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1. 1. Ed's Cobb Salad is well-liked, with Tom Colicchio confessing a love for Cobb salads, period. But he doesn't  think Ed should have served a salad disguised as a salad.
2. 2. In the middle of dinner, Leon Panetta gets a note that has him leaving the table. "Business calls," he says. Hmmm, intrigue.
3. 3. Amanda's French onion soup is a hit and a miss, served with a marmalade that is too sweet for most of the diners. Alex's dish of Veal Parmigiana gets a loud "Oh my God," from Tom and I don't think he's in heaven. "I think the veal was as tough as pulling a post in Yemen," Colicchio says.
4. 4. Ed's dish of Chicken Cordon Bleu is liked, but not well disguised, which was the point of the challenge.
5. 5. Tiffany, Ed, and Kelly are the top three. But there can only been one winner. Tiffany wins again - a twofer. She's most excited about the trip to Paris. "I've got a honeymoon," she says.
6. 6. Angelo, Amanda and Alex = Triple 'A' team? = are in the bottom three. "You took a soup and made a soup," Tom says to Amanda. The pastry turns out to be the downfall of Angelo. It was too hard. Chef Wylie Dufresne says Alex's disguise "was poor execution" of his dish. Tom piles on with "I've had better frozen tortellini."
7. 7. The judges seem most surprised by Angelo, who they know can do better. "He just froze." I think Angelo is getting a pass this week although his fellow contestants seem eager for him to be gone.
8. 8. And Alex packs his knives - finally! - and is gone. "Going back to Cali," he says. See ya.
9. 9. No one seems to miss Kenny, except for Kevin, who still has a beef with Alex. But Alex says he understands Kevin was just protecting his friend. But Kevin says he hopes Alex either "steps up or goes home." Meanwhile, Angelo says restaurant wars left him mentally exhausted.
10. 10. Quickfire challenge:  <a href="http://tiffany-jewellery-shop.com/">Tiffany jewellery</a>Date with a mystery box
11. 11. I don't remember this challenge, but I'm told they've done it before. The idea is to serve up a little mystery to the chefs. Inside the mystery box are ingredients that the chefs must incorporate into their dish. Everybody gets the same ingredients. Fine. But the twist is the mystery boxes keep coming with more mystery ingredients that must be part of the dish.
12. 12. The guest judge is Wylie Dufresne, chef/owner of WD50 restaurant in New York and former "Top Chef Masters" contestant. It's a high stakes quickfire with $10,000 for the winner. Angelo needs the money because his fiance is in Russia and he needs to get her visa issues worked out. Can you buy a visa?
13. 13. In the first box is a fish, a can of hominy and fava beans. I'm stumped already. A few minutes pass and then the next box arrives with squid and black garlic. The next box serves up ramps and passion fruit. The final box contains jicama.
14. 14. Most of the chefs are freaking out and seem really set back on their heels by this challenge. Everyone is running around and out of breath. Angelo is sweating bullets, literally.
15. 15. Tiffany does a fish stew. Kelly does a stew also. Kevin and Amanda go with showcasing the rockfish. Ed serves up a sashimi of rockfish. Angelos does a pot au feu.
16. 16. "i've never seen Angelos this nervous," says Tiffany. "I think he's losing confidence in himself." Wylie's favorite dishes are Tiffany's stew and Kevin's fish. But the win and the $10,000 goes to Tiffany. This is the second 10K she has won. "I have 20-Gs I'm bringing home," she says with unconcealed delight.
17. 17. Elimination challenge: Dinner in disguise
18. 18. The chefs have to take a classic dish and give it a new identity. A disguise. They draw knives to see what dish they will work with. The winner of the challenge will also win a Paris vacation.
19. 19. At the grocery store, Angelos buys prepared puff pastry. His fellow chefs cannot contain their disdain. Is he trying to go home or what? In the kitchen, Angelo seems really out of sorts and off his game. It's almost like he's undergone a personality change. Maybe his nervousness is a disguise?
20. 20. The chefs seem to work well with minimal meltdowns, including Kelly, who panics over her overcooked rice, but gets help from Tiffany.
21. 21. Angelo's dish is Beef Wellington, but everyone knows what it is. "Poor disguise," says Leon Panetta, who also calls Angelo's dish salty.
22. 22. Kelly's Kung Pao Shrimp goes over well. The diners don't know what it is right away, they just know they like it.
23. 23. Tiffany's Gyro gets big praise. "Probably the most elegant gyro I have ever ate in my life," says Eric Ripert, a guest diner and chef who I'm surprised to see. But turns out he's a guest judge filling in for Gail.
24. 24. Ed's Cobb Salad  <a href="http://tiffany-jewellery-shop.com/">Tiffany</a>is well-liked, with Tom Colicchio confessing a love for Cobb salads, period. But he doesn't  think Ed should have served a salad disguised as a salad.
25. 25. In the middle of dinner, Leon Panetta gets a note that has him leaving the table. "Business calls," he says. Hmmm, intrigue.
26. 26. Amanda's French onion soup is a hit and a miss, served with a marmalade that is too sweet for most of the diners. Alex's dish of Veal Parmigiana gets a loud "Oh my God," from Tom and I don't think he's in heaven. "I think the veal was as tough as pulling a post in Yemen," Colicchio says.
27. 27. Ed's dish of Chicken Cordon Bleu is liked, but not well disguised, which was the point of the challenge.
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