I agree on the masks. I appreciate the sentiment of the episode, but it all felt forced to me, as do most of the cause challenges. It was a good reminder of how bad things were 6-7 months ago, but with everything opening up now, and people trying to get back to a state of normalcy, it fell a little flat for me. That's one of the perils of including current events in something that won't be seen for several months.
We are really starting to see separation among the remaining chefs, with the same suspects routinely showing up in the top and the bottom. I like Avashar, but I wasn't surprised to see him eliminated. As I noted earlier, he just doesn't have the experience needed to be consistently good at the challenges. He has good ideas, but can't always execute them.
They may not be the next to go, depending on whether the others cook to their potential, but I'm not expecting Maria and Chris to be around much longer unless they have some sort of epiphany.
I think any of the other remaining chefs are talented enough to make it to the end, but my current final 3 are:
Gabe
Sara
Dawn
I know, I'm really going out on a limb there.