History YMMV / CutthroatKitchen

** The first round in "Carne Deim" tasked the chefs to make a French omelet. Chef Paul won the first two auctions--replacing each of his opponents' mixing vessels and forcing one chef to cook everything on a spiral-shaped spatula--and was spared from the third--strapping two chefs together with a French flag. [[spoiler:Paul not only overcooked his omelet, but he added tomatoes and a chakalaka sauce to a dish that judge Jet Tila thought didn't work together. Chef Paul was the first contestant axed.]]

** Chef Jourdan's appearance in Season 10, Episode 1: "The Full Monte Cristo" reads like an itemized list of what NOT to do in Cutthroat Kitchen. The dish is Monte Cristo Sandwiches (a fried ham and cheese sandwich).

*** She makes no effort to bid during the auctions, allowing a competitor to switch out her bread for french onion soup for a mere $700.
*** She learns later that she grabbed butter from the pantry instead of cheese, meaning her only cheese comes from the bread in the french onion soup.
*** Chef Jourdan explains that she intends to serve a chorizo flipped-up french onion soup and an heirloom and herb salad with her Monte Cristo. When Alton warned her that chefs have been sent home for trying to do two things, her response is a glib [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "Yeah? I'm doing three things."]]
*** After her bread comes out of the oven soggy, she attempts to hide the soggiest pieces INSIDE the sandwich.

** The first round in "Carne Deim" tasked the chefs to make a French omelet. Chef Paul won the first two auctions--replacing each of his opponents' mixing vessels and forcing one chef to cook everything on a spiral-shaped spatula--and was spared from the third--strapping two chefs together with a French flag. [[spoiler:Paul not only overcooked his omelet, but he added tomatoes and a chakalaka sauce to a dish that judge Jet Tila thought didn't work together. Chef Paul was the first contestant axed.]]

** The first course of "Evilicious Tournament Finale" had a doozy; Chef Matt- the ''same Chef Matt from above''- manages to spends about ''$31,000'' to take away a chef's ability to use salt. What does he do? [[spoiler:He gives it ''to the opponent who's supposed to be making his spaghetti and sauce'', on the logic that if their dish is worse, he will have the better component. [[LaserGuidedKarma Except he didn't, and got sent home for dry meatballs.]]]] Simon Majumdar was quite baffled by that one, stating in the After Show "he should have been thrown out just for being a doofus."

** The first course of "Evilicious Tournament Finale" had a doozy; Chef Matt- the ''same Chef Matt from above''- manages to spends about ''$31,000'' to take away a chef's ability to use salt. What does he do? [[spoiler:He gives it ''to the opponent who's supposed to be making his spaghetti and sauce''. [[LaserGuidedKarma Said chef got sent home for dry meatballs.]]]] Simon Majumdar was quite baffled by that one, stating in the After Show "he should have been thrown out just for being a doofus."

** The first course of "Evilicious Tournament Finale" had a doozy; a cocky chef manages to spends about ''$31,000'' to take away a chef's ability to use salt. What does he do? [[spoiler:He gives it ''to the opponent who's supposed to be making his spaghetti and sauce''. [[LaserGuidedKarma Said chef got sent home for dry meatballs.]]]] Simon Majumdar was quite baffled by that one, stating in the After Show "he should have been thrown out just for being a doofus."

** The first course of "Evilicious Tournament Finale" had a doozy; a cocky chef manages to spends about ''$31,000'' to take away a chef's ability to use salt. What does he do? [[spoiler:He gives it ''to the opponent who's supposed to be making his spaghetti and sauce''. [[LaserGuidedKarma Said chef got sent home for dry meatballs.]]]] Even Simon Majumdar was baffled by that one, stating in the After Show "he should have been thrown out just for being a doofus."

** The first course of "Evilicious Tournament Finale" had a doozy; a cocky chef manages to spends about ''$38,000'' dollars to take away a chef's ability to use salt. What does he do? [[spoiler:He gives it ''to the opponent who's supposed to be making his spaghetti and sauce''. [[LaserGuidedKarma Said chef got sent home for dry meatballs.]]]]

*** In "[=SaBOOOTage=]", Chef Skylar added a fruity ice cream to her devil's food cake. Alton explicitly warned her not to include it. She ignored him. And got cut. Hell, in the ''After-Show'' even Jet Tila said that she could've won if she left it out.

** During the Carbonara round in "Evilicious: Canoe Jack City," one of the sabotages was to replace all of a opponent's eggs with huevos rancheros. Chef Matt asked if the eggs were runny and Alton answered by poking them and making it ''worse.''

** During the Carbonara round in "Evilicious: Canoe Jack City," one of the sabotages was to replace all of a opponent's eggs with huevos rancheros. Chef Matt asked if the eggs were runny and Alton answered by poking them and making it ''worse."

--> '''Chef Mett''': "What did they say: when you're in a hole, don't keep digging?"

--> '''Chef Davidi:''' I've got all the boxes for spaghetti, and ''that's'' what you're gonna take?
--> '''Alton:''' ''(to her)'' I woulda taken every stinkin' piece of spaghetti you had.

