The challenge of the day was full of surprises, first with the participation of Claudia Bahamón in the kitchen, who had a great performance and even came to surprise the jurors, especially George Rausch who gave the presenter her famous little pinch on the cheek at the end of the test.
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The challenge was divided into two parts, the first had to do the most number of profiteroles individually and in the second a tower of croquembouche. The participants ran and were under great tension to fulfill the largest number of desserts in the 60 minutes they had.
The winner of the first part and the mishaps of the challenge
The first part of the challenge was characterized by high tension for the participants and for Claudia, who got burned and had different mishaps that caused them to come out with several bad words, due to adrenaline, but which, in the end, took its toll.
The most affected were Ramiro Meneses y Cristina Campuzano They did not do well in the first part, because they could not make any profiteroles, so Ramiro preferred to hide from how embarrassed he was with the jurors and Cristina only accepted her mistake.
Natalia Ramirez was the winner of the first part of the challenge, since she managed to make 156 profiteroles, so she had the benefit of choosing the couples for the second part of the challenge, where they had to make a tower of croquembouche in 75 minutes.
A single winning couple and ten black aprons
aco perez y Natalia Ramirezran with the bad luck that their tower they collapsed as soon as the challenge time endedwhich overshadowed her victory in the first part, then Claudia passed, who was the most anticipated of the challenge, her tower of croquembouche surprised the jurors because it had an excellent presentation, but, for them she lacked coffee cream, so the prize for her was the famous pinch on Jorge Rausch’s cheek.
Likewise, the jurors continued with the other couples, which they measured, qualified as a good croquembouch attempt, until reaching Cristina Campuzano and Carlos Baez.
When they went to expose their plate, they were nervous that it would fall on the way, in those aco perez tried to distract them and Claudia called her attention, the chefs emphasized that Cris had not made any profiteroles in the first part, so they only used Carlos’s.
The juries decided that the winning couple was the one made up of Cristina Campuzano y Carlos Baezwho obtained the benefit of not cooking in the challenge of salvation and eliminationTherefore, the rest of the participants had to put on the black apron and will have to face a new challenge of salvation.