Comments from the judges ( Gordon Ramsay, Aarón Sánchez, and Joe Bastianich)

Charles: "To hear that I am in the bottom three is very disappointing. I didn't know that it was wrong for me to put raw white wine in my dish, but I must own up to it and learn from my mistakes. Today I made a pan seared red snapper with apple and potato scales and a white wine applesauce. And then I put some jalapenos in there for color."

Judges

"This looks all kind of wrong. All right. The idea of white wine, apple, and jalapeno, and then you just told me jalapeno is for color. Think about how that sounds."

"More than that, the only place for unrendered white wine is in your glass while you're drinking and cooking. This is, like, the basics. These are the mistakes that when you come and present yourself at MasterChef, you can't make."

"Here's the good news. Fish is cooked beautifully, but the puree does not work. It's a shame because you've got the technical flair, but you just didn't execute it properly."

"It's almost like a tale of two dishes, because the potato crusted fish is actually quite good, but you committed some major errors in technique and the basic principles and rules of cooking."