The Culinary Commandment challenges continued tonight on America’s Culinary Cup, hosted by Padma Lakshmi, when the 10 remaining chefs were tasked with the third Culinary Commandment challenge: Mastering the Art of the Sauce.
Their challenge in the “Let’s Get Saucy” episode was a full-scale Tournament of Sauces, which took place over three rounds.
When the scores were tallied, the bottom four chefs were pushed into a competitive cookoff, cooking one final time using ingredients suggested by their competitors.
The America’s Culinary Cup winner will be awarded the biggest cash prize in culinary history: $1 million dollars. Here’s our spoiler-filled recap of who went home tonight.
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Who went home on America’s Culinary Cup tonight?
Malyna Si
Michelin Starred Chef
Advancing contestants tonight on America’s Culinary Cup Season 1 Night 3
Beverly Kim
Michelin Starred Chef
Buddha Lo
Michelin Starred Chef & Two-Time Top Chef winner
Cara Stadler
James Beard Nominee
Chris Morgan
Michelin Starred Chef
Diana Dávila
James Bead Nominee
Emily Yuen
James Beard Nominee
Katie Button
James Beard Winner
Keith Corbin
James Beard Nominee
Matt Peters
Bocuse D’Or Gold Medalist
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What was the first challenge on America’s Culinary Cup tonight, and who won it?
There were three rounds of cooking. After the first round, the top three chefs were safe and will get an advantage in the next commandment. After round two, three more chefs were safe, and then in round three, it was a four-way cookoff with the loser getting eliminated.
The first round was to make a dish, featuring the five mother sauces: Hollandaise, Bechamel, Velouté, Espagnole, or Tomate. The twist was the ACC board randomly assigned the sauces. The chefs didn’t get to select their favorite.
As usual, Padma, Michael Cimarusti and Wylie Dufresne awarded points based on Taste, Creativity, Presentation and Mastery of the Commandment with each quality worth 5 points, so each judge’s total would be 20 points for a cumulative possibility of a perfect 60 points.
The Top 3 were: Diana, Beverly and Matt, who were safe and didn’t need to cook again.
Diana 58
Beverly 57
Matt 56
Emily 49
Malyna 49
Keith 41
Buddha 40
Cara 35
Katie 34
Chris 24
The second round was for the chefs to create their own mother sauce inspired by a comfort food from their childhood.
The Top 3 for the second challenge were Chris, Cara and Katie.
Chris 56
Cara 54
Katie 50
Emily 50
Buddha 48
Malyna 45
Keith 41
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What was the elimination challenge on America’s Culinary Cup tonight, and who lost it?
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The elimination challenge for Emily, Buddha, Malyna and Keith was to create a brand-new sauce with ingredients chosen by the six safe chefs: white miso, coriander seed, preserved lemons, grapes, vanilla beans and Pasilla chiles.
The scores were:
Buddha 59
Keith 53
Emily 46
Malyna 39
“There are a lot of talented people in this competition, so everything has to be perfect,” Maylna said on exiting. “The small errors are what did me in. My journey ends here but I’m very grateful and made friends for life.”
America’s Culinary Cup airs Wednesday nights at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Streams next day on Paramount+.
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