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Top Chef 3: ITT All of us are dissapointed.
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Fourteen eliminated chefs and twelve delicious fucking episodes deep, we've finally made it to the finale.
Episode 1 - Get to know you stuff. The quickfire - make an appetizer from the welcome-to-the-show snacks. The challenge - make a surf and turf from crazy ass proteins.
The results:
Episode 2 - Micah continues to annoy me, except now is annoying and a crybaby because professionals told her she sucks. But that's okay, because then they told her she ROCKS. The quickfire - Make a treat out of sunshine. Sunshine = citrus fruit. Challenge - Upscale BBQ for upscale people.
And....
Episode 3 - Micah is still annoying. I guess we ketchup users deserve it, though. The quickfire in this one was to make some excellent seafood out of a big catch of Miami's finest. The challenge was to redesign an unhealthy family classic. Some girl named Lia shows up. I'm still wondering who the hell Camille is.
Results:
Episode 4 - Man, I don't know what to do now that Capt. Annoy-The-Shit-Out-Of-Me is gone. Oh wait, Joey and Howie are still around. The quickfire - make an appetizer to pair with a Bombay Sapphires cocktail. The challenge put the chefs in groups of three to prepare a four course meal, each course having three parts. The worst individual dish gets eliminated.
The good, the bad, and the quickfire:
Episode 5 - This week's episode has the chefs making Latin food for some Mexican Telemundo actors. Que bueno! The chefs are given three hours to work, and then the chefs and viewing audience are tricked into thinking there was a schedule change and that they only have an hour and a half to cook. Everyone flips the fuck out, some good food and some bad food is made. Hung also runs around the kitchen with a knifre. And acts like a dick. The quickfire is to make a dish using an instant pie crust. The challenge is to cook a Latin-inspired dish for a catered meal in half the time original given.
And:
Episode 6 - The roller coaster of emotions keeps on truckin'. The quickfire is a culinary bee. Contestants must identify certain items or ingredients by either taste or sight only. Hung acts like a douche and someone can't recognize Japanese eggplant. Go figure. The challenge randomly places the remaining chefs in pairs and they must prepare a frozen dish to be reheated and served within ten minutes a la frozen Bertoli dinners. The drama never ends.
Episode 7 - Or, the episode that really pisses me off. I disagree with this week's elimination. Bravo pulling more of their shit. Oh well. In this episode, the quickfire has the chefs making some delicious toppings to... um... cold stonerize... with Coldstone Creamery sweet cream ice cream. Dale's peach cobbler stuff looked awesome. The chefs are then told that they'll be going clubbing in Miami, until they arrive at their location. The challenge divides the contestants into two random groups. They must serve some late night food to drunken club goers in Miami. It seems like Hung actually acted like a human being in this episode. Howie acts like a hack shit fuck again. Also, let it be known to all the Hung fans that keep singing his praises - again, he was called out as one of the worst in the quickfire and the judges said his food sucked in the challenge. Although his team won, his food wasn't given any praise other than (kind of) the fricking onion rings he made.
The horrific results:
I also want to say, after episode 7 and several events the past two seasons, that it pisses me off that they say "But, on Top Chef, it's always about the food" on the episode summary. Come on, do they really think we're that stupid? It should say "it's always about who's a bigger dramatic bitch."
Episode 8 - the "Restaurant Wars" episode. Somewhere along the line, Bravo decided this was a popular episode. As of this point forward, winning quickfires will not earn the contestants immunity. This quickfire challenged the chefs to make burgers using Red Robin (huh?) cuisine as a guide. The winner gets to pick their team for the restaurant challenge. Each team of four will design their space and menu and open a restaurant. Restaurant April consists of Tre, Brian, CJ, and Casey. The Garage has Sarah, Dale, Howie, and Hung. In this episode, Team April gets the favored reviews while Team Garage seems to come out on the bottom. But...
