I don’t know…I can see that Christine obviously has assistance and yet, she really is amazing in her technique. I’m happy that Becky is gone, actually. I thought she thought that it was a done deal that she would be in the final and I love when people “get their comeuppance”, so to speak. And I do like Josh, a lot. But I have to say that I’m rooting for Christine. I mean, really, how many cookbooks are written by people who cannot see? Pretty frickin’ cool. That’s why I’m predicting she’s the winner…although after this week, I have to say that I do believe that Josh probably should win. Does that make sense? Okay…
Oh…and as for Hell’s Kitchen…all I have to say is good luck Christina! (That’s her name, right? I’m getting confused with Masterchef).
By the way, if none of you cooking show fans have watched Masterchef-New Zealand…I highly recommend it. It is so drama free, it’s crazy. It’s fun to see what others are into versus American TV. I would actually love to watch the Australian version but there are like 30 episodes per season. I really can’t tolerate the “I’m gonna teach you how to cook” segments".
There wasn’t an option since only Clemenza was left.
I thought Josh’s chicken looked tough and dry in the last challenge. And it seemed like they were looking for an excuse to kick Becky off - first “oh, no - your fish is too small. You won’t be able to make an entree from that.” and then when she recovered from that to make a whole new dish, it’s “Too much sauce in your greens.”
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Of all the ways there are to prepare chicken, I think “fried” would be at the bottom of my list. I’m a little surprised they kept Christine, especially since Becky did a pretty good job on the frog’s legs, having never eaten, much less prepared them, in her life. I think they just wanted to cut her down because she’s not the kind of person that takes rejection well. Although, given the opportunity to prepare absolutely anything, with ingredients you choose yourself, to give the judges a meal that is essentially the culmination of all of your talent and skills as a chef, and you choose fish soup- that alone deserves being let go. It should have come with a swift kick in the ass.
I think it’s Josh’s to lose.
Can someone remind me of what happened to Josh earlier in the season? As I remember, he was legitimately eliminated in a competition, but returned in a later competition that was supposed to result in the return of one of the eliminated competitors but seemed rigged to ensure that only he return.
I don’t think that any season of Hell’s kitchen has had such a horrible brigade.
Having to choose between Royce, Kimmie, Clemenza and Robyn is like choosing to which one of your limbs to chop off.
I think both brigades are going to screw with the finalists big time.
Looking forward to the carnage.
Ramsey said something about it being an egg challenge. I think they had to cook a fried egg, a poached egg and a soft-boiled egg. Josh lost. Then they had a challenge where they brought back the last four contestants to be kicked off, and had them cook against each other head-to head to have the winner come back to the competition. Josh won.
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Josh shouldn’t have even been doing the egg challenge. He was part of a losing group and should have been given the immunity (IMHO), but Monti insisted it go to someone else.
The return contest was to make a tart, with the remaining contestants tasting them both blind and unanimously chose Josh’s over that mysoginistic, narcisist jerk whose name I don’t care to remember.
I disagree. Chistine’s fried chicken was excellent while Becky’s was not horrible. The biggest complement was that she had never cooked frog legs before and she did an adequate job on them. The general rule in any cooking show is if you are going to do something basic, it needs to be perfect. Christine’s chicken was and so she stayed.
Becky’s frog legs weren’t adequate, though, they were good. It was solely the potatoes being soggy that anyone seemed to have a problem with, and those still looked far superior to whatever the hell Christine’s mess of a side was. Some sort of green soaking in white glop. Not only did it look gross, it doesn’t come off as something to complement fried chicken.
[reponding to Saint Cad:] But it’s just fried chicken. It’s about as basic as you can get. Anyone who has spent any time in a kitchen can cook fried chicken; cooking fantastic fried chicken isn’t that much of a stretch. Also, they gave the frog legs nearly the same compliments as they gave the chicken: “it’s moist, tasty, nice job”. The chicken was “it’s moist, tasty, fantastic”. Especially since frog legs have about 3 seconds between ‘not done yet’ and ‘overcooked/dry’.
Christine had the first choice of ingredients; she took the easy route and did a good job. Becky had no choice; she ended up with the hardest ingredient and did just about as well. I’m just surprised they didn’t give her points for that.
Not that I’m disappointed with the outcome. Becky sort of irritated me.
IIRC, Gordon said Christine’s chicken was “beyond delicious.” Her side dish was creamed kale.
I was surprised that nobody in the whole episode mentioned how similar frog legs were to chicken. I had frog legs once in a buffet and didn’t know it was frog legs until someone pointed it out to me. It tastes exactly like chicken
Countdown! Maybe both win? Referring to HK here…
The winner of Hell’s Kitchen was Christina
The winner of Master Chef was Christine
I think we can honestly say that Christine never saw that coming.
C’mon, somebody had to do it.
Wow did anyone see Felix? Pigtails, short skirt…I want somebody to give her a show!
Anyway, good job Christine, she was amazing.
I suspect she does too, and that’s why she was made up like somebody’s lolicon wet dream.
I wonder how tall Josh is? Christine seemed to come just past his elbow.
If it’s not all staged (which it could very well be - I trust Top Chef more than any Ramsey show), I think that Christine only took it based on the fact that her menu was linear and cohesive, not just a collection of dishes. I was actually surprised at the look of her dishes - she usually presents something quite beautiful on a plate. To me, her salad looked like way too much (although she was feeding three judges), the pork belly looked like it was just plopped down on a bed of white rice, and her sorbet with the tuile wasn’t particularly attractive, although it wasn’t ugly.
Josh’s food looked spectacular, and they didn’t have many bad comments except for the under-done lobster and the pie crust being slightly greasy and not being able to taste the bacon. Joe’s comment about the play on seasons for the entree obviously never occurred to Josh. But his food was all very heavy and didn’t tie together. It was a collection of dishes. I wonder if he’s going to work for Ramsey? Didn’t Gordon offer him a place in a kitchen when he was eliminated the first time?
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