00:05With a grand prize of $20,000 on the line,
00:09these two chefs will need more than just luck.
00:11Let's meet our semifinalists.
00:14Chef Dan, this is fire.
00:16Let's go.
00:17I'm back.
00:19One step closer to the $20,000.
00:22And here for round two.
00:23Let's go.
00:25I feel like this game is a lottery ticket,
00:27so I'm just casting them in and hoping
00:29I can reel in these wins.
00:33Chef Dan, this is fire.
00:35Yes!
00:36I somehow have made it to the semifinals,
00:39so my fingers crossed I might be able to pull another one
00:42out of the bag.
00:43I just need to be more aware of time management,
00:48and I need to actually taste things before I present them.
00:53We are cooking.
00:55What?
00:56Gnocchi with summer squash and peas.
01:00Oh, OK, OK, OK.
01:03Gnocchi, delicate, hand-formed pillows of potato perfection.
01:08To finish, use a squash blossom, sauce,
01:11and sweet peas for texture.
01:1330 minutes on the clock, chefs.
01:16Let's cook.
01:22All right, OK, um, what am I doing with my life?
01:25Where is the normal serve?
01:27The first thing I'm going to do, things are already falling.
01:29Oh, my god.
01:30What, what, what?
01:30We got tomato, tomato everywhere, chef.
01:31She's going crazy.
01:32Don't worry about it, we'll grab them.
01:33My game plan for the cook today is to remain calm, be organized, and try and produce the most I
01:41can in the little amount of time I have.
01:43My strategy for today is I want to get the gnocchi sorted.
01:47You don't have any gnocchi?
01:49You gnocchi got no dish.
01:51How's that feeling?
01:52How do I make this into a dough?
01:53OK, so bring it, bring it in, and incorporate the flour in there.
01:57It feels like Play-Doh.
01:59Do you want it sticky or no?
02:00No, we don't want it sticky.
02:01Gal's asking a lot of questions, so maybe she doesn't know what she's doing.
02:06We're at like around 20 minutes.
02:07Oh, fuck's sake, mom.
02:10Oh, wrong way.
02:11Chef wants me to use a grater with my garlic.
02:15But I'm having a little bit of difficulty with my long nails, OK?
02:21I broke my nail.
02:24Chef Gal, what's your game plan for your sauce?
02:26So I'm going to do a lemon and garlic sauce because I feel like that's quite simple and light.
02:31So now I'm trying to make sure that the gnocchi are all the same size.
02:35I know you're stoked on that.
02:37Huh?
02:37Yeah, no, it looks good.
02:38It looks good.
02:41Good job, Chef.
02:42Hey.
02:4315 minutes.
02:44Fuck, OK.
02:4515 minutes.
02:46I'm trying not to panic, trying to keep cool.
02:48What am I doing?
02:49But it's going really, really fast.
02:54There you go.
02:55Fold, neat, yep.
02:56I don't really know about my gnocchi.
02:58It's looking quite sticky.
02:59It's almost there.
03:00Almost?
03:01You just got to keep working the flour.
03:02You got a lot of flour right here.
03:03Just bring that in, Chef.
03:04You don't need any more flour on the table.
03:05How does this work?
03:08Help me!
03:09So this is an attraction I have used before.
03:13Me and my mom did not have a blender back home, so we just use one of them things.
03:16Here we go.
03:16I'm excited for this.
03:18Oh my god, that looks great.
03:20That would almost be a sauce just as is, Chef.
03:22The more I'm trying it, the more confident I'm getting.
03:27This looks really good.
03:31Damn.
03:32That's pretty good, Chef.
03:33That's pretty good.
03:34Chef Jojo really liked it, so now I'm a little scared of my competition.
03:39Maybe I should backtrack and use my whole mousse as the sauce.
03:42Guys, we're at 10 minutes.
03:44It's starting to smell delicious.
03:45I can smell it.
03:46Yep.
03:47These are looking great in here.
03:48Do you mind if I try your sauce?
03:50Sure.
03:51I don't know where it's at right now.
