Quickfire Challenge. Season Three Winner Hung Huynh joins Padma in revealing that the chefs have to make a delicious dish using non-fresh ingredients, which horrifies the cheftestants. The Hung twist, since he’s so fast, is that they only have fifteen minutes. The cheftestants are all disgusted by the canned food, and they end up coming off kind of snobby, to be honest. I guess the audience for this show isn’t the typical home cook, but I still think there are a lot of people in this country who don’t have access to fresh farm-direct locally grown food year-round. Maybe I’m just bitter because I live in the Arctic tundra, so there’s not a lot of local produce going on for about five months of the year. But I think it’s a bigger challenge to cook something edible when you don’t have the greatest ingredients.

Hung doesn’t like Leah’s fried waffles, Radhika’s bean dip or Jamie’s bruschetta, mostly because he feels they all needed more effort and were too simple. He did like Hosea’s pea-and-spam soup, Stefan’s grilled cheese sandwich with soup and Jeff’s fried conch with dipping sauce and pina colada. He chooses Stefan as the winner.

Elimination Challenge. They are put into teams based on proteins (chicken, lamb, pork) and told to create a seasonal, family-style lunch based on their team’s protein. Team Lamb is Hosea, Leah, and Ariane. Team Chicken is Stefan, Jamie, and Carla. Team Pork is Fabio, Jeff, and Radhika.

Stefan and Jamie butt heads over Stefan's stubbornness. Ariane is nervous about working with the “lovebirds” Hosea and Leah, since she feels like they share a brain and don’t really listen to her. The teams head to Blue Hill at Stone Barns, a “non-profit farm and education center” to do their “shopping.” So it’s totally going to be farm-to-table in the strictest sense. After shopping, they’ll be cooking for the farmers and their families.

Team Pork makes seared pork loin, sausage ravioli with pesto, fried green tomatoes, grilled corn salad, and crème brulée. They are criticized for their choice of removing the pork from the bone, but people like the fried green tomato, which Jeff made.

Team Chicken makes chicken cutlets, lemon-herb roasted chicken, chicken ravioli soup, and a nectarine and strawberry tartlet. Their flavors are good but some of their dish choices are questioned, like serving soup on a hot day. The diners like Carla’s desserts.

Team Lamb makes roasted duo of lamb, heirloom tomato salad, rosemary and garlic-roasted potatoes, Swiss chard, and a summer berry trifle. Their lamb is not butchered well, and it’s overly seasoned, which is a huge problem.

Team Chicken with Jamie, Stefan, and Carla are the winners, and the judges don’t name an individual winner. Teams Pork and Lamb are brought back in to defend their dishes. Ariane takes heat for the way she butchered the lamb, although her teammates take some heat as well for leaving it all up to Ariane and not stepping in when she screwed up. On Team Pork, Jeff gets in trouble for his butchering, Fabio is told his pesto was too heavy-handed, and Radhika is criticized for not doing much at all. The Pork team is saved, so the Lamb team loses, and ultimately Ariane is sent home for the butchering blunder.