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Top Chef MASTERS - reality cooking whores assemble

nevilleneville The Worst Gay(Seriously. The Worst!)Registered User regular
edited August 2009 in Social Entropy++
So the people who engrossed us with an iron whisk...
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are back with a new show.
Instead of Top Chef, where the up-and-coming chefs are judged by the masters of the craft, it is time for the masters themselves to compete. Of the cooking gods, who will win?


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This starts in TWO DAYS.
Who is excited?!

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    i'm sooo excited

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bflYjF90t7c

    i wanna see if the judges are gonna stay douchebags to accomplished chefs and all

    and also, for more padma

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  • nevilleneville The Worst Gay (Seriously. The Worst!)Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I'm not sure Padma or Tom are in it, tbh.
    I think Kelly Choi is hosting.

    But from the clips I've seen, it looks great.
    Seriously... Wylie Dufresne, Hubert Keller... all them COMPETING?

    fuck yesssss

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  • nevilleneville The Worst Gay (Seriously. The Worst!)Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    man
    only me and Nino have some love for real food?
    damn
    bitches be cold

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  • StarfuckStarfuck Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2009
    omg this is going to be soooooo good

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  • FizFiz Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Elizabeth Falkner is a familiar face from Food Network. I hope she sticks around, since I remember liking her and she is pastry

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  • nevilleneville The Worst Gay (Seriously. The Worst!)Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Fiz wrote: »
    Elizabeth Falkner is a familiar face from Food Network. I hope she sticks around, since I remember liking her and she is pastry

    Yeah, but I mean, some of the competitors are just fucking crazy.
    Hubert Keller, Art Smith, and holy fuck Nils Noren and Wylie Dufresne.

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  • That Dave FellaThat Dave Fella Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I like food :3

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    food is delicious.

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    stone brewery on facebook told me to make sure i watch top chef masters premiere
    so i assume that means beer is involved

    stone brewery beer

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    neville wrote: »
    Seriously... Wylie Dufresne, Hubert Keller... all them COMPETING?

    fuck yesssss

    I cannot fucking wait for this.

    Wylie is some kind of brilliant mad genius in the kitchen and Keller....he's god damn Hubert Keller.

    I would like to see Gordon Ramsey in this, but I know he'd never do it.

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  • WimbleWimble Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I am looking forward to this so much.

    My friends are all "Hell's kitchen is better" and I am all "nuh-huh!"

    but then they are all "yuh-huh" :(

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  • necroSYSnecroSYS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2009
    neville wrote: »
    Fiz wrote: »
    Elizabeth Falkner is a familiar face from Food Network. I hope she sticks around, since I remember liking her and she is pastry

    Yeah, but I mean, some of the competitors are just fucking crazy.
    Hubert Keller, Art Smith, and holy fuck Nils Noren and Wylie Dufresne.

    I wish they'd have a BATTOL MOL GAS between Dufresne and Grant Achatz.

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  • necroSYSnecroSYS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2009
    Also, the only reason I'm not more excited for this is because Tom and Padma aren't involved. These new judges all look like ass-apes.

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  • necroSYSnecroSYS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2009
    Wimble wrote: »
    I am looking forward to this so much.

    My friends are all "Hell's kitchen is better" and I am all "nuh-huh!"

    but then they are all "yuh-huh" :(

    Call them stupid fucking donkeys and throw food at them.

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    hell's kitchen is in no ways better, what

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    This is already lined up on Tivo to record.


    I can not fucking wait to see Dufresne mop the floor with all he surveys before him.

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Stale wrote: »
    This is already lined up on Tivo to record.


    I can not fucking wait to see Dufresne mop the floor with all he surveys before him.

    When he cooks, do you hear Morgan Freeman in voice over discussing what's going on?

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Hunter wrote: »
    Stale wrote: »
    This is already lined up on Tivo to record.


    I can not fucking wait to see Dufresne mop the floor with all he surveys before him.

    When he cooks, do you hear Morgan Freeman in voice over discussing what's going on?

    also thunder and lightning

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  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I'm totally pumped for this and my darkhorse candidate is John Besh. He's just so smooth.

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Hells kitchen is also good, but for different reasons

    Looking forward a lot to this

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I think that the only former Top Chef contestant in this should be Harrold from the first season.

    He was pretty damned good. Also, a nice guy. He was in our WoW guild.

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  • GRMikeGRMike The Last Best Hope for Humanity The God Pod Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Harold was great... but WoW guild? Really?

    Also, this show needs more Bourdain.

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    GRMike wrote: »
    Harold was great... but WoW guild? Really?

    Also, this show needs more Bourdain.

    every show needs more Bourdain

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    GRMike wrote: »
    Harold was great... but WoW guild? Really?

    Also, this show needs more Bourdain.

    I'm with stale on the bourdain comment.

    And yea. He apparently was playing CoH with a few friends, made some friends playing that and then migrated to WoW with them. I knew one of them and the whole lot of 'em ended up in my guild.

