Coming to the teams, I’m not surprised hardly anyone wanted to be in Priyanka’s team, especially after last week. Only the boys (except Avinash) were in her team. It was sweet of Kamaldeep and Suvarna to switch.
Priya was very clear in her thoughts and had distributed her team accordingly - 2 people for each course, and then of course if time permits others could help around. Everybody seemed to understand their job and there was no chaos - except for when they realized they had missing ingredients.
Priyanka on the other hand repeated her mistakes from last time and didn’t distribute the work well. Everybody was doing everything. So much so that at one point Sachin left strawberries on the gas and went to the grill. She should’ve put a few people in charge of each course. Also, her team was self managing, I didn’t see her manage her team.
Forgetting ingredients - I understand it’s a pressure situation and you only get 5 minutes to pick up ingredients for many dishes you don’t even know the exact recipe for (your teammate makes dishes too). I can imagine missing out small (though vital) ingredients like yeast and cardamom and even vanilla essence. But Priyanka forgot mutton for the kibbeh. That to me was extremely careless. Also, I liked how Aruna came forth to barter ingredients, nobody from the blue team was bothered with missing ingredients it seemed. Although, if I were Priyanka I wouldn’t have given away my ingredients (she could manage without vanilla essence and found an alternate to mutton). This is a competition and at this stage helping the other team with ingredients, could be digging your own grave (which clearly was the case, as we’ve figured out from the promos).
We also saw clashes between Suvarna and Kamaldeep, and the captain was nowhere around. According to the precap there will be two mishaps tomorrow both with the blue team. Clearly, Priyanka isn’t a leader. I’m sure both Suvarna and Kamaldeep must be cursing themselves for having chosen to switch to Priyanka’s team.
The yellow team did have Avinash goof up on the grill, I mean it’s common sense that the grill won’t be evenly hot. And that if you put your fish on the cold grill, without even seasoning it with oil, once it starts to warm up your fish (or meat) will stick. I’d like to see how he recovers from that.
Im not sure Priya is a great captain, but she has a great team, who know how to work together. They’re fine with minimum supervision (which we also saw the last time when Aruna was captain - and had almost the same team, barring Shanta who was in the opposite team).