Top Chef Tejas

Risotto has often been deadly to Top Chef contestants, and tonight was no exception. In this case, it was the risotto that a chef didn't get plated. Yep, the dude brought out three empty bowls to the judges. Needless to say he got the quick boot. Ended up with six chefs on the bubble for two spots. And I love the concept of the online-only Last Chance Kitchen, which is kinda like the PBA stepladder finals writ large. The last two chefs eliminated tonight had a cookoff to determine who would be left to take on the next chef to be eliminated, and so on. So the person who won tonight's Last Chance will probably have to win numerous head-to-heads to re-enter the main competition (they didn't say at what point the last Last Chance winner will enter the main field again)

 

I don't like the format change.
And the two people I was rooting for on the bubble did terrible.

 

Me neither. Too many people and since I don't know much about them, it's hard to really care.

 

Hugh has a ton of personality, but he didn't show much of it last night.

 

First, overcooked shrimp/seafood is the same kiss of death as oversalting.

And second, the bubble cookoff was tough because I liked pretty much all of them.

 

Two best lines were when chefs were introducing themselves.

One dude gives his credentials, and then says, "and I'm a culinary artist." (This was the same dude who already compared himself to Richard Blais and Michael Michael Voltaggio, two of the best chefs to ever compete on the show.) So, the next girl gives her modest credentials and then says, "and also a culinary artist," just to mock the first guy. Tom smirked and looked like he could barely keep from laughing.

Last night, everybody is mentioning their James Beard and Food & Wine nominations, so the one guy says, "and I was nominated by my mother as one of her two favorite sons."

 

I was hoping the Korean guy (don't know all the names yet, apologies) would get eliminated in the bubble cookoff, simply for the fact that the little thing he does with his jaw when he's talking bugs the shit out of me. Other than that, he's probably an excellent cook. LMAO

It seems like it could be an interesting season.

 

I was hoping he'd get eliminated too, but mainly because I thought he seemed like an ass with his "I'm better than all these other people" type comments.

 

I did pick up on the arrogant attitude, but I couldn't get past his jaw tweaking.

On a related note, I did think it was extremely funny that the cocky dude got quickly sent home for butchering his butchering. LOL

 

I still never understand why people don't prepare better for this show.

Practice butchering. It always comes up.

Have a couple of desserts up your sleeve. "I'm not a pastry chef," isn't going to cut it.

Be prepared for a vegetarian/vegan challenge.

Etc.

 

He showed a ton of his personality last night, and it screamed "I'm a douche!"

His overexaggerated facial expressions and over-the-top reaction to the food almost looked like he was trying to be a parody of someone. He acted like using buying pre-cooked shrimp and flour tortillas were offenses on par with raping a boy in the shower.

I also wonder what happened to the makeup people at Bravo. You'd think one of them might say something to him about the horrible unibrow he's got working.

 

He's had it for years. It's kind of his thing, for whatever reason.