By Kim
Quickfire Challenge. Guest judge is Jean-Christophe Novelli who is there to plug his new Bravo show. The challenge is to create "the ultimate sweet treat" without using any sugar. The least successful are Carla, who had to ditch her frozen bananas at the last minute because they didn't freeze, Ariane, who made a whole-wheat crepe that Jean-Christophe found boring and simple, and Jamie, who used too much ricotta and mascarpone cheese in her fruit and phyllo dessert. The top three are Radhika, who made a bread pudding with berries and honeyed nuts, Leah, who made a mini-stack of pancakes with berries and balsamic reduction, and Jeff, who made frozen yogurt with a baklava spring roll. The winner is Radhika, and she wins immunity from elimination.
Padma announces that Toby Young will be joining them as a judge to take over for Gail, while she's getting married. The morning, Tom tells them that the Elimination Challenge will be to cook a family style meal for a blind tasting, meaning that the judges won't know who made which dish. Other than cost and time, there are no limitations on the food. They will be eliminating two chefs this week, to make up for last week's non-elimination. They pull knives to determine which group they will cook with, and then Radhika gets to choose which one she'll join.
Group A is Melissa, Jamie, Hosea, Eugene, Fabio, and Radhika. Group B is Jeff, Carla, Stefan, Ariane, and Leah. When they arrive at the kitchen, they discover that each group will get to critique the other group's food. And the chefs get to watch it all on a closed-circuit camera.
Group A serves first. Radhika makes a crab bisque and lemon crab salad that doesn't go over well, and Toby Young compares it to Weapons of Mass Destruction. That joke might have been funny five years ago, but it's kind of lame now, and yet all the cheftestants hide their faces and hoot into their napkins like he's the Dorothy Parker. Sigh. Hosea serves bacon-wrapped halibut with root vegetables and everyone feels that the vegetables are better than the main dish. Jamie cooks scallops again (leading to Fabio's famous "This is Top Chef, not Top Scallops" line) with fennel and orange, and everyone loves them this time. Fabio makes lamb and homemade ravioli; the lamb is undercooked but the ravioli is perfect. Eugene makes a deep-fried fish with daikon in a tomato-basil sauce; it's said to be too bland and the daikon doesn't taste right with the sauce. Melissa makes tuna tacos, which she thinks is kind of safe, but Toby Young says it tastes like cat food. Once again, everyone acts like it's the worst thing anyone has ever said. Maybe I've just watched too many other reality shows with much meaner judges.
Group B has the advantage of knowing a little about the judges. Carla makes risotto with scallops, but the diners think it's too garlicky. Stefan makes roasted duck with braised cabbage and dumplings. Colicchio thinks the dish is great, and Fabio defends it as well. Jeff makes a tapas trio: oysters, seared tuna, avocado sorbet, and grilled peaches. Colicchio thinks it's a bunch of items with no cohesion but Toby Young freaking loves it, and announces it with a slightly more up-to-date reference than the WMD disaster. Ariane makes a skate wing with cauliflower puree, and like they won't know it's her since she made the same puree last week, but the judges enjoy it. Leah makes a fried rouget with fried beans; Jamie doesn't like it, but Toby Young enjoyed it.
The chefs leave, and the judges discuss. Colicchio liked Group B way better, and Toby Young is impressed with the overall quality of the food. At Judges' Table, Ariane, Stefan, and Jamie are named the top three. Jean-Christophe announces that the winner is Jamie, finally. She doesn't get a cookbook or anything, though.
The bottom three are Melissa, Eugene, and Carla. Carla is not surprised that she's there, since she intended to wow them with flavors, and she knew she didn't do that. Melissa liked being able to hear the criticism while her food was consumed, even though it was harsh. Colicchio tells her that her dish was a failure of imagination, and she didn't wow them, when that was the point of the competition. Eugene thinks he's being punished for taking risks, but Colicchio points out that the daikon didn't go with the sauce, and Toby Young thinks the flavors were too mild for what Eugene claims is a failed experiment. Ultimately, the judges keep Carla, and send Eugene and Melissa home.
