The Draw Knives Podcast is back with a new Top Chef season to recap! Get excited as Bernard and new co-host Nadia break down the every episode of Top Chef Season 19.
Our hosts are joined by @carly.sue.bear to recap the final episode of the season. Our three finalists cook the 4 course meal that will define their fate on Top Chef all while trying to impress a prestigious judging panel including culinary icon Emeril Lagasse. Who will Kristen Kish announce as the winner of Season 21? Listen to the recap to find out!
What do an Iron Chef, lionfish and gouda all have in common? They all make appearances in this recap! In the penultimate episode of the season, one chef finally wins a Quickfire and some cash, while the Elimination Challenge has the chefs creating a multi-course menu together with very mixed results. The first half of the finale starts now!
Last episode in Wisconsin! We discover one chef tongue scrapes (and maybe it's an advantage?!) and another chef continues their dominance. The time away from home is getting to some of these chefs. Who will go home this week and stay there? And who will end up going to the finale! Tune in to find out!
This week's ep is a doozy. The LCK winner returns. The chefs have 24 questions to ask Tom about a dish he made for Kristen and Gail for the Quickfire. The Elimination challenge has the chefs plating their entire dish on a table for the judges to eat directly off of. A season favorite ends up packing their knives for a bad table of food, but they remain in our podcast hosts' hearts forever.
This week the chefs enjoyed two of Wisconsin's food traditions: meat raffles and fish boils. And if that wasn't enough, they had to do the latter with Art Smith and former Top Chef contestants among the judges. One competitor cuts themselves, while another gets sent home for an uncharacteristically unfocused dish. And then our hosts recap the two part LCK finale and reveal the winner.
Mega episode alert! This week our hosts invite brilliant Top Chef data nerd @carly.sue.bear to help recap this week's episode! Carly reveals her Mount Rushmore of Top Chefs before diving into this exciting episode featuring gorgeous native ingredients. Corn smut, anyone?
Oh boy. The most anticipated episode of every Top Chef season is upon us: Restaurant Wars. Our hosts break down what went wrong in this episode and recap the wildest LCK episode yet. Buckle up! Our hosts have some thoughts!
A high reward two part Quickfire awaits our chefs in the Top Chef kitchen this week, along with three time runner-up chef Bryan Voltaggio. The Elimination challenge features a lot of sausage and eliminates a chef for committing a cardinal gaffe: cooking risotto. LCK finds one early favorite in the competition eliminated for a tactical misfire. This episode is fully loaded!
Dessert and chaos dominate this episode of Top Chef. Guest judges Christina Tosi and Matty Matheson inspire the contestants this week, while an early favorite gets sent packing.
Unusual sauces and a supper club challenge are at the heart of this Top Chef episode. Another team challenge shows one chef to have high emotional intelligence, while another chef gaining a reputation for selfish behavior. This season is heating up!
No Quickfire? No problem! Chefs take a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright houses and get inspired. The chefs are put into pairs to create dishes that deal with the theme of duality. Worst team goes home. A double elimination! Chefs Buddha Lo and Dominique Crenn guest judge. And host/chef Kristen Kish starts making the show her own.
Our cheftestants this week work with cherries and unique ingredients in the Quickfire and then try their hand at Wisconsin's favorite product CHEESE in the Elimination Challenge. Our hosts break it all down and give us an update on their fantasy teams.
Second week is a doozy. The chefs are cooking with hops and bar snacks this week and some surprising things happen along the way. Sophie and Bernard recap this week's Top Chef episode as well as the first episode of Last Chance Kitchen where a 16th cheftestant joins the competition. And then our hosts do their first Top Chef Fantasy Draft together.
Top Chef got a new host and The Draw Knives Podcast got a new co-host! Bernard welcomes Sophie Schulman to the fold. They break down this season 21 premiere and talk about which cheftestant has "try hard" energy and which one gave up before he even started cooking.
