About Last