Top Chef
This is Not Glamping
TV Flash files “This is Not Glamping” as hour 216 of 338 in the TV Flash guide — Top Chef (2006–present) on Bravo, season 15, episode 5, aired 2018-01-04, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S15E05: listed hour 216 of 338 in the Top Chef guide, hour 5 of 14 in season 15. It aired 2018-01-04 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Little Tools, Big Challenge” (S15E04). Next is “Now That's a Lot of Schnitzel” (S15E06).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Tom surprises the chefs with a twist that changes the game; the chefs are sent camping where they must make a 5-star meal outdoors and are met with an unexpected storm; chef Naomi Pomeroy joins the judges in the Colorado mountains.
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Where does This is Not Glamping sit in the Top Chef guide?
S15E05 is listed hour 216 of 338 — hour 5 of 14 in season 15, season 15 episode 5.
When did Top Chef S15E05 air?
This is Not Glamping aired 2018-01-04 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is Top Chef just yelling in a kitchen?
Technique, nerves, and last-chance kitchen as spectacle. Padma's calm and Colicchio's verdicts are the temperature, not chaos for clip shows.
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- Tom Colicchio as Judge
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