The episode starts with the 10 cooks that remain in the competition gathering in Huntington, California. They are preparing for an ocean-side team challenge. The assignment is to feed 101 hungry surfers on the beach a taco and a sauce. The group is divided into two teams. Jessie, a 27 year-old, is told that she gets to pick all the members of her team and can also choose the other team's team captain.
Jessie picks James, Eddie, Bethy, and Natasha to be on her team. She then picks Savannah to be the captain of the other team because she thinks Savannah "gets nervous and has a bad palate." Savannah, a 27 year-old special ed teacher from Chula Vista, CA, says that she thinks Jessie has made a big mistake and that she "won't crumble under the pressure." Team Red, captained by Savannah, decides to work with the cod and quickly delegates tasks to its team members. The other team decides to work with mahi-mahi and James, said to have great technical ability with sauces, begins to work on a roasted pineapple habanero sauce to compliment the fish.
Savannah doesn't want to put seasoning on the cabbage, which Jordan disagrees with. James struggles with the roasted pineapple habanero sauce on Team Blue. On Team Red, Jordan is making a lime cilantro sauce that is turning out well. Krissy fries the fish but the other team members don't like her preparation, so she is reassigned to grilling tortillas. Team Red is organized and finishes preparing their tacos in time to start serving the surfers. The other team's lack of organization makes it a struggle to get the tacos prepared in time. Eventually, Team Blue does get on track and is able to serve their tacos.
When all the votes are in and counted, Team Blue wins the competition. As the prize, all the members of the team get to go to an all-star baseball game. Luca from Team Red says he is a big baseball fan, and the fact that he is not invited hurts his feelings. Because they lost the competition, Team Red has to take the pressure test. When asked who the weakest member of the team is, they say Krissi. Bri says Krissi only grilled the tortillas while the rest of the members of the team did more complex tasks. Krissi objects, saying that was the only job she was given. The team gets to save one person on the team, and they choose Jordan.
For the pressure test, each person in Team Red has to cook chicken breast, fried chicken, and stuffed chicken in 40 minutes. Bri is a vegetarian and has never cooked chicken before. Despite the fact that everyone says that they are tired of Krissy and want her out of there, Krissy seems to be cool as a cucumber. "I know what they're doing," she says. When asked if the pressure test was "a chance to kick one of them out of here," she says, "Absolutely."
Savannah, Luca, and Bri are all in danger of being sent home after the pressure test because the chicken they served the judges was undercooked. The judges think Krissi nailed the pressure test. The judges tell Krissi that although she is not making many friends in the competition, she is going to be difficult to take down. Jessie says that Krissi has a bad attitude and is always threatening to beat people up. Jessie says she really wishes Krissi would go home, but the judges dismiss Savannah.
MasterChef airs on Tuesday at 8/7 central on FOX.
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