17 participants from different Arab countries taking part in a big "Top Chef" competition trip

At the end of the first episode, in which French chef Jean-François Piège took part, the Lebanese Elie Khalifa deserved to win the best dish of the first competition and received the first knife bag among 16 other bags distributed successively to the participants. He enjoyed immunity that would protect him from departure to the end of the next episode, while he was leaving the first challenge, Issa Al Balooshi, of Oman, before leaving the program before he could enter the kitchen "Top Chef".

The jury members at the port waited for the arrival of the Top Chef, which had 17 participants. When the cruise started aboard a ship that lands at the port of Beirut, they did not slow to discover that what was waiting for them was a difficult task. Race against the clock to be able to accomplish the missions one by one, provided that the result is satisfactory for the members of the Tripartite Commission and with them the guest of the first episode of the French chief Jean-François Page.

"We noticed that there were a lot of creators in the culinary world," said Maroun. "This brings to 17 the number of candidates, who are in fact the most professional chefs in the Arab world." Chief Bobby agreed with his colleague that "the Arab world is full of culinary energies", saying that the participants have to work hard and send them the message "you have to prove you are better", not any leader.

For her part, Chef Mona explained the most important changes to the program, stating that "in the third season, every corner of the kitchen wore a new outfit, which made it the ideal starting point to reach the Goal that all Arab world leaders wanted to achieve ", stating" equip the kitchen with the best and the latest equipment "To receive the most challenging tests and the most ambitious challenges, the most referees in view are invited from all over the world. "

After that, Chef Mona revealed that the kitchen would receive the 16 participants next week, not 17, "naming" one of them in the first challenge. The challenge for the participants, she said, depends mainly on the speed, consisting of four rounds to prepare a number of ingredients and prepare them for cooking in the fifth round.

The first task is to cut the onion into small cubes. Once the operation is complete, the participant goes on to the second cycle of hashing sweet peppers into thin chopsticks. The third is called "artichoke" or "fork", where it has to extract the heart from the artichoke. The fourth is to peel and clean 15 grains of shrimp. To go to the fifth and final step, participants only have one hour to prepare a dish containing all these ingredients.

When the first of the four tasks is completed, you press a button to start the countdown of the cooking time. The rest must be urgent so as not to lose much of the time defined by the first to complete the four tasks.

Here, he joined members of the Tripartite Commission, French chef Jean-François Page, a group of Michelin stars with good taste since 2001, to feature consistently in the French version of the program for nine consecutive years. At this point, the participants started the four rounds and went to the kitchen to begin the tasting process. Chief Mounir Rushdie has reached the fifth stage.

The participants went to the committee and introduced them to the dishes they prepared. The opinions of judges range from describing some good to some bad, even some dishes described by one of the committee members that they are nothing more than a novice chef's dish are not appropriate at the program level.

Between fear, fear and tension, the participants were waiting for the announcement of the results to know who was the best among them and who would be obliged to leave before being able to enter the kitchen of Top Chef and to know the details. .

Elie Khalifa from Lebanon was the first to win the first knife bag and benefit from the immunity to protect him from his departure in the second episode of the program, after the passage of participants with Salim Douiri of Tunisia, Nizar Jarayseh from Palestine, Mounir Rushdie from Morocco, Anas Tabbara from Lebanon and Anas Salim. From Saudi Arabia, Dima Al Shaar from Syria, Lara Khalifa from Egypt, Wood Saleh from Saudi Arabia, Ali Al Ghazawi from Jordan, Rafiq Boudinah from Algeria, Karim Atef from Egypt, Egypt, Khawla Al Seeb of Saudi Arabia, Makardig Kazanjian of Lebanon and Areej Al Sharif of Saudi Arabia. Their dishes were considered the weakest, Sabrina Dahan from Algeria and Issa al-Balushi from Oman. The committee felt that Issa, who had performed below expectations and not at the "senior chef" level, had said Chief Mona ended his career by completing the program's first challenge.

Then, the participants gathered at the table to get to know each other, before leaving for their place of residence, to prepare themselves for the challenges ahead. In addition to the title of "Top Chef" in the Arab world, the laureate will receive a cash prize of 375,000 SAR, a full coverage of Hospitality News and a local or regional participation at one of the HORECA 2019 exhibitions. in Great Britain, "Science and Knowledge Award" awarded by the Diploma Program in Food Safety at the Royal Environmental Health Authority of London (Boecker), travel and accommodation in Berlin to learn about one of the innovations of the German company and kitchen appliances manufacture.

"Top Chef" is featured in its third season on MBC Egypt 2, every Friday at 9:00 pm, and this episode aired on Friday, August 23 at 9:00 pm on MBC Egypt 2.