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For the Quickfire, the cheftestants draw knives and find that each knife has the name of either a classic French protein or sauce. They will have to pair up into six teams of two, each team cooking a dish composed of their own protein and sauce for table filled with some of the best French chefs in the world. Literally. Tom Colicchio reads off the name of the diners and every cheftestant is blown away. To top things off, they will be cooking for Joel Rochubon, who was named the chef of the century in France. We're not kidding around here.

As the winner, Kevin will not be cooking. Instead, he will be dining with the other French legends. HOLY CRAP. That's some amazing prize.

The cheftestants quickly pair up, putting together the combinations of proteins and sauces that make the most sense. I'm really intregued to see Pompous Mike pair up with Bryan and Michael pair up with Jennifer. All four of them are pretty incredible chefs and I think that they should easily be on the top.

We head to Whole Foods and see that our Frenchie, Mattin, has been paired with Ashley. She's making suggestions as she goes along, "let's get some asparagus, let's pair it with the velote sauce that we've been given, etc." but Mattin shoots her down, pulling rank because of his Frenchiness.

The only other notable thing that happens in the Whole Foods is that Pompous Mike keeps pushing Jennifer around. I am livid. You DON'T PUSH GIRLS. Especially girls as pretty and smart as Jenn.

We head back to the kitchen and we see Eli and Laurine (a weak pair IMO) working on a lobster dish plus sauce Americaine. We have Hector and Ash making basically a pepper sauce and chateaubriand, a big slab of beef. Michael and Jennifer are doing rabbit with sauce chausseur and Bryan and Pompous Mike have trout with a bearnaise sauce. Lastly, we have Robin and Ron, the outcasts, who are doing frog legs with a meuniere sauce.

The two teams that seem to be having the trouble are Robin and Ron (Ron HATES the hyperness of Robin, feeling like she's ignoring her sauce while putting together an herb salad) and Bryan and Pompous Mike (because Mike has no idea how to execute his idea of a deconstructed bernaise sauce. Bryan has to practically instruct him on what to do).

Kevin, on the other hand, is sitting pretty with some of the best chefs in the world. Lucky him.

Back in the kitchen, even more pairs are struggling. Laurine is worried that her lobster will get too tough, Mattin is taking a risk by putting a lot of bacon in his velote sauce and Hector's beef is not cooking at all. In fact, Hector isn't sure he's going to have enough time to rest the meat.

Anyone sensing that we might finally see a guy go home?

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