The morning after the Christmas non-elimination, Fabio is cooking himself "the breakfast of a-champion - Spam, and pork, and bean." It's nice to know that even Top Chefs slum it with Spam every once in a while. Eugene still hasn't gotten over being in the bottom three; he really doesn't think he should have been there. Feel like this might be a recurring problem? Melissa, on the other hand, is starting to crack under the pressure of being in the bottom three. The music goes from sad to happy as Hosea says that he's thrilled to have won the last challenge. Stefan is not at all intimidated by Hosea, and thinks he could cook circles around him. Stefan has a lot of talk but I haven't really seen the goods to back it up yet. I mean, he's a decent chef, but it's not like he's won every challenge and really wowed the judges or anything. Jamie is feeling down and missing her peeps at home, but it just motivates her to win even more.
Elimination Challenge. Padma introduces the guest judge, Jean-Christophe Novelli, who will apparently be starring in his own Bravo show called Chef Academy. Let me tell you, this dude has all the on-camera charisma of a wet paper towel. A French wet paper towel. That show of his will be thrilling! Then again, it's not like Padma is all pep and vigor. Radhika recognizes Novelli as an "acclaimed pastry chef" so she knows this challenge will have to do with desserts. Padma explains (like it's news) that people want to know more about the food they eat, including calories and other nutritional information, so it's important for chefs to figure out ways to make their dishes healthy. So this challenge will be to create "a sweet treat." The challenge is sponsored by a diet soda that I don't really want to mention by name and give them more free advertising, especially because it's not one that I personally enjoy and so I don't want them to, like, send me a free case or anything. Of course, there is a catch, Padma announces. This causes Melissa to bug her eyes way out, like is she really that surprised? That there's a twist? Anyway, the catch is that they can't use any sugar. For maximum visual drama, some poor PA had to load up a cart with all the sugar in the pantry so that Padma can roll it out of the kitchen. It's sort of like when Oprah rolled in the red wagon of fat on her show. But the opposite. Eugene is not confident about his dessert ability. I don't get why this is so hard -- they can use honey, right? They don't mention if they're allowed sugar substitutes. You'd think they are, since that's what's in diet soda.
Ariane secures another week on the show by using the sponsoring product in her dessert. Jeff (still can't stop seeing the name of his restaurant as the Dildo Café) says that in Miami, people are really conscious of their figures so he's used to figuring out how to make dishes that aren't filled with sugar. He's making a spring roll stuffed with nuts and honey, served with fat-free frozen yogurt. Jamie isn't quite as confident in her dessert-making abilities, but she's planning on making a napoleon with layers of phyllo dough, mascarpone and ricotta cheese, and agave syrup. The music gets all wacky, which means it's time for Carla! She's making frozen bananas with baklava and chocolate coins, and immediately gets her bananas in the freezer. There wasn't much wacky about that segment, but it's Carla, so you know wackiness will happen shortly.
Hosea is making a roasted fig and peach dish, and uses a torch to roast the fruit. Stefan compares Hosea's dish to "green vomit." Ariane is making a whole wheat crepe with caramelized pears and Product Placement Soda. Radhika thinks she has a good chance with her bread pudding. Eugene is making banana lumpias (bananas wrapped in eggroll wrappers and deep-fried) with a mini-blini sandwich. The lumpias are usually dusted with cinnamon and sugar; Eugene doesn't explain how he's going to make up for the lack of sugar at all, although maybe he's just counting on the bananas to be sweet enough alone. Carla gets frustrated because everyone keeps opening the freezer and leaving it open, and her bananas aren't getting frozen. Padma says there are only five minutes, so Carla decides to sauté some bananas in walnut oil instead of freezing them. Padma counts down the last ten seconds and the cooking ends.
And the judging begins. Fabio is up first, presenting his granola and oat tart with fresh berries. Novelli doesn't think the cream was cooked enough. Fabio interviews that he thinks Novelli doesn't like him, because he's French, and Italy beat France in the World Cup. I'm sure that's exactly why. It has nothing to do with the dish. Jeff presents his fig and cherry frozen yogurt with baklava spring roll. He makes them scoop their own yogurt, which is just weird to me. Novelli says it's an interesting combination. Eugene has made his blini look like a hamburger and his lumpia look like French fries. It's maybe a little too cute, but also kind of impressive given the time constraints. Novelli thinks it's "very original." Melissa made a baked dessert burrito with fruit and a yogurt dipping sauce, so she kind of stole Eugene's idea of making the dessert look like a traditional entree, or he stole hers. Radhika presents her bread pudding, which Novelli calls "very adventurous." Leah made a crepe with balsamic reduction, which Novelli finds interesting. Stefan presents a chocolate mousse and he can't stop making jokes about how he's French -- no he's Finnish! Mousse is French -- no, it's not! It's all really awkward and for the first time, instead of coming off as the Fonzie, Stefan looks like Potsie. Maybe Ralph Malph.
