Top Chef Season 22 Episode 7 Recap with Chef Jim Smith
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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
We’re back in the Top Chef kitchen, and things are already heating up! Curt Clark, LaTonya Starks, and Haley Strong, along with two-time Top Chef alum Jim Smith, return to break down all the drama, deliciousness, and dazzling dishes from Episode 7 of Top Chef Season 22.
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| 0:00.0 | unpack you nice and stay yes stay welcome everybody to another episode of the top chef for |
| 0:19.8 | hop up i am haley strong i am so excited to talk about this week's episode for obvious reasons, |
| 0:25.3 | but I'm not here alone to talk about it. Thank you, Clark. Hi there. I look at myself as the |
| 0:31.3 | if we were all toppings, I am the pineapple on this podcast pizza. Some people love it. Some people will be like, why is it even here? Well, I am the pineapple on this podcast pizza. Some people love it. |
| 0:39.8 | Some people will be like, why is it even here? |
| 0:42.6 | Well, I am Pineapples number one fan. |
| 0:43.8 | Okay, thank you. |
| 0:45.9 | And we're not alone this week. |
| 0:50.6 | We have best friend of the podcast, Chef Jim Smith, back again to talk about Top Chef. |
| 0:59.2 | What a thrill for all of us, especially me, because I missed you a couple weeks ago when I wasn't here. Yeah, I was definitely very sad to miss you last time, but it's always wonderful to be on the show and I always really enjoy talking about Top Chef. And I think, |
| 1:04.4 | Haley, you've you've upgraded Jim from Friend of Podcasts to Best Friend of Podcasts. I think |
| 1:08.1 | that's a celebration. Yeah, I think it has to be best friend of the podcast at this point. |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, I've been with us for many years now. |
| 1:14.4 | Yes. |
| 1:15.6 | I'm not going to do the math because I can't do math, and that would embarrass me on the podcast. |
| 1:21.4 | Yeah, I can't. |
| 1:22.5 | Goldfish Crane. |
| 1:23.8 | Jim's been around forever. |
| 1:24.7 | We love Jim. It's always good to be here. And it's always |
| 1:29.3 | awesome to be on anything RHAP related. And I was really |
| 1:33.0 | bummed. I wasn't able to go to that live event this year. |
| 1:35.2 | But hopefully it'll be a little bit closer to the South over the next season. |
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