Original Air Date: November 23, 2019
As the 4th bout begins, Erina faces Momo in the battle of brown sugar. Azami is preparing for a big twist.
This episode provides examples of:
- Borrowed Catchphrase: Instead of finishing her round with her usual "Have a nice day", she uses Soma's "Happy to serve". Soma wastes no time to tease her about it.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Ever since her duel against Megumi, Momo has been feeling uneasy and upset, but she doesn't know why. When Erina defeats Momo, she explains that Megumi's dish, despite losing the duel, showed Momo that there's amazing cooking outside of her own comfort zone, and Momo couldn't accept that Megumi, who she saw as inferior, managed to do something "cute".
- Evil Counterpart: Erina talks to Momo after defeating her and compares their backgrounds. Both have been considered prodigies by their family corporations for their talent to predict commercial hits, resulting in a whole industry following their opinions blindly, only for a "commoner" to arrive and show them cooking that contradicted their visions of the world. Unlike Erina, who eventually embraced these changes with a lot of Character Development, Momo didn't know what to do with that frustration after watching Megumi and cooked angry during the entire bout.
- Impossibly Delicious Food:
- Momo Akanegakubo's Japanese Roll Cake Castle is a big display of sponge roll cakes of muscovado sugar and natural food colorings like strawberries, matcha powder, cocoa, and black sesame paste arranged in cute patterns. As filling, the roll cakes are filled with whipped cream, cane sugar, vanilla extract, and soy sauce reduction. Not only it was delicious, but also aesthetically pleasing since she displayed it like an actual castle and meant to serve a huge crowd. However despite the quantity from Momo going all out, this isn't enough to defeat...
- Erina's Soufflé Léger de Grâce, fluffy soufflé pancakes with red bean paste with brown sugar. The key to the fluffiness and perfect balance with the filling is the use of filtered Greek yogurt for the batter. As an extra touch, Erina reveals that the dish was made to honor Megumi's dorayaki from the previous bout.
- Meaningful Name: Erina names her dish "Soufflé Léger de Grâce", which in addition to the Gratuitous French, "Grâce" is translated to "Graceful", the meaning of Megumi's name.
- Tsundere: Despite having no problem acknowledging Megumi as her main inspiration for her dish, Erina still has trouble admitting that Soma was also an inspiration for her, not only for the idea of using a souflé for her pancakes, like his breakfast omelet in Training Camp but because the first dish he cooked for her was the first time she started to question her tunnel vision of cooking. She even starts to blush when Soma teases her about using his Catchphrase.
- Wham Line: Just as Erina defeats Momo, Azami appears and dismisses the judges, claiming that he will be judging from now on.
