This Wednesday, M6 offers the third episode of season 13 of
Top Chef
.
During the first test, the candidates will discover a bioluminescent drink imagined by Ángel León, a three-star Spanish chef.
After him, Rasmus Munk, Clare Smyth, Heston Blumenthal will follow in the weeks to come… But why does the show call on international cooks so much?
Good tools make good cooks.
On their work plan, the candidates of
Top Chef
therefore have very sharp knives, carefully selected oils… And earphones ready to translate the speech of the guests.
This year, the M6 program is relying particularly on international chefs to push competitors to their limits.
Pía León last week, Ángel León this Wednesday evening… In total, ten chefs from abroad will come to judge this season's cast.
“International chefs are not a target,” says producer Florence Duhayot.
We are looking for chefs who surprise, who shake up the codes.
One would not dare to say that foreign chefs are more daring than the French.
The proof, the figures speak for themselves since fourteen chefs from France will follow one another all the same in the studios to represent the gastronomy of the country, like Anne-Sophie Pic, Yannick Alléno or even Pierre Gagnaire. .
Prices like it's raining
The production has even decided to call on French people who are a hit abroad.
This is the case of Dominique Crenn, the first chef to receive three stars in the United States and who triumphed in San Francisco, or Dominique Ansel, the inventor of the "cronut" (a donut half croissant, half donut) named best pastry chef in the world and also installed on the other side of the Atlantic.
“The new ones are all loaded with prizes and recognition.
They are a little off.
We take people who step aside and try to surprise, ”summarizes Stéphane Rotenberg.
In order to get the best out of candidates, you have to put them in awkward positions.
Rather than a test on the chocolate cake, then favor a challenge around a dessert that must come to life.
"Our aim is to make sure to destabilize them and get them out of their comfort zone so that they can bring out what they have deep inside them", underlines Florence Duhayot.
The importance of storytelling
It's probably not necessary but remember that
Top Chef
is a television show.
Therefore, it is important to tell pretty stories, funny or moving, and that they move the people in front of their screen.
“All the chefs tell us what was the story behind their dish, what made them give birth to this baby, confides the producer.
This will push the candidates to tell a story to get to the dish.
That's why we're looking for people who will have that function.
»
On the other hand, on the distribution side, the will of the program consists in “showing the French public that the world is full of spectacular people who have put creation at the center of their lives”, indicates Florence Duhayot.
This will be particularly the case when Rasmus Munk, a young Danish chef, lands in the post.
Viewers will discover the world of this two-star chef who offers an immersive fifty-step experience in his restaurant.
Yes, fifty steps is a meal lasting six hours.
That's almost the length of an episode of
Top Chef
.
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