Hosea made roasted figs and peaches with honey and balsamic. Novelli once again calls it interesting, which is about the only comment he ever makes. Ariane presents her crepe with fruit and offers to add whipped cream. Novelli REFUSES the WHIP! He thinks it's over-whipped. Ariane looks like he slapped her in the face. Or elsewhere. She is stunned at his refusal. Ariane is upset that Novelli is "picking apart everybody's dessert." Um, he's a judge? That's what he's supposed to do? Jamie presents her napoleon, which also contains stone fruit. Novelli calls it -- you're never going to guess -- interesting. Carla finally presents her baklava with chocolate and bananas and explains how her bananas didn't freeze, so she had to change it up last minute.
After telling everyone how interesting their dishes are, Novelli has to announce the winners and losers. The first loser is Carla, and she nods knowingly, because she wasn't happy with her dish either. The second is Ariane, because he felt it was missing a twist. The third is Jamie, because the cheese was overpowering. Jamie interviews that she knows her dish wasn't good, but she feels defeated. The winners are . First is Radhika, because he liked her combination of flavors. The second is Leah, because of her balsamic vinegar. The third is Jeff, who just gets a "well done." I don't know if it's a language barrier, or if he's just dull as dirt, but this would be a lot more interesting if he had more specific criticisms. Novelli finally announces the winner -- it's Radhika! She wins immunity for the elimination challenge, but not cookbooks or anything like winners. I'm sure she's devastated.
Padma swings right into the Elimination Challenge. First, she tells them that Toby Young will be taking over Gail's judging spot for the rest of the time in New York. Fabio has heard of Young, and calls him "a badass food critic." Isn't he more of an enfant terrible minus the enfant part? I read his book some time ago, and I just remember that he came off as a horrible asshole. On purpose, but still. Padma tells the cheftestants to take the night off, and the competition will begin the day.
That night, the cheftestants sit around and discuss Toby Young, and how tough it will be to impress him. Eugene takes the opportunity to call his family. He explains that winning the show would allow him to better his life and his family's life.
The morning, the cheftestants eat breakfast and prepare for the challenge. Radhika is psyched to have immunity, and admits that she feels some guilt over it, but she knows it's "a chef-eat-chef world." The producers totally jizzed in their pants over getting that quote out of her. They'll be using that clip in promos for YEARS. Colicchio shows up, and Fabio is all concerned about how messy their place is, for real. Everyone gathers in the guys' apartment to find out about their challenge. Colicchio explains that they want the cheftestants to show off their food, so this challenge will be judged blind. They will have to create a dish for a family-style meal, and there are no other restrictions or twists. Fabio explains to us that a blind tasting doesn't mean a blindfold, but it does mean that the judges won't know who made which dish while they're eating it. Although blindfolding the judges might be interesting for a future challenge. Why not? Colicchio drops the bomb that they'll be eliminating two cheftestants this time, and also that there will be a group of culinary experts joining the judges at the blind tasting. Because the kitchen they'll be using is kind of small, they're going to split up into two groups by pulling knives, and Radhika gets to choose which group she wants to go with. She explains that she decided to choose the group that didn't include Stefan, because he makes things stressful in the kitchen.
Group A is the first to cook, so they head out to shop. This group includes Melissa, Fabio, Jamie, Eugene, Hosea, and Radhika. Melissa explains that she went right for tuna so that she could make tacos. This is her fancy show-off dish. Fish tacos. Those better be some great tacos. Eugene wants to make a whole fish with daikon fettuccine and tomato-basil sauce. Jamie confides to Radhika that the daikon thing sounds weird, because normally you would eat it cold with soy, not warm with tomato-basil sauce.
