New Top Chef tonight!! w00t!

[bicentennial_baby]

Who will be asked to pack their knives and go? Hmmmm...

:hi:

[BlooInBloo]

1. Aw man! I wanted to see the same episode for the 3,956th time! hrmph.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Hehe....

:)

[MissMillie]

3. Do we have any sense of what the challenge is about?

I guess my thought is that any chef can perform well on any given day, and that any chef can perform poorly on any given day... so I can't predict what will happen without some sense of what the challenge will be.

I'm still hoping Hung gets the ax sooner rather than later.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. They will think they are going clubbing, but

it appears that they have to cook instead, in their clubbing clothes, possibly for late night partiers. Looks like they have too cook in a trailer of some kind.

:hi:

[Ekirh]

5. From a preview I read...

Apparently it has to be a hangover snack it seems..

Can't wait!!!!!

[Richardo]

6. So.... it's tonight?

:D

[bicentennial_baby]

7. Yes!

:D

[GRLMGC]

8. Sara M's days are numbered

She needs to go. She doesn't seem to really do anything. I don't like Hung all that much but he seems to genuinely be able to cook. Granted he's inconsistent but he doesn't deserve to go before she does.

[bicentennial_baby]

9. Agreed...and I don't think the other Sarah will be far behind...

[Shakespeare]

10. It'll be tough for anything to top the way Hung punked himself in the quickfire last week.

I'm STILL cracking up over that.

[bicentennial_baby]

11. Yes!

:rofl:

[Shakespeare]

14. btw, did you see where Bravo is giving Bourdain his own blog?

His guest-blogging for Colicchio was so popular, they decided to give him his own!

[bicentennial_baby]

15. Yay! Yay!!

:bounce: I like it when he blogs for Ruhlman too :D

[Shakespeare]

16. Watching him and Ruhlman give each other shit there and on egullet...

...is some of the best reading on the internet. They're clearly good friends, but take perverse delight in harassing each other.

[bicentennial_baby]

17. Exactly!!

:hi:

:loveya:

[Richardo]

12. That *totally* ruled

Totally. :rofl:

[GRLMGC]

13. That's what he gets for being an arrogant douchebag

Highlarious!

[ceile]

18. Can't wait.

I really have no idea who it will be since everyone in the preview appeared to be upset after the challenge.

[bicentennial_baby]

19. Kick!

:kick:

[Ekirh]

20. LESS THAN A HOUR!!!!

Having to settle with Last Comic Standing to help the time go by . . .

[bicentennial_baby]

21. I'm re-watching last week's...

As usual... :P

[Ekirh]

22. I know . . .

Just in case you missed something the first time righ eh ;)

I remember how I got into Top Chef.. Second Season last year... nothing on T.V... so me and my grandma end up watchin the Thanksgiving Marathon after the meal . . . yep that did it.

[bicentennial_baby]

23. First time? P'saw...Try like, 5th time...

You just never know what you might miss... ;)

Those damn Bravo marathons are the death of me...So demotivating. :P

Well, except TC, that makes me want to cook. :D

[Ekirh]

24. Heh see that's the funny thing . .

I can in no way cook,
And any cooking show is really not something that catches me.. but I love Top Chef... and Iron Chef reruns here and there

Heh fifth time... I can't lie.. I watched it three times :(.

[bicentennial_baby]

25. You are absolved...

As I'm probably the worst cooking show addict 'round these parts. :D

I love to cook now, but I loved cooking shows long before, like Iron Chef from Japan. enjoy it! :)

[sniffa]

26. i just reaLized

that the theme song for top chef is a totaL rip-off of the dianetics commerciaL music.

is tom coLecovision a scientoLogist? :scared:

[bicentennial_baby]

27. You should research that...

:patriot:

[philosophie_en_rose]

28. The women are really weak this season.

The Saras seem to be the weakest and Casey hasn't really shined either.

Of the rest, I think the tall guy (Dale?), Howie, and Tre have real talent. Brian Malarkey seems boring.

