- I always wanna be a chef
and I just love cooking.
- It's really relaxin' and
it's a different way for me
to express myself and it
teaches me a lot of life skills.
- I enjoy it, just cooking in general.
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- We have six different
teens here and they are going
to be creating a three
course meal in one hour.
- [Chef] Everybody have a
good time, it's only cooking.
That's all it is.
- I'm making a Caribbean
chicken street taco
and right now I'm doing a
mango with a small dice.
- We're having a sweet and
savory cran ice cake dish
which will have some fresh
plums, some jalapeno.
- And we have like an asian theme going on
so everything's tied
into that and I'll have
a Thai chili pepper as
well in the peanut sauce.
- I'm excited to see what
they do with the flavors
cause those are strong
flavors and not knowing
how to play with them, you
could either end up with
a salt loaded dish or something
that's way over sweet.
So I'm excited to see the
balance that they put into those.
- We all knew that we wanted our recipes
to be kind of fresh and gray.
And we all had our own ideas
and brought them all together.
- When they first sit down
and brainstorm menu ideas
they think about costing,
what ingredients they're
going to use, different flavor profiles
they're going to play around with.
- Our entree is Greek style
shrimp with like tomatoes
over homemade semolina noodles.
- They're all very excited to be here.
They've all thought through their dishes.
They all have a really good plan in place
for how they're going to execute
and get this dish done in an hour.
- Once we got in the kitchen,
it was really like intense.
Everything had to be right on point.
Everything needed to be great timing.
There was no time for mistakes
and we all had each others backs.
- So here's the thing about competition.
What you should really take
away is what did you learn
in that critique to push yourself forward?
Think of the other things you learned.
Communication, working with
different personalities,
your time commitment, your
ability to accomplish an idea
and take it all the way
to the end, to be judges,
to be judged.
Those things are far more
important than where you placed.
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