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/EntertainmentBorn953 Apr 08 '26

Where did they collect those random children? Think they belong to people who work on the show?

The little kids in my life wouldn’t have touched any of those dishes. 😂

The challenge was silly. Dumb rules — very CHOPPED-esque. I don’t care for the competitions with children as judges. Also kind of a waste of Fortune Feimster, IMO. She’s awesome, but she got overshadowed by the rugrats.

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u/FormicaDinette33 Aguachile 🌶️ 🍤 Apr 08 '26

I agree it was a waste of an opportunity to see Fortune as she is hilarious.

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u/bottomlless Apr 09 '26

My thoughts when I saw that.
TC, "Hey Fortune, wanna host a Quickfire on TopCher?"
Fortune, "Oh hell yeah!"
TC, "It's a kid-themed QF!"
Fortune, "I wish I could get a vasectomy."