Pierre Chomet, potential finalist, fails in week 4 of “Top Chef” -

Marie ETCHEGOYEN / M6

  • M6 offered this Wednesday evening the fourth episode of 

    Top Chef

    .

  • Based on the tomato theme, the last chance test did not allow Pierre Chomet to qualify for the rest of the competition.

  • "If the four chefs think it was a shit plate, it's because it's true," he told 

    20 Minutes

    .

One of the most promising candidates of this season, Pierre Chomet had to leave

Top Chef

at the end of the fourth week of competition.

Despite a rather successful soufflé (and visually very appetizing) against Pierre Gagnaire, his brigade leader Paul Pairet decided to send him as a last chance.

Its "tomato gluttony", it will not have made the weight against the plate of its competitors.

"Four weeks is too short but it was magic", regrets Pierre Chomet to

20 Minutes

.

Why did you decide to sign up for the show?

Since its existence, I've always told myself that I had to do it, I never really had the courage to do it.

I registered from Bangkok last year.

I sent my application, they called me back, telephone interview, Skype video interview.

As I was in Bangkok, it was complicated because I had to go to Paris to do the cooking test.

I took all my things, I sent my six years of life in a container and we went home.

We couldn't stay any longer because my wife had been fired, she was on a trial period, so with the Covid, good evening ended.

My salary has also been drastically reduced because of the Covid.

It was a lot of things so we decided to leave Thailand.

We came back, we didn't know what we were going to do but we left Thailand with six years in the backpack, hoping that

Top Chef would

be positive.

How do you explain your elimination at the end of this last chance?

I was very stressed.

Already on the visual, I should have done something prettier.

This is what weighed me down from the start, I took big cartridges on the visual so it didn't help to make you want to eat.

I remember running around, being hot, being stressed.

I tasted everything on my plate, but apparently it wasn't.

If the four chefs think it was a shit plate, it's true.

In addition, I blew my forehead as I bend down in the fridge to see my gazpacho siphon.

I didn't even realize it and it was the cameraman opposite who said to me "Pierrot, wipe your forehead, you have the droplet falling" (laughs).

Joining Paul Pairet's brigade was a bit obvious because he has Asian accents in his kitchen.

Wouldn't you have wanted to confront another universe?

When I signed up for

Top Chef

, I told myself that if I had the choice, I wanted to be with Paul Pairet because even though I had been in Bangkok for six years, I couldn't express on the Asian point of view.

People don't come to French restaurants to eat anything other than French.

I told myself that Paul Pairet would be the continuation of my career.

Even though I was based in Asia, I remained in the French gastronomic cocoon.

Paul Pairet, I like what he gives off, he brings a kind of cuisine that I don't have today.

When I had the honor of choosing between him and Michel Sarran, I hesitated because Michel Sarran had been moved by my revisited pad thai, it touched me.

At the end of the show, you say that among everything you've done, "not one thing that was 100% right".

Why ?

This is the feeling I have.

Everything I sent was not finished, not completed.

The dripping heart wasn't completely flowing, the pad thai didn't come out exactly the way I wanted it to.

There isn't a plate I sent where I was really happy.

Even for the soufflé test with Pierre Gagnaire, I had an original soufflé but it lacked cooking, so once again, something was missing.

I felt like I missed a tiny little thing every time.

We see that you try to keep your head up in front of the bosses but that it is less easy during the interview afterwards.

What are you feeling at that moment?

I tell myself that this wonderful moment that I was living is ending and it hurts me very, very much.

It pisses me off a lot because I would have liked to show more.

I wanted to continue, I'm a fighter, a player, I won but I couldn't.

So I am disgusted.

When I go out, I am dejected.

It looks like a horse that missed a hurdle, shot down on a racetrack (laughs).

I'm disgusted and very pissed off at myself actually.

What is the next step now?

Return to Bangkok or stay in France?

I stay in France.

I brought all my things, my life is here, my baby is born.

I want to open my restaurant with my wife Cristina who is also a cook.

The plan is to stay in France and use the magic of

Top Chef

because it would be stupid to have done the show and to go back to Asia.

There, we have a little more visibility.

With the fact of having made a TV program, people recognize you a little more.

The idea is to open our restaurant in Brittany or in Paris, where the best opportunity will be.

A cuisine with a big French base, slightly twisted with our backgrounds and our origins.

An open kitchen with a central island, where you are served by the chef.

Something not stuffy where you eat well.

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