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Top Chef Recap: Stunt Queens
A sponsored tie-in toes the line between flat gimmicks and impressive feats of cookery. The results are … fine.
To gain two possible advantages, Kristen challenges the cast to both walk around the perimeter of Toronto’s CN Tower (which would secure an extra $75) and do Titanic “king of the world”–style leans over the edge (which would add 30 minutes to their overall cook time). Like Massimo, I’m extremely terrified of heights — sorry, “uncomfortable.” As such, I know that no amount of bungee cords and ironclad reassurances about my safety would’ve stopped me from being an absolute fuckin’ baby the entire time. Even his half-hearted Mission: Impossible tie-in of injecting his chicken wings with a liver mousse “virus” — a word I was begging him to stop using from the second he first tried it — can’t put the judges off his big flavors.
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