The overall effect of two dozen people in the middle of a town square trying to cook three dishes apiece over open flames and portable stoves is, as one might expect, rather disorderly.  It does not take long for someone to splatter their neighbor with hot grease, or for someone else to set their sleeves aflame, or the like.  The crowd, deprived of any possibility of actually enjoying the results, openly jeers all spills and mishaps with great enthusiasm.<br/><br/>Two contestants are disqualified after brawling over bowl of ingredients, each insisting that the other has stolen it.  This is more than amusing to the crowd...but not the Duke, who has both men thrown into the punishment tubes for 'interfering with the aesthetic purity of his contest'.<br/><br/>And then, finally, the time comes to compare results...