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Petrozza's signature dish is filet mignon with carmelized onion risotto in a red-wine aged balsamic demi-glaze. Way to stick with the risotto, big boy! He even makes green onions into lame little paintbrushes. Christina, sticking with her cocky 'tude, says she will wipe the floor with Petrozza. She is making a NY strip steak with herbed butter, sweet corn succotash and roasted potatoes. Well sufferin' succotash! She's sure she has it in the bag because it's pretty and Petrozza's looks like slaw. What is WITH all the trash talking today, Miss Chrissy?

This challenge will take place in front of a crowd of fans and be judged by a panel of five of the best palates in the world -- All of Gordo's executive chefs from around the world. I must note that NONE OF THESE PEOPLE are former contestants on this show.

Mark Sargeant from Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's in London will taste first. He likes Petrozza's dish but thinks the paintbrush is dumb. He thinks Christina's dish is a touch bland, so he goes for Petrozza.

Next is Angela Hartnett from Cielo in Boca Raton. She finds Petrozza's dish a little too sweet. She doesn't like that Christina mixes vegetables from different seasons. And her meat is dry and could use a touch more salt. So that's another one for Petrozza.

Third is Stuart Gillies of London's Boxwood Café. He also finds Petrozza's dish too sweet and one-sided. Not enough flavor. He doesn't like Christina's use of potatoes. He chooses Christina.

Fourth is Simone Zanoni of Gordon Ramsay au Trianon in Versailles. He doesn't think that risotto and beef work together. Hmm. That's odd. Petrozza has another great one-liner and tells us, "Give me a break, ya ding dong!" He goes for Christina because he thinks the flavors work well.

Josh Emett is last for the deciding vote. He thinks Petrozza's risotto is a little too stiff and the meat could use some seasoning, but overall is nice. Christina smiles at Josh, trying to charm him, I believe. He thinks that Christina's dish is well seasoned. He says both dishes have good elements, but he loves onion risotto, so he chooses Petrozza. Yay! It's good to see him win one, isn't it? Christina offers a fake smile.

As a reward, Petrozza will get to pick the first chef while choosing teams from previous contestants this season. Christina says that regardless who he has on his team, Christina will still win because her menu is designed better.

Then Whoopi Goldberg comes out to wish them good luck. And I'm not even joking.

Petrozza and Christina are now back in LA and ready to see their restaurants as they designed them. Christina is not thrilled and watching her is like watching one of those spoiled, whiney crazies from "My Super Sweet Sixteen." She does not like the white window treatments or the striped wall paper. I agree that the stripes are uggers, but they are exactly what she picked out, so I'm not sure what her problem is. Petrozza's room has a lot of maroon and exposed brick, which is nice. But all the floral prints and flowers, I find really geriatric.

Now here's the funny part. The designer thinks that Petrozza's fire place juts out into the room too far, so he wants to take the center portion of the wall and push it into Christina's side. He thinks that offsetting it will provide more variety. Christina says it's fine, but she's in such a huff that I'm waiting for her to scream "DAAADDYYYY!" like the brats on the birthday show.

Christina tells the designer that she didn't know the wallpaper would be striped. Then they replay the footage of her saying that she prefers the stripes. He tells her that both the samples they looked at were striped. She says that it looks really ugly with the stripes and the white frames and the blue. She says that she had no idea that it would be striped.

The designer tells her they can paint over it. Ew, really? Paint over wallpaper? She wants the inside walls to be chocolate brown and the outsides to be latte for a contrast. She storms off and goes to bed because if she doesn't sleep, then they'll have a sucky kitchen.

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