The Season 20 finale is here! Our hosts break down the four course meal and talk about the surprising takeaways from it. Also the winner of the Draw Knives Fantasy Draft was revealed (spoiler alert: the winner had Buddha Lo) and our hosts guess about next season's location.
This week's recap starts with a frustrating final Quickfire for the season, but things get awesome in the Elimination Challenge when a certain chef with 21 Michelin Stars lends the cheftestants his boat for a button mushroom challenge. One episode to go after this one. Which chef won't make next week's Finale? Listen and find out!
We start the week's episode recapping the Last Chance Kitchen finale (with a surprising winner). The Quickfire brings in some jiggle with a jelly challenge while the illusion is the key to the Elimination Challenge and an unexpected chef gets eliminated. This is a fun one. Get in it!
Things are getting steamy this week (literally)! Our intrepid hosts dive into a water-centric Quickfire and tag teams are formed for a Beef Wellington DOUBLE Elimination challenge. The stakes are high as two chefs go home this week.
Preserved fish and Indian cuisine are on the menu this week on Top Chef: World All-Stars. Our hosts Nadia and Bernard discuss the traditional take on cheese paired with fish and then dive into the cheftestants' takes on thali. It's a spicy episode! Dive in!
Big week on Top Chef: World All-Stars! It's Restaurant Wars and the Magical Elves team in their infinite wisdom let go of one of the worst elements from this iconic challenge. One of the world's best chefs comes to guest judge and even offers her restaurant to be the stage that our cheftestants compete.
Street food starts off this episode of Top Chef. But it's the first ever Mis En Place Elimination Challenge that takes up this very dense episode. Ever want a forced movie promotion tie in to a franchise that makes no obvious sense? This episode is for you! An early favorite was sent home but gets a chance to redeem themselves via LCK.
This week features a Quickfire based on emojis that leads to something being lost in translation. The Elimination Challenge has the chefs coming up with dishes that have deeper meaning as well as edible without utensils. A surprising elimination leads a certain chef back to LCK to enjoy the uphill battle back into the main competition.
The last two LCK chefs battle in this week's Quickfire to get back into the main competition. And as with many challenges with so much on the line, the cook is complicated and fraught as we say goodbye to an early favorite. And another Elimination Challenge pits two teams against each other to create picnic baskets to be eaten at Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey fans rejoice!). One chef takes up an insane amount of his team's budget and proves to be their downfall. LCK has the two bottom chefs from the Elimination Challenge battling for their Top Chef lives...one stays in the main competition, the other gets relegated to LCK. Nadia and Bernard unpack all of it for a very full episode recap!
Things start off sticky this week! The chefs have to deal with honey and mead in the Quickfire and then are tasked with making a family style dish for the Elimination. Nadia and Bernard delve into this ep, give a contestant their flowers and tackle a pivotal LCK episode.
Butter our biscuits! This is a jam packed Top Chef episode to recap! Nadia and Bernard dive into this episode that features biscuits, a futbol relegation style Elimination Challenge and they say goodbye to one of their early favorite chefs in Last Chance Kitchen.
A Double Elimination this week and our hosts have strong opinions about it! Nadia and Bernard dive into this pub-centric episode and don't hold any punches back.
Nadia and Bernard break down episode 2 of the current season! They talk about unnecessarily complex Quickfire challenges, rice and the cheftestant that made the biggest impression this week.
Top Chef is back for Season 20 and they are going international! Top Chef: World All-Stars with 10 previous winners from around the world and 6 finalists, this is the most star-studded cast ever assembled. Superfans Nadia and Bernard are back to recap every episode this season. This week they talk about the first episode and do their fantasy draft. Join us for this supersized ep!
Good vibes all around in this recap of the Top Chef Season 19 finale. Nadia and Bernard close out the season talking about Buddha's dominant finale meal, Damarr's Fan Favorite victory and make a promise to come back to recap Season 20!
The penultimate episode of Top Chef Season 19 has our hosts talking about the origin of the chimichanga, carne seca, and the Sonoran Desert. As the final four chefs get whittled down to three, Nadia and Bernard weigh in on who they think will win as the cheftestants quickly approach the finale.
