Top Chef Suomi
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Pia Kämppi
Hans Välimäki
| Top Chef Suomi | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Pipsa Hurmerinta Pia Kämppi Hans Välimäki |
| Country of origin | Finland |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | TBA |
| Running time | 45 min (excluding commercials) |
| Original release | |
| Network | Sub |
| Release | January 26, 2011 – present |
Top Chef Suomi is a Finnish cooking reality show on Sub based on the American television series Top Chef. Auditions for the series were held in autumn 2010 and 12 contestants were chosen. The programme is hosted by model and restaurant chef Pipsa Hurmerinta [1] The head judge for the competition is Finland's most renowned chef Hans Välimäki.[2] The other judge is business group manager of Royal Ravintolat Pia Kämppi.[1] Top Chef season 5 runner up Stefan Richter has made an appearance as a special guest judge for the first four episodes.[1] The show is produced by Solar Television Oy. The show is renewed for a second season, which is expected to premiere in either fall 2011 or in spring 2012.
The winner of Top Chef Suomi Akseli Herlevi received a culinary travel grant to top restaurants worldwide worth €10,000, a contract for a cookbook with the publishing company Tammi, a Samsung flatscreen TV and home entertainment system worth €8,000.
12 chefs competed in the first season. Names, ages, and hometowns below are from the Sub website. In elimination order, the contestants were:
- Mic Vettenranta 33 — Resides in: Helsinki
- Bianca McKell 32 — Resides in: Helsinki
- Jussi Raunio 22 — Resides in: Espoo
- Ulla Liukkonen 54 — Resides in: Lappeenranta
- Jani Pajala 34 — Resides in: Helsinki
- Arto Lappalainen 23 — Resides in: Tampere
- Markus Kauppinen 28 — Resides in: Helsinki
- Maija Silvennoinen 49 — Resides in: Kangasala
- Annina Roiha 22 — Resides in: Simpele/Helsinki
- Mika Jokela 40 — Resides in: Turenki
- Samu Koskinen 39 — Resides in: Helsinki
- Akseli Herlevi 24 — Resides in: Hyvinkää
Contestant progress
| Episode | 1 | 2 | 3 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 2 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quickfire Winner |
Arto | Akseli | Maija | Samu | Mika | Markus Mika Samu |
NONE | Annina | Mika | NONE | |
| Akseli | IN | IN | IN (+) | WIN | HIGH | HIGH | LOW | WIN | HIGH | WINNER | |
| Samu | HIGH | WIN | IN (-) | IN | HIGH | WIN | LOW | IN | WIN | RUNNER UP | |
| Mika | IN | HIGH | IN (-) | LOW | IN | IN | WIN 3 | LOW | OUT | ||
| Annina | WIN | IN | IN (+) | IN | LOW | LOW | WIN 3 | HIGH | OUT | ||
| Maija | HIGH | LOW | IN (-) | LOW | IN | HIGH | WIN 3 | OUT | |||
| Markus | IN | LOW | WIN | IN | WIN | LOW | OUT | ||||
| Arto | IN | IN | IN (-) | HIGH | LOW | OUT | |||||
| Jani | LOW | HIGH | IN (+) | HIGH | OUT | ||||||
| Ulla | IN | IN | IN (+) | OUT | |||||||
| Jussi | LOW | IN | OUT | ||||||||
| Bianca | IN | OUT | |||||||||
| Mic | OUT | ||||||||||
- (WINNER) The chef won the season and was crowned Top Chef.
- (RUNNER-UP) The chef was a runner-up for the season.
- (WIN) The chef won that episode's Elimination Challenge.
- (HIGH) The chef was selected as one of the top entries in the Elimination Challenge, but did not win.
- (LOW) The chef was selected as one of the bottom entries in the Elimination Challenge, but was not eliminated.
- (OUT) The chef lost that week's Elimination Challenge and was out of the competition.
- (IN) The chef neither won nor lost that week's Elimination Challenge. They also were not up to be eliminated.
- IN (+) The chef won a pair or team challenge but was not chosen as one of the judges' favorites.
- IN (-) The chef lost a pair or team challenge but was not selected as one of the judges' least favorites.