Top Chef
Top Chef

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Keckler: B | 633 USERS: C+
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Rocky Mountain High

Time finally ticks all the way down for everyone else and Padma calls time. "Good job, guys!" Hung bleats, and gives his spaz laugh. "That was horrible," Brian mutters. Oh, but there's a snag! Hung realizes that he forgot to add lemon juice. He had seven minutes to remember it, but his ego was clearly stuffing the cavity of his common sense. It's FISH, Hung, how do you forget lemon juice? Well, you know what they say, "pride goes before the lemon juice." Starting with Brian, Padma asks how he felt about the challenge. Brian blathers, "Thenatureinthebackground thestreamrunning thatwasallreallynicebut thechallengeitselfwasprettydifficult." He sautéed the trout in rendered bacon fat and then somehow used the trout roe with red pepper and some brown butter as well. Ripert points at something on Brian's cutting board and asks why he didn't use the ones he started. Brian uncomfortably admits that they weren't going to be cooked all the way through, so he had to abandon that idea. Dale puts the situation in a nutshell for us: "You're like, 'This is what I'm going to show one of my idols and it's cooked on a stump and I just threw fish guts behind a bush. Great.'" Moving on to Casey, Padma and Eric sample her butter-crisped trout with summer corn and grapes. Hung dusted his trout filet with curry, and adds, "And on the bottom, I have sautéed mushrooms and little bit of lemon juice." Dale boggles accusingly at Hung. Padma leans in inquisitively. Hung amends, "No, no lemon juice." Ripert clarifies that there is no lemon juice in the dish. Hung admits he forgot it. Finally, we get to Dale, who dusted his filet with flour and cayenne before sautéing it. He also sautéed some apples and fennel in bacon and deglazed with bourbon. Padma chews dramatically, and Ripert confirms the use of cayenne.

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