Food Network Star Recap: Demo Disasters

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By MisRed | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 | 2:00 pm | 13 Comments
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In my notes, before the show started, I made a prediction (and you can tell that it’s from BEFORE the show started because the penmanship is actually legible), I will share the photograph of my note at the end of this recap. Here we are at Episode 9 and Vampoor is still lurking in the shadows waiting for a new victim.


Invitation to disaster

The remaining contestants are told that they are cordially invited (which surely spells disaster) to the South Beach Food and Wine Festival, where anything can happen.  At the site of the filming a crew is setting-up for a big event- lots of chairs, etc.


“Honey, what’s this? Where are we?  What’s happening?” -Karen Walker

The Star Challenge du Week (clearly, I do not speak French) is a LIVE cooking demo.  The mentors note, the cooking demos at SoBe are a huge draw for fans.  Each contestant has to do a 3 minute live demo of their signature dish.  In this demo they should showcase their cooking skills, they should show a “tip,” tell a story and be entertaining.  As a reminder- there are no “re-do’s” they have to get it in 1 take.  So, yeah, no pressure.


I love when the forget to crop out the random crew guy…

Martita is going to make her signature sweet pork chile relleno.  Her tip is to demonstrate how to char peppers on an open flame.  


Basically, you just burn the crap out of them…

Bobble Head, who I might add, looks REALLY Bobble-ish today, asks her why she is making this dish.  Martita explains that she always has her girlfriends over and teaches them how to cook and this is one of the dishes she has taught them.  Bobble encourages her to share this story with the audience.  Frankly, unless Channing Tatum and Joe Manganiello come in and start stripping, I’m not interested in hearing about any “girls night in” at Martita’s.

Yvan is making “love bites” inspired by his girlfriend, Robert.  (Sorry, I, sort of, assumed Yvan was gay= not that there’s anything wrong with it.  Frankly, I like him gay.  As a breeder he is… annoying.)  It is a fried oyster topped with sea urchin and pomegranate.  I am not sure if he changes this half way through because in the end it winds up being topped with a chipotle mayo and pomegranate, which sounds edible to me- with the sea urchin, I would have passed.

The Ippster, fresh off his win last week, is making a dish that combines his heritage- pasta with Pink Miso sauce with scallop.  Combining his mother’s vodka sauce recipe along with a sautéed scallop, as his father is a scallop. (His father is Hawaiian/Chinese, he said- I think.)  Ippy is slightly worried, because his scallops are frozen- but he’s hopeful they will thaw out in time, and dries them on a paper towel to insure they will be able to get a nice sear.  Bobble warns him to keep his energy up or else.


Wax on, Wax off

Here’s a surprise for you- hang onto your seat- Nikki is grilling something.  Oh, it’s a lamb chop.  She is going to demonstrate a simple marinade and how to get good grill marks.  She knows that she must not appear too rehearsed.


This gives you a little perspective on how many and how close the cameras are

Gangster Anne Burrell (and it looks like the REAL Anne Burrell is going to be on next week’s episode… I wonder how she will feel to be confronted with her evil doppelgänger.  Or should I say DoppelGangSTER? )  is making a clam named after her father, who apparently was named Mimi.  Clams Mimi.  Gangster says it is similar to Clams Casino.  It would have been cool if her Dad’s name was Casino, and coincidental.  Unfortunately, she doesn’t have little-neck clams, they have provided her with Manilla Clams.  Bobby notes that Manilla Clams are delicious and having the wrong kind of clams is the LEAST of Gangster’s worries- her timing should be the biggest concern.  Am I on glue?  Gangster had a minor timing issue last week- 5 seconds under- which I know is still under and dead air and whatnot, but I would think Bobby’s instruction would be to keep the f-ing clam shells OUT of the food.

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13 Comments

  1. 1
    featherhead
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    Oh Marteeeta, Spanx for the memories!!

  2. 2
    Novi
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 4:58 pm

    I’m just shocked at Nikki’s staying power. She messed up worse than any of the others, IMO, and had the easiest possible curveball thrown at her. Guess the teams just have to be even in the end so no mentor feels left out… Just like The Voice. Which is a major flaw in both shows.

