America's Culinary Cup: Malyna Si Eliminated After Sauce Challenge on Night Four
America's Culinary Cup: Malyna Si Eliminated After Sauce Challenge on Night Four
Paulette CohnThu, March 26, 2026 at 2:30 AM UTC
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The Culinary Commandment challenges continued tonight on America’s Culinary Cup, hosted by Padma Lakshmi, when the 10 remaining chefs were tasked with the third Culinary Commandment challenge: Mastering the Art of the Sauce.
Their challenge in the “Let’s Get Saucy” episode was a full-scale Tournament of Sauces, which took place over three rounds.
When the scores were tallied, the bottom four chefs were pushed into a competitive cookoff, cooking one final time using ingredients suggested by their competitors.
The America’s Culinary Cup winner will be awarded the biggest cash prize in culinary history: $1 million dollars. Here's our spoiler-filled recap of who went home tonight.
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Who went home on America's Culinary Cup tonight?
Malyna SiMichelin Starred Chef
Advancing contestants tonight on America’s Culinary Cup Season 1 Night 3
Beverly KimMichelin Starred Chef
Buddha LoMichelin Starred Chef & Two-Time Top Chef winner
Cara StadlerJames Beard Nominee
Chris MorganMichelin Starred Chef
Diana DávilaJames Bead Nominee
Emily YuenJames Beard Nominee
Katie ButtonJames Beard Winner
Keith CorbinJames Beard Nominee
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Matt PetersBocuse D’Or Gold Medalist
Related: America’s Culinary Cup Season 1: Who Went Home Last Night? (Night Three Elimination)
What was the first challenge on America's Culinary Cup tonight, and who won it?
There were three rounds of cooking. After the first round, the top three chefs were safe and will get an advantage in the next commandment. After round two, three more chefs were safe, and then in round three, it was a four-way cookoff with the loser getting eliminated.
The first round was to make a dish, featuring the five mother sauces: Hollandaise, Bechamel, Velouté, Espagnole, or Tomate. The twist was the ACC board randomly assigned the sauces. The chefs didn't get to select their favorite.
As usual, Padma, Michael Cimarusti and Wylie Dufresne awarded points based on Taste, Creativity, Presentation and Mastery of the Commandment with each quality worth 5 points, so each judge’s total would be 20 points for a cumulative possibility of a perfect 60 points.
The Top 3 were: Diana, Beverly and Matt, who were safe and didn’t need to cook again.Diana 58Beverly 57Matt 56Emily 49Malyna 49Keith 41Buddha 40Cara 35Katie 34Chris 24
The second round was for the chefs to create their own mother sauce inspired by a comfort food from their childhood.
The Top 3 for the second challenge were Chris, Cara and Katie.
Chris 56Cara 54Katie 50Emily 50Buddha 48Malyna 45Keith 41
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What was the elimination challenge on America’s Culinary Cup tonight, and who lost it?
Malyna SiPhoto: Jackie Brown/CBS (Photo: Jackie Brown/CBS)
The elimination challenge for Emily, Buddha, Malyna and Keith was to create a brand-new sauce with ingredients chosen by the six safe chefs: white miso, coriander seed, preserved lemons, grapes, vanilla beans and Pasilla chiles.
The scores were:
Buddha 59Keith 53Emily 46Malyna 39
"There are a lot of talented people in this competition, so everything has to be perfect,” Maylna said on exiting. “The small errors are what did me in. My journey ends here but I’m very grateful and made friends for life.”
America’s Culinary Cup airs Wednesday nights at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Streams next day on Paramount+.
Next, Top Chef Star Joins Padma Lakshmi’s New Culinary Competition Show
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