The Taste: The Earl of Sammich

The Taste

By eyediosmio | Thursday, February 21, 2013 | 9:44 am | 6 Comments
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So the whole crew goes back into the green room.  Huda’s praying she doesn’t get sent home, but she knows undone chicken is not good.  Diane’s convinced she’s going in the red box tonight, and Gregg is bitching about being called out on his bullshit Naan.  Ninamarie correctly tells him to take the criticsm to heart and not to deflect it.  He accepts her advice.  And there is no screaming or name calling.

See, these people are too civil and nice?  Have I been conditioned by Top Chef to expect douchery at all times?  So far, the douchiest was Shawn, and he’s outta there. 

So here we go, our best and worst.  Who do we have?

Tony picks Nigella’s team as his best and worst.  Digging Huda’s side-eye.  Check out the contrast in expressions, it’s like the drama mask. 

 

Nigella picks Tony’s team as her best/worst!  Interesting . . .

 

Malarkey picks his own as the best, and Tony’s as the worst.  Mia is PIIISSSSED!  I made my own bread bitches!

And Ludo gives makes Malarkey’s wet dreams come true by picking Jeff as his best and his own team as his worst. 

Ludo is le pissed 

Malarkey baits Ludo, as you do, and Ludo quickly reminds him that Gregg has immunity so it doesn’t matter.  Our three to go home will be Diane, Huda or Mia.  Two from Tony’s team are on the block.  Who will it be?

The three are left to argue for their dishes and it goes as follows:

Gregg defends his “naan” saying it wasn’t a pastry, but Nigella tells him it simply wasn’t good.  Malarkey actually gives Gregg some great advice and says to focus less on the visual aspect of the dish but more on the taste.  And he’s right, and Gregg humbly takes the advice. 

Tony and Malarkey remind Ludo that he has two sandwich masters in his kitchen and hoo boy, does Ludo get nasty! “This is my probleemmm not you problemmm, okay?”

Huda is super humble and apologizes for the undone chicken.  Honestly, Huda just looks exhausted and defeated.  The wind is out of her sails which is a shame because I liked her a lot.

Diane is also very understanding about why she’s there because the bread was a bad choice, and she knows it. 

But Mia?  Mia is SUPER DEFENSIVE about the fact that she made the bread and then tells the judges, “agree to disagree, but Lauren’s had a char on it and you liked it.”  Nigella says, “well it didn’t taste good otherwise I wouldn’t have said anything!”

Mia’s fatal mistake here was not humbly taking the criticism and just reminding the mentors that she made that bread from scratch and let it lie.   At this point, she’s pissed off Nigella.  Do NOT piss of the The Poppins!

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eyediosmio

I'm a part time writer, full time wife and Doberman wrangler in steamy South Florida.  I try to keep my sanity by watching loads of reality tv so I can feel better about myself.  It's a lazy way to maintain my moral compass, but I'm too lazy to drive to church every Sunday. 

6 Comments

  1. 1
    LAC LAC
    Posted February 21, 2013 at 11:42 am

    Danke for the recap! And for the quick education on the cuban sandwich. I have eaten and loved them (especially one made in Miami’s cuban section) but I called them cubanos. Doh!!

    While we may get the name of a sandwich wrong, people of all stripes should agree that Malarkey needs a good slapping. From the opening sequence on, that permafrost hamster on crack is at it. There is no live studio audience – why is he jumping up and down like he is on “The Price is Right”? I know that there is a good chef under all the botox and borrowed clothes from “It’s a Brad, Brad World”, but I wish he would not feel the need to fill up the hour with his braying.

    I don’t have any real hate with the contestants. I am a little sick of the bitchy Diane show. Yeah, people go through rough times, but not everyone feels the need to spit poison like a puffadder whenever the opportunity arises.

    Didn’t Ginger Gregg come into this competion will some swagger? Now, if Ludo tapped him on his shoulder, I think he would faint dead away.

  2. 2
    wcsdancer
    Posted February 21, 2013 at 12:11 pm

    I’m always complaining about these women with long hair not pulling their hair back when they cook! Aren’t there health codes? Even the demo guys with facial hair at Costco have to wear little beard hairnets!

    Right there with you, eyediosmio, on Malarkey’s pants. WTF? I personally don’t really even care for that look on a woman, but on a man?

    Has anyone watched Restaurant Stakeout? The restaurant expert, Willie Degel, is SO over the top!

  3. 3
    Miss Molly
    Posted February 21, 2013 at 3:44 pm

    I didn’t think there was anyone as vainglorious as Ludo but …. Drusinsky.

  4. 4
    Erik
    Posted February 21, 2013 at 5:23 pm

    I just learned that Sarah and Gregg are actually dating – gross! Ditzy and Arrogant together unified in one horrible twist of fate.

  5. 5
    Aunt Dorsey
    Posted February 21, 2013 at 5:36 pm

    Thanks for the excellent recaps. Now, I have to go catch up, since I do prefer zipping through the ads. I must say that Malarkey has an apt surname. I think I’ll make a sammich first.

  6. 6
    eyediosmio eyediosmio
    Posted February 22, 2013 at 6:37 am

    Thanks for the comments everyone!

    @LAC: Diane seems to be realizing (in real time, mind you) that she comes off really hateful on the show. If you follow her tweets, she seems somewhat regretful of the way she acted on the show.

    @Erik: Those two are dating?!! Makes so much sense! You know if this was Top Chef, we’d have to suffer thru 20 minutes of behind the scenes flirting – barf! For now, I’ll watch Gregg eagerly trying to help Sarah differently. Honestly, those two are the perfect couple, he’s kind of a jock, and she’s the pretty blond. Damnit, that’s funny

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