Overview
- VOX aired a Team Edition featuring Cornelia Poletto, Elif Oskan, and Viktoria Fuchs competing in pairs to recreate unfamiliar dishes from a sealed black box without recipes or outside help.
- In Curaçao, Poletto and Fuchs had to cook Kadushi, a local cactus soup, alongside a spiny gourd stew, and their early plant scouting included a bitter taste of Aloe vera that was not poisonous.
- Original cook Geraldine “Zus” Boelijn briefly showed which cactus parts to use after noting the pale inner layer is inedible, and production told her on camera to stop assisting.
- Open-fire street conditions and heavy heat made the prep difficult, the cactus content and seasoning missed the mark, and the jury issued a low score for the soup.
- A later round on a cruise ship focused on corn in many forms, including a small gold-toned polenta dome that challenged the chefs on color and texture under pressure.