Top Chef Boston Recap

Boston's Bravest and Finest

By Jason Lee

October 28, 2014

What were you thinking? There were two people on the other team way worse than me.

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Aaron, already making a name for himself as “this season’s most unlikable chef,” notes that he doesn’t like team challenges and that he doesn’t play nice. Lovely. Meanwhile, Mei Lin is drawn onto a team with Katie and Katsuji, who she notes both ended up on the bottom of last week’s challenge. The expression on her face is sourer than a Meyer lemon.

The cheftestants head home to try and figure out a plan of attack. There’s not much they can do, though, because they have no idea what will be in their box of ingredients. This leads to a heated argument among the Green team, who will be serving the final course. Aaron, Keriann, and Stacy consider the possibility that they might be forced to work with a dessert box, and Keriann innocuously mentions that she went to pastry school. Aaron pounces, pressing her over and over again on what she might make and how she might handle the challenge and what she would do. Keriann is reluctant to prognosticate, pointing out that she doesn’t even know what ingredients a dessert box might contain. Aaron wants to know whether she would use gelatin. Keriann doesn’t like the idea of doing molecular gastronomy for firefighters and policemen.

“It’s gelatin,” Adam says condescendingly. “Are you not familiar with gelatin?” He then asks her to entertain “hypothetics” regarding doing pastry. He calls her mean, and she responds that he’s being mean and just wants to be an asshole. “I’m not there yet,” he warns, “but you’ll know when I am.” Stacy, as the third member of this “team,” mimes that she wants to blow her own brains out. Aaron closes the conversation by saying, sarcastically, “this is gonna work out. I’m really, really excited.” You and me, both, buddy.

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The Red team- composed of Mei Lin, Katie, and Katsuji - picks their box out first. Katsuji says he wants to make guacamole and fish sauce. Mei Lin is not happy - she wants to do the sauce and says so. Katsuji protests. Mei Lin says she’s more comfortable doing the sauce. Katsuji digs in. Mei Lin relents, but confesses to us that she’s not sure she can trust him. She instructs him to get his sauce done “as soon as possible” so that she can taste it.

The Blue and Grey team go in and pick their boxes without much drama. Yellow heads in and gets a box that includes pork chops. Joy says she’s comfortable grilling them, but is worried about having enough time to cook them through. She suggests taking the chops off the bone, but her teammates shoot her down. The presentation will be better with the bone in, they assure her. Joy decides to be a team player and cooks the chops with the bone in, though she’s not happy about having to “censor her instincts.”

The sourpuss Green team goes in and Keriann is not happy with the box they get stuck with. To her mind, they don’t have enough time to cook the shortribs that are in there, and the only other protein (chicken) is totally boring. Aaron declares that he wants to use molecular gastronomy to make a marmalade. Keriann again scoffs at the idea that firefighters will like molecular gastronomy but knows that there’s no deterring Aaron.


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