I was ready for anything and my knives were sharp! I knew I would quickly become the underdog being the only girl. Once learning I was up against all guys, I was even MORE fired up and confident. If you haven’t ever needed to have ‘game face’, this would be the time! Walk in with confidence and show the other competitors who to fear, that was my strategy. I was focused on being organized and fast! Cutthroat Kitchen is about sabotaging your opponents and making them fear you! You bid on specific sabotages and hand them out like candy if you rank biggest bidder. I was extremely tuned in to my culinary basics, like my mise en place. Let me explain what goes on in your head when you attempt to be ‘cutthroat’, yet thorough. When I heard “Southwest Salad” I never once envisioned a giant plate of lettuce! But we will get to that. No great story ever started or ended with “leafy greens” anyway … Read the rest of her story here and here.
In this conclusion to Chef Ashley Pado’s experience on Food Network’s Cutthroat Kitchen, she recounts the thrill of each round, the horrors of sabotage, and the challenges of culinary competition.