Episode 9 - Restaurant Wars Part Deux - Second Course - or whatever shitty catch you may come up with. The quickfire is a Mise en Place Relay Race. I'll keep the rest brief as it's more of the same. Some asshole diner from last week turns out to be Madonna's brother and an interior designer. He bitches at the teams and they change stuff. Team Garage more so than April. Interior design definitely gets a big makeover from both groups, though. This combined with the comments of a secret restaurant blogger in last week's episode lead Garage to revamp their concept and restaurant to become Restaurant Quatre. They receive way better reviews from the judges. They also won the assistance of season one's resident douche Stephen as sommelier. Team April takes a nose dive.
Results:
Episode 10 - I saw this episode, but I didn't really pay attention, so Bravo's website is going to help out a little bit. This week's episode challenged the chefs to do a lot with a little. They are given $10, twenty minutes, and one shopping aisle to create their quickfire. The challenge forces the last seven chefs to cater dozens of people with a limited budget. From Bravo's website: "The chefs had to work together to cater a party for designer Esteban Cortazar at Pure Nightclub. Overall, despite a few highlights, the chefs underwhelmed the judges, who included Dana Cowan, editor in chief of Food & Wine magazine."
In the end...
Episode 11 - Snacks on a plane. And then there were six. Padma wakes everyone up and forces them to make her breakfast with their blenders. What a bitch. The chefs are then informed that they're going on a trip. Hurray! At the planes, they find out they will be cooking business class airline meals to be heated and served on the plane to flight attendants.
Who will fly high and whose plane won't get off the ground!?!? (har har)
Episode 12 - The last five contestants cook it out to see who's going on the finale. In the quickfire, the contestants are challenged to recreate a legendary La Cirque dish. Whoever comes closest wins. The challenge asks the chefs to prepare a meal for a legendary panel of chefs and teachers of the French Culinary Institute using onions, potatoes, and chicken as the base.
Episode 13 - Finale part 1. In Aspen. The quickfire has the chefs cooking trout, the challenge would be elk.
Episode 14 - Finale Part 2, More Finale. Using the ingredients they brought and the goods provided for them, the chefs must create a three course meal. All cheftestants would serve each course at the same time. They each get a real chef as their sous chef - Dale gets Todd English, Casey is with Michelle Bernstein, and Hung gets Rocco DiSpirito. After the first set of courses are done, they are told they must make a fourth course (man, this show will not stop ripping Project Runway off) and they get a new assistant to help - one of the eliminated contestants. Hung is with Sara M., Dale is with CJ, and Casey gets Howie, and more sweat than she bargained for. And for some reason, the results as of the show were shot live in Chicago last Wednesday a month or so after shooting ended.
Episode 15 - The Reunion. They reunite. The fan favorite, winner of $10,000 and a set of Calphalon cookware is
I'm pulling for Dale. People with mohawks make awesome chefs, right?
Come on, look at that face. That's a winner right there.
Okay, well at least I thought he was a winner. Almost.
The winner is:
this asshole
FYI, season 4 has already begun filming in Chicago. And new Project Runway season starts November 14.
Fourteen eliminated chefs and twelve delicious fucking episodes deep, we've finally made it to the finale.
Episode 1 - Get to know you stuff. The quickfire - make an appetizer from the welcome-to-the-show snacks. The challenge - make a surf and turf from crazy ass proteins.
The results:
Micah wins the quickfire. Tre wins the challenge, Clay gets booted back to the south.
Episode 2 - Micah continues to annoy me, except now is annoying and a crybaby because professionals told her she sucks. But that's okay, because then they told her she ROCKS. The quickfire - Make a treat out of sunshine. Sunshine = citrus fruit. Challenge - Upscale BBQ for upscale people.
And....
Hung wins the quickfire, Brian comes back from the bottom and wins, Sandee unfortunately goes home.
Episode 3 - Micah is still annoying. I guess we ketchup users deserve it, though. The quickfire in this one was to make some excellent seafood out of a big catch of Miami's finest. The challenge was to redesign an unhealthy family classic. Some girl named Lia shows up. I'm still wondering who the hell Camille is.
