Chef Camille Le Caer and his French cuisine are back on TV in a new show that is being billed as “one of the most ambitious culinary experiments ever imagined.”
Le Caer is a contestant on “24 In 24: Last Chef Standing,” a show where endurance and stamina are nearly as important as culinary skills.
Twenty-four chefs from all over the country compete in 24 consecutive challenges for 24 hours, until only one chef is left. The first episode of the eight-episode series debuted at 8 p.m. Sunday on Food Network and the streaming platform Max.
Not all chefs will have the chance to compete in 24 challenges. In fact, half of the contestants are eliminated halfway through the first episode. But Le Caer persevered during a battle of the chicken dishes. However, a simple side salad may be his downfall.
Le Caer faced a “room of rock stars,” as one contestant described it, in the premier episode. His opponents included a multi-time James Beard semifinalist; a chef who also runs marathons; winners of other televised cooking challenges; and chefs who run popular restaurants in their respective cities.
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Camille Le Caer stoked local pride in quarantined Buffalonians in late April when the self-titled “Frenchie” conquered “Guy’s Grocery Games” on the Food Network. The 26-year-old native of Brittany, France, who opened Pastry By Camille on Hertel Avenue in 2018, showcased his vibrant personality at times in the egg-focused contest – he mimicked “Salt Bae” with his egg-cracking –
Taking on Philadelphia chef Chad Rosenthal in a battle of who-can-make-the-better-chicken-breast, Le Caer chose to cook his chicken into a flakey phyllo dough roll served with miso sake dipping sauce.
Rosenthal, meanwhile, was preparing a fried chicken dish that he knew to be successful, as he used the same recipe to beat celebrity chef Bobby Flay during a previous cooking competition.
Rosenthal was confident, which, in the world of reality TV, usually foreshadows trouble.
“I’m going to give these young bucks a run for their money,” Rosenthal said. “I’ve got this.”
Channeling his best “Game of Thrones gladiator,” Le Caer showed no hint he was intimidated.
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“Let’s get it, baby,” Le Caer said.
When expert judge Jet Tila came around to settle Le Caer v. Rosenthal, he voted in favor of Buffalo, thanks in part to Rosenthal’s “dry” chicken.
Buoyed by his win, and the fact that the number of contestants had been halved, Le Caer started to feel confident as he faced the next challenge to make the best egg-based dish he could within 12 minutes.
Le Caer chose to whip up scrambled eggs the French way, “generous and light,” topped with caviar, chopped chives and fried croutons. He paired it all with a simple side salad, flavored with olive oil, salt and pepper.
“Winning that first head-to-head battle makes me feel that I have a place in this competition,” Le Caer said.
As Le Caer folded and whipped his eggs in a mixing bowl, co-host Esther Choi called his technique “very specific.”
“If you can pull that off, I’m going to use that technique,” Choi said.
Looking up from his plating, Le Caer winked to the camera.
Judge Tila called Le Caer’s eggs “custardy,” “very French” and “very decadent,” but was unimpressed with his side salad and, overall, wished both dishes were seasoned more.
Pastry by Camille will not reopen. Three weeks after bakery owner Camille Le Caer was on television winning an episode of “Guy’s Grocery Games,” he announced on social media that his Hertel Avenue restaurant-café would stay dark. The French-born Le Caer noted that he’s been working in restaurants and bakeries over the last 11 years, opening his own place
It is not Le Caer’s first rodeo when it comes to televised cooking challenges. The French-born chef, who has called Buffalo home for nearly a decade, has competed on “Chopped” and won Guy Fieri’s “Guy’s Grocery Games.” Le Caer operated his own restaurant on Hertel Avenue, Pastry by Camille, from 2018 to 2020. Since then, he has worked as a private chef.
Episode one ends on a cliffhanger.
The two chefs whose 12-minute egg dishes ranked at the bottom will compete in a sudden-death competition at the start of the next episode, which airs Sunday. Will that include Le Caer? Will he make it all the way to the end and win $50,000? Will he get the final rose?
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