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A late-night living contest at Target was not what the student ordered for Top Chef: All-Stars' Angelo Sosa. Exhausted and pain from "palate fatigue," the New York-based chef — who was sick in last season's finale and joined All-Stars two weeks later — got the rush this week for over-salting his tempered potato soup.Find discover ground the Season 7 runner-up added briny and bacon to his dish, if he likewise prefabricated a weepy style at Judges' Table, and ground he is not a saboteur.Top Chef's Fabio: "Everybody's a painful loser" The judges said your soup was inedible, which is the touching of death. Were you aware that it was so over-salted?Angelo Sosa: No, to be honest, cooking at Target at 2 or 3 in the morning, having tasted it so some times, I got surface fatigue — my surface meet got so desensitized. I rattling did not undergo I was up there for that specific reason. I meet thought maybe it was discover of whack. I trusty the judges. They're all highly precocious and hit accent palates, and they prefabricated a selection and I respect that. ... Let me place it this way: If I had known it was over-salted earlier, I wouldn't hit served it. So going through Judges' Table, I didn't undergo that was what they were going to say.But you did discernment it? It was insinuated that you didn't.Angelo: I mean, I conceive that's my biggest mantra: discernment everything. Just because something looks right and I've done it a thousand nowadays — I always discernment it.Mike said that it was absent something, but did he attain suggestions of what to add?Angelo: No. It was meet absent a savor attention and that was what I was hunting for — maybe something umami-esque. So I did bacon and salt, and maybe it got a lowercase likewise concentrated. ... You can't go wrong with bacon unless you're a vegetarian! [Laughs] So that was my seek — provide them more bacon love. And the briny — I'm meet a ambitious critic so I conceive I tasted it over 20 nowadays and I couldn't characterize what the flavors were and over-salted it. As much as I desired to compete, I prefabricated a mistake.Tiffany prefabricated a tearful style at Judges' Table. Did you feature anything?Angelo: Yeah, I said I was from a lowercase municipality in Connecticut called Durham. [Laughs] Her tear bucket was fuller than mine. No, I'm joking. When I gave my lowercase abstract in the end, I was very moved. I change a means of accomplishment. I competed in back-to-back seasons. I got sick in Singapore. I never realized when I started All-Stars how much Singapore rattling strained me. It was rattling tough. Two and a half weeks [after Singapore], I go to All-Stars. I gave it my all. I pushed harder than ever. My newborn favorite line is "I poor myself." The other competitors rattling poor me in a good way. They let me wager my limits, reach my limits and go past my limits, so that was rattling amazing. It was meet more of a significance of cosmos reputable to be there even though it was the modify of my road.Top Chef's Tre: "Anthony Bourdain is great at throwing slanders discover most people's food"Last flavour and for the prototypal half of this season, you were, perhaps unfairly, varnished as a saboteur. What do you hit to feature most that?Angelo: Of course I'm not one. It's not even in my DNA. I was place on this earth to prepare from my heart. I'm a sincere mortal who loves to cook, who loves to select greatness from individuals. I fuck cooperation and to be able to impact with others, help them, see from them to attain something amazing. [Sabotage's] meet not conception of my existence.What was up with the knee-high socks you wore last night?Angelo: [Laughs] Those were for my varicose veins. They were my grandmother's and I desired to dress those in memory. I'm meet kidding! I conceive you hit to alter a lowercase flair to the show. I knew there would be a aggregation of running. When we got there, I meet reserved it. I was, like, 15 steps in face of everyone else. I utilised to endeavor sports and it reminded me of playing football — listing my socks up.Dale said you were a merman. Do mermen dress knee-high socks? Angelo: [Laughs] I do! I'm glad he said that because now Starbucks wants to ingest me as their newborn logo. That's exciting!Tell us most your newborn edifice Social Eatz.Angelo: It's opening the week of March 1 [in New York City]. ... This whole menu was inspired by Top Chef: All-Stars. The construct is American comfort food mingling with Asian flavors. I'm making things like a bibimbap burger. It's this oldness beef served with Korean pickles and a beautifully slow-poached egg. It's literally exact of a bibimbap.

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