Celina Tio cooks her way through the competition on The Next Iron Chef

The garage doors with knives have sealed for a second time and chef Celina Tio is among the eight chefs who get to continue to compete to become The Next Iron Chef. She garnered high praise for her entries in the coffee-and-doughnuts challenge and the reinvention of a diner classic challenge on last night’s episode. The theme was innovation, and — as the judges discovered —Tio is never short on ideas.