Overview
- The Monday, January 26 elimination centered on a 60‑minute designed‑pasta challenge guided by guest specialist Mena Duarte, with the judges choosing between Maxi López and Esther Goris before removing Goris.
- Ian Lucas and Leandro “Chino” Leunis delivered the night’s top plates, and Evangelina Anderson won a utensil‑washing mini‑challenge that granted 30 seconds alone in the market.
- The elimination broadcast led its time slot with a reported peak of 12.9 rating points, extending the show’s audience momentum.
- In Tuesday’s pastry round, tensions flared as Rusherking drew sharp pushback from the judges; Ian Lucas, Evangelina Anderson and Rusherking received the delantal gris for last‑chance cookoffs.
- On Wednesday’s alfajor replication test, Maxi López and Andy Chango went straight to the balcony, later joined by Susana Roccasalvo and La Joaqui, while El Turco Husaín and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez took the delantal gris ahead of Monday’s next elimination.