My wife and I had it in for Freitag since we watch chopped and got a little tired of some of the nitpicks that she doled out to the contestants on that show. We were more excited to see her get a taste of her own medicine with short deadlines and problematic ingredients.

We both were happy to see Garces win, just because he has been the most consistent throughout, and frankly, I would like to eat pretty much all of his food; not so with Mehta.