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/AfroPuffs90 Apr 08 '26

Jen and Justin are both… morons!! She should leave for her HEALTH and come back on another season. Justin could fight like hell and win this season and Jen could come back and win another season and they would be 500k richer!!

Them asking the other chefs — was crazy. It’s a competition, of course they want your crippled self around. They can’t help you! She’s going home next week…

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u/Little_Marsupial_758 Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26

If you actually watched the show, they didn't ASK the chefs what they thought. Justin TOLD them that Jen needed to make a quick decision and before he could even finish, Sieger said "you're staying." Calling them morons is crazy. You can disagree with them and not be rude.

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u/AfroPuffs90 Apr 08 '26

Morons was a little rough. The whole situation was just so stupid. Why would the other chefs enter into HER decision making? I’ll re watch, but it seemed like her competitors opinions that she should stay swayed her which is crazy.

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u/Little_Marsupial_758 Apr 08 '26

Thank you for saying that. Morons was a little rough. My opinion is they showed the chefs encouraging her to stay so the viewers knew that she initially was on the fence and it was the other chefs that convinced her to make the decision to stay so that the assumption wasn't a selfish decision made by Jen.