TOP CHEF 2022. A new candidate came out of Top Chef this Wednesday, February 23, 2022 on M6. The summary, the notes and the tops of episode 2.

[Mis à jour le 23 février 2022 à 23h30] The competition between brigades has finally started in Top Chef. M6 broadcast this Wednesday, February 23, 2022, episode 2 of the most popular PAF culinary contest. The opportunity for the candidates to cook together for the first time after last week’s selection episode. For the first test, they had to take on the challenge launched by chef Pía León: sublimate and surprise with a corn dish. The orange team led by Glenn Viel initially had a hard time working as a team: stressed from the exercise, Lucie rejects all of Tania’s ideas. So much so that the chef had to step in to help his candidates work together. Same difficulty on the side of Paul Pairet’s team, where the differences in techniques between Logan and Lilian were still sources of slight friction.

This didn’t stop the purple trio from qualifying for the next episode of Top Chef, as did the blue team from Philip Etchebest. The rest of the rankings also determined which candidates would go through to the second round. Glenn Viel’s team sits third: Renaud offers to try to qualify, alone, at the end of the second event. Lucie and Tania are for their part qualified. The solitary brigade, fourth, and Hélène Darroze’s red brigade, fifth, are invited to participate in the second event of the episode.

Renaud, Elis, Arnaud, Louise, Thibaut and Wilfried play their place in the competition during the second round of this episode of Top Chef. They had to take on the challenge launched by chef Francis Mallmann: cooking entirely over a wood fire. With her 100% vegetarian dish, Louise stood out by winning the first crush of the season, as did Thibaut and Wilfried, who invented an oil smoked over a wood fire that impressed Hélène Darroze. The entire Red Brigade qualifies for the next episode.

“I still had a lot to prove” – ​​Renaud from Top Chef

Arnaud, Elis and Renaud then met as a last chance to cook on the theme of pumpkin. Unfortunately for Renaud, his preparation did not convince the jury. The one who had been the first to leave the first season of Top Chef is eliminated in the second week of the 2022 season. “I still had a lot to prove to myself and to prove to the chefs…, he reacted to the outcome of the elimination of he. What I remember from the competition is that when you fall, you can get up. I fell and I’ll get up.” As a result, Arnaud joins Glenn Viel’s squad and Elis becomes the only lone candidate. At the end of this second episode of Top Chef 2022, the composition of the squads is as follows:

• Brigade of Philippe Etchebest : Pascal (target Top Chef), Mickaël and Sébastien
• Paul Pairt’s Brigade : Logan, Lilian and Ambrose
• Brigade of Hélène Darroze : Louise, Thibault and Wilfried
• Glenn Much Brigade : Lucie, Arnaud and Tania
• lonely brigade : He is

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Top Chef is the Wednesday night television show. The 2022 season began on February 16 and will probably end in May, as usual. 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 6play.fr site

Fifteen candidates have been selected to compete on the 13th season of Top Chef. Among them, there are in particular 12 men, three women, including 3 Belgians. Featured candidates this season include Renaud, who had starred in Season 1 of Top Chef, Lilian, a young chef whose dreams of opening a gastronomic restaurant were shattered by the coronavirus and who has since become a manager of a supermarket, 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 season after season, with some chefs leaving the show to be replaced by new names on the French culinary scene. For the 2022 season, Philippe Etchebest (Blue Brigade), Hélène Darroze (Red Brigade) and Paul Pairet (Purple Brigade) return to the jury. by his side, michel sarran, emblematic jury of Top Chef, announced that he would not return to the program in 2022 due to the decision of the production. He is replaced by Glenn Viel, who has appeared several times on the M6 ​​show as a guest director.

During a press conference to present the new season of Top Chef, we were able to learn about the role that Glenn Viel will play this year. The chef of the Oustau restaurant in Baumanière (Baux-de-Provence) will train the orange brigade. “He has every intention of blowing it all up, commented Stéphane Rotenberg. He arrived with energy and the desire to do it very strong”. Glenn Viel explains that he did not specifically ask to be part of the Top Chef 2022 jury, he was contacted by the production. “Of course, I jumped at the chance, he recalls. It is a well perceived competition, well seen, with the best chefs in the world who come to participate. They received me with great benevolence and kindness.”

Top Chef viewers discovered a new jury during the 2022 season. If Philippe Etchebest, Hélène Darroze and Paul Pairet are still present, Michel Sarran has been removed from the show. The latter evokes a production choice, without knowing the reasons: “It was a bit violent, recalls the chef from Toulouse in an interview with Parisina, last September. I didn’t expect it at all. Because I? What motivated his decision? Did I do wrong? I did not 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, to correct him.

During a press conference in January 2022, Stéphane Rotenberg outlined the outlines for the next season of Top Chef. He sums it up with these words: “a new promotion of surprising 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 earn three stars in the United Kingdom, Dominique Crenn, the first chef three Michelin stars 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 the 12th season of Top Chef. The candidate, who completed the entire competition under the guidance of Hélène Darroze, faced Sarah, from Paul Pairet’s squad, in this final. She obtained 54.86% of the votes, compared to 45.14% for Sarah, which gives her a profit of 54,860 euros. This young 28-year-old 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 in the middle. . He has worked in particular with several star chefs, such as Eric Fréchon. He has also worked in prestigious restaurants, such as the Royal Monceau or the Shangri-La. From the start of the competition, Mohamed was part of Hélène Darroze’s squad.

Each new episode of Top Chef is available the day after it airs on repeat. Simply connect to 6play, M6’s streaming service, to find the episode. However, this one is available for a limited time, so it is recommended that you do not delay before catching up. You can watch Top Chef playing on your computer, tablet or smartphone.