While some judges demand inventive, next-level variations on a classic dish, Cutthroat Kitchen judges are indeed pleased to see chefs' traditional takes, as one-third of the panel's judging criteria is whether an offering is indicative of the original recipe. So then what's so difficult about cooking in this evilicious arena? The sabotages, of course. On tonight's brand-new episode, host Alton Brown auctioned off a trio of oddball pans that would make prepping a seemingly simple dish — a toad-in-the-hole — anything but straightforward. But before the contest, the Cutthroat culinary crew attempted to turn out this egg-in-bread breakfast treat using all three pans to make sure it was indeed doable within the allotted time.

As food stylist Jamie Peterson introduced the three pans up for testing today — the bumpy pan, the mushroom-shaped pan and the holey pan — he noted that they were collectively "horrendous pans." And just after plopping an egg into the bread hole on the bumpy pan, he admitted, "Oh, that's a problem." The whites managed to ooze out from under the slice of bread and run along the valleys of the pan. The mushroom-shaped pan had no trouble heating up quickly, and once Jamie steadied the bread along its domed top, the egg was nearly fully contained to the hole. Given the multiple holes in the third pan, Jamie was sure to heat it, then turn off the flames before cooking the bread and egg to avoid torching them directly — and aside from some slippage, his technique was successful.

Click the play button on the video above to watch Jamie work with all three pans, and find out what he called "a big-boy moment" while trying to execute a particularly important step in the test.

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