sash1
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- Jul 20, 2001
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i'll say this about this season. there's no ridiculously good chef like there were the last 2 seasons with andrew and hung. i mean, hung in season 3 was just worlds better than the others on the show. there's really no one like that this season, i mean stefan and jeff are tops in my mind, but not like hung and andrew were with all their cooking tricks/techniques.
HardcoreRobot
Lifer
- Nov 7, 2000
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watched 3 eps in a row last night... first ones i have seen this season
i think melissa and eugene need to go. they made dishes they thought were good that were unanimously disliked. obviously every chef will have flops, but they acknowledge it... shows they will take risks, but also learn from mistakes. it seems like those two will make mistakes (habanero shrimp and the poisson cru), but arent willing to accept it.
like, if a person starts with a bad idea (like the creme brulee), its no surprise they disappoint. if they start with a good idea, but fail to execute, there is still room for improvement... part of the puzzle is still missing. but if your idea is good, and your execution is good, and the result sucks... you did the best you could and its just time to go.
fabio/jeff/the cocky guy are my favorite personalities, not sure yet on their food. fav line - 'this is top chef, not top scallop' lololol
i think melissa and eugene need to go. they made dishes they thought were good that were unanimously disliked. obviously every chef will have flops, but they acknowledge it... shows they will take risks, but also learn from mistakes. it seems like those two will make mistakes (habanero shrimp and the poisson cru), but arent willing to accept it.
like, if a person starts with a bad idea (like the creme brulee), its no surprise they disappoint. if they start with a good idea, but fail to execute, there is still room for improvement... part of the puzzle is still missing. but if your idea is good, and your execution is good, and the result sucks... you did the best you could and its just time to go.
fabio/jeff/the cocky guy are my favorite personalities, not sure yet on their food. fav line - 'this is top chef, not top scallop' lololol
I agree to a degree. But this could be a side effect of my complaint. It's kind of hard to use superior technique and ingenuity when you are constantly catering for 200+ people. The closest was eugene and the grill, which is not all THAT ingenious. I do want to know what a liquefied olive tastes like.
The other disappointing thing is the somewhat misused guest judges from famous restaurants. I can't tell you how frustrated I was with how they used the chef from Alinea. The guy has dishes like horseradish ball with apple creme in the center and deconstructed PB&J served with seemingly alien dishes at his restaurant and they make him judge a boring thanksgiving theme.
Jamie cooked a lot of soups early. She only cooked scallops this time to prove she knew how to cook them. Risky move but it paid off. I doubt she'll be cooking them again next episode*
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- Jun 5, 2000
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hell yes. the other chefs are getting annoyed about that. the previes for next weeks show looks like Stephan got in Jamie's face saying she cant cook nothing but scallops.
on a side note i think its odd that two chefs are from Boulder, CO. i work in Boulder and googled the joints they work in. here are the links.
Hosea's Restaurant
http://www.jaxfishhouseboulder.../tabid/62/Default.aspx
Melissa's restaurant
http://www.centrolatinkitchen....tabid/236/Default.aspx
because she is a pretty good chef? sure she did poorly in the first 2 episodes but since then she has shown she deserves to be there winning 2 elimination challenges....
- Jun 5, 2000
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in my opinion Carla was a lot weaker than Gene and should have been sent packing last night.
i was glad to see Danny get the boot, i could not stand to hear him talk, he sounds like he has a mouth full of marbles and in my opinion not a good chef.
Leah is who i am rooting for, she has just been hanging back the show show and i bet she makes it to the top round.
i was glad to see Danny get the boot, i could not stand to hear him talk, he sounds like he has a mouth full of marbles and in my opinion not a good chef.
Leah is who i am rooting for, she has just been hanging back the show show and i bet she makes it to the top round.
Makes sense to me. Her food looks bland and boring, and what's-her-nuts spit out the only food that appeared to have any flavor on that episode.
GagHalfrunt
Lifer
- Apr 19, 2001
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Carla will go soon for sure, she's pretty weak. Hard to argue with Eugene and Melissa getting the axe this week, they've both been near the bottom pretty much every episode. Fish freaking tacos? She should have gotten kicked off just for choosing to make that. It's TOP CHEF, why the hell are you making a dish that you can get off the back of a truck for 89 cents?
GagHalfrunt
Lifer
- Apr 19, 2001
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GagHalfrunt
Lifer
- Apr 19, 2001
- 25,284
- 1,998
- 126
No, Carla's dish was only great without the protein in her own imagination. SHE claimed that if she had done it differently it would have worked, all the judges felt that there were issues with every aspect of it. The judges thought that every aspect of Fabio's dish was great except the doneness of the lamb. They loved the pasta and the two sauces in Fabio's, the same could not be said about Carla.
purbeast0
No Lifer
- Sep 13, 2001
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I think it was fair who got the boot last night, I expected both of them to go. They both have been in the bottom pretty consistantly.
Those of you saying Jamie and arianne need to go ... are you watching the same show as me?
Both of those 2 have been at the top pretty much the entire season since the first 2 or so episodes. There is a reason they are sticking around.
Those of you saying Jamie and arianne need to go ... are you watching the same show as me?
Both of those 2 have been at the top pretty much the entire season since the first 2 or so episodes. There is a reason they are sticking around.
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