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  • necroSYSnecroSYS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2009
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    I think that the only former Top Chef contestant in this should be Harrold from the first season..

    I wouldn't mind seeing Dale or Hung on Top Chef: Masters, but not on the first season.

    I would have said Blais, but Dufresne would crack his spine like a lobster shell.

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  • JordanthehuttJordanthehutt Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    well I'm already bored of this show. please come back top chef regular.

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Nice start for the first episode. One of the four chefs is already choking on the Quickfire. :)

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  • deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Girl Scouts are harsh

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Heh, that Elimination-Challenge stip's a pretty good way to tie one hand behind their collective backs.

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  • deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    How can you not own a microwave

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    How can you not own a microwave

    You have to remember that these guys are pros. Having a microwave could be seen the same way among their fellow chefs as an athlete taking steroids for a competition.

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  • deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Haha oh man that's awesome

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  • The Lord of HatsThe Lord of Hats Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Hubert has to win this. He's far too awesome not to.

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  • deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Yeah it really isn't even close

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  • nevilleneville The Worst Gay (Seriously. The Worst!)Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    GRMike wrote: »
    Harold was great... but WoW guild? Really?

    Also, this show needs more Bourdain.

    I'm with stale on the bourdain comment.

    And yea. He apparently was playing CoH with a few friends, made some friends playing that and then migrated to WoW with them. I knew one of them and the whole lot of 'em ended up in my guild.

    You can never have enough Bourdain.
    When I hear people say they dislike him, I immediate assume they know nothing about cooking.

    Also Harold doesn't belong in Top Chef Masters. At all.
    If anyone should go on the show for being amazing at cooking, it'd have to be Hung or Blais.
    I don't think most of the rest of them qualify. Even those two are a bit inexperienced compared to the people on Top Chef Masters.

    I havent watched it yet, but I'm hoping the judges are ok. I was bummed that Tom and Padma weren't on it, but god damn I love me some Gail Simmons, so I'm looking forward.

    Oh any my predictions for winners would definitely be Hubert Keller, Dufresne, and maybe Nils or Art Smith as a dark horse. Kind of amusing to pick a "winner" since they're all fucking incredible. Most of them have at least one 4 star kitchen or a Michelin starred kitchen; it'd also probably be easier to pick out how many of them are NOT James Beard winners than those who are. So there aren't any losers anyhow...

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  • AWinnerIsYouAWinnerIsYou Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    This was great. Judges were super cool and totally professional, which I really appreciated. Yay for Gail.

    haha "Redhead's [girl scout] gotta go."

    Hubert Keller was awesome, as usual. I'm really looking forward to seeing Wylie Dufresne make awesome/crazy stuff and Rick Bayless and Art Smith totally kick everyone's ass. I've seen Elizabeth Falkner on the Food Network before, she made some horrible, weird cave thing for a Halloween pastry contest and lost. I'm not too familiar with some of the others.

    To add in the accolades, more Bourdain is always welcome. Maybe season 2 can have him and Eric Ripert, April Bloomfield, David Chang, and a bunch of other super awesome chefs.

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  • The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Owenashi wrote: »
    How can you not own a microwave

    You have to remember that these guys are pros. Having a microwave could be seen the same way among their fellow chefs as an athlete taking steroids for a competition.

    Also, a good portion of restaurants that aren't considered exactly star quality don't use microwaves either. I mean we never used a microwave over at Bertucci's. I never saw one at Legal Sea Foods. I never saw one at Houston's or M+S either.

    I imagine the only restaurants that have a microwave are the mom and pop shops or places that can't afford a raised broiler.

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  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I really enjoyed the first episode, my one complaint would be that they spent a lot of time with the chefs talking and less time with them cooking. It's awesome to watch that caliber of chef work and it would have been nice to see more of their technique.

    I'm curious to see how the producers work the groupings with regards to guys they definitely would want in the final (Dufresne, Art Smith, etc.) because they can't make it obvious that they want them in but you know they so do.

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  • OmeksOmeks Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I saw this last night. I missed the very beginning explanation so I thought for a while that the whole series followed four chefs and was confused when they started knifing everyone but Hubert.

    I'm surprised Micheal Chiarello (I know it's misspelled) is here. His tenure at Food Network must be up, because I figured they would forbid any Food Network personality from taking part in Top Chef. I figured that's why Emeril only showed up after his time at Food Network was up.

    I glad to see John Besh and Rick Bayless are here. In fact, I know a lot of the chefs in Masters from appearances on Iron Chef America, including Besh and Bayless, Anita Lo, Elizabeth Faulkner, Dufresne, Tim Love, and Christopher Lee.

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I missed this because I caught a case of the drinking beers at happy hour.

    Thankfully Bravo enjoys showing this type of stuff all the damned time, so I'll just catch it before next weeks new episode.

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