Results:
Brian wins the quickfire. Looks like he's doing well. Howie (unfortunately) wins, and crybaby bitch fuck Micah gets sent home. Finally.
Episode 4 - Man, I don't know what to do now that Capt. Annoy-The-Shit-Out-Of-Me is gone. Oh wait, Joey and Howie are still around. The quickfire - make an appetizer to pair with a Bombay Sapphires cocktail. The challenge put the chefs in groups of three to prepare a four course meal, each course having three parts. The worst individual dish gets eliminated.
The good, the bad, and the quickfire:
Casey wins the quickfire, gains immunity, then immediately sucks huge dick and is declared the worst dish. She brings her team (Howie and Joey from Mutha' Fuckin' NEW YORK) down with her, however, it is Camille from Dale's team who gets the ax. Lia rises up from the ashes and is declared the winner for her shrimp dish. Holy shit, I was so scared Dale was going to get cut. Good thing for that charming mohawk.
Episode 5 - This week's episode has the chefs making Latin food for some Mexican Telemundo actors. Que bueno! The chefs are given three hours to work, and then the chefs and viewing audience are tricked into thinking there was a schedule change and that they only have an hour and a half to cook. Everyone flips the fuck out, some good food and some bad food is made. Hung also runs around the kitchen with a knifre. And acts like a dick. The quickfire is to make a dish using an instant pie crust. The challenge is to cook a Latin-inspired dish for a catered meal in half the time original given.
And:
Joey from Mutha Fuckin' New York fuckin' wins the fuckin' quickfire. I can't believe it. And then, he has the nerve to become friends with Howie. They then spend the rest of the episode complementing each other's food. What the fuck? Where's my fuckin' New York drama!? And to top it all off, Howie wins - again! - with Joey FMFNY coming in second. Yikes. Hung, Lia, Casey, and Sarah are in the bottom, with Lia getting booted right after her victory last episode.
Episode 6 - The roller coaster of emotions keeps on truckin'. The quickfire is a culinary bee. Contestants must identify certain items or ingredients by either taste or sight only. Hung acts like a douche and someone can't recognize Japanese eggplant. Go figure. The challenge randomly places the remaining chefs in pairs and they must prepare a frozen dish to be reheated and served within ten minutes a la frozen Bertoli dinners. The drama never ends.
Casey wins the quickfire. The win is between Casey and Dale or Tre and CJ. Tre and CJ end up winning the challenge and four tickets to Italy. The bad group is Hung and Joey FMFNY and Sara and Howie. Everyone bitches at each other, but it's decided that Joey goes home. He cries. A lot. Goodbye, Mutha' Fuckin' Joey from Mutha' Fuckin' New York.
Episode 7 - Or, the episode that really pisses me off. I disagree with this week's elimination. Bravo pulling more of their shit. Oh well. In this episode, the quickfire has the chefs making some delicious toppings to... um... cold stonerize... with Coldstone Creamery sweet cream ice cream. Dale's peach cobbler stuff looked awesome. The chefs are then told that they'll be going clubbing in Miami, until they arrive at their location. The challenge divides the contestants into two random groups. They must serve some late night food to drunken club goers in Miami. It seems like Hung actually acted like a human being in this episode. Howie acts like a hack shit fuck again. Also, let it be known to all the Hung fans that keep singing his praises - again, he was called out as one of the worst in the quickfire and the judges said his food sucked in the challenge. Although his team won, his food wasn't given any praise other than (kind of) the fricking onion rings he made.
