# Chopped All-Stars, kick it up a notch! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725 "2011-03-07T01:55:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/1 "2011-03-07T01:55:36Z")
Have fun, throw out your ideas for making tonights Tournament memorable. For instance, better ingredients: squirrel embryos pine bark khat tallow challenging appliance tweaks: ice cream machine charged with super fluid liquid helium air force surplus radar powering microwave oven at 1000 times normal power output all tables wobbly with one leg shortened 140 hp Honda Vtwin powered food processor other tweaks: clock programmed to countdown at 115% normal speed oven temp calibration off Charlie Sheen as the guest MC Have fun and don’t hold back! ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/2 "2011-03-07T02:01:52Z")
Hey! Good for them; Ted just announced the prize money ($50,000) goes to charity! Looks like a fun show, it just started on Food Network. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/3 "2011-03-07T02:46:28Z")
This is going to be a fun series. This first competition is between almost-rans of last season’s Next Food Network Star. Liver!!! Debbie “threw everyone under the bus” Lee is here! W00t! ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/4 "2011-03-07T02:57:01Z")
Reported so that similar threads could be merged. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/5 "2011-03-07T02:58:03Z")
Reported so that similar threads could be merged. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/6 "2011-03-07T02:59:16Z")
Oops! ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/7 "2011-03-07T03:02:19Z")
No problem, exciting show! Goat butter, liver, deviled eggs, alien vegies! Wonderfully weird ingredients, if not the gore fest I would have preferred. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/8 "2011-03-07T03:38:06Z")
Merged duplicate threads. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/9 "2011-03-07T04:26:59Z")
I was hoping Food Network would do something like this. I want to see the judge that HATES red onion have to cook something with red onion. It’ll be nice to see the judges be judged - and chopped. ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/10 "2011-03-07T04:56:09Z")
Yeah, sorry to have to be the bearer of bad news, Scott Conant won’t be competing. BUT, if he is judging, we can hope the basket contains red, green, yellow, and white onions, and they will disable all the appliances that produce heat. We can also hope his ironic punishment in hell, someday, will involve giant, anatomically correct onion demons. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/11 "2011-03-07T05:12:21Z")
To be truly hell for him, the demons will serve him only undercooked pasta. ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/12 "2011-03-07T13:52:56Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > To be truly hell for him, the demons will serve him only undercooked pasta. and raw poultry . . . :eek: ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/13 "2011-03-07T17:53:49Z")
> [@Heyoka13](#): > > and raw poultry . . . > > :eek: And seafood with cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/14 "2011-03-07T20:10:05Z")
I was hoping Alex Guarnishelli would be competing, but then she wouldn’t be able to do that pissy kewpie doll face when she gets in a catfight with the other judges (“I don’t care if she left out 3/4 of the required ingredients- she made VOLUPTUOUS DEVILED EEEEEGGGGSSSS!!!”) And when it’s Geoffrey Zakarian’s turn I hope he gets stuck with tripe, circus peanuts, Red Bull, and lutefisk. Can’t stand that guy. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/15 "2011-03-07T20:28:54Z")
> [@ugly ripe tomato](#): > > I was hoping Alex Guarnishelli would be competing, but then she wouldn’t be able to do that pissy kewpie doll face when she gets in a catfight with the other judges (“I don’t care if she left out 3/4 of the required ingredients- she made VOLUPTUOUS DEVILED EEEEEGGGGSSSS!!!”) What was up with that, deviled eggs is (are?) her signature dish? Why not toast? I missed the cooking part of that segment. How did she end up leaving out three ingredients? ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/16 "2011-03-07T20:34:45Z")
> [@ugly ripe tomato](#): > > And when it’s Geoffrey Zakarian’s turn I hope he gets stuck with tripe, circus peanuts, Red Bull, and lutefisk. Can’t stand that guy. This. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/17 "2011-03-07T23:01:19Z")
> [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > I was hoping Food Network would do something like this. I want to see the judge that HATES red onion have to cook something with red onion. It’ll be nice to see the judges be judged - and chopped. Yes, I’m really looking forward to Mean Judge (they’ve showed him in previews. he’s always snotty and awful to the contestants) getting a basket. And hopefully getting chopped on the first round. ETA: It turns out that Mean Judge is Geoffrey Zakarian ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/18 "2011-03-08T16:56:03Z")
> [@sh1bu1](#): > > What was up with that, deviled eggs is (are?) her signature dish? Why not toast? I missed the cooking part of that segment. How did she end up leaving out three ingredients? I think it was time management, she was so hell bent on the deviled eggs (which take time to cook and peel and mix the filling) that she had no time to work on or plate the other stuff. I think she had the dried block o’ fishy stuff sprinkled on the eggs, but missed the poundcake, liver, and whatever the 4th ingredient was (brain fart, aargh!) ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/19 "2011-03-08T18:23:31Z")
my understanding is that one of the prelim rounds will be 4 chopped judges, which is the one I’m looking forward to the most. ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725/20 "2011-03-08T22:41:36Z")
> [@ugly ripe tomato](#): > > I was hoping Alex Guarnishelli would be competing, but then she wouldn’t be able to do that pissy kewpie doll face when she gets in a catfight with the other judges (“I don’t care if she left out 3/4 of the required ingredients- she made VOLUPTUOUS DEVILED EEEEEGGGGSSSS!!!”) I care not about her judge’s kewpie doll face. After watching her own show on Cooking Channel, I see a something there…a deep smoldering passion that might be fun to set free and enjoy the ride. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chopped-all-stars-kick-it-up-a-notch/573725.md?page=2)