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First up, Kelly and Amanda serve their porterhouse dishes. Kelly has a porterhouse with crispy potato, an arugula salad and roasted shallots. Amanda has a duo of NY steak and filet mignon with pommes Parisian. The diners like the flavors in Amanda’s dish while Kelly’s dish is far too big and far too salty.

Next, Tiffany serves up a swordfish steak with olive-raisin tapenade with broccolini. Andrea has a pan-seared swordfish with risotto-style couscous and a buerre blanc sauce. Based on the feedback at the table, Tiffany’s fish is overdone, while Andrea’s dish has too much vanilla flavor.

Stephen has a pan-seared salmon with a warm veggie salad, and alongside, Alex puts down an Applewood-smoked salmon with black forbidden rice with an ENGLISH PEA PUREE. The diners (get this) love the sweetness of the pea puree with his salmon, while Stephen’s dish is a little heavy and messy.

Next up, we have Angelo with a butter-poached lobster with a salad of jicama and asian pear. Ed also has a butter-poached lobster with a balantine of eggplant caviar. The Fox News folks don’t like Angelo’s foam, and while Ed has a beautiful presentation, the eggplant and peas were weak.

Lastly, Kenny serves a peppered lamb with fig pistachio bread pudding and a vanilla demi-glace. Against that, Kevin has a double-cut lamb chop with olive and goat cheese rissole. Kenny’s sauce is a little strange and Kevin’s lamb is totally overcooked.
So to me, it sounds like Stephen, Kevin and Kelly are on the bottom - but who knows? Meanwhile, back in the kitchen, there’s still a whole lot of speculation going on about the missing pea puree. It seems like everyone pretty much feels that Alex stole it from Ed, though nothing gets said to Alex’s face. Personally, I don’t buy that Alex stole the pea puree. For one thing, there’s no way he could have known if that pea puree was any good! Imagine if the pea puree had been bad and Alex got sent home because of it. I think that at this stage in the competition, you cannot risk your own fate based on something that someone else made. It would just be too stupid.

Padma calls in Alex, Tiffany and Ed. Yup, they have the night’s best dishes. Tiffany is crazy relieved, wiping away tears of happiness. She thought she was on the bottom due to her fish being overcooked. Gail assures her that even though it was indeed overcooked, it wasn’t dried out. The other components of dish added enough moisture that the dish was a success. Tiffany smiles brightly.

Not much is said to Ed, except that his dish was great, even if he felt challenged in the kitchen.

As for Alex, he’s surprised to be in the top because he wasn’t sure what he was going to cook until that morning. Art assures him that his fish was cooked perfectly, and that his pea puree was FANTASTIC. “I wanted a whole bowl of it,” says Art. Ed scowls and Tiffany looks pissed off.

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