The horrific results:
Dale wins the quickfire and gains immunity (okay, so this part isn't horrific). Finally, the one I'm rooting for wins. He wins big actually, as he doesn't have to participate in the challenge at all. Hopefully this doesn't hurt him in the future. For some reason, I feel like something bad may come of it. The winning team consists of Sara M., Hung, Brian, and Tre. Tre is declared the winner for his cheesy grits and shrimp. The losing team is the other Sarah, Casey, Howie, and CJ. It was obvious from the get go that this team was not going to work. Sarah N. hates Howie and the whole dressing up for nothing really ruined her night, Casey hates Howie, Howie is a hack, CJ just kind of.. does whatever. They call Casey out for being clueless the whole challenge, then CJ for not rallying his team as he seemed to take the leadership position. Sarah is obviously wrecked by this whole challenge, yet didn't seem to suck too bad. She was a bit slow, but it seems no one helped her out at all. Howie spouts a bunch of stupid bull shit about nothing, makes bad food, acts like a dumb shit, and gets to fucking stay. I wanted him gone so bad. But, making good television wins over everything else. Sarah is sent home, much to my chagrin.
I also want to say, after episode 7 and several events the past two seasons, that it pisses me off that they say "But, on Top Chef, it's always about the food" on the episode summary. Come on, do they really think we're that stupid? It should say "it's always about who's a bigger dramatic bitch."
Episode 8 - the "Restaurant Wars" episode. Somewhere along the line, Bravo decided this was a popular episode. As of this point forward, winning quickfires will not earn the contestants immunity. This quickfire challenged the chefs to make burgers using Red Robin (huh?) cuisine as a guide. The winner gets to pick their team for the restaurant challenge. Each team of four will design their space and menu and open a restaurant. Restaurant April consists of Tre, Brian, CJ, and Casey. The Garage has Sarah, Dale, Howie, and Hung. In this episode, Team April gets the favored reviews while Team Garage seems to come out on the bottom. But...
Neither team is declared the winner and no one gets sent home HURKA DURKA!!. Everyone gets a second chance. Huzzah. Oh, and CJ won the quickfire so he got to assemble Team April
Episode 9 - Restaurant Wars Part Deux - Second Course - or whatever shitty catch you may come up with. The quickfire is a Mise en Place Relay Race. I'll keep the rest brief as it's more of the same. Some asshole diner from last week turns out to be Madonna's brother and an interior designer. He bitches at the teams and they change stuff. Team Garage more so than April. Interior design definitely gets a big makeover from both groups, though. This combined with the comments of a secret restaurant blogger in last week's episode lead Garage to revamp their concept and restaurant to become Restaurant Quatre. They receive way better reviews from the judges. They also won the assistance of season one's resident douche Stephen as sommelier. Team April takes a nose dive.
Results:
Team Quatre won the quickfire and Stephen. They also win the challenge with Sarah being declared the winner as head chef. Team April loses and to our dismay, Tre gets sent home (even though they made me think CJ was going to get the cut for not doing anything and since what he did made was apparently bad.)
Episode 10 - I saw this episode, but I didn't really pay attention, so Bravo's website is going to help out a little bit. This week's episode challenged the chefs to do a lot with a little. They are given $10, twenty minutes, and one shopping aisle to create their quickfire. The challenge forces the last seven chefs to cater dozens of people with a limited budget. From Bravo's website: "The chefs had to work together to cater a party for designer Esteban Cortazar at Pure Nightclub. Overall, despite a few highlights, the chefs underwhelmed the judges, who included Dana Cowan, editor in chief of Food & Wine magazine."
In the end...
Brian wins the quickfire. With Spam. Who would've thought? He is allowed to pick a captain for the challenge. He picks himself. Casey wins and drama queen Howie finally goes home.
Episode 11 - Snacks on a plane. And then there were six. Padma wakes everyone up and forces them to make her breakfast with their blenders. What a bitch. The chefs are then informed that they're going on a trip. Hurray! At the planes, they find out they will be cooking business class airline meals to be heated and served on the plane to flight attendants.
Who will fly high and whose plane won't get off the ground!?!? (har har)
Hung wins the quickfire with steak and eggs and a grand marnier shake. Casey wins again (man, maybe my original idea was right) and CJ gets the boot.
