Overview
- Judges cited fundamental errors in Ventura’s dish, including an overcooked trout, an incorrect fish cut, and failing to properly process the green curry.
- The challenge required replicating chef Tomás Treschanski’s trucha confitada with green curry, dill oil, and ginger, a masterclass that exposed gaps in technique across the field.
- Ventura alleged a sabotage of his gelatine in the blast chiller but declined to identify a culprit, and the claim remains unsubstantiated.
- He said long recordings aggravated hip pain and bouts of exhaustion, describing how he rested on trash bins between rounds rather than request special accommodations.
- Hours before the broadcast he posted “Eliminado” on Instagram; production asked him to remove it and he later took responsibility, as the episode led its time slot with peaks reported around 12–14 rating points.