  3. 3
    Adelefig
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 6:03 pm

    Does the amount, size and ability to display all of ‘em at once (teeth) both anyone else but me??….speaking of Giada of course………oooooooh,wait…..is Giada the bobblehead of which you speak???……hilarious!

  4. 4
    mermaidtricks
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 7:21 pm

    Not only “where anything can happen,” but “where any anything can happen,” if you read the card. =P

    And Justin really IS a vampire.

  5. 5
    Chitarra
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 9:24 pm

    Ya know… ballerina bun or no, I still would really like to see Ippy win. :-)

  6. 6
    LaPetiteChanteuse
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 11:28 pm

    They were kind of lazy with Justin’s challenge. A few people asking questions is handling a crowd. One obnoxious man asking a bunch of questions in a row during a really short presentation is an asshole. Even the worst and most useless hecklers get kicked out of clubs.

    Giada’s show is alright to watch if you’re bored in the middle of the day but she seems like a crazy person on this show.

    My prediction is they get one person from each team so I think it should be Justin, Michelle, and Ippy based on ability and past performance. However, they’ve been loading up on moms and Southern cooking lately which gives Martie a good shot and Yvan is the most adorable.

  7. 7
    mjhhawk
    Posted July 12, 2012 at 7:10 am

    I am starting to get worried Martie is going to win this show. Bob adores her. I can honestly say I wouldn’t watch one second of her show. The evening of the teams is kind of annoying as well – I like my reality shows to be slightly less scripted, like Jersey Shore…..wait, not that one – maybe the Kardashians…..But I will say Martita was the right person to go. She had nothing. And I got douche chills every time my adorable Giada over pronounced her name.

  8. 8
    Pywacket
    Posted July 12, 2012 at 10:42 am

    The problem with Martie’s POV is that it’s straight out of the Birmingham Junior League Cookbook. That’s the kind of food she makes, along with a jillion other people. It’s ok, but definitely nothing new under the sun.

    I want to make everything Justin makes, whether or not he’s a vampire. That’s not really a minus, these days, anyway.

  9. 9
    msjacqmills
    Posted July 12, 2012 at 12:17 pm

    I’m sorry. I don’t think Justin looks like a vampire, I think he looks like Howdy-Doody, which is why his “Rebel with a Culinary Cause’ is a little hard for me to swallow. He definitely doesn’t look like a rebel…a science geek, yes. Rebel, no.

    I hope Ippy wins. I think he has a show idea that would actually be new and unique. His laid back personality doesn’t bother me a bit.

    But, I don’t think he’ll win. It’ll either be Justin or the adorable latin dude (forget his name).

  10. 10
    zerocool
    Posted July 12, 2012 at 1:43 pm

    Still rooting for Justin, Michelle or Ippy. Glad Martita finally got the boot.

    Has anyone noticed how wrinkled Giada looks on this show compared to her show? Talk about a vaseline covered lens….

    And then, her new Natural Instincts commerical for hair dye. Girl got a facelift!

  11. 11
    Mary
    Posted July 12, 2012 at 5:09 pm

    It was obvious that they wanted to keep the teams even at two. If they really chose who did the worst in this challenge, Martita and Nikki would have been in the bottom.

    I hope that Justin wins. I wouldn’t really mind if the others (besides Nikki) won, but Justin’s show is the only one I would watch.

  12. 12
    crockpot
    Posted July 12, 2012 at 5:52 pm

    MisRed- Love your recaps!!!!! The joker was awesome. CP

  13. 13
    LAC LAC
    Posted July 13, 2012 at 10:37 am

    Another great recap, with some funnah screenshots!

    I am glad to see Martita go – she had all these opportunities and squandered them. She had all these fun stories but inevitably when it came down to fun stories versus stare down a camera blankly for agonizingly long moments, she went with option two.

    Grilly just skeeves me with those eyebrows and well, just with her presence. I do not think I want to tune into a show with either her or Martie mothermouth. And I really do not get Gangsta’s POV. Is it going to just focus on New England and dishes named after family members? I really think it is the guys’ season.

    Does anyone watch “United Tastes of America” with the runner up of a couple of seasons ago, named Jeffrey? Is it me or is he the smarmiest douche to host a show? I like the idea of the show, but his delivery is so blech!

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