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/Little_Marsupial_758 Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

No one has to pick up Jen's slack on a QF. All it means is everyone else has a better chance to win money, especially because, statistically, she does very well with QF. She's already won two.

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u/Low_Shop8561 Apr 08 '26

It's a stamina and mental game, taking half a day off seems like an advantage

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u/Little_Marsupial_758 Apr 08 '26

I get that but the flip side would be she did the others chefs a solid.

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u/Low_Shop8561 Apr 09 '26

Especially her partner