A Battle of Granny Proportions — Alton's After-Show

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Given the high-stress competition, the pressures to cook within just 30 minutes and, of course, the sting of sabotages, Cutthroat Kitchen is the fiercest of fiercest of environments and perhaps no place for a grandmother — or so it would seem. On tonight's special episode of Cutthroat Kitchen, four home-cook grannies took their places in the arena, ready to prove their seniority in the kitchen. "I was always taught to respect my elders, so I just want to say right now I'm very, very sorry for everything that happened here tonight," host Alton Brown said with a sly grin as he opened the After-Show with judge Jet Tila. The guys looked back on a momentous three rounds, which ultimately had one grandma using her experience as a home cook to her advantage.

Come the Round 3 pie challenge, after being saddled with the mandate to shop and cook from the confines of a slow-moving power chair and being forced to use her mouth to fish for ingredients buried in pie, Grandma Nancy enlisted the help of a trusty appliance: the microwave. "Nancy, running out of time, knows that her custard is a real problem. She goes over to the microwave and she starts microwaving, stopping, whisking, microwaving," Alton explains to Jet. "She cooked that custard, poured it before it had set, and the only thing you busted her for was it was too firm," added Alton. Shocked by the realization of how Nancy's pie came to be, Jet admitted, "I've never even heard of that technique." And Alton noted that's likely because of her skill set as a home cook. "Restaurant-trained chefs [are] never taught to use the microwave. This is a home cook from Grandmaville, from Texas, and so for her, it's a completely viable tool," Alton said. And indeed the microwave managed to save the day for Nancy, as she was crowned the champion.

Click the play button on the video above to hear more from Alton and Jet, and watch as Jet throws his face into a pie to find hidden ingredients.

Tune in to Cutthroat Kitchen on Sundays at 10|9c, and don't miss the Camp Cutthroat finale on Wednesday at 9|8c.

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