Top Chef 3rd course: Greetings from Smurfland

Things got quite hairy for Wolfman Marcel during tonight's quickfire challenge. The chefs had about three hours to make an ice cream that they would let the public judge. So of course, in a display of his signature "avant garde molecular gastronomy," Marcel chilled up a batch of avocado & bacon ice cream. {Fave shot: kids spitting it out into their napkins.}
The other challenge involved creating a dish that TGI Fridays could put on their menu — something inspired by their childhood faves.
Frank went down the rabbit hole with Grace Slick and came up with a "fantasy mushroom salad." It made Gail exclaim "I feel like I'm in Smurfland."
Speaking of diminutive folk, Betty bada-binged the Wolfman, who kept pouting that Mike had turned down the frybaby and he couldn't cook his onion rings. And when he tried to psyche her out with his evil eye, she bada-binged him again by winning the challenge.
If I could have picked a winner of the challenge, Sam's exotic fruit salad intrigued me the most. But perhaps I was just distracted by — as Mia put it — his AshtonKutchery good looks.
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