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Posts: 5953 (03/27/08 4:57 PM) Registered User |
I knew right from the start that either Corn Dog boy or Mac n Cheese girl were going to go home.
I mean, come on....I'm far from a Top chef, and even I know neither of those dishes are going to keep well. GO ANDREW! |
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Posts: 82 (03/27/08 5:49 PM) |
chelleforrupert wrote: I think the issue is imagination. In every season, the early challenges often involve reimagining classic dishes or
cooking under bizarre constraints ... the point of which is testing their ability to understand their food. Planning a menu for a restaurant involves knowing
things like: how far can a dish be prepped, held, and finished when it is time for it to be served? Their imagination is tested further by the time
constraints placed upon them; notice how they are usually given very brief periods of time even for shopping. They don't want to give them too much time;
they want to see what their instincts and ingrained knowledge are like.
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Posts: 466 (03/27/08 6:56 PM) |
I'm starting to think that Stephanie is either our winner...Or the shocking Final 4 boot. Sure, they've only had THREE challenges, but out of the two
out of the three, she's been a consistent performer.
But, I will say, it was a BIT refreshing to see a team attempt to defend each other instead of "throw each other under the bus." But, I wouldn't be surprised if they edited out taht fucker Dale saying he was much better than everyone else on his team and they all suck. I was disappointed to see Nikki take such a nosedive in the past two weeks after her lasagna win. It was the first time I ever actually saw a team get so degeated after losing. Like, it hit them hard, and a number of them appeared to be holding back %%$+!. And JUST in case you guys weren't aware...Zoi and Jen are a LESBIAN couple. They're together. They're lesbians, and they date, and they're a couple...on the show. (Speaking of which, AGAIN, we get the first episode of Spike saying they can go home together...Serious foreshadowing...serious, serious foreshadowing...which I think leads us to the "SO FUCKING WHAT" fight...) |
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Posts: 1191 (03/27/08 8:22 PM) Registered user |
Wait, wait...Zoe and Jen are a couple? A LESBIAN couple? No way! When did we hear this news? I can't believe they kept that a secret for so long! This
just changes the whole dynamic of the show!
Anyway, I was glad Erik got booted. He's bugged me since the get go and the fact that he has no desire to be the Executive Chef in a high end restaurant kind of defeats the whole purpose of even being on the show in the first place. He just seemed to have a fuck you attitude toward every challenge they had and in this weeks Quick Fire, he pretty much didn't even DO the challenge. He and someone else (can't remember who it was...the dude that used the paper wrap) both failed to make the taco into something you would serve in a fine dining restaurant. In fact, they actually said they wouldn't do it because taco's don't belong in fine dining. Too damn bad dudes! That's the challenge. Shit that comes out of vending machine isn't meant to used to make real menu food either but when that is the challenge, that's what you do. Erik, like Blini girl last week, knew the corn dogs were a bad idea but he went with them anyway. Too many bad decisions cost him. Buh bye! |
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Posts: 680 (03/27/08 8:28 PM) |
Oh how I love Spike! Hes sorta a tool, but in a funny way. Hes very over the top and colorful, (and hot) and I hope he wins.
That dude Jennifer has tons of confessionals, I think him, Spike, and Stephanie will be there at the very end. |
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Posts: 2250 (03/27/08 8:52 PM) Registered user |
I hear next week's quickfire is freezer pops, and the elimination challenge is crackers and cheese.
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Posts: 4286 (03/27/08 9:09 PM) |
Spike is a wigger douchebag.
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Posts: 85 (03/27/08 9:23 PM) |
E Moch wrote: I think Stephanie is this season's Casey, without the looks. She is solid, but not imaginative enough to win. I think it Andrew and Richard are the "Hung" types for this season. Nikki's only decent dish was the lasagna. She lost on the pizza quickfire as well - and that allowed her to choose lasagna in the elim challenge. I
can only imagine how badly she would have done if she had to make souffle. I don't think she'll last long.
BTW, I liked Ted's reference to "sous vide duck" in his comments. He still has Hung's winning dish on his mind. |
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Posts: 6109 (03/28/08 1:26 AM) Registered user |
The judges at the end seemed to concur that Casey's big achilles heel was the fact that she didn't bring a ton of recipes with her to adapt to the
final ingredients (They're allowed to use them on the final dinner.) Trying to wing everything on the fly was a disaster for her.
