GRCC culinary professor wins ‘Supermarket Stakeout’ on Food stuff Community, pockets $10,000

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A growing chef from West Michigan is $10,000 richer right after just lately profitable an episode of the television demonstrate ‘Supermarket Stakeout,’ which is broadcast nationally on the Food stuff Community.

Jenn Fillenworth, who is a registered dietitian, individual chef and adjunct teacher with Grand Rapids Neighborhood College’s Secchia Institute for Culinary Education, suggests she was to start with contacted by Meals Network producers in in late 2019 about getting a contestant on the clearly show.

“I was involved in a serious car or truck incident before long following they contacted me,” mentioned Fillenworth, who also writes the “Jenny with the Fantastic Eats” website.

Fillenworth broke her again in the accident. She essential medical procedures, then endured what seemed like countless rehabilitation, which lasted much more than a yr.

She reported the show’s producers reached again out to her once more in spring 2020, featuring her the opportunity all over again.

“Fortunately, they remembered me,” claimed Fillenworth, who not long ago grew to become executive chef at Root Farmacy Cafe, situated in East Hills. “But suitable all around the time [the producers] contacted me, COVID-19 hit, forcing everything to be shutdown.”

The Meals Network provides ‘Supermarket Stakeout’ in a grocery retailer parking large amount in Los Angeles, CA. Jenn was explained to that generation would begin on Year 3 of the display in mid-October, with security actions for the pandemic in place.

“I had to signal a non-disclosure agreement, meaning I couldn’t notify any person what I was performing,” explained Fillenworth. “All of Period 3 was shot in a single working day.”

Each and every episode of ‘Supermarket Stakeout’ starts with 4 cooks who have to generate dishes from groceries they purchase from shoppers at a nearby grocery store with a funds of $500 each individual with the final chef successful a prize of $10,000. 

In each individual spherical, a general sort of dish is assigned for the chefs to produce. They have 45 minutes to get ingredients and put together, prepare dinner, and plate a few servings (one for each and every decide and a third “magnificence plate”). 

The judges assess the dishes on flavor, presentation, and how carefully they adhere to the concept of the round. The chef whose dish is judged the minimum satisfactory is eliminated from the competitors and ought to forfeit his/her remaining revenue. Right after the third spherical, the last remaining chef has his/her cash complete improved to $10,000.

“We practically ambushed the keep shoppers as they left the keep,” claimed Fillenworth. “Typically instances, more than one chef would method a shopper, creating a bidding war for their cart of groceries.”

The episode in which Fillenworth competed aired Tuesday, Jan. 19 at 10:00 p.m. EST. The theme was, “Greek, Sweet & Open-confronted Eats.”

Inspite of some problems, Fillenworth passed muster with the judges following equally the first and second rounds, location up a battle in the Finals against chef Julie Liebhoff, who is a previous Meals Network champion.

“We experienced to do open up confronted sandwiches in the last round,” mentioned Fillenworth. “As I was searching at the carts coming out, I seriously thought of flatbread.”

Fillenworth scarcely had any of her $500 still left, but she managed to buy 5 elements from consumers, making it possible for her to make flatbread.

The judges favored Fillenworth’s flatbread better than her opposition’s dish, and declared her the episode’s winner.

“I started off crying,” reported Fillenworth. “It was these kinds of a excellent minute for the reason that of all the rehabbing I did all through the 12 months.

“I was there to just take threats, so I did it.”

Fillenworth claims Food Community producers have once more reached out to her, asking yourself if she’d like to return and defend her title. She claims she’s particular she will.

Once the pandemic is above, Fillenworth says she options to devote her $10,000 traveling abroad.

If you missed the ‘Supermarket Stakeout’ episode Jenn Fillenworth was featured in, it truly is re-airing on the Foodstuff Community on Sunday, Jan. 24, at 2 p.m. EST.

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