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When the judges ask you to take a traditional ingredient and put an exciting spin on it.
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When guest chefs talk about how foods and flavours are alive.
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When there are five minutes left on the clock and you need to get your protein cooked quickly.
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When Gary tells you to use inventive and exciting ways to cook your ingredients.
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When your dish last week wasn't "flavourful enough" so you make sure to add a lot of complementary tastes this time.
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When you opt to make a simple dish, so you focus on the plating.
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Or when you really fuck up your food, so you know you have to rely on making it at least look good.
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When George says you need to have a crunchy element to your dish, and you know just how to nail it.
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When you're usually all about making desserts, but the core ingredient in a pressure test is chicken.
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When you're not sure how to correctly cook a main ingredient so you try to bury it in your dish...with little success.
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When your soufflés sink just before plating them so you have to come up with a new dish in two minutes.
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Or when you try to speed up your cooking progress just a little.
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When you get to cook for an immunity pin and follow the recipe step by step...but still somehow fuck up.
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When you try to embrace the trend of deconstructed meals.
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When the core ingredient is some exotic thing you've never heard of so you just blindly prepare a dish that you hope works.
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When you try out a ~rustic~ and ~homestyle~ dish that will make the judges nostalgic.
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When Matt encourages you to be creative with your dishes.
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And when you take your dish out of the oven and are hurrying to serve it up.
