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Top Chef Season 23 Episode 9 | Mayo, Meltdowns, and a Rice Disaster
It’s Season 23, Episode 9 of Top Chef, and the Snark Squad is diving headfirst into “The Ultimate Dinner Party,” an episode that somehow managed to turn Duke’s mayonnaise in Greenville, South Carolina into a high-stakes culinary stress test. With the remaining eight chefs tasked with building elevated appetizers and an ambitious eight-course progressive dinner, the kitchen quickly became a battlefield of timing, budgets, and ego. The return of Rhoda from Last Chance Kitchen immediately shifted the energy, but it was Oscar’s shocking elimination—after critical rice mistakes derailed his…
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