TOP CHEF 2022. The Top Chef brigades were completely recomposed this Thursday, April 21, 2022, and two former candidates signed their big comeback. Recap and notes.
[Mis à jour le 21 avril 2022 à 23h40] Exceptionally, Top Chef was broadcast this Thursday, April 21, 2022 on M6. Episode 10 marked several upheavals for viewers. Hélène Darroze, absent for personal reasons, is temporarily replaced by chef Pascal Barbot at the head of the red brigade. It was also time for the recomposition of the brigades in episode 10 of Top Chef. Two former candidates have returned to the competition to try to regain their place in the competition: Lilian, who left two weeks earlier for personal reasons, and Thibaut, the last eliminated. They took on the potato-themed brigades, a challenge from chef Heston Blumenthal.
The event was particularly complicated for the team of Glenn Viel, since Lucie and Arnaud do not agree on the recipe. The first seems to have trouble digesting that her idea of a mashed volcano is not retained, and the duo cannot communicate at the end of this ordeal, despite the remonstrances of Glenn Viel. At the end of the tasting, Heston Blumenthal decides to qualify Lilian, who finds his place in Paul Pairet’s team, and Mickaël and Pascal, who will not have left the team of Philippe Etchebest.
The second test of episode 10 of Top Chef leads to a new recomposition of the brigades. Supported by Gilles Goujon, Arnaud, Lucie, Thibaut, Wilfried and Louise compete on the theme of citrus. It will then be the chefs de brigade who will choose their favorite dishes and the candidates who remain in the competition. Faced with the stakes and the accumulated fatigue, Arnaud breaks down and collapses in tears under his work plan. This will not prevent her from qualifying, just like Louise, Thibaut and Wilfried, because it is ultimately Lucie’s achievement that is not selected. It is eliminated at the end of this episode 10. The recomposed brigades are now as follows:
- Brigade of Paul Pairet : Lilian and Wilfried
- Brigade of Philippe Etchebest : Michael and Pascal
- Glenn Viel’s Brigade : Arnaud and Sebastien
- Brigade of Hélène Darroze/Pascal Barbot : Louisa
- lone candidate : Thibault
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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.