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Judging from the promos that we aired in the week leading up to this week's episode of Bravo's Top Chef, the show promised to be a good one. Then again, what reality show doesn't heavily advertise the conflicts that cast members have? At least we are starting to get to know all the competitors better and can pick out some of the chefs that seem to be leading the pack.

The chefs had a hard time with this week's quickfire challenge. Padma started out by saying that only 38% of Americans eat in fine dining restaurants at that it is important for a top chef to be well rounded and able to cater to different audiences. Their challenge was to create an original ice cream flavor to be served to beach-goers in Los Angeles. With the exception of the pastry chef, Marissa, no one seemed to have ever made ice cream before, but after seeing some of the flavor combinations, you would have thought that they had never eaten ice cream before, either.