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Posts: 104 (03/28/08 2:41 AM) I don't get |
Rick Bayless hated Ryan from the get go:
<I chose not to know anything about the chefs beforehand because I wanted to go in with a completely clean slate, but Ryan had worked in our kitchen at one time and I sort of recognized him, but when he was presenting his dish to me in the Quickfire Challenge he brought up the fact that he'd worked in our kitchen for a day or two, and he did it in a total brown-nosey way, and I was so taken aback because then I remembered him and I remembered that I didn't really care for him. That was the worst thing he could have done, and he thought it was going to be a really positive thing. Immediately I remembered him and the swagger with which he walked through the kitchen, and that doesn't go over very well in our kitchen. If he'd just kept his mouth shut, I wouldn't have put two and two together. I might have later, but I wouldn't have done it by the time the challenge was over.> |
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Posts: 87 (03/28/08 6:24 AM) |
Thanks for the Bayless link. I've always wondered about the fact that when you look at the contestants' bios, a number of them have worked in the
kitchens of people who could end up as guest judges. How can they avoid bias - or at least the appearance of bias?
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Posts: 793 (03/28/08 7:00 AM) Registered user |
"I knew right from the start that either Corn Dog boy or Mac n Cheese girl were going to go home."
Duh. The first two minutes of the show they usually do a minor focus on the person that are going home, and one that wins that shows challenges- especially in the early shows when no one knows who is who. |
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Posts: 12608 (03/28/08 8:04 AM) Registered user |
Am I the only one who wants to have the sex with Spike?
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Posts: 65 (03/28/08 8:18 AM) |
Spike annoys me with his constant hat preening. Does he have a bald spot under there? I can't remember seeing him without a fracking hat on!
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Posts: 684 (03/28/08 8:50 AM) |
Sardonically Irreverent wrote:Not. At. All. Get in line. 
This episode was so confusing because no one talked about who their newfound friend was. How were we supposed to figure out who was gonna go? |
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Posts: 12694 (03/28/08 9:06 AM) Registered user |
^
Oh yeah and sign me up for the Sex With Spike Club. Hello! |
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Posts: 715 (03/28/08 9:11 AM) |
Rick Bayless is scary/creepy looking. I get a serial killer vibe from him.
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Posts: 1032 (03/28/08 9:53 AM) |
Maybe so, but he is uber-talented. Mr. Bula and I went to his upscale restaurant, Topolobampo, recently. Each of us chose a different Chef's Tasting Menu
-- five courses of absolute heaven! I've tried some of his recipes too, and they have been delish. One in particular is a sauce made from homemade salsa,
blue cheese, and onions that's served over pan-seared steaks. The sauce had such rich flavor, it was hard to believe I made it. It felt as if we were being
served in a fine restaurant.
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Posts: 896 (03/28/08 10:57 AM) |
We certainly have a lot of strong personalities this year. I was loving Spike until this epi, but he seems to have too many jerky tendencies. I'm liking Antonia, Stephanie, Jennifer and Richard. I begrudingly liking Dale (abrasive), Andrew (manic, mean, vain) and Spike (sneaky, mean). I am finding Nikki and Ryan to do more harm than good. I am finding it hard to remember anything produced by Zoi, Lisa or Manual. I am wondering why the stereotype of "chef" is creative genius, pushy, visionary, and vain. The female chefs tend to have softer edges, except maybe Jennifer. She has a lot of "umph." I think if Stephanie copped an "attitude" like the men, she would fit the cultural stereotype of chef more. I liked how Antonia said, "I love to feed people" in the first epi. Richard comes off as such a technician in the kitchen, but the meat/fruit combos I do think project more warmth than he does personally. It will be interesting to see if the gender-based tension becomes overt in the kitchen as it has been cropping up in confessionals. |
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Posts: 2145 (03/28/08 11:07 AM) Registered User |
I don't know where Paul Prudhomme ranks a chef but yesterday I heard on NPR that he got hit by a falling bullet while he was catering a golf tournament. So right there was an example of where a Top Chef does have to go out on location and would know better not to serve soggy corndogs. |
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