‘America's Culinary Cup' Season 1: Who Went Home Tonight? (Night 7 Elimination)
America's Culinary Cup, hosted by Padma Lakshmi, continued its search for America's best chef with the roll out of yet another culinary commandment: Culinary Science and Technology.
For this commandment, judge Wylie Dufresne was given the opportunity to shine as he is the leading pioneer in molecular gastronomy. The chefs were asked to showcase different molecular gastronomy techniques while creating as many dishes as they could in five hours.
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.
Who went home on America's Culinary Cup tonight?
Beverly Kim
Michelin Starred Chef
Advancing contestants tonight on America's Culinary Cup Season 1 Night 7
Buddha Lo
Michelin Starred Chef & Two-Time Top Chef winner
Cara Stadler
James Beard Nominee
Chris Morgan
Michelin Starred Chef
Katie Button
James Beard Winner
Keith Corbin
James Beard Nominee
Matt Peters
Bocuse D'Or Gold Medalist
What was the challenge tonight on America's Culinary Cup, and who won it?
It was a no-holds-barred, 5-hour cookoff featuring 10 techniques with no limit on the number of dishes. The more techniques employed in each dish, the potential was there for a bigger score. A dish with one technique is worth a possible 10 points per judge. A dish with 5 techniques is worth a possible 50 points per judge, and so on.
Here were the eligible techniques:
Dehydration
Spherification
Foams
Flash Freezing
Carbonation
Gels
Smoke Infusion
Powderizing
Sous Vide
Compression
Here were the final scores:
Buddha 710
Cara 659
Chris 595
Katie 493
Matt 448
Keith 421
Beverly 362
Who lost the elimination challenge on America's Culinary Cup tonight?
Beverly Kim, who had been voted by the other chefs as most likely to win last week, was done in by this commandment.
"This commandment was crazy, I guess it got the best of me," Beverly said, crying. "I was kind of in the zone and I got lost in it. I feel this last seven weeks, I've grown as a chef and I've also grown as a person. I'm less afraid to be myself. Just because the chapter is ending here doesn't mean my book won't continue to go forward."
America's Culinary Cup airs Wednesday nights at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Streams next day on Paramount+.
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This story was originally published April 15, 2026 at 10:30 PM.