Most of the food coming out of the kitchen tonight for the elimination challenge was crap and far below the quality I would expect out of anyone trying to say they deserve any kind of national stature or recognition. On the other hand, the Quickfire challenge was very good. Why didn’t any of them just hold the net at the bottom and use their other hand to move the shells into it instead of using it as a scoop.
Howie finally shines
Hung has let his little bit of early glory go to his head and is now an insufferable ass.
Micah’s “meatloaf” deserved the ejection button. So far this season I have zero problems with the elimination decisions. with a close second going to the beans & franks.
I did not understand why Hung got to first on the quickfire challenge. How did they decide the order? I guess he felt it when he had to pick last on the elimination challege. Hung is a cocky SOB, but I have seen a lot of footage of people asking him for opinions and I have watched scenes with him helping out others.
I want to see Michael Chiklis and that New York guy get all “Brooklyn” with each other again. “You dink dat I ain’t actin’ like uh man? You da one dat needs to star actin’ like uh man!”
Looking at that tuna casserole oozing green stuff made want to vomit. Those pork chops on the other hand looked mighty good.
Both the South African and the beannie wiennie girl deserved to get the boot.
Ted Allen did not add much to the show.
When is Padma going to break out the high heels and micro mini shorts or something else inappropriate for the situation?
On a similar note, who was the girl getting into the pool in the bikini? I thought that there should have been more footage of that.
Ok, last week Hung was accused of poaching another chef’s recipe (and I know some people have forgiven him, but his “when people think of a barbecue, they think of watermelon” line is why I remain suspicious of him).
This week, Hung is accused of turning off the oven.
Hung’s being edited as the villain, mainly because he’s giving the producers enough soundbites in his interviews to do so. Those soundbites are, however, kind of balanced by the fact that, as Mesquite-oh points out, he’s helped a number of other contestants.
I personally would like to see a lot more footage of CJ (shirtless), but I’ll just have to wait and see.
The reinvented food was largely ass. Howie’s was far and away the tastiest-looking dish. I really like that Brian names his dishes. “Hair of Medusa, Eyes of Fries” is often repeated in our house. Lia’s sausage looked like a limp dick.
He didn’t steal a recipe. He just used one drink ingredient that had been used before. In that same episode, somebody made a vanilla lobster in the quickfire and then someone lse did a vanilla lobster n the elimination challenge. Nobody was crying foul about that (including the editor) even though that was a lot closer copy than Hung making a watermelon champagne after Joey had previously made a watermelon “shooter” with a different kind of liquor. Joey was just being a bitch.
Hung also didn’t turn off the oven --that is, he didn’t turn it off while someone else had their stuff in there. He turned it off after he got done cooking his own stuff and then whatshername just never turned it on when she put her own stuff in. She just shoved her stuff in after Hung got done without checking to see if it was still turned on.
Hung has been shown helping people numerous times already. Last week they showed him removing someone’s food from a burner to save it from being burned. I think some of the others are just feeling a little threatened by him as a front runner and are trying to delude themselves that he’s some giant asshole when he’s really just kind of cocky but easy-going.
By the way, there’s a little mini-scandal involving Micah. Turns out the she’s really an American from New England. The whole South African thing (including the accent) is a fake. And she was doing that whole act about how she’d never eaten fried chicken or meatloaf and how “you Americans” put ketchup on everything. What a psycho hosebeast.
Maybe I’m misremembering, but when she asked him if he turned the oven off, he said no, but in his one-on-one, he said, “Yeah, I turned it off, and she should have checked it.”
After the first week, I really thought he and Rock would be the highest, but Rock’s certainly fallen from grace, and Hung didn’t pull off this week’s either, but I thought this challenge was a lot of BS anyway. They penalize people for not doing what the judges WANT them to do. So-and-so didn’t make her own sausage? That was part of the challenge?!? That said, the tuna looked…awful.
I actually liked the idea of the meatloaf, but I’m a fan of shephard’s pie. But to them, the entire concept was hideous, and I don’t get that one at all.
Oh, man, that’s funny. Funny enough that she would fake being from another country, but you are right…all those comments about americans! What a nutjob.
I actually felt a little bad for her & the Jamaican contestant in this episode, figuring that maybe they weren’t as familiar with American home-style cooking as the others. Guess my sympathy was a little misplaced!
She probably really wants to act and thought this was a way to get her foot in the door.
Or she’s just whacked.
Damn, I was hoping to catch a replay of the shows while I was doing paperwork at work (don’t have cable at home) but all I got were 1st season Project Runway reruns. I need cable. whine
As soon as she picked out 95% lean ground beef, I thought “That’s going to be one dry meatloaf.” From the reactions, I don’t think she did anything to make it moist, plus the flavors were off.
I also don’t get the whole stacking things in a round, particularly with “comfort” food. Both Micah and CJ missed with that.
Howie shined with porkchops and applesauce!? It was the safest and most conventional choice outside of the meatloaf, ferchrissakes! Any chef can grill a good porkchop and make appleslaw…sheesh! Hmmm… what goes with pork? Oh, I know, apples and cabbage!
As a matter of fact, I think his appleslaw should have disqualified him. It’s porkchops and applesauce. If Sandee was let go because she didn’t meet the requirements of the challenge then Howie should be too… and they shoudn’t have come down so hard on the Jamaican chef and her deconstructed alaking, if they let Howie slide on the applesauce.
Another thing… in the program, Micah said she came from Italy four years ago to America with $400.00 and started her own catering business from nothing… The whole American dream thingy. Seems kind of suspicious, now.
I never noticed her Home Country in these first three episodes. I thought she was Australian when she said that they barbecue lamb at home and my interpretation of her accent. Then I wasn’t sure when she made the Italy comment and thought that maybe she was Italian and maybe had spent some time in England learning English… I’m so confused.
Maybe she spent a considerable amount of time as an American expat in South Africa and picked up the accent? Do you think the accent is an affectation or real?
I was thinking this after I posted that. I mean, how could she ever have thought she would get away with it, with all the blogs & message boards dedicated to talking about these reality shows? It’s bizarre.
Is CJ Jacobsen (the tall guy) Casey Jacobsen who was an All-American basketball player at Stanford and played a few years in the NBA? He looks kinda like him and seems to be the right height, although I think the show said he was 31, which would make him a little old, I think. I tried to see at the show website, but it sucks and I couldn’t take it anymore.