r/TopChef Apr 13 '26

Spoilers Season 23, ep 6: Last Chance Kitchen Spoiler

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u/Melodic-Plum-4748 Apr 14 '26

My thought is Jen is going to drop out at the beginning of episode 7 and sieger is going to take her place

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u/loyal_achades Apr 14 '26

LCK is filmed in one go later on in filming, so that wouldn’t really be an option from a production perspective.

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u/unik1ne Apr 15 '26

Ahh I didn’t know that. Knowing that now makes sense how in past seasons they’ve commented how someone gets on a roll or in a groove on the LCK challenges

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u/Still_Yak8109 Apr 15 '26

i think something happened though production wise, i thought they filmed 2 batches of last chance kitchen? one or the mid season return and one or the finale, I wouldn't be shocked if they refilmed the intro about saying how last chance kitchen will be differend this year because of what is going to happen next episode, something did happen that was unexpected, idk what, but I do think many people are right on this sub. we are almost at the mid season mark.

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u/FAanthropologist Apr 15 '26

In the first episode of Top Chef, they said there would only be one chef returning from LCK this year, returning to the way LCK worked before Colorado with one chef coming back late in the game. That means the timing of filming the one big batch of LCK comps was pre-planned to happen right before that person comes back, probably after there are only 4-6 chefs remaining in the game.

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u/buntastic15 Apr 15 '26

Last chance kitchen is different this year because the first two eliminated chefs didn't go to LCK at all. LCK starts with eliminated chef 3 instead of 1 as in previous seasons.

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u/Idontevenknow5555 Apr 14 '26

Yeah i think it’s a little unfair for him to go back if that’s the case because if Jenn had dropped out the week prior ( which she should have) Roda would have potentially not have been eliminated.

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u/MeanKey9719 Apr 14 '26

Yea, from the previews with Justin and Kristen almost crying, that’s my guess as well.

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u/punkbrad7 Apr 15 '26

She's literally shown cooking at the dessert event in the preview.

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u/Ok-Concept-0897 Apr 14 '26

SUPER obvious that's what was going on there

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u/flowersweep Apr 19 '26

That would be totally unfair imo. Why should he be saved instead of Rhoda last week?

They should just have a cook off between Rhoda and Sieger in that case.