Episode 12 - The last five contestants cook it out to see who's going on the finale. In the quickfire, the contestants are challenged to recreate a legendary La Cirque dish. Whoever comes closest wins. The challenge asks the chefs to prepare a meal for a legendary panel of chefs and teachers of the French Culinary Institute using onions, potatoes, and chicken as the base.
Hung has a really good showing this episode, and considering the judges' reactions, he pretty much has a clear cut path to the winning position for this season. He wins the quickfire and the elimination, and Sarah gets sent home. No cheese farm in "Jamaico" for you.
Episode 13 - Finale part 1. In Aspen. The quickfire has the chefs cooking trout, the challenge would be elk.
Casey wins the quickfire, Brian loses, goes home. Dale wins. Yay.
Episode 14 - Finale Part 2, More Finale. Using the ingredients they brought and the goods provided for them, the chefs must create a three course meal. All cheftestants would serve each course at the same time. They each get a real chef as their sous chef - Dale gets Todd English, Casey is with Michelle Bernstein, and Hung gets Rocco DiSpirito. After the first set of courses are done, they are told they must make a fourth course (man, this show will not stop ripping Project Runway off) and they get a new assistant to help - one of the eliminated contestants. Hung is with Sara M., Dale is with CJ, and Casey gets Howie, and more sweat than she bargained for. And for some reason, the results as of the show were shot live in Chicago last Wednesday a month or so after shooting ended.
Casey clearly wasn't on her mark this episode and was back to her old sucking, so she got cut right away. Dale and Hung were split two dishes for two dishes. Three of the four judges favored two of Dale's dishes while Colicchio was enjoying Hung's. In the end, that smarmy bitch Hung is the winner.
Episode 15 - The Reunion. They reunite. The fan favorite, winner of $10,000 and a set of Calphalon cookware is
Casey.
I'm pulling for Dale. People with mohawks make awesome chefs, right?
Come on, look at that face. That's a winner right there.
Okay, well at least I thought he was a winner. Almost.
The winner is:
this asshole
FYI, season 4 has already begun filming in Chicago. And new Project Runway season starts November 14.
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A pretty good start to the third season. Season 2's drama and Top Design made me hesitant to keep following the show, but Ted Allen and the surprisingly not awful Shear Genius brought me back. Keep the focus on the food and I'll be happy.
I liked Ilan and Sam. I think I liked Betty for a while and was in denial about her being a hack because she looked like Suzanne Somers.
Maybe Hung will whip out the foams this time around.
Sam seemed like one of the best chefs, but he constantly had to point out that he isn't "that guy". After the third time I started realizing he really was.
Michael was the biggest surprise of the season. It's hard to believe that the gross panty-sniffer who made a cheetoh-snickers amuse bouche would also be responsible for some of the more appetizing meals cooked that season.
What kind of challenges are... the two of you hoping for this season? Hell's Kitchen and Season 1 of this did blind taste testing, which was something I found interesting (plus it led to the hilarious fast food challenge).
ETA - Wait, they're not doing that. NEVER MIND.
I liked the taste testing thing as well. I don't like when these Bravo shows do shit that like, compromises the integrity of what's going on. Like the recycling plant episode of Project Runway or fast food stuff on Top Chef. I know that sounds pretty stupid as these are reality shows, but still.
I think this first episode had pretty good, interesting, straight-ahead challenges. The food they had to work with was different, but still pretty legitimate.
I'd like to see the guy who left the stuff off his plate gets kicked off soon. And that guy from New York who's like "Fuckin shit, I'm gonna fuckin kick some fuckin ass in this shit, I'm from NEW YORK," he needs to go soon.
Amazing, I've only seen these people for an hour but I definitely hate a few of them already. I'm glad the guy that got kicked off did, he was already grating me pretty hard.
The second season was kinda hit or miss for me, especially that whole b.s. with kicking people out and having a default winner. I liked Cliff the best, but hey, he got booted out.
Also, the two women judges they have are smoking hot.
Haven't caught the first episode of season 3 yet. Have it on dvr and am waiting for the weekend to enjoy it.
