Jason Smith is a Food Network personality and a judge on multiple Food Network shows. He is also, on the matter of pastry, more serious than his television persona suggests — he won Holiday Baking Championship in 2015 and Food Network Star in 2017, both on the strength of desserts the judges could not stop talking about.
He brought a hazelnut tart against a man who has, on the public record, admitted he does not love pastry. The hazelnut frangipane was textbook: butter creamed with sugar, ground hazelnuts folded in, the whole thing baked into a pâte sucrée that had been chilled twice. Bobby's tart, per the room, had a crust that "didn't hold its edge." Pastry crust without a clean edge is a confession.