The tight taste competition between the challenger chef and the original chef ended in a tie again.

On the 6th episode of the JTBC entertainment program ‘Please Take Care of My Refrigerator’ (abbreviated as Naengbuhae) that aired on the 26th, the second revenge match between the challenger chef and the original chef using ingredients from the refrigerators of guests IVE Jang Won-young and Lee Eun-ji ended in a 2-2 tie.

In Jang Won-young‘s hope dish theme, ‘It’s Totally Feel-Good’, Choi Hyun-seok defeated Kwon Sung-jun, giving the original chef team 1 point. The match between Sam Kim and Son Jong-won, who presented a 15-minute fine dining under the theme of ‘Hold Your Breath and Love Dining’, continued as a 1-on-1 battle with challenger chef Son Jong-won winning.

Next, Lee Eun-ji‘s refrigerator was full of spoiled or expired items, drawing attention. In particular, the scene where Choi Hyun-seok gives advice while looking at the state of the refrigerator and Lee Eun-ji responds to him was entertaining.

In addition, in ‘Please Take Care of My Refrigerator’, Choi Kang-rok, who has the slowest hands, goes up against Lee Yeon-bok, who has the fastest hands, raising the level of interest. Choi Kang-rok cooked the oil-braised dish ‘I’m a Braised Food Person’ without using the challenger benefit, using a whopping 3 burners and finishing the food faster than Lee Yeon-bok. On the other hand, Lee Yeon-bok captured both speed and stability with ‘Han Jjang Hae’, which is steamed meat covered in seasoned rice flour and served with sauce.

The two dishes each had different charms that made people want to drink soju, deepening Lee Eun-ji‘s dilemma. Lee Eun-ji chose Lee Yeon-bok as the winner, saying, “If you assume that you have to eat only one thing after work, wouldn’t it be possible to eat it a little spicier in your tiring life?”. With this, the original chef team gained one point, and Choi Kang-rok became the protagonist of a three-peat.


The showdown between Lee Yeon-bok‘s true disciple Ji-seon Jeong and ‘black market disciple’ Kim Poong was unpredictable. Jung Ji-sun failed to adjust the consistency of the dough made by grinding tteokbokki and it didn’t cook well, so he tried again but encountered an unexpected situation where the pancakes tore.

Kim Poong, who bravely stepped forward with the beloved frying pan that Kwon Sung-joon had transferred, prepared onion pickles using pickle water, not knowing Lee Eun-ji‘s taste who doesn’t like pickle water, and the seasoning sauce for fried pig‘s feet received harsh criticism from Ahn Jung-hwan, who was there for the mid-term inspection. He even made me burst into laughter by making the onion pickles in the frying pan as soon as the end time was approaching.

However, Lee Eun-ji gave favorable reviews to not only Jung Ji-sun’s ‘Yeop-tteok-gimbap’ but also Kim Poong‘s ‘Jokkin-jo-ne’, which showed a different taste from the cooking process that made her anxious. Lee Eun-ji, who raised the hand of challenger chef Jung Ji-sun, said, “I wanted to try it once. “I think the recipe is easy to make, so it might be easy for single-person households to approach,” he explained.

Meanwhile, Jang Won-young, who dreamed of becoming an announcer when she was young, appeared as a ‘relay fairy’ on the showdown that day. While relaying the match between Choi Kang-rok and Lee Yeon-bok, Jang Won-young caught attention with her honest expressions of taste, lively energy, and use of a selfie camera as if she were filming a vlog. The ‘fantastic chemistry’ between Choi Kang-rok, an introvert who finds Lee Eun-ji, the queen of tension, annoying, also repeatedly made viewers laugh.

Hong Se-young, Donga.com reporter, projecthong@donga.com

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