The end of Top Chef Season 19 is coming fast! The five remaining cheftestants have to fish and cook their way to the Top 4. Nadia and Bernard break down this week's Elimination Challenge and talk about how difficult it is to present food after Buddha, Sarah's awesome win, and our hosts say goodbye to their Fan Favorite.
Seafood is in abundance in this week's episode! Nadia and Bernard talk about their love of seafood towers, plating issues of family style meals and how using the word "inspired" in a dish description is a double edged sword.
Fajitas and Astronaut food take center stage on this Top Chef episode. Nadia and Bernard break it all down including praise for Chef Nick's growing "baking" skills, questions about Jae's meat cutting technique and whether rice should count as a crumb.
Nadia and Bernard break down this episode that features monochromatic vegetable dishes, an inspiring Elimination Challenge set in Houston's beautiful Freedman's Town and the elimination that our hosts have been predicting for weeks now.
Top Chef Season 19 cheftestant Nick Wallace drops by to talk about early food memories of his grandmother, his 26 Spice Mix and which cheftestant gave him the nickname "The Baker."
It's Bernard's least favorite week on Top Chef: Restaurant Wars! Bernard and Nadia breaks down this episode that sees our hosts say goodbye to one of their favorite Season 19 cheftestants. (Also this episode begins with a love letter to the soon-to-be-completed tv show Better Things and creator Pamela Adlon.)
Nadia and Bernard dive right in on this episode that features Nigerian swallows, a Jurassic Park themed Elimination Challenge, and Tom Colicchio's weird desire for dinosaur themed gore on dishes.
Season 19 cheftestant Jackson Kalb drops by to talk about the start of his culinary career, how he met his wife and tells us his go to beer. **Special Note: This episode contains colorful language.**
Nadia and Bernard breaks down a wild episode that features the Last Chance Kitchen part 1 winner returning, forced product placement and a tricky Elimination Challenge.
Top Chef Season 19 Cheftestant Sam Kang drops by The Draw Knives Podcast in this bonus episode! Sam reflects on his Top Chef experience, shares his feelings about Family Meal and talks about a new project he's working on.
You don't mess with Texas! But Top Chef decided to mess with a revered Texas tradition in this week's episode: barbecue. This week Nadia and Bernard reminisce about Harry & Ida's pastrami sandwich, Texas Toast, and who they feel might be going home next.
Top Chef decides to throw the first double elimination episode of the season at us and Nadia and Bernard are here to break it down! Bernard and Nadia talk about biscuits, reminisce about WD-50 and finally get to use the word "tweezer-y".
This week's episode is a wild one. Top Chef creates an homage to Asian Night Markets in and Nadia's top fantasy pick gets eliminated in a stunning turn of events. How is Nadia processing this? Listen to find out!
Week 2 of Top Chef means a supersized episode for Draw Knives listeners and Nadia and Bernard do their Season 19 Fantasy Draft! Nadia has the first pick. Who will she pick? Listen to find out!
The Draw Knives Podcast is back with a new Top Chef season to recap! Get excited as Bernard and new co-host Nadia break down the first ep of Top Chef Season 19, geek out over Kristen Kish's hair and explain why team challenges make zero sense as an initial Quickfire.
It's finally here! The season finale episode Draw Knives...and Top Chef. What a ride it was! TOP CHEF for the EMMY!!!
Join Matt and Bernard for this week's penultimate episode! Who will win no one knows...and that is thrilling!
Join Matt and Bernard as they recap episode 12...things get spicy on the podcast as we near the end of the season.
This week, join Matt and Bernard as they recap episode 11 and discuss who they think could win it all! (and then get side tracked and talk about speech and debate for five minutes)
Join Matt and Bernard as they recap episode 10 and talk all things tofu and discuss how Matt has essentially won this year's draft.
This week, join Matt and Bernard as they recap episode 9, discuss their current draft standings, and finally share their "hard opinions." It is an electric episode... to say the least.
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