Taste Test

“This round is “Taste Test”. One of the key skills of a great partner is being able to cook yummy dishes for your love, so now we get to see who the best chef is out of all of you!”, Becky announced.

Each of you will cook one starter, one main, and one desert big enough for all of us from the ingredients available here. You can’t use any recipe books, so you’ll have to cook from your memory or from your heart”, Darnell added.

“You’ll each try a little from each dish and mark it’s quality out of 10. The winner will get 100 points, second 95, third 90, and so on and so forth. You have three hours starting from now, so happy cooking!”, Becky iterated.

The ingredient list was boundless, and luckily Devin knew how to cook a few dishes, deciding on a lasagne starter, chicken cordon bleu main, and Alabama chocolate fudge cake for afters.

As the kitchen bustled with the chefs moving from ingredient store to station around each other, Devin got a taste of the daily plights of women as he encountered the casual contact of a man touching his body as he moved past, freaking out turning bright red and having to resist the urge to batter Rufus when he touched Devin’s arm as he went past.

What was even more infuriating was Jenson, Trey and especially Patrick placing their hands lower and lower down on his body, and ‘accidentally’ brushing his hips and rear, and although Devin’s reactions became less severe as he concentrated on the competition, he made his dislike obvious as he jerked away from them.

Devin was in his element, effortlessly mixing and rolling and cooking, but others were having much less luck.

He could see that Stacey, stationed next to him, was having great difficulty in trying to cook, and was getting visibly upset.

Devin, pitying the bimbo and thinking it couldn’t hurt to surreptitiously help, stealthily got her attention while avoiding the watchful eye of the hosts, and whispered hints and tips to Stacey, who followed them eagerly.

Devin got so into helping Stacey that he even burned his lasagne a little, but not too badly.

At the end of the three hours, after all the food had been prepared, the contestants and hosts each tried a bit of each of the dishes and gave them a score on a touch pad, and with the sampling over, the creators of each dish and their scores were revealed.

Devin came in a respectable fifth place, his choice of dishes being popular with the men, and to nobody’s surprise, the motherly Rebecca came in first place.

Devin’s assistance had pulled off, and Stacey came in tenth.

What was troubling to Devin though was a comment he overheard Trey saying to Jenson: “We sure Davina’s a girl? Cuz she walks like a dude, talks like a dude, plays volleyball like a dude, and fuckin’ cooks like a dude”.