Kitchen Impossible: Siegfried and Roy of culinary art: In the USA, analytical genius maltster meets his master

Tim Mälzer still has a score to settle with New York, because things have never really gone smoothly between the two of them.

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Kitchen Impossible: Siegfried and Roy of culinary art: In the USA, analytical genius maltster meets his master

Tim Mälzer still has a score to settle with New York, because things have never really gone smoothly between the two of them. The restaurant in which he was involved went bankrupt after a short time, the dream of a branch overseas has been just that ever since - a dream. Edi Frauneder did it better. The Austrian chef emigrated to the USA more than 20 years ago and has been in the fast lane with his Austrian cuisine ever since. His restaurant Schilling is one of the best in town. In the USA special of "Kitchen Impossible" he shows why. Even an otherwise rather loud-mouthed maltster will be almost in awe of the competitor's culinary analysis skills, after all, this is actually his prime discipline. It went so far that he even made an immoral offer to the Austro chef. "But Siegfried and Roy?" he asked jokingly - an allusion to the fact that the two with their almost magical analytical know-how could also perform in Las Vegas.

Those were the tasks

Edi Frauneder visits the Elcielo in Washington D.C. There he tries his hand at a dish on Sebastián Moreno: Tree of Life and Onion

In New York City, Tim Mälzer encounters street food from Bangladesh. At Naeem Khandaker he cooks chotpoti.

At Wayne Baquet Sr. in New Orleans, Edi Frauneder must recreate a traditional Creole family dish: gumbo and bread pudding.

Tim Mälzer travels to Kansas City, where he has to grill master Philip Thompson in Q 39: chicken wings, brisket

Tim Mälzer doesn't exactly have the reputation of a fine motor kitchen artist, but he can analyze dishes like only a few. This time he had to deal with a competitor, Edi Frauneder, who also mastered this skill. In Washington D.C. he broke the dish down into its aromatic individual parts so confidently that even a maltster's ears trembled. "Wow, it's good. Crazy," he exclaimed when he saw the footage. Not only was he flabbergasted, the original chefs were also visibly impressed by Frauneder's culinary replicas.

What does the American dream look like? Quite simply: like Naeem Khandaker. Within a few years, out of nowhere, he has conquered the hearts of New Yorkers with his Bangladeshi dishes - and now also that of Mälzer. He fell in love with the smart radiant man, who started with a food truck and now owns seven trucks and one restaurant. "It's going to be really, really big. I think it's going to be international," said Mälzer, planning a pop-up event with Khandaker in Germany straight away. And that although Mälzer was not at all enthusiastic about the task at the beginning. "What's that? Cornflakes casserole? I've had a lot but nothing quite as silly looking as that. I'm completely lost."

Mrsneder. Although the Austrian was involved in Kitchen Impossible for the first time, he showed great talent in choosing his tasks and at the same time excelled at the stove. In New Orleans, he analyzed the dish with so much joy and skill that even Mälzer had to admit: "This is your last challenge and I wish you nothing but the plague. But it's so nice to watch you." In the end, Frauneder's gumbo was cooked so perfectly that even the original chef had to look twice. New Orleans was a great adventure, the chef said afterwards: "Kitchen is fucking intense, fucking awesome."

In New Orleans, Edi Frauneder not only relies on his own skills at the stove, but also relies on dark magic. With the help of voodoo he wants to inflict pain on maltsters. The doll is first pierced with a few toothpicks before it gets a good amount of fire on the stove under the cloth buttocks. "You're sick," commented Mälzer with a wink.

Frauneder and Mälzer, that fits. It went so well that the two of them got the same number of points from the first tasks. In the end, a measly 0.1 points decided victory. Again it was Mälzer who was happy. The Hamburger had actually already written off the victory after his appearance in Kansas.

The eighth season of Kitchen Impossible started on February 12th and will be shown on Vox every Sunday from 8:15 p.m. This and later all other episodes of "Kitchen Impossible" can be streamed on RTL.