It’s the return of the legendary black box test for this 10th episode! And for the occasion, Gilles Goujon gave everyone a hard time, including the brigade leaders.
Hello my Burgundian oxen! Here comes the 10th week of Top chef and the noose tightens, no more time to fool around for the candidates still in the running.
This week, they must individually make two sauces with two different textures for chef Arnaud Donckele. Then it’s the famous black box test, this time in teams with two chefs for each team. Notes from episode 9 where Sarah fed a minister ants are available here.
Heat Marcel!
Pierre Chomet : 8/10
Guest conductor Arnaud Donckele announces from the outset that he will be harder on Pierre than with the other candidates because he has worked with him. Already that he was having trouble getting by on his own, poor Pierrot was already sweating with anguish.
To counteract the bad vibes, the cook brings out the funniest word in French gastronomy: “barigoule”. He then repeats it like a mantra, which allows you to win the event with flying colors and to qualify!
Bruno Aubin: 8/10
I must prove that I have my place in the blue brigade.
Said the cook barely entered the tray. In any case, you have your place reserved at my wedding, Bruno. In front of the mayor, next to me.
But hey, it will wait a little longer, since he qualifies in the second test and therefore passes in the 11th week!
Mohamed Cheikh: 6,5 / 10
“I made what is called rock juice,” Mohamed told a three-star chef who must have known what rock juice is since Christ’s death at least. It is grated for the Mo which leaves in second test:
I should have practiced eating food in the dark before coming. (…) I should have shut my mouth.
A rapid plunge in the leader’s self-esteem that leads his entire team in the wrong direction. Fortunately, this is only on one element of the plate. Mohamed therefore qualifies anyway!
Sarah Mainguy : 5/10
Sarah frowns so much with anguish at the first ordeal that they form the roof of a house. If someone reads this article and knows how to edit, I’m willing to pay them to do this to me.
On the second test, Sarah’s eyebrows are obviously still blocked and it makes her silly but she passes, qualified for an additional week!
Arnaud Baptiste: 6/10
A test of sauces for Arnaud is ultimately like a penalty shootout for Cristiano Ronaldo. How could he miss her, he who has been boasting from the start of being a master saucier?
Well, simply by coming in second, then there is only one qualifying place. As a last chance, Arnaud reconnects with his love of puns, the curling mustache and the sparkling eye:
I use this for my panel.
By spreading… his parsnip. He is the jury’s favorite. But for his cooking, not his humor, eh.
Matthias Marc: 2/10
Blablabla “The sauce is something that I master” blablabla “This land that rocked me during my childhood” blablabla “I think my sauce has every chance of qualifying” blablabla Matthias fired from the visual of the premiere test. We got over it to see him leave as a last chance but he remains. Again.
Baptiste Trudel: 3.5 / 10
We don’t want to slander, but we are pretty sure that Baptiste’s baldness is progressing over the course of the trials. After a remonstrance from Paul Pairet on the absence of textures in his sauces, Baptiste launches an idea off the top of his head, looks out of the corner of his eye at his chef and, seeing him approvingly, launches “Yeah, there you go”. What a bluff, we had not seen that since Milla ensuring that she owed her buttocks to an excess of pizza.
He then makes a complete mistake on the black box and cooks the forgotten vegetable as a last chance to pay homage to his best friend who has passed away. Unfortunately, Baptiste also disappears from the competition, eliminated …
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