The Best Episode of "Chopped" Gives Leftovers a New Life — Food TV

What would you do with the food scraps that someone left behind? I'm talking about the piece of pizza with a bite haphazardly torn off before it was sent to coagulate in the fridge. The takeout packets of soy sauce scattered across a stranger's coffee table. A pile of oily fries, stiffening in the glow of a refrigerator light.

In "We Love Leftovers," episode five from season 17 of Chopped, contestants face a pile of mismatched leftovers. A wedge of German chocolate cake cozies up to a container of leftover chili. Old corn on the cob bumps up against half a pitcher of sangria. Four chefs are given three challenges where they are expected to transform leftovers into something that shines in presentation, taste, and creativity.

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