I still don’t understand why so many of them picked soup. The tomato soup with the grilled cheese made sense for the time of night, but the other soups did not scream “3 am” to me.
Even though I think Kevin Clash is an awesome guy (I love when he does radio interviews on Tavis Smiley’s show) I’ve always been not just pro-Grover buy anti-Elmo. But after that comment, it’s improved my opinion of Elmo ten-fold.
(Sesame Street monster muppets are still ranked Grover, Cookie, Telly, Elmo, though. Elmo’s too much a glory-hog.)
Ha! My thoughts exactly. I told my son that he deserved to go home for wearing black knee socks with shorts regardless of the quality of his food. Although I think Angelo is a better cook than a couple of the folks still left, I imagine that a few folks in earlier seasons who took Angelo’s advice and then ended up going home were laughing their heads off that Angelo decided to oversalt his soup based on Mike Isabella’s critique.
I thought it was sort of nasty that they were just using the bowls and utensils and stuff straight off the shelf without having had the opportunity to wash any of that stuff. :eek:
I don’t think Dale’s food was quite as oversalted as the editing might have suggested. (Multiple inclusions of Jimmy’s “salt monster” comment, etc.) Tom’s blog this week was revealing:
We even saw Angelo add extra water to his soup to try to dilute it. I’m surprised that he could mess up so badly. But I’ve never been convinced he could be consistent and mentally tough to make it all the way through the competition.
I’m surprised at the number of cheftestants who make the too-salty mistake. It has to be a function of the time pressure, right? Or is it that chefs in the real world can simply throw out a dish that went too salty and start over?
I would have been more excited to be able to meet Kevin Clash than Elmo. Muppeteer is a dream job of mine, and Clash got his start as Goriddle Gorilla on “my” show, The Great Space Coaster. Baking cookies for Cookie Monster would be such an honor I’d probably faint.
It seemed to me the Muppets were acting more like The Muppet Show than Sesame Street, and Angelo deserved to go home for his clothing choice. Good episode.
Dale nearly had me in tears at the end there. If anyone has redeem him/herself this season, it was definitely Dale. Bums me out to not see him in the final. I think he went out at the final six last time as well.
Now, back to the beginning. Here’s how my thoughts went during the quickfire:
“Hey, fried chicken oysters, that’s a pretty clever idea. I’m surprised that Mike came up with-”
“Yeah, Richard showed me his idea for it this morning.”
“Nevermind.”
Pretty cheap move. Shows that he’s pretty much outclassed by everyone else. Didn’t Tiffany give him the idea for his elimination challenge too?
Random thoughts time:
Carla picking Tre assuming he would know all about Southern food: Hilarious.
The producers had to have given Marcel the best protein on purpose.
Surprised Rich won just based on initial reactions. Felt like the first opinion from the judges was “not bad.”
I want a box set of all Top Chef seasons with a special feature of Carla’s face in a pop-up box reacting to everything that happens. And Fabio providing commentaries.
Southern fried food. Oh Yeah!!! Best of all, it’s for a great cause, the Gulf Coast fishermen that lost so much during the oil spill.
Fatigue is certainly a factor. These chefs are absolutely exhausted. I don’t think they’ve gotten even one day off this entire season. That was painfully obvious seeing Dale stagger around like a zombie. Carla and Tiffany both “southern chefs” screw up a southern menu. Crazy stuff that only happens when you push people all the way past the edge of the cliff. This isn’t Top Chef anymore. It’s about survival and not great food. Even a couple days off would make a big difference in these chefs performance.
Tiffani sure saved Mike I. this time. Man, did he luck out getting a chef that had lived in New Orleans for 2 years. Richard is turning into a dick. His attitude is getting worse as the episodes go by. Probably fatigue and exhaustion.
How is Tiffany still on this show? I would say that at least the last three chefs eliminated outclassed her (and actually, you know, won challenges). Her main skill seems to be being consistently mediocre.
/Shallow Padma looked really nice in her QF top. She’s benefited from the baby boobs this season. Plus, I like a woman that doesn’t look like a toothpick.
She’s practically popping out of a top at Judges Table. I’ll miss her assets next season. /EndShallow
That’s not shallow, Padma is half the reason I watch the show.
Perviously Dale seemed like a bit of a dick. I’ve liked him a lot more this season and was kind of rooting for him. My rooting for someone is the kiss of death apparently.
Even a couple days off would make a big difference in these chefs performance.
/EndShallow