Episode 4 of Below Deck Sailing Yacht season 5 was released on October 28. In the latest segment, Chef Cloyce Martin served a cake ordered from the outside for a guest's birthday.
The said charter guest was turning 60 and had decided to celebrate her birthday on board, with the other guests. The chef was responsible for their meals as well as the birthday-appropriate dessert. He ordered a cake that looked like a loaf of bread and then microwaved it to make it more appetizing.
When he microwaved it, the cake fell apart on the counter and broke into pieces. Daisy, who was overlooking the whole thing called the cake "a pile of dog sh*t". Fans of Below Deck Sailing Yacht flocked to X to criticize Cloyce for ordering the cake from the outside.
"Use the microwaved disaster of a cake and make little handheld cake and ice cream flambé or something, then bake a cake while they party. I dunno, but that cake was atrocious!" said one fan.
"That's messed up serving a cake like that," another fan said.
"Wow. How is he going to save this cause that melted pile of crap is not a cake? Also if your going to buy a store-bought birthday cake why would you pick that? It’s like a loaf. Doesn’t look like a cake at all. Even if he didn’t melt it, it would look like crap," a third fan added.
"I am dying at their reaction to the cake; he royally messed up this time," another wrote.
Some fans of Below Deck Sailing Yacht were disappointed with the cake he selected because it didn't look appetizing to them.
"Wtfff kinda cake is that? Did Cloyce throw up on the plate and call it a day?" an X user wrote.
"That cake looks older than the guest. I just want to shove his face it like does this look like a fucking birthday cake to you," another X user wrote.
"That cake looks like sh*t. it’s the guest's birthday and he’s serving them some basic ass cake. at least put some icing and candles on it. he does the bare minimum and it’s starting to get annoyin," another added.
"This charter is the nicest. They don’t deserve Cloyce’s disrespect. That cake is so messed up. It’s her 60th," said one fan.
The criticism Chef Cloyce faced on Below Deck Sailing Yacht season 5 episode 4
When the Captain spotted Chef Cloyce playing in the water on Below Deck Sailing Yacht, he got upset and asked someone to go fetch him. He was worried that the guests might not get food served on time if he didn't prepare it before they returned from the water.
The Captain thought he should be more professional and show extra maturity because that was his responsibility. At about 3:40 pm, the table was laid out and the guests returned famished after swimming. They waited as the chef prepared the lunch from scratch. Later in the episode, Daisy told the Captain that Cloyce wasn't going to work if he kept on with his current actions.
Then, it was time to serve up a cake. Cloyce said he ordered one from the outside because he hated baking it. Daisy commented on the cake saying it looked like a strudel. When the chef microwaved, it fell apart, which made Daisy say they couldn't serve it like it, but Cloyce piled up the broken pieces to make the perfect circle out of it and said it was okay to go.
New episodes of Below Deck Sailing Yacht season 5 are aired on Mondays at 9 pm ET, on Bravo.