‘Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen’ season 21 preview: ‘Please meet this season’s 16th competitor …’ [WATCH]

Daniel Montgomery
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“After every elimination, I’ll be waiting right here to give each chef their one shot at redemption,” says Tom Colicchio in the preview for “Last Chance Kitchen,” which will air after “Top Chef” season 21 episodes and pit the ousted chefs against each other for a chance to return to the competition. “But this season, I may do things a little differently — please meet this season’s 16th competitor …” Watch the preview above.

All is not lost for chefs who have a bad day on the Bravo cooking competition. “Last Chance Kitchen” gives them a chance to make a comeback. But it’s not easy. They have to go head-to-head against another eliminated chef to prepare a dish under a tight time limit. The loser is eliminated from “Top Chef” for good. But the winner gets to continue through “LCK” until finally a chef is selected to return to the competition.

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And it’s certainly possible to make the most of your second chance. As we see in the preview, Kristen Kish was eliminated from the competition in week 11 of “Top Chef” season 10. She fought through “LCK,” returned to the show, and won the whole season. The earlier you’re eliminated from the competition, however, the harder “LCK” will be since you’ll have to survive more rounds before you get to the stage where you can come back.

That could be bad news for David Murphy, the first chefestant eliminated from the show in the season premiere episode, “Chef’s Test.” His stuffed pasta wasn’t up to snuff, and then in a sudden-death cookoff with the other two bottom chefs, he seemed to just toss random ingredients into a blender to make sauces for his unfocused dish. Can he get it together to get all the way back into the competition?

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