And were back. Episode 3 was last night and with it comes a whole new batch of crazy. Just a little recap of how things went down, the quickfire challenge was for the chefs to use the scraps left over from their sous chef competition of sausage making. They had a 30 minute clock to accomplish a dish using these bits of meat that apparently weren't good enough to be put in a sausage and as Curtis said to them, you're masters so we expect your dishes to be amazing.
- They have to be trolling them at this point right? Sometime the challenges are just perfect. Your a world respected chef, here take a bunch of nothing scraps of a surprise meat and turn it into something incredible. You will be judged. I mean how pissed would you be if you were Neal. You have a duck carcass with no meat left on it and 30 minutes to make a world class dish. Then again, how impressive are all the dishes that are made. These guys are masters for a reason
- I love it when they have simple judges. I mean lets be serious, these are 2 people who run a butcher shop. Yes they probably have friends who are chefs and have eaten some incredible food. To say to a Top Chef Master that their pork was a little dry is one thing, but to say the dish was one dimensional takes some serious balls when your a butcher.
So Sang wins the quickfire by doing what scores of chefs have done before him in Top Chef history, keep it simple stupid. He made a simple asian thai lettuce wrap (essentially) with great flavor and it got him the win.
Moving onto the Elimination challenge, the Chefs have to cook for the cast of days of our lives and create a dish based on classic soap plot twists - Greed, Sex, and Murder.
- First of all 12,000 episodes? Who seriously sits around and watches days of our lives? How is that possible? Also, its a little ridiculous to consider a meal to be associated with one of those plot lines. I mean have you ever had a meal at a restaurant and gone wow...yeah...this totally reminds me of murder.
- The only one i can think of is Greed. I would just put like a massive rib eye steak with a giant lobster tail on top covered in caviar and truffle shavings. Maybe cook it in gold flakes. If thats not greed then I don't know what is.
- Isn't it a little unfair for these chefs to just use one of their recipes and call it fair game for a challenge. I know i'm being a little unreasonable, but seriously your supposed to be creative and do something new and different to conform to this challenge. Instead Odette just uses a dish that is famous for being incredible at a restaurant already famous...well for being incredible. Oh yeah it has mushrooms in it, so well just call it poisonous mushrooms. I feel like thats cheating. Even David says it, he knows her from back in her days at that restaurant and that dish is a sure winner.
- Gail is hot. just throwing that out there.
- Poor Sang. His Sous Chef cost him 30 minutes and he couldn't get everything on the plate because of it. For a guy who has won challenges and quickfires this could cost him the whole competition because of a time penalty. Tough luck
So as all the dishes are revealed and graded and tasted, Jennifer wins the competition with her murder interpretation of Duck a l'orange. Honestly I think the right person won. She was the only one who really tried with the theme (had a blood orange sauce and a splattered it on a knife sticking out of her duck) and also managed to make her food taste really good. So congrats Jennifer you nailed this one. The losers of the night were Odette, Lynn and Douglass. Ultimately Odette was eliminated on her Mushroom and Eggyolk dish.
- I truly truly enjoying Lynn getting ripped apart for making the snuggle theme dish for the Sex group. Everyone has had that girl in their lives who is obsessed with snuggling and I think we can all agree its annoying as shit. Snuggling has it's time and place but it shouldn't the first thing you think of when sex is mentioned. Perfect summation is when the judges comment "did you think of maybe doing ANYTHING OTHER than snuggling"
- I think Lynn should be buying her Sous chef dinner because her dish was by far the worst of the three and would have gone home if it wasn't for immunity. She also was one of the worst dishes at the quickfire and im pretty sure that ive seen her in the bottom three in another of the episodes. I would say that she has a short lifespan on this show and well probably see her being sent home sooner than later.
- Odette deserved to go home in my opinion. As the judges said and I stated earlier she mailed this one in. She picked a dish and then worked backwards to figure out how to fit it into the theme. The unexpected nail in her coffin however, was that she was serving a very sophisticated dish to a group of daytime soap actors. They had never seen anything like this dish before and like a group of 6 year olds who are told to taste something different for the first time, did not enjoy it. As the judges said, her pasta was cooked perfectly and her egg was cooked perfectly. That is not something easy to do and only a master chef would be able to accomplish the dish she presented. However, it seems she didn't really season the dish well and it fell short in the flavor department which ended her run in Top Chef Masters.
Well there you have it folks, until next week.
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