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New duel with old acquaintance: Tim Mälzer opens the doors of the pop-up delivery service and faces the duel with his former delivery service holiday representative: Max Strohe! The Berlin star chef knows what challenge he is up for – but can he beat Tim Mälzer in his hometown?
In the middle of downtown Hamburg, Mälzer & Strohe’s delivery service is once again offering free home deliveries. Based on anonymous tips, both chefs cook different dishes against each other in several rounds, which then have to be served out personally. Neither Tim nor Max knows who is behind the orders. Their dishes are each rated with up to five stars and the chef who has collected more stars at the end of the day wins. The loser, on the other hand, is punished appropriately by the winner.
Even with the first clue photo there is disagreement between Tim and Max: Max suspects there are children among the five customers, Tim probably doesn’t. Both of them first dedicate themselves to dessert when the cell phone rings. The orderers offer to be available to answer questions from the chefs via chat message. This has never happened before! But because the first answers aren’t informative enough for them, they stop the conversation and boil over into the dark. Is that a good idea? Cooking blind? Max serves a family-friendly lasagne, while Tim prepares, among other things, an original version of sauerkraut with fish. The chat partner is actually twelve-year-old Elli, who ordered the delivery service together with her family. Tim and Max find out how well they tasted in the first evaluation of the day.
The second order also begins with ambiguous photo references. Tim and Max first suspect a laboratory, then a wine shop and finally a culinary factory. One thing is clear: the customers want a “quick and dirty” lunch dish, for which they provide the chefs with their favorite spices. Contrary to the task at hand, both chefs feel required to process all three spices significantly, which puts both of them under a lot of pressure because of the time limit of 25 minutes. The six employees of a spice factory actually receive three different dishes from both chefs. The question remains whether this menu can also convince in terms of taste.
As soon as the second delivery was handed over, the cell phone rang before the return journey. Another customer asks Tim and Max to pick up a box that has been provided. This box turns out to be a well-filled bread box that the chefs take with them to the delivery service. As soon as you walk through the door, the person who orders the item comes back and asks for creative sandwiches for two people. As the cooking progresses, it becomes clear that it is not just a master baker who is ordering here, but Hamburg’s only bread sommelier. Although Tim chooses bread from his own warehouse for the sweet version and not from the bread box provided, both of them put in the work and deliver a real fireworks display of sandwich art. But can the bread and topping pairing also make the expert and his equally experienced partner completely happy? And what effect does it have that Tim didn’t exclusively use the specified bread?
In the delivery service, Tim and Max are waiting for the next order, but instead of a photo, the monitor shows a moving image. Delivery service regular Steven Gätjen responds via video message – surprisingly not with an order, but to say thank you. It doesn’t just stop at spoken thanks, because Steven also sent over two pairs of helping hands. Multi-restaurateur Fabio Haebel and star chef Christoph Rüffer enter the delivery service to help one of the two duelists in the next round.
This is also new: for the first time there will be a round of two against two. Stacked plates and cups in the clue photo initially leave the four chefs in the dark. It becomes no less confusing when the countdown shows 00:00 and after an audible (kick-off) whistle suddenly starts going up instead of down. Tim still turns up the volume while Christoph Rüffer works with concentration. Meanwhile, Max tries to come up with a plan together with Fabio Haebel.
Only the later information with the keywords half-time and starting eleven brings clarity. Apparently the cooking is for football fans or football players. From Königsberger Klopsen to Asian rice and asparagus to chocolate mousse, a colorful bouquet of dishes ends up in the black delivery box. The delivery was eagerly received by eleven players from FC St. Pauli’s fifth men’s team. After the exit to the Millerntorstadion, Tim and Max are eagerly awaiting the evaluation of this two-on-two round.
The fifth, final and crucial order arrives – and makes the cooks tense. Two customers want their Eastern European home cuisine, but vegan. A big challenge that Tim and Max have to face here. The task doesn’t get any easier when it becomes clear that, as food photographers and food stylists, the customers also have a professional connection to the aesthetics of the food. As if all of this wasn’t enough, singer Aki Bosse also asks for the last dance and offers a serenade on the guitar in exchange for a warm meal. Because Bosse was just around the corner from his guitar teacher. Tim in particular is happy about the distraction from the challenging order and so in the end not only bosses but also the two orderers can be supplied as desired. In the all-important evaluation, the question now arises as to which chef has captured the Eastern European cuisine better and can thus secure overall victory.
Although both chefs almost wish for a therapy session at the end of an intense and emotional day, only the loser has to face the unpleasant questions about his own failure. In the “Receipt of the Day” the winner takes on the role of the therapist and “helps” the loser with the self-critical processing. (Text: VOX)