Worst TC mistakes that didn't send someone home?

I'm rewatching Season 13 right now and just finished Restaurant Wars. Somehow I had forgotten that it was Jeremy who made risotto with WATER. This seems so far beyond other mistakes, even other risotto mistakes, that I really can't believe he won he season. Like, have you never even eaten risotto before?

Phillip is my least favorite contestant of all time so I'm not sad to see him go, but I can't understand how anyone can take him seriously after he makes basically just bad rice. Is there anyone else in Top Chef history who won or even made it to finals after such an obvious error? I've seen so many posts frustrated with Dawn for leaving components off her plate, but this seems SO MUCH more basic and stupid than that. I was never super jazzed about Jeremy as a winner, but this fresh rewatch has my blood boiling.