TOP CHEF 2022. A new member of Glenn Viel’s brigade was eliminated from Top Chef on March 16, 2022. Recap and top candidates for episode 5.
[Mis à jour le 16 mars 2022 à 23h40] Top Chef punctuates television evenings for M6 viewers every Wednesday evening. Episode 5 was broadcast on March 16, 2022. Eleven candidates were still in the running to take up the challenges launched by two renowned chefs: Clare Smyth, the only three-star British chef, and Dominique Ansel, the inventor of the cronut. The first asked the participants of the culinary competition to prepare a dish putting the onion in the spotlight. The team of Philippe Etchebest, accustomed to victory since the beginning of the competition, boasts but finishes in last place in the classification and necessarily in the second test. It was Paul Pairet’s brigade, made up of Lilian and Ambroise, who qualified at the end of this first round. In second position, Hélène Darroze decides to send Louise to the second round, while Glenn Viel designates Arnaud and Elis.
In the second part of this episode of Top Chef 2022, we therefore find Pascal, Mickaël, Sébastien, Louise, Arnaud and Elis. These six candidates will take up chef Dominique Ansel’s challenge: to make a living dessert. Louise, who offers a dish that changes color, Pascal, who melts a sugar dome above his pumpkin, coffee and chestnut dessert, and Sébastien, who cooks his croque-monsieur with the help of a hot iron. used his grandmother, qualify. The winner of Objectif Top Chef and the youngest of the competition even won a favourite! Conversely, Elis was uninspired by exercise. Mickaël, for his part, wanted to smoke his pear dessert with hops, but the too pronounced taste did not convince Chef Ansel.
Elis in tears after his elimination from Top Chef
Arnaud, Ellis and Mickaël therefore face off in the last chance of this episode 5. The theme: beef. The revisit of the tab allows Mickaël to win the first favorite of the jury of the season. Arnaud’s work with Thai flavors also appeals to chefs. It is finally Elis who leaves the competition at the end of this episode 5. The candidate could not hold back his tears when talking about his career: “I had never had real friends like [les candidats de Top Chef]I was often seen as the little duck because I could neither read nor write”, he begins before cracking. “With the little baggage I have, I could not really show you what I knew how to do, but I had a great experience”.
Glenn Viel did not fail to cheer up his candidate: “I too had a difficult school career […] compared to the beginning, we already feel that you have found yourself a little. If I’m capable, you’re capable.” Very close to the outgoing candidate, whom he affectionately nicknamed “Pépère”, Arnaud did not hide his disappointment at Elis’ departure: “He’s a friend who doesn’t care. go, I’m still here, I’m going to fight. I will keep my little Elis on my shoulder and I will think of him every day”. At the end of this fifth episode of Top Chef 2022, the composition of the brigades is as follows:
- Brigade of Philippe Etchebest : Pascal (Top Chef objective), Mickaël and Sébastien
- Brigade of Paul Pairet : Lilian and Ambrose
- Brigade of Hélène Darroze : Louise, Thibault and Wilfried
- Glenn Viel’s Brigade : Lucia and Arnaud
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Top Chef is the Wednesday night TV show. The 2022 season started on February 16 and will probably end in May, as is usually the case. Each new episode can be discovered on M6 from 9:10 p.m. on Wednesdays. It is also possible to find Top Chef in replay the day after its broadcast on the site 6play.fr
Fifteen candidates have been selected to compete in season 13 of Top Chef. Among them, there are notably 12 men, three women, including 3 Belgians. Among the standout candidates this season are Renaud, who had participated in Top Chef season 1, Lilian, a young chef whose dreams of opening a gastronomic restaurant were shattered by the coronavirus and who has since become a supermarket manager, Thibaut who has a green star, or Louise, chef of her own restaurant in Portugal who does not lack original ideas in her preparations. Discover the portraits of the Top Chef candidates by clicking here.
Since the creation of Top Chef, the show’s jury has evolved from season to season, with some chefs leaving the show to be replaced by new names from the French culinary scene. For the 2022 season, Philippe Etchebest (blue brigade), Hélène Darroze (red brigade) and Paul Pairet (purple brigade) are returning to the jury. On his side, Michel Sarran, emblematic juror of Top Chef, announced that he would not return to the show in 2022 by decision of the production. He is replaced by Glenn Viel, who has appeared several times on the M6 show as guest conductor.
During a press conference presenting the new season of Top Chef, we were able to discover the role that Glenn Viel will play this year. The chef of the Oustau restaurant in Baumanière (Baux-de-Provence) will coach the orange brigade. “He has every intention of blowing it all up, commented Stéphane Rotenberg. He arrived with energy and the will to do very hard”. Glenn Viel explains that he did not specifically ask to join the jury of Top Chef 2022, he was contacted by the production. “Of course, I jumped at the chance, he recalls. It’s a competition that is well perceived, well seen, with the greatest chefs in the world who come to participate. I was welcomed with a lot of benevolence and kindness.”
Top Chef viewers discovered a new juror during the 2022 season. If Philippe Etchebest, Hélène Darroze and Paul Pairet are still present, Michel Sarran has been removed from the program. The latter evokes a choice of production, without knowing the reasons: “It was a little violent, remembers the chef from Toulouse in an interview with Parisian, last September. I did not expect it at all. Why me What prompted their decision? What did I do wrong? I didn’t get an answer.” He is replaced by Glenn Viel who, according to information from Télé Loisirs, did not fail to contact his predecessor before filming, for correction.
During a press conference in January 2022, Stéphane Rotenberg sketched the outlines of the next season of Top Chef. He sums it up in these words: “a new promotion surprising in character on the one hand, and a pantheon of great chefs on the other”. Among the guest chefs already announced for this 2022 edition, let us mention Alexandre Gauthier, elected chef of the year 2016, Clare Smyth, the first woman to win three stars in the United Kingdom, Dominique Crenn, the first three Michelin star chef in the United States. United, or even Pia Leon, elected best chef in the world in 2021.
On June 9, 2021, Mohamed Cheikh became the winner of season 12 of Top Chef. The candidate, who did the whole competition under the advice of Hélène Darroze, faced Sarah, from Paul Pairet’s brigade, during this final. He won 54.86% of the vote, against 45.14% for Sarah, which gives him a gain of 54,860 euros. Aged 28, this young chef has never hidden that he comes from a popular suburb of the Paris region (Fontenay-sous-Bois), and that he had to struggle to find a place for himself in the middle. . He has notably worked with several starred chefs, such as Eric Fréchon. He has also worked in prestigious restaurants, such as the Royal Monceau or the Shangri-La. Since the start of the competition, Mohamed was part of Hélène Darroze’s squad.
Each new episode of Top Chef is available the day after its broadcast in replay. Just connect to 6play, M6’s replay service, to find the episode. This one is available for a limited time though, so it’s recommended you don’t delay before catching up. It is possible to see Top Chef in replay on your computer, tablet or smartphone.