Top Chef

Why do they ride Richard Blais' nuts on this show so much when his restaurants always get shit reviews IRL. It diminishes the credibility of the show when you put Blais up there with the David Changs and Thomas Kellers and legit michelin-starred people and play up his cred just because he was an all-stars alum. He's closed more restaurants than have lasted more than a season and has pissed off just about every investor that's been on the show.

That and/or make the memory entertaining. e.g., "I was raped 10 year ago. The child was aborted. So, I made eggs in purgatory."

Phillip Frankland Lee has to be the most annoying fucking person on the show. How has he not been eliminated when they don't like anything he ever fucking makes.

I concur, at least for the annoying part. I thought I liked him on Chopped/whatever but, giving him more camera time, the ego/inability/unwillingness to accept criticism is suggestively pathological.

I was surprised the chef-ed out food that looked tasty, but not fitting for the event, went home as opposed to the sausage that I could probably make at home.

Kwame should've gone home for overlooking the shrimp. The rules weren't that clear, as the guy said they're 'elevating beefsteak' and it's a black tie thing. As far as I could tell, Chad's tasted fine, but was just too 'soign?'.

Also, in last chance kitchen, sucks that Chad lost to Jason, thought he'd win that too.

^^ same... I was yelling at the TV the whole time, like, how does someone not make some pulled pork or ribs?! fuck you guys

The chefs got fucked over hard by the guy presenting the challenge to them. The very first sentence out of his mouth was "we've taken the event hosted by politicians and gangsters and elevated it for modern day, and people come in black tie". Then later said the three rules are no utensils, no plates, no napkins. They did not emphasize at all the fact that its supposed to be a caveman type of dining experience, so fuck them three ways for coming down on the chefs for failing to read between the lines.

Barraco Bisi_sl said:

I can't believe no one did beef ribs or beef shortribs.

Make em sticky and gooey. Autowin.

I agree Kwame should've gone home. Producers must've gotten in the judges ear.

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the winners and losers went up as a team didnt they? I am pretty sure that is what saved Kwame. This show hasn't been afraid to eliminate a favorite early before as far as I remember. And sausage & tuna team was clearly the bottom of that challenge.

As for the parameters of the challenge, I am pretty sure they all knew what they were doing and cooking for, they just chose to go for elevated more than caveman and didn't realize how much it would fuck them. Which is odd, generally the chefs in recent seasons have seen this show enough to realize that theme is just as, if not more, important than the food for things like this (barring someone making something outright gross)