I thought the same this year and the last time they did the same thing (was it last season)? Defining ingredients, cutting and chopping, scaling fish are all things I think a Top Chef should know. I can deal with those challenges, even when I would prefer a real cooking quickfire, because it fits the role. I do NOT see how copying a dish fits the role of a top chef.It's not about copying it's about your palate and how well you can identify exactly what all the ingredients are in a dish.
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Posts: 15804 (02/08/09 6:33 PM) Registered user |
Exactly they had to figure out the ingredients, how much of each to put in plus how to actually prepare the various parts of each dish. It's a very
difficult and clever challenge.
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Posts: 9501 (02/08/09 6:53 PM) |
Yep I agree it was my fave challenge so far. Proves you have the chops AND the palate.
eta: Vit do you talk out of anywhere besides your ass? 
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Posts: 1744 (02/08/09 9:45 PM) Registered user |
Stinky, you're the worst type of internet troll.
What the hell are you doing here- going to start to pump a contestant? Who is paying you? You don't even have 50 posts. Stinky is a troll that haunts the financial boards and pumps companies, or plants false information on publicly traded companies to create fear, doubt and uncertainty (fud)and drive down the stock price. He is paid by crooked hedge fund short sellers by the post. These guys are either US Mafia second generationers, or outright foreign criminals from the Russian Mafia or Mexican and South American drug lords. Real scum that Stinky. |
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Posts: 208 (02/08/09 9:52 PM) |
CoconutPhone wrote:It's a bad challenge because the six dishes were too different. When it's down to a handful of contestants, I don't like such an unbalanced challenge. I would have wanted to arrange it so that they were all trying to replicate the same dish. Or in some other way have it so that each person isn't the only one replicating a particular dish, but let them be compared to someone else trying the same thing. Ripert said the black bass dish was the hardest - so did Jaime go home because she was the worst chef, or because she drew the hardest dish? |
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Posts: 47 (02/08/09 10:21 PM) |
victalac wrote:I don't know who in the hell you encountered along your path to this thread that would lead you to constantly come after me with this bullshit, but please stop. Way to welcome the new guy. I mean, really. A hedge fund shill on a realty TV board? You know, there is help available. 
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Posts: 1433 (02/08/09 10:51 PM) Registered user |
CoconutPhone wrote: I agree. I think it was a difficult challenge and I really don't mind them throwing in technical challenges this late in the game at all. Sure, creativity is part of being a chef, but technical acumen is part of the deal too. Lots of skills go into being a chef, and I like seeing the variety of skills tested in the challenges. Still don't think Jamie deserved to go, and I hate Hosea. What a jealous piece of shit. I'd rather Leah win than him. are stinky and vic the same person? I don't even get their argument. |
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Posts: 7624 (02/08/09 10:55 PM) Registered user |
I wouldn't have minded the challenge so much if it were a quickfire. As it was, I certainly agree with those who found it an unfair challenge. If it is
about replicating dishes, they should be roughly equal in the degree of difficulty. I am not upset that Jamie is gone, but do think she got (un)fairly
screwed.
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Posts: 9505 (02/08/09 10:56 PM) |
Vic came after Stinky out of nowhere MG. Just another bizarre action by him in a very long line of bizarre actions.
eta: I agree with you guys saying it would have been better to have them all replicate one or two dishes for this particular challenge, but I knew she was gone the minute she dissed the food in her confessional and to the chef at judges table "this was my least favorite dish and I don't eat blah blah blah". Who the fuck cares? That just made it WORSE. She definitely deserved to stay over fucking mush mouth Leah the quitter, but she hosed herself with her comments and attitude.
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Posts: 48 (02/09/09 9:37 AM) |
Just to be clear; I was turned onto Top Chef by a friend, and I went back and watched all previous seasons. I thought it would be cool to jump on a couple
message boards (a first for me) to discuss this season. I came across this board after a Google search. I don't know what's in victalac's pipe that
has him/her convinced I'm some sort of hack, but the comments have vascillated between comical and annoying. Right now, it's swung fully to the
annoying side.
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Posts: 2430 (02/09/09 10:09 AM) Registered User |
I remember somebody else using your avatar years ago - maybe he has you confused with that person?
So, Fabio injures his hand in this next episode. I bet the other chefs will rally around and help him out. And we also see Jacques Pepin saying "I could die happy after eating that." Carla drew his name - I hope he's talking about her food. |
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Posts: 71 (02/09/09 10:27 AM) I don't get |
tdugan333 wrote:I don't see how it was about the palate based on the result. Jamie successfully identified her dish and made a cooking error. Leah had no idea what was in her dish, but made something that tasted better. |
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Posts: 730 (02/09/09 1:22 PM) Registered user |
Coning does not demonstrate originality. It demonstrates some expertise, which is fine, but the whole concept behind it is to be unoriginal.
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Posts: 9546 (02/10/09 12:50 AM) |
I agree with you Thaime. Leah should have been gone ages ago and this ep wasn't her first ride on the fuck up ferry so Jamie deserved to stay over her
based on the whole season, but from the blogs by the people on the show etc it was a truly inedible dish so it was in no way close to Chef Ripert's hence
her leaving.
By the by Stinky don't let that wart-o-the message board throw you off he's an idiot. Welcome. I'm watching season one for the first time and whoa do some of those mofo's have bad attitudes. I love throwing the gas station/make kids lunch shit at these idiots so they can get all pissy and say "a REAL chef doesn't have to put up with this". Hee hee it's really really funny. |
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Posts: 7635 (02/10/09 12:57 AM) Registered user |
odd how there are no really crazy challenges this time. there was no "make sushi out of a box of cereal and a goldfish" challenge.
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Posts: 8761 (02/10/09 5:01 AM) Registered user |
How do we KNOW it is poor Fabio's hand? It could have been any af the men, heck, it could even be a guest judge/chef or TC.
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Posts: 9565 (02/10/09 6:34 AM) |
On the "next on..." it clearly showed Fabio and had a confessional with him talking about his hand.
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Posts: 955 (02/10/09 7:36 AM) |
And there is a picture of Fabio with his left hand bandaged all up--the palm and the pinky particularly. Poor guy! I can't remember if he is right handed
or left handed--but it will be a handicap either way.
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Posts: 72 (02/10/09 9:28 AM) I don't get |
tdugan333 wrote:Don't get me wrong. I'm not arguing that Jamie shouldn't have left. I think they made it pretty clear that she made an atrocious dish. I'm just saying that, IMO, the challenge wasn't all about the refinement of the chef's palate. They did a Quickfire for that. IMO, it was mainly a challenge about copying, which I think is bogus for the final six, regardless of what Tom or anyone else says. |
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