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The next day, back in the kitchen, Cosentino explains what his last two dishes will be. His letter to himself will be represented by the dish he'd most like to eat as his last meal, a sunny side up fried egg with poached oysters and blood sausage.
"I call it my last supper because this is something that I truly wanna eat before I die," he asserts.
Blood sausage is a very serious process, he explains, and it's tense in the kitchen as he and Wrembel get to making them. They make 36 of them and 20 start to pop out of their casings when frying in a skillet. Cosentino hopes he hasn't chosen the wrong dish and that he'll have enough. He reveals that his family founded Newport, Rhode Island and with them came making sausage; that's why it's one of his favorite things to do in the kitchen.
Cosentino's wife is also going to get the apology letter, which will be a pork and scallop dish -- her favorite proteins.
"I love my wife so much and I work so damn much. I don't get to be the best husband in the world or the best father, so this is an apology letter. it's something that would really make her happy."
The judges for the finale are all food critics, which makes the challenge that much more tense. The first courses come out -- Cosentino's beef heart tartare versus Heffernan's scallop and spot prawn jjigae, a Korean stew.
Judge Krista Simmons loves Cosentino's presentation: "It's like a steampunk version of steak tartare," she offers.
Stone admires the balls it took to serve raw heart. "I can't believe he did it!"
Back in the kitchen, Cosentino is struggling a bit with his second course. He calls it a "shitshow" and says they were too complacent with how easily the first course went.
