Steve Redzikowski runs OAK at Fourteenth in Boulder, where his menu has been quietly excellent for over a decade. He competed against Bobby with his brother Brian on a tag-team episode called "Oh Brother," and the brothers brought Asian dumplings — which, for a pair of chefs whose primary cuisine is American-with-wood-fire, was a flex move.
The dumplings were thin-skinned, evenly pleated, and served in a brown butter and soy reduction that crossed cuisines in a way the judges had not been expecting. Bobby's dumplings, per the broadcast, had "thick skin." Thick-skinned dumplings are dumplings that are still raw when the filling is done. The Redzikowskis brought the right physics. Bobby did not.