Jewish cooking on Beat Bobby Flay is mostly matzo ball soup. Three of the four wins in this chapter are matzo ball wins.
The thing about matzo ball soup is that schmaltz — rendered chicken fat — has a different fat-crystal structure than vegetable oil. Floaters require schmaltz. Floaters also require separating the eggs and whipping the whites to soft peaks, a step most cooks skip.
Four times, Bobby met a chef who had not skipped a step his grandmother would have called him out on.