My mom likes to say I have a “fight the problem” mentality. Then it kept being fun, and I tend to do well when I’m enjoying things. The first time I did it, I was like, Oh, this is fun. I mean, I knew what it was, but I didn’t have high hopes.
I had never watched Last Chance Kitchen before, so I didn’t have any idea what I was in for. What surprised you most about that part of the competition? You made history in Last Chance Kitchen, tying the record for most wins. In our chat, Welch discussed the key to Last Chance Kitchen success, her “butcher-shop mentality,” and why Top Chef contestants shouldn’t read the Top Chef sub-Reddit. The James Beard Award–nominated chef, who split her childhood between Michigan and Jamaica, somehow blocked out the noise enough to make it into the final three. With each battle, it can be hard to get back in the mental game of it.” “But there’s also a disadvantage in that, in order to succeed, you need to cook and win multiple times in a row. Suffice to say, it’s nearly impossible to keep a streak alive.) “People will say there’s an advantage in being the reigning chef of Last Chance Kitchen,” Welch says. (Unfortunately, the rules of LCK are similar to Fight Club the Top Chef powers that be do not let contestants talk about the production schedule. This feat, which got Welch back into the competition, only becomes more impressive once you learn how exhausting the Last Chance Kitchen schedule is. She tied the record for most wins with eight, a milestone originally set by Top Chef: New Orleans’ Louis Maldonado in 2014. From there, she went on a historic run in Last Chance Kitchen, Top Chef’s sister program that offers eliminated contestants a pathway back to the main competition through brutal challenges. The executive chef of Marrow, a restaurant and butcher shop in Detroit, was eliminated in episode four’s doppelgängers challenge, in which the chefs were tasked with making dishes that looked alike but tasted completely different. To be fair to Welch, the four-course finale cook-off might have felt a bit anticlimactic in comparison to the gauntlet she endured to get there.
I don’t think any of us were waiting with bated breath.” “I saw what he was doing and I was like, Well, he definitely took this. “I feel like it would have been agonizing if I hadn’t known that I didn’t perform to the level that I wanted to,” she told Vulture a week after Brooklyn-based chef Buddha Lo was named the winner of season 19.
But for Top Chef: Houston runner-up Sarah Welch, waiting around to hear whether or not Padma Lakshmi names you the winner of Top Chef wasn’t as agonizing as she assumed it would be. As Tom Petty so wisely deduced, the waiting is the hardest part.
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