Elements chef Beau MacMillan survived just two rounds Sunday night on the Food Network’s “Chopped All-Stars,” bowing out with his entree course.
The competition pitted MacMillan, an “Iron Chef America” victor and former co-host of the network’s “Worst Cooks in America,†against chefs Anita Lo, Jacques Torres and Nate Appleman.
In the first round, three were asked to prepare an appetizer using fresh pasta sheets, dried papaya, Bluefoot mushrooms and chorizo.
MacMillan, competing to win money for the non-profit Space Coast Early Intervention pre-school, produced a pappardelle-style pasta with chorizo, spiced paprika cream and papaya-glazed mushrooms.
He, Lo and Appleman advanced when pastry chef Torres was disqualified for smuggling in an unathorized ingredient – chocolate – for his dish.
The three surviving chefs then were asked to create an entree using cobia, salmon jerky, Chinese spinach and animal crackers.
The show’s three-judge panel decided MacMillan was too heavy-handed with soy sauce on his oven-roasted cobia with an animal cracker crust, citrus cucmuber salad and soy vinaigrette.
Appleman went on to best Lo in the dessert round to win the competition.
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