Quickfire Challenge: After arriving in Austin, the cheftestants are challenged to cook something based on Twitter suggestions, with new suggestions coming in while they're cooking. So the first suggestion is that they have to cook something with bacon in it. Booooooooooo! Come on, Twitter. The second suggestion is to make a hash. The third suggestion is that each cheftestant chooses an ingredient and hands it off to someone else. The top three are Beverly, Sarah and Paul, and the winner of $10,000 but not immunity is Paul, who combined bacon, asparagus, blackberries, and clams and somehow made it work.

Elimination Challenge: Patti LaBelle shows up to sing a song and also serve as guest judge. The challenge is to make a dish inspired by their cooking inspirations, and who taught them how to cook. The judges are Patti, Tom, Padma and Emeril. And here are the dishes:

Chris Moto: Lemon-pepper steak with baked potato and vegetables, inspired by his grandmother's Friday night steak dinners. The judges don't love the meat, but do like the vegetables.

Heather: Beef stroganoff with herb spaetzle and roasted wild mushrooms, inspired by her mom, "the queen of one-pot meals." Emeril can't figure out what kind of beef it is, and Patti says it's Bigfoot. Oof.

Paul: quail adobo and ginger rice with green mango salsa, inspired by his Filipino grandmother, who taught him to cook. The judges like the use of mango and the seasoning.

Sarah: pork sausage stuffed cabbage and spinach with browned butter, inspired by her grandparents, who make stuffed cabbage and homemade sausage. The judges like the clean flavors.

Beverly: Korean braised short rib with edamame scallion puree and hon shimeji mushrooms, inspired by her mother. The judges think the meat is cooked well, and they like the texture and color in the presentation.

Chris Hollywood: sockeye salmon with confit potato and brown sugar glazed carrot puree. The judges don't like much about the dish; Tom says that there's too much going on and too many competing flavors.

Lindsay: trout spanakopita with crispy leeks and rainbow trout roe, inspired by her two grandmothers, one Greek and one Southern. The judges like the crispiness of the trout and the roe, but think there's too much butter.

Edward: modern bibimbap with lemon-chili sauce, inspired by his grandmother. The judges think it's authentic and delicious.

Grayson: grilled rib-eye steak with German potato salad and grilled vegetables, inspired by her parents and their meat and potatoes meals. She gives each diner a 12-oz steak, which is HUGE. The judges think the meat is stringy and gristly.

Ty-Lor: duck fat-fried chicken tender with pickled peaches, inspired by his Japanese nanny. I am so interested in his background. The judges think it's beautiful and love his story.

The top three are Sarah, Edward and Beverly, and the winner is Sarah.

The bottom three are Grayson, Heather and Chris Hollywood. Grayson's meat wasn't good, and the judges think she took her inspiration too literally instead of as a jumping-off point. Chris Hollywood cooked his salmon too quickly, and he had too many herbs and the pieces were too big. Heather also took it too literally; her dumplings were dry and overcooked, and her meat was tough. Heather says that she was scared to use the pressure cooker, and Tom can't resist jabbing her by saying that Beverly did use the pressure cooker and she did great. And then they send Heather home, after making her look like an asshole last week, so that's kind of harsh. But, as Beverly points out, Heather is going home for a dish that she conceived and created completely on her own, and there's some karmic justice in that.