Just a reminder for the Top chef fans, the new season starts tonight, and I believe the Masters series ends tonight.
Set your TEVOs people.
How many arrogant ‘Molecular Gastronomists’ will there be to hate in this one I wonder? 
Too much Top Chef too fast. They’re risking overexposure.
Well Top Tittie is off to a good start, At least A- cleavage by Padma tonight.
SPOILERS for episode 1
Too many chefs to keep names straight. Standard types represented. Mom, Ass, Meek chicks, Bland gay guy, Tattooed girl, couple foreigners, and a bunch of interchangeable frat boys.
One of the mousey women went home tonight, the other should not be long for the show. One snarky arrogant ass, who should have a few near blowouts but will likely stay till the end. Bearded winner guy may be another arrogant ass too, hard to tell so far. the Haitian boat refugee guy seems cool, but I imagine he will make a traditional dish that the judges hate at some point. Same with Puerto Rican guy, frying a steak for Wolfgang Puck?, WTF!
Pierced girl got an edit that makes me think she will last a while too, and may actually listen and improve. The Gold chip Mom will probably last playing safe middle-of-the-road until the herd is culled down.
The rest are too hard to notice or remember.
I’m still watching the episode, but the tattooed Latina freaks me out. Neck tattoos scare the crap out of me. And it’s not even on the side, it’s on the front… OW.
The only places more painful for a tat would be the back of one’s knees, or the taint…
Well here we go again. After the borefest of last season, I hope they can bring it back to style. Unfortunately they’re still doing the whole “show the short clip in the middle of the commercial break,” which is really just a way to show more commercials.
Still can’t really tell anyone apart yet. There’s like four guys that look the same: french guy, brothers, and some other guy. [spoiler]I had a good feeling about the winner before he won. He didn’t seem arrogant, sort of just saying “If this dish doesn’t win, then I’m screwed because I rocked this dish.” Sexist, arrogant guy needs to go though.
I’m also happy with the choice of loser. I knew she wasn’t long for this show when she basically ignored the fact that her dish wasn’t good and just kept saying that she was trying to do something new and different. Reminds of the ostrich egg girl.[/spoiler]
The fact is, when you’re on the bottom, you have to do two things: own up to your mistakes, and then defend what you did right.
I’m hoping the ass named Mike gets his ass whipped by some girls and goes home soon.
And those stretched out earlobes were not very appetizing, I have to say. I loved the look everyone gave her when she said she was using seitan as a main ingredient. Maybe she was going to rock a carob dessert, too.
Also, I have to ask, are all the chefs alcoholics? I know this is a reality show, but it’s also kind of a job interview. I might rein in the whole “my weakness is that I get wasted and make bad decisions.”
I know everyone thinks Vegas is a bad choice (maybe not EVERYONE but already read a few critics saying that) for Top Chef, but I was glad they had a Basque chef (Martin?, I think). Maybe it wasn’t intentional, but the top half of our state has alot of incredibly good Basque restaurants and there is a strong Basque culture around Elko especially. Not Basque myself, but their food ROCKS and I wish they had it down here so I didn’t have to pine for my once or twice a year treat.
Ohh man, I love the Basque food around Reno. SO freaking good. I have driven through Elko many times, but never stopped. Do they have any good place you know of?
Mr. singular called the loser as soon as they showed her not unpacking because she was superstitious. At least it’s a faux-hawk-free cast.
Man, there are a lot of really regrettable tattoos this season, aren’t there?
missed the edit window
And how freaking stupid do you have to be to allow your teammate who just said “I’ve never shucked a clam before” be the first up to do just that in a competition?!?!?! KeeRYST, that pissed me off!
And it cannot be said enough that Mike is the most arrogant chef this season, inspiring a hotbed of hatred and hurricane-strength eye-rolling in the singular household, thereby assuring he will last well into the season.
I’m with you. However, he’s already got beat by a girl once, and right now she looks like one of the better chefs. I’m just a bit sad that his cooking does seem to be pretty good.
I liked the guy who won and the Haitian guy, although I didn’t quite get what his vice was. I also would have loved to have seen someone pick gluttony as a vice.
Here’s a question. One girl said her vices were beer, chocolate, bacon, and doughnuts. Unless you belong to a religion which makes eating certain food sinful, like our bad Jewish girl whose vice was loving pork, I wouldn’t consider individual foods as vices in and of themselves. Weaknesses, perhaps, but not vices.
His vice was that he couldn’t let his dangerous, traumatic journey to the US “go”. He still lets it impact him, more than he would like, I guess. Rather poignant.
Too many chefs for me to tell them apart at this point. But what a difference from the cast of Hell’s Kitchen!
I sort of felt the Haitian guy was deliberately playing on the sympathies of the judges. I think I’d’ve preferred to see the mise-en-place relay later in the season, but the idiocy of putting the girl who has never shucked a clam in the clam leg was mind-blowing.
StG
Anyone else absolutely HATING the big overlay ads on the right that no longer stay in the bottom right corner, but have migrated up to the middle of the screen and cover people’s faces?
Bravo should be shot for that crap. What next? An ad right in the fookin’ middle of the screen?
The Star is the busiest and my favorite- but they are crazy busy and you have to get there early or have a reservation. Their Baked Lamb is to die for, but also one of their most popular dishes and they’ve told me that they will reserve it if you let them know at your reservation or at the beginning of your wait time (they have a cool bar so we often are happy to spend an hour or two waiting). On days they are open for lunch though, you can get right in usually and they have a good “Boarder’s Lunch” with beef and peppers that is delicious.
If you cannot get into the Star- right across the street is BilToki’s- which my friend who lives in Elko likes a little better than the Star and they have more tables and less of a wait I think. Winnemucca has The Martin too, which I have heard beats them all.
Yeah, I hate the corner-sitting ad creep.
Just think of the possibilities for a product-placement drinking game! Gladware! (glub) GE! (glub)… til you’re face down in your own drool before the first real commercial break.
I thought the bigger girl w/ the piercings basically used gluttony, but called her weakness “excess.” As in, “I eat an excess of french fries.” I really liked her and think she will do pretty well.
I like the more conservative of the two brothers. Kind of crazy that one has a Michelin star and the other was a James Beard nominee…are they the love children of Jacque Pepin or something?
I also really like the bearded guy that won last night. He reminds me of an indie rock band guy. He seems to have a lot of talent and I’m looking forward to seeing what he can do.
I thought the dishes would have to be based on one of the seven deadly sins which I thought would be more interesting than them coming up with weaknesses to fit their dishes (like the Haitian guy and the rack guy). BTW, I sure hope Haitian guy’s trip to the US and cancer woman’s cancer don’t keep coming up in every episode.
One of the people I was watching it with kept going on about the earlobe girl and how gross that was to look at, so we were happy to see her go first.
I was completely grossed out by both the stretched ears gal and the one with the mouth piercings. I really hope that one also gets sent home soon. I have to close my eyes every time she comes on the screen lest I barf.