03:52I think you should start getting any kind of stalks or creams in there soon.
03:56Now, okay.
03:57Chef Jojo takes a bite of my sauce.
04:00I don't know if it tastes good.
04:02It's good.
04:02Okay, cool.
04:03Good job, keep going.
04:04I would buy my sauce a million percent.
04:06He said I've got to be gentle, so I'm trying to really, really focus on being as light as
04:10a feather to plop them into the boiling water of doom.
04:14Less than five minutes, and you got to get that blended and get it blended for a minute.
04:19I don't know what this is.
04:21I scoop my mousse and put it on the plate.
04:24These are not looking how I thought they would.
04:26And suddenly, spills all over Chef.
04:32It's fine.
04:33It's just all over me.
04:34It's all good.
04:34Yeah, yeah, it's fine.
04:35I hope he doesn't degrade me for getting him covered in pea juice.
04:39Oh my God, sorry.
04:42Bread down the last two minutes.
04:44What?
04:44Oh my fucking gosh.
04:45What did you just say to me?
04:46I'm running out of time.
04:48And don't forget, the squash, the peas have to be in this.
04:51Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:52I somehow have to incorporate this zucchini flour into my dish.
04:56Fuck.
04:56So I fill my flour with ricotta and throw it in my pan, and it only has about a
05:01minute to cook.
05:02You see, some of them are starting to come to the top.
05:05But I don't know when it's done.
05:06A little sauce at the bottom of the plate, yeah?
05:08My sauce, it smells so good.
05:10But I feel like that's really all I have going for my plate right now.
05:14Get that squash blossom on the plate.
05:16I'm about to count down to 10.
05:17I have my flour in the pan, and he's staring at me.
05:209, 8, 7.
05:22Where the fuck is the grater?
05:24Six, five, four.
05:27How do I make this look nice?
05:28There you go, there you go.
05:29Three, two.
05:31And I grab it out with my hand, and I just throw it on the plate.
05:34One, stop cooking.
05:36I don't think it's really cooked.
05:39Let's eat.
05:41Let's eat.
05:42Let's eat.
05:43Let's eat.
05:44Let's eat.
05:46Talk to me, Dan.
05:47What do we got here?
05:48I have my gnocchi on top of my pasta sauce with tons of different spices, garlic.
05:53I feel like I added all the things.
05:55Lemon zest with the ricotta on the inside of the zucchini.
05:59Chef Jojo's about to take the first bite of my dish.
06:04I'm super nervous.
06:06That's good.
06:09Lemon zest is there.
06:10Okay.
06:11And it's creamy.
06:12Did you like it?
06:14It's bland.
06:15Okay.
06:16That's kind of fair because I don't really know how to cook this flour.
06:21Let's try your gnocchi.
06:22I don't know if I cooked this gnocchi correctly.
06:25I don't know if it tastes good.
06:29Man.
06:31It's a good mashed potato right now.
06:33He hates the fucking gnocchi.
06:34Which is good for me, bad for Dan.
06:39Yeah, it's peas and ricotta.
06:40Okay.
06:41And then that's like a lemon shallot cream sauce.
06:46Oh my god, he's gonna try it.
06:48It's not that it's bad.
06:50It's that it's grainy, right?
06:52Pea mush, mushy.
06:54Zucchini, crunchy together.
06:55That's gonna be a win.
06:58No.
06:59You have cooked gnocchi, Chef.
07:02No fucking way.
07:03I don't know how you pulled that shit off.
07:07The squash blossom is cool, but I think you could have done a little more.
07:11Yeah, yeah.
07:11Great improvement from your first dish.
07:14I'm not feeling too confident.
07:16My sauce game is pretty bad.
07:19Yeah, I think that might be the be-all and end-all of it, to be honest.
07:22We also went for two different types of sauces.
07:25She got the sauce, but I got the gnocchi.
07:27It's anybody's game here.
07:29The person moving to the finals is...
07:34I just need to know.
07:43I just need to know.
07:46Don't forget...
07:46Couldn't wait for a season...
07:48Diasburg...
07:49Ultimately…
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