I think Hung probably has the most potential. He's cute in a Burn Gorman sort of way, but is really limiting himself by being so defensive about his food. His attitude is a combination of Elia's elitism, Ilan's smugness, and Marcel's lack of social awareness.

[bullwinkle428]

29. Here's a descriptive teaser for tonight's show:

"It's a dessert storm, when the culinary contestants work with ice cream and toppings. Then, they whip up quintessential snacks for hangovers. Chef Govind Armstrong is the guest judge."

[Ekirh]

30. ICE CREAM

Just as long as there is no bacon and avacado ice cream

[Richardo]

31. *** Tonights Spoilers***

Hung screwed up in the Quick fire.
Dale is gay. Who knew? Not me.

[ashling]

32. Howie doesn't

work and play well with others. tsk, tsk.

[bicentennial_baby]

35. And he sweats a lot...

Ewww.

[johnnie]

33. Is that one dude 12 feet tall?

Sheeezzzzz

[bicentennial_baby]

34. CJ?

He's like the Jolly White Giant. :P

[johnnie]

36. I'm only 5'5"

He scares the shit out of me. :scared:

[Flaxbee]

51. I read somewhere that CJ is 6'8" ...

nt

[MissMillie]

61. I used to go w/ a guy who is 6'8"

I'm 5'1".

He didn't put his arm around me, he put it over me.

[ashling]

37. Howie, GO HOME!

In a team situation he always sets somebody up to screw up.

[johnnie]

38. Awwwwww

That's sort of sucky

[Richardo]

40. It is - but ...

ironically, she played the 'baby' card in her exit interview...

"I'm 25 competing against people 10 years older than me" :shrug:


...and Howie is a putz.

[ashling]

41. That really sucks!

They kept Howie because they thought he was "best suited for this type of competition."

but shitty does not a good chef make ... Hung and Howie are both assholes!!!!!

[smtpgirl]

56. Those nutbags will probably be in the finals

I'm Rooting for Trey

[bicentennial_baby]

39. ***Spoiler!!!***

Sarah N. goes home! No surprise...They want Howie for drama... :eyes:

She kinda sucked though, anyway. :P

[Ekirh]

42. SPOILER

SARAH is soooo gone.

And did Howie do Pork AGAIN... god damn boy . . .

Well next week is restaurant challenge...

Spoiler: Team with Howie loses (Not an actual spoiler)

[smtpgirl]

57. Pork for every challlenge, WTF

He did cuban sandwiches this time with the wrong kind of bread.

Pork - Latin show

Pork & applesauce,

there is another pork dish too

[johnnie]

43. Personally

I think as an executive chef, Howie would have the right attitude. I think the others write him off right away as someone who won't work with them and they start out being defensive.

[bicentennial_baby]

47. He has Tiffany Syndrome...

From Season 1...You have to be able to balance the hard-ass chef with some degree of warmth and care for others. If not, you get abandoned at the 11th hour, a la Tiffany.

[johnnie]

49. True

That goes for any "leader".

I was thinking tonight that if Howie would have offered a bit of an apology, then he would have gained some points. But he stuck to his guns and looked like a moran. But I think it is easier to adjust the warmth than to adjust the heat. If that makes sense.

[bicentennial_baby]

50. Maybe for some, but it doesn't seem to be the case for Howie...

Which is why I see him getting burned soon in the future, due to his attitude problem. Esp. in team challenges, he is apparently unable to allow others to take the reigns. No flexibility. Hm.

[Richardo]

52. Something tells me he will not do well in the restaurant challenge next week

Talk about teamwork.

I like the restaturant challenges - they require end-to-end planning, execution and front-of-the-house skills.

[johnnie]

53. Actually it may be interesting

Will he have his own team and not opponents?

[smtpgirl]

59. A "leader", when all of those people were waiting for someone

else to say something????


If something is wrong, just let them make the mistake?

These people are Republicans, waiting for the first to fuck up, then trounce to victory.

