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Season five of Top Chef may have just finished, but the drama is just beginning to brew between runner-up Carla Hall and season three runner-up, Casey Thompson.

In the season five finale, Casey lent Carla a hand in the kitchen as her sous-chef. But at judge’s table, it was Casey’s influences that placed Carla as the third runner-up.

Casey’s influences led Carla to sous vide her beef, and trade in a cheese tartlet for a cheese souffle.

While the judge’s pointed fingers at Carla for relying too much on Casey’s suggestions, Carla did step up to the plate and fess up to her mistakes.

All seemed to end well, when Hosea Rosenberg was declared the winner, but now, Casey is sounding off.

The enraged chef told Side Dish magazine, “Carla was not prepared and in over her head. The show did not talk about how the first course (crab) took her half of the friggin’ cooking time that day, I was left to work the rest of HER dishes.”

“The ONLY thing she had in mind was a cheese course! I would NEVER do a cheese course. And where in the hell did french come from!? She is not even classically trained! It (the show) didn’t talk about how I worked on a sauce for 2 days and Carla forgot to put it on the plate.”

A clearly upset Casey added that viewers at home did not get a correct idea of what really went down in the kitchen:

“It didn’t show how the 2nd course (fish) was MINE. It didn’t show how she took the sous vide idea and decided to GRILL it last minute causing it to be tough… And it didn’t show how she WANTED to do the souffles which she does not even know how to make!”

“That was HER food, because it certainly was me asking her how she wanted to do this and that while she was busy picking crab the entire time and making a souffle that didn’t rise!”

As for what may or may not have happened, Top Chef judge Toby Young tells CelebTV.com exclusively: “It’s a pretty shocking rant. The judges don’t see what goes on behind the scenes, so I don’t know if what she says is true.”

Either way, it doesn’t look like Top Chef addicts will be seeing much more of Casey. She tells Side Dish, “I am done with TC. I did not influence her. She has NO ideas of her own, oh, except a cheese course.”