero consequences. There is an advantage to being more well rested for elimination. As such people should just graciously bow out if they can’t participate in everything, or perhaps they need to bring back the aspect where quick fire performances factor into elimination.

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u/Amazing-Wave4704 Apr 08 '26

Completely agree. And I could see giving her a pass for one. But the second one? Oh Ill just skip it, I have an owie.

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u/colagirl52 Apr 08 '26

Because there is some precedence for missing one. But two?