** During a Spaghetti and Meatballs round in Season 1, one chef pays $6,500 for the right to confiscate all of a single ingredient type from one opponent. He goes to his chosen victim, whose basket is crammed with boxes of pasta, and takes...the single bulb of garlic she got from the pantry. No one can believe this, including Chef Penny (the victim) and Alton:
--> '''Chef Penny:''' I've got all the boxes for spaghetti, and ''that's'' what you're gonna take?

** [[spoiler:The chef loses in the second round, a chicken wing challenge. Forced to stuff his wings, he is called out by Jet Tila for lazily stuffing them with stringy carrot and celery ribbons and for trying to pass off a bottled sauce as his own creation.]]

*** [[spoiler:The chef loses in the second round, a chicken wing challenge. Forced to stuff his wings, he is called out by Jet Tila for lazily stuffing them with stringy carrot and celery ribbons and for trying to pass off a bottled sauce as his own creation.]]

[[spoiler:The chef loses in the second round, a chicken wing challenge. Forced to stuff his wings, he is called out by Jet Tila for lazily stuffing them with stringy carrot and celery ribbons and for trying to pass off a bottled sauce as his own creation.]]

** The very first episode has one, for the very first challenge, Spaghetti and Meatballs. Chef Glick wins an auction to steal all of one type of ingredient from another Chef's basket for $6500. He wins, goes to Chef Penny Davidi, who has a rather large stack of various pastas she got with the intent of preventing others from using them and.....takes a single clove of garlic from her basket. Pretty much everyone on the set looks at the guy and goes "Really? Of all the things you could've taken, and you took that? Over her entire stock of pastas and noodles?". [[spoiler:He loses in the second round involving chicken wings when eventual episode winner Chef Palmieri hit's him and Davidi with the sabotage to force them to stuff their chicken for a mere $500 dollars, and called out by judge Jet Tila for lazily stuffing it with stringy ribbons of celery and carrots, and using a sauce he poured out of a bottle and claiming he made it.]]

** The very first episode has one, for the very first challenge, Spaghetti and Meatballs. One of the chefs wins an auction to steal all of one type of ingredient from another Chef's basket for $6500. He wins, goes to Chef Penny Davidi, who has a rather large stack of various pastas she got with the intent of preventing others from using them and.....takes a single clove of garlic from her basket. Pretty much everyone on the set looks at the guy and goes "Really? Of all the things you could've taken, and you took that? Over her entire stock of pastas and noodles?". [[spoiler:He loses in the second round involving chicken wings when eventual episode winner Chef Palmieri hit's him and Davidi with the sabotage to force them to stuff their chicken for a mere $500 dollars, and called out by judge Jet Tila for lazily stuffing it with stringy ribbons of celery and carrots, and using a sauce he poured out of a bottle and claiming he made it.]]

** One chef, seeing as she had enough money in the final round that her opponent couldn't possibly outbid her, jumped the gun and accidentally bid her ''entire pot'', meaning she would be walking away with absolutely nothing even if she won. [[spoiler: She didn't.]]

** For a Salisbury steak round, one chef had his meat supply switched out for a Jell-O mold full of mixed berries and ground beef. He used the whole thing in his recipe, passing the berries off as a complement to the steak and the melted Jell-O as a sauce, and promptly got cut because the berry flavor was so overwhelming. When Jet Tila learned of the sabotage in the episode's after-show, he wondered aloud why the chef hadn't bothered to simply pick out the meat.

** The very first episode has one, for the very first challenge (A pasta dish). One of the chefs wins an auction to steal all of one type of ingredient from another Chef's basket. He wins, goes to Chef Penny Davidi, who has a rather large stack of various pastas she got with the intent of preventing others from using them and.....takes a single clove of garlic from her basket. Pretty much everyone on the set looks at the guy and goes "Really? Of all the things you could've taken, and you took that? Over her entire stock of pastas and noodles?" He did not win the episode.

** For a Salisbury steak round, one chef had his meat supply switched out for a Jell-O mold full of mixed berries and ground beef. He used the whole thing in his recipe, passing the berries off as a complement to the steak and the melted Jell-O as a sauce, and promptly got cut because the berry flavor was so overwhelming. When Jet Tila learned of the sabotage in the episode's after-show, he wondered aloud why the chef hadn't bothered to simply pick out the meat.

** One chef, seeing as she had enough money in the final round that her opponent couldn't possibly outbid her, jumped the gun and accidentally bid her ''entire pot'', meaning she would be walking away with absolutely nothing even if she won. [[spoiler: She didn't.]]

** One chef, seeing as she had enough money in the final round that her opponent couldn't possibly outbid her, jumped the gun and accidentally bid her ''entire pot'', meaning she would be walking away with absolutely nothing even if she won. [[spoier: She didn't.]]

** In a southwest salad round, one chef decided to use steak instead of lettuce. She didn't even try and toss the ingredients to make it look remotely like a salad; the final dish was a steak with salsa on it. She was eliminated due to not presenting a salad. Even as she left, she insisted that a salad should be whatever a person wants it to be.