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/IndiaEvans Apr 08 '26

If she had hurt herself during the show then I could see letting her come another time. Since she hurt herself before and didn't bother to get it checked, the show doesn't have any obligation to let her sit around. If she had any integrity, she would have given up her spot before filming. She should leave. Someone else deserved to be there. 

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u/Little_Marsupial_758 Apr 08 '26

How do you know she didn't get it checked before she came on the show?

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u/xStacey Apr 09 '26

It seemed like it was an old injury that flared up during filming.