Dave was awesome though, and I'm really glad he made it as far as he did.
Season 3 isn't showing on Food Network in Canada yet, so I'm assuming it's showing on another channel. I'll have to start watching it.
Season 2 was weird though, because it had a lot of cheating. Marcel was awesome though. "Hey bra, you want to try my poached eggs?"
Also, does canada get Bravo Network? Thats where it plays in the US anyways, and I don't think its ever played on Food Network US.
What a crazy show! And what about that crying asian dude?
I honestly think the crying Asian dude had some sort of mental disorder, because Ramsey seemed to be treating him pretty gently and cautiously.
And I'm not sure if we get Bravo. I think it's one of the pay channels on our satellite. Top Chef season 2 just wrapped up on Food Network, so I might just wait.
Yeah, my girlfriend was wondering about that. And Rock had a great strategy to NOT send the asian guy into the elimination. He's gonna get kicked off sooner or later, might as well get rid of somebody who's actually a threat.
Yeah, I'm definately betting that he just has some sort of like, emotional problem, and that's why Ramsey wasn't screaming at him for being a pussy but instead asking if he was okay and if he needed to lie down. Makes sense that Ramsey would know, they probably have to hand in medical forms for allergies and treatment and all that, especially with the kidney disorder guy being on the show this season.
Bonnie and Melissa (I think? The tall black girl?) are idiots, and I hope they both get eliminated early. They drive me absolutely fucking nuts. At least Melissa seems to be competant as a cook and didn't start boo-hooing when Ramsey yelled, but she needs to shut up.
Yeah, theres really not one person I like on this year's show. Rock is ok for the guys, and I used to like Eddie a little bit. Thats about it.
Do you know how pissed I would be if that crying asian was on my team? Think about what he did so far: he walks around and smokes and cries. Then, when its time for a challenge he sleeps. Then, when Ramsey asks him to go out and be a server, he fucks that up. If I was one of the cooks who FINALLY made the sole up to the exacting standards of Ramsay, and it went out to the table and the crying asian just ripped it apart while trying to debone it I would be so fucking pissed.
Oh, I haven't seen episode 2 yet. I'm taping them and watching them with my boyfriend, so I'll probably watch it this Friday. Asian guy is probably getting kicked off really soon, though.
Yeah, shes definitely the best so far. I don't think you necessarily have to be the best cook to win the show though, I think you just have to be the best at taking direction from Ramsey. Each dish that they cook they learn before the service. Its not like they just have to make this shit off the top of their head.
Any Brits know if they are comparable?
Yeah, Virginia was a great chef but she was horrible at service, but she was obedient. I don't think she ever gave lip or even slouched in front of Ramsey, and she managed to make it to the end.
Thats the key. The top qualities you need to have for that show are:
1. Be able to follow directions.
2. Not talk back.
3. Take alot of shit from Ramsey.
4. Not make the same mistake twice
Then maybe being able to cook comes in at a distant 5th.
From what I've seen of Top Chef, its actually about cooking / how good of a chef people actually are. For what its worth, I'm more interested in watching Hell's Kitchen.
Also:
Nope, they pulled together pretty well. It was definitely an interesting episode. They might have it on demand on the TV Channel's website.
Red team got their shit together fast.
Yeah, that SUCKED. The taller black chick is really bossy.
Episode 2 was really good. Check it out and get back to me.
Taller black chick needs to shut her mouth and cook, that's the only way she'll save herself from being nominated over and over and over.
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Except actually entertaining.
I think Top Chef is the better competition, but Hell's Kitchen is more entertaining.
The guy is a phenomenal cook, but he missed his calling as a put-down comedian. It's like watching the DaVinci of pwning somebody in the face with words.
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Dude is a gamer.
Other than that, I love the show. Should be a good season. As for Gordon Ramsay, I had the pleasure of going to his restaurant once...it's such good food.
And while that's tough to hear, it's often the best advice for a restaurant. 60% of them fail.