Episode Title:
A Midsummer Christmas.
Episode Description:
The Book Master declares that the third challenge will be to impress three of the WGO's top judges. The Noir Chefs Sarge, Marcanta, Claude Ville, and Bunny Hare, who specialize in extremely unconventional but effective methods of cooking unique to themselves, easily pass. Many of the regular chefs are intimidated by the skill the Noir chefs present, but Soma, Megumi, Takumi, and Tsukasa easily pass as well. Erina meanwhile takes on the losers of the third challenge in another gauntlet. With the preliminary challenges completed, the competition transitions into a conventional tournament, with Soma being matched against Sarge in the first round with the theme being to bake a Christmas cake. Sarge uses a combination of a chainsaw, sledgehammer, and explosives to bake a Cluster Bomb Cake, which creates explosions of flavor in the mouth of anybody who eats it. Soma responds by obtaining a number of convenience store ingredients and an wooden ice cream spoon and using them to create his Midsummer Christmas Cake, which he presents to the judges.