[Richardo]

44. See my post above...

I thought it ironic that she mentioned her relative age after her offense at Howie's remark.

Overall, I thought it was one of the weaker shows...

[johnnie]

46. It was pretty weak

I wanna see some knives a-flyin'. :)

[ashling]

45. They want Howie for drama... :eyes:

that is the most important thing he has got going for him.

It sucks!

[philosophie_en_rose]

48. Howie: He Has a Flavor.

:puke:

Maybe his sweaty head has some sort of hypnotic power.

[underpants]

68. I agree that is why the kept him...that and he is clearly one of the best chefs

:hide:

That being said CJ got himself the lead position on this and that means that he basically tried to keep Howie from blowing up and the whole team disintegrating. He really should have set Howie aside and let him take care of one task (make it a big one though) and then he and the rest of the team could run things. It would have been smoother.

What's funny is that they other woman (the one who bears a striking resemblance to Jennifer Anniston -to CJ's Tom Wait features) said that she was the "Expeditor" but they never got back to how THAT seemed to be the main problem in their roach coach.

[bullwinkle428]

54. Fucking dipshit Hung and his remark about the "common people" not getting

his ice cream concept... :wtf:

Let's see how many "common people" line up at the door when you open your own restaurant, jackass!!!

[Richardo]

55. Doesn't EVERYONE like cauliflower ice cream?

x(

[smtpgirl]

60. I like it, just like broccoli ice cream???? NOT

[underpants]

69. Oh NO! I started watching this last week!!!

and quickly set my skills on determining the following

SEPARATED AT BIRTH?

Casey reminds me of Jennifer Anniston
and CJ (at the right angles) looks like a giant Tom Waits

:bounce:

[smtpgirl]

58. Who wants ice cream with cauliflower, I'm not a "common"

people and I don't want ice cream with cauliflower, what a putz.

Who would eat that shit!!!

[bullwinkle428]

67. I have to defer to the great Anthony Bourdain regarding the cauliflower choice:

"Speaking of oblivious: If, in spite of your superb technical skills, excellent training and fine, creative mind, you are consistently ending up on the bottom of the dog pile -- and you are presented with an easy lay-up of a Quickfire Challenge, why, why, WHY would you choose to step forward and proudly push your head -- once again -- into the meat grinder?

Lab rats and domestic pets, after sticking an appendage into a light socket, usually refrain from doing so again. Yet Hung, week after week, after taking a full dose of house current, jams his nether regions directly into the fuse box. How hard was it to win this challenge?

Dale won with the very sensible -- but hardly genre-bending -- peach cobbler ice cream. Had Hung stuck to sweet stuff and stayed away from CAULIFLOWER(?!!), I have a hard time believing he couldn't have, at very least, avoided being the very worst. Who EVER finds themselves yearning suddenly for cauliflower in their ice cream sundae? Who has ever -- in recorded history -- thought to themselves: "Gee...this ice cream would be so much better if only there were tempura flakes on it"? Or yearned, while spooning vanilla ice cream into their face, for FOAM?"

:rofl:

[bicentennial_baby]

62. It's Marcel's Bacon and Avocado Ice Cream Redux!

Except Marcel could concede that his idea was gawd awful... :rofl:

[Ekirh]

63. Oh god the memories

"cringes"

I thought Casey's ice cream was out there also, but it seems she knew she was stretching it and just wanted to see if it worked.


Hung just can't accept that something he creates is horrible, and it's more comforting to think the judges just didn't get it or they were looking for something else. . .

Lets all be thankful Howie didn't do Pork Ice Cream.

[bullwinkle428]

64. I would CHOOSE the bacon & avocado ice cream over the

cauliflower ice cream, if I was actually forced to make that horrible decision...

[bicentennial_baby]

65. Me too....

I really, really hate cauliflower :P

:hi:

[bullwinkle428]

66. I had it once in roasted form, and it wasn't all that bad,

but in general, it still wouldn't come close to making even my top-10 list in preferred vegetables! :hi: