Do 'Top Chef' Judges Ever Spit Out Contestants' Food

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00:00I mean, I'm sure you've tasted it all, seen it all.

00:03Has there ever been like a meal where you're like,

00:04I can't eat this, I have to spit this out?

00:06Like how they do like in wine tasting and things like that.

00:08Or do you always like force yourself to eat it?

00:10I don't think we have to be forced.

00:12That's the first thing.

00:13I think season one, two, three,

00:14there were a few things along the way,

00:17but that was before we had the level of talent.

00:24You know, it's always been about professional chefs,

00:25but the first few seasons,

00:26we were really figuring out the formula.

00:28And from then on, it's very rare to get bad food.

00:31Remember, these are not home cooks

00:34who are like trying to be chefs

00:35or think it would be cool to be chefs

00:36or don't know how to cook and we are teaching them.

00:39They are professionals at the highest level.

00:41And so these days, for the last several seasons,

00:44but certainly this season's no exception,

00:46it's not about eliminating the worst dish every episode.

00:50It's always figuring out,

00:52and sometimes that makes our job really hard,

00:54which is the least best dish.

00:56Because the food is always so good.

00:58Like it's at a certain standard.

00:59We don't spit things out.

01:00Things are rarely like egregiously wrong at this point

01:04because they're really talented.

01:05With the exception of a couple of challenges,

01:07it's usually not that bad.

01:08Of course, if they're small, we take a few bites

01:10and move on.

01:11But no, it hasn't been that bad.

01:13But occasionally, especially early in the season,

01:16we have to taste through 14, 15, 16 dishes.

01:19It's a lot of food.

01:20It's a lot of food.

01:21What about you?

01:22I think the only time I had,

01:24not even, I wouldn't say trouble,

01:25but the most full I felt where I was just like,

01:27I think I need to take a nap and sit down

01:29was after the poutine quick fire.

01:31I was like, I got, like, it was all starch,

01:34a cheese, and a sauce.

01:35And you're just like, okay.

01:37And also because you want to eat it all,

01:39you can take like three bites of 15 poutines.

01:41Like that's a lot.

01:42It is.

01:43Yeah, exactly.

01:44And I think that's when it happens more

01:45when you're eating a lot of the same

01:47because usually every dish is so completely different, right?

01:50It's not such a specific challenge.

01:51And so we're tasting a range of things

01:53and we don't get fatigued from the food that way.

01:56Is it true though,

01:57that you had your best meal ever on Top Chef this season?

02:00Well, you say best meal.

02:01I mean, best particular dish.

02:04Yes.

02:05Okay. Yeah.

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