In “Going Global,” Tini is tasked with making paella — a Spanish rice, seafood, and vegetable dish that can be tricky for even the most talented chef to master. What’s worse — Tine has no idea where to start.
In an exclusive clip obtained by Distractify, Tine expresses her frustrations to a Next Level Chef mentor. “I got paella and I don’t know what paella is,” she tells Gordon nervously.
Tini tells him while she “was never a good student,” she eventually discovered her love for culinary arts, which for her, has been life-changing.
“I was always getting bad grades … and then I found cooking and it changed everything,” Tine adds in the clip. With 3 million followers on the app, Tini is pretty poppin’ on TikTok. However, her rise to popularity didn’t come without criticism and “straight hate.”
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“Everyone's like ‘You can't cook,’ but I just cook with my heart,” she says.
Gordon debunks her doubts with a few words of encouragement. “Listen, those comments … never, ever ever give them a second of your valuable time like that. OK?”
With this, Tini is back in the game, and from the looks of it, she might just make it to the finals. Find out who goes home next on new episodes of Next Level Chef Thursdays at 9 p.m. EST on FOX.
