Longtime judge Aarón Sánchez revealed two of Chopped’s worst secret ingredients, and I can’t say I was surprised to see that one of them is durian.
Having both smelled the Southeast Asian fruit in person and seen the chefs’ reactions when they encounter it on Chopped, I can safely say that I would never order a dish with it in it!
While some ingredients are normal and what you might expect to find in a professionally cooked dish, like the silken tofu and tomatillos mentioned by Ted Allen, other ingredients are completely out of place and sometimes even gross.