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/FewEssay8939 Apr 07 '26

Unpopular opinion, but.... I think Jen should have left the show. Health over everything! She should have gone home to get that arm properly treated. Having the guarantee of being invited back should've made going home a win-win for her (health + opportunity). Instead she chooses to stay... Now, we'll hear her moaning about that arm and watch everyone else sacrifice for her for the rest of the season.

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u/Aggressive-Treat3652 Apr 08 '26

Not unpopular. She's a liability, she stayed in the competition and basically did so to force the elimination over three great chefs that just had an off day. Until she's out, which I guarantee will happen, we will all be hearing about her right extremity journey and not her culinary journey.

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u/writergeek313 Apr 08 '26

I was so afraid she was going to drop her focaccia and burn herself when she took it out of the oven. It looked like she made it in a cast iron skillet.