They arrive at the kitchen and Jamie immediately stakes out her space, claiming that she's going to do whatever it takes to impress the new judge. Hosea is the first to detail his dish: halibut wrapped in bacon with roasted baby vegetables and a mustard-butter sauce. The cheftestants are all psyched that they don't have to deal with Stefan's loudness while cooking. Radhika is making a spicy crab bisque with a lemon crab salad. She's made it many times, so she's confident. Cue the stereotypical Italian music, so it must be time for Fabio! He's using his grandmother's five-hundred year old pasta recipe and then making some lamb in a sous-vide. For those of you who haven't read a food blog or magazine recently, Fabio explains that sous-vide means to cook the lamb in a vacuum-sealed bag in temperature-controlled water.
Meanwhile, Group B starts shopping. Jeff says he that he cooks family-style every day, and his idea is to do tapas, or small plates. I'm sensing a theme with Jeff; he does too much. He tries too hard. He needs to scale back. Carla decides to slow things down so she can "hear [her] intuition." So did she just admit to hearing voices? Carla explains that she wanted to do vegetarian, but she thinks the judges will ding her if she doesn't cook a protein, so she goes with scallops.
Back in the kitchen, Group A is slaving away. Jamie has decided to cook scallops AGAIN, so that she can show the judges she really does know how to cook them. Except it's a blind tasting, so I'm not sure that will work out like she's hoping. Fabio interviews, "All she does is scallops. For Christ's sake. Come on! This is Top Chef, it's not Top Scallops." Everyone loves Fabio. How can you not? Eugene thinks he's the most creative and original cheftestant, and he hopes to meld all the different cuisines he grew up with. He also congratulates himself for his crazy daikon dish. Eugene spends a lot of time in interviews talking about how awesome he is. Pride goeth before a fall, dude. Hosea thinks Melissa is making safe foods. Melissa interviews that ethnic foods are something that people love. I don't even know what that means. That's basically like saying that people love food, period. Fabio pulls his lamb out and realizes that it's undercooked. There's no time for him to cook more, but what he has is rare. He's in trouble.
Weird interstitial: Everyone makes fun of how much trouble Fabio had with the pasta machine. Fabio, meanwhile, explains how easy it is to make pasta. The footage we're watching suggests otherwise, although it does seem to be the pasta machine's fault, and not his.
The judges arrive at the table, and Hosea wonders about the "group of culinary experts" who will be joining the judges in tasting their food. Radhika tastes her bisque but she worries that it's too bland. The other cheftestants give instructions to the waiters, since it's a blind tasting and they can't serve their own food. Group B arrives at the restaurant only to discover that they are the food experts who will be joining the judges. So each group gets to taste the others' food. I have to say, I didn't see that one coming. I didn't speculate on it all that much, but I also didn't see it coming. Everyone is still worried about the new judge, Toby Young.
Group A's cheftestants walk into the room and discover Group B sitting there. Padma reminds them that it's a blind tasting. Hosea doesn't like the idea of their competitors judging the food, because he thinks they will try to make the food seem bad in order to make theirs seem better. That doesn't make sense though; they also know that if they are too harsh, Group A will probably respond in kind. Group A returns to the kitchen and discovers a closed circuit TV so that they can watch their food being tasted. They decide that the diners don't know they are being broadcast, which is kind of evil, but I kind of love it. Stefan doesn't like the bisque at all, and Colicchio agrees that it's heavy-handed. Toby Young pulls out the index cards he prepped ahead of time with some ZINGERS and says that the UN should have looked in his bowl of bisque for the weapons of mass destruction. Look, I love a zinger as well as the gal, but I prefer when they're A) spontaneous and B) timely. That joke would have been way funnier about three seasons ago. What ? Is he going to make a joke about Britney shaving her head or President Bush choking on a pretzel? And also, his desire to release a bon mot overshadowed his ability to actually critique the food. Like what didn't he like about the bisque? I still don't know. Regardless, everyone reacts like he's the reincarnation of Dorothy Parker, but I guess they're used to the judges being a little more gentle. I have no problem with the judges telling it like it is, but I also think it's important to give specific criticism: "Your food sucked" doesn't really help anyone. Carla jokes that she wants Gail back.
