It All Comes Down to Experience and Meeting Expectations — Alton's After-Show

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Coming into Cutthroat Kitchen, the chefs know to expect sabotage, backstabbing and true competition. So the only things they can rely on are their skills and experience, but sometimes in the heat of battle those skills and experience go right out the window. After all, the chefs are racing to finish their plates while also maneuvering sabotages they’ve been dealt that often lead their dishes down a disastrous road.

In the latest installment of Alton's After-Show, the host and this week's judge, Jet Tila, dished on the competitors' seeming disregard for key basics in cooking, such as taste and texture, and their inability to have a dish live up to some sort of standard of expectation.

Taste is No. 1, explained Jet, when talking about Round 1's spaghetti and meatballs, where one of the sabotages took away the ability to taste from three of the chefs. "You have to have cooked for a phenomenal amount of years to just cook by feel," says Jet. Alton added that it's especially true when it comes to making sauce, which often needs many tastings before it's ready to be served. These chefs were too brash in thinking they didn't need to taste — and even Chef Davidi who won the auction didn't manage to put out a flavorful dish. When it came to the wings in Round 2, stuffing them with ingredients that made no sense — like Chef Glick's celery and carrot batons — just went to show there was no forethought. And the chef's use of bottled sauce did nothing to show creativity. In Round 3, it all came down to a lack of experience when making the doughnuts. Each chef's doughnuts turned out to be leaden balls of dough, far from the fluffy, airy confections that anyone would expect.

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