Quickfire Challenge. The cheftestants are paired up by knife draw and then compete head-to-head to identify the ingredients in a sauce by taste alone. Each cheftestant gets to taste the sauce and then has to bid against their opponent Name-That-Tune style as to how many ingredients they can identify. They compete in a bracket-style tournament and it comes down to Carla, Stefan, and Hosea. For the final three, they all taste a Mexican Mole Sauce and then take turns naming ingredients (like a spelling bee) until only one remains. Carla gets knocked out on the first round when she says peanut butter. Hosea and Stefan go a few more rounds. Stefan says tomato paste, which is incorrect, and Hosea wins with his guess of vegetable oil. He gets immunity and the pleasure of beating Stefan.

Elimination Challenge. The cheftestants are split up into four teams: Old, New, Borrowed and Blue. Their task is to cater Gail’s bridal shower, where there will be forty guests, many of whom are her colleagues at Food & Wine magazine. They have to create dishes based on their team name. The teams and themes are:

Old: Hosea, Stefan and Jeff, who use heirloom tomatoes to make Old World dishes

New: Carla, Eugene and Daniel who make sushi and a bunch of other weird foods, like peach barbecue sauce

Borrowed: Radhika, Jamie and Ariane, who make Indian food, borrowing culture

Blue: Fabio, Melissa and Leah who make seafood to reference the blue ocean

Stefan rubs his teammates the wrong way when he starts barking orders at everyone. Eugene comes up with the brainstorm to serve his sushi deconstructed and let the guests assemble it themselves, which all of his opponents think is insane.

The Old team goes first and their food goes over well, especially Jeff’s sorbet. The New team goes next, but Eugene fails to explain how to put the food together and the guests are kind of confused. Borrowed has to wait on Ariane’s not-quite-done lamb and requires the help of the entire kitchen to get their food plated. And finally Blue sends out Fabio to charm the ladies, but they’re not impressed with his underseasoned seafood.

The judges decide that the Old and the Borrowed teams are their favorites, and the individual winner is Ariane. Jamie is really upset; she thought she deserved the win. That means the New and the Blue teams are in the bottom two. While the Blue team made some disastrous decisions, the New team’s food was bad in both conception and execution, according to Tom. But Daniel made a bad dish and he also added unnecessary mushrooms to Carla’s salad, so he is told to pack his knives and go.