Everyone agrees that Hosea's bacon-wrapped halibut gets upstaged by his roasted vegetables. Toby Young compares it to a film where classically-trained British actors are cast in bit parts and upstage the leads. Which is better as an analogy because at least it tells me what's wrong with the dish, but it seems like a long way to go for not that great of a line. up are Jamie's seared scallops. Toby Young has nice things to say about it, as does Novelli. they take on Fabio's lamb and ravioli. They all agree that the lamb is undercooked but Novelli can't say enough good things about the ravioli and mushroom sauce. Fabio is relieved.
, they move on to Eugene's whole fish with daikon radish fettuccine dish. Jeff thinks the fish was beautiful, but Stefan didn't like hot radishes. Toby Young thought it was underseasoned, and calls it "the bland leading the bland." Okay. That, I can accept. It's not too try-hard. Eugene reacts in disbelief, and his refusal to accept criticism of his dishes is really starting to bug me now. When the patrons and the judges and your fellow chefs all think your dishes suck, you have to accept that they might need improvement. Now the diners take on Melissa's fish tacos. Everyone is underwhelmed by the seasoning and flavors. Toby decides that the chef who made the dish lacks confidence (true) and that it tastes like cat food. Well, couldn't you really say that any fish dish tastes like cat food? I've never tasted cat food, but I imagine most of them taste pretty fishy. Melissa is disappointed in her choices. Fabio thinks Toby Young can "either make you or break you."
Group B leaves to go prep their food. Carla is glad that they know who will be eating their food, unlike the other group. Jeff explains his dish, which as usual is way more than he needs to do. He's making three dishes and he brags that he's prepping way more than anyone else. Does he understand that he'd be better off making one awesome dish than three okay dishes? Apparently not, and yet he does it every week. Stefan is making duck braised with cabbage and bread dumplings, which is a traditional German dish. Stefan yells to everyone else in the kitchen about how Germans will be appalled that he's cooking this dish so quickly and I'm starting to understand why no one wants to cook with him. They're trying to focus on their dishes and he's just yelling random shit that matters to no one. Annoying. Leah has Ariane taste her dish, because she's making something she's never made before. That sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Ariane is making a pan-seared skate wing with cauliflower puree. Didn't she already make that puree for the Martha Stewart Quickfire? That seems like cheating somehow. And it also seems like a lot of cream/yellow on the plate. As the clock winds down, everyone starts rushing. Carla has made a pea risotto with scallops, topped with gremolata. Carla explains that she has put "layers of flavor and love" in there. I don't know that I would want to eat Carla's love. That sounds messy and kind of bitter.
The dishes are brought to the table and Padma has to explain the blind tasting thing AGAIN like I think we get it by now. When Group B returns to the kitchen, they discover the television and that they'll be able to watch their food being consumed. Leah, slow on the uptake, asks, "Did they watch us?" Jamie thinks that her dish is better than any of the dishes in this round. Radhika thinks Stefan's duck is cooked well but the dumplings are too dense. Stefan is sure that everyone knows it's his dish. Fabio defends it, so maybe he knows too. Colicchio loves the flavors in the cabbage and praises it to high heavens.
Jeff's tapas trio ended up being oysters, seared tuna, avocado sorbet, and grilled peaches. Eugene thinks there's too much going on, and Colicchio thinks it's more a group of food than an actual dish. Toby Young loves it, and compares it to Tom Cruise's cameo in Tropic Thunder. Funny, that cameo made me uncomfortable and I thought it was overrated. I don't think that's what Toby Young is saying, though. Also, that was a try-hard comment. The judges move on to Ariane's skate wing, which Novelli praises as fabulous. Leah made a seared rouget with fried beans. Jamie didn't like it, but Toby Young thought it was a Pan-European take on fish and chips. Good criticism! I understand what that means! It helps me to understand why he liked the dish!
Carla's scallops are discussed . Hosea liked the scallops but didn't like the topping. Jamie thought the gremolata was too garlicky and Colicchio adds that the garlic was raw. Groups A and B are excused. Carla tries to get philosophical about what a great opportunity it was to hear criticism like that as they leave the kitchen.
Now that the children are gone, the adults can talk. Colicchio thought Group B's food was better overall, and Toby Young was impressed by the food's quality. Colicchio hopes that the cheftestants now realize some of the mistakes they've made in past challenges. We'll find out!
The cheftestants file into the Stew Room. They chatter about who's getting sent home; Melissa is pretty sure it's going to be her. She thinks her dish was creative. Really? Fish tacos? Creative? Padma comes in and asks for Jamie, Stefan, and Ariane, but she has to ask for them by the names of their dishes, since she still doesn't know who made what. Those three file in to Judges' Table and are told that they are the top three. Colicchio enjoyed the flavors and felt it really showed what Stefan can do, which was part of the challenge. Toby Young thought it was "unmistakably German." Jamie explains that her dish was meant to redeem herself after her scallop disaster last week. Toby Young thinks the anise-y flavor of the fennel complimented the caramel-y flavor of the scallops. Jamie breaks into a grin when Jean-Christophe tells her it was a great recipe. Ariane was pleased with her dish as well. Colicchio is happy that she used the pineapple well, cooking it and incorporating it into the dish instead of just sprinkling it on top or whatever. Padma lets Novelli announce the winner, since he's the guest judge. He announces that the winner is...Jamie. She breaks out in a broad grin and Ariane and Stefan hug her because she finally won. She interviews, "Watch out guys. Somebody to reckon with here." I hope the producers goaded her into making that comment, because it was pretty gross.
The top three return to the Stew Room and inform Melissa, Eugene, and Carla that they need to head to Judges' Table. Padma tells them that they were on the bottom and two of them will be eliminated. Carla says that she wanted to make a vegetarian dish, and she compromised by adding the scallops. She wanted to build flavors, and knows that she may not be full of pizzazz. When she says pizzazz, she makes a Fosse gesture, complete with jazz hands, and Colicchio looks like he's trying really hard not to crack up. Toby Young's main complaint was that it tasted bitter, and Carla realizes that she should have put the gremolata into the risotto. Colicchio agrees and seems pleased that Carla had a specific suggestion on how to improve her dish. Melissa thought it was really helpful to be critiqued, even though it was harsh. Colicchio wants to know what she would have changed, probably looking for something like what Carla just said. Melissa just says she would have made a different dish, but doesn't inform us what that dish would be. Colicchio tells her she had "a failure of imagination." Melissa knows she has made the dish taste better in the past. Jean-Christophe thought her dish was bland, and Toby didn't like the unpleasant smell. Melissa didn't think the dish was "that bad," and I feel like she's said that a lot in front of the judges. They ask her why she served up such crap, and she says she didn't think it was crap. And yet, I think the judges don't lie.
So now Eugene has to defend his dish and his skills. He says that he's super creative and always thinks outside the box. Colicchio says, "Daikon with tomato and basil? Does that make sense together?" Eugene says he's had it before and liked it, but he took a chance. Colicchio doesn't think it was taking a chance if he had it before and liked it. That's kind of nit-picky. Novelli says that the fish was overcooked. Toby Young didn't think Eugene was overreaching; instead the flavors were mild and it lacked punch. Padma asks if anyone has anything to add. Eugene says he knows now what the judges are looking for, and he'll stop being so creative. I don't think he understands what creative means. The judges are looking for good food, flavor, and technique, and they don't care if you use wacky ingredients or not, as long as your food tastes good. Eugene just comes off as so condescending. Melissa thinks she has a lot more to offer and asks for that chance. Carla points out that if you took the scallops off her dish, it would be perfect. The cheftestants leave the room.
Padma points out that they need to decide which of the three will stay. Toby wants to give Eugene a second chance, since he takes chances. Colicchio gets weirdly spiritual when he says that he didn't like how disrespectful Eugene was to his fish, and that the fish gave up his life for naught. I understand the impression, but we haven't really seen that from Colicchio before. He also thinks that Melissa's fish tacos were boring, and maybe that's who she is as a chef. Toby Young thinks Carla admitted to a lack of confidence, and she won't ever get confident and make good cooking decisions.
The three cheftestants are called back into the room. Colicchio says it was a very straightforward challenge, in which they were asked to cook anything and wow the judges. He tells Eugene that he's creative but lacks skill. Melissa lacks creativity. Carla ruined what could have been a great dish. Padma tells Melissa and Eugene to pack their knives and go, so Carla gets to stick around. Eugene interviews that he took a lot of risks and learned a lot. Melissa interviews that she's upset that she didn't use her imagination, and that the impression people will take away is that she's noncreative. I'm glad Crazy Carla is still around, and while I wasn't happy with Toby Young at first, he did better at Judges' Table when he calmed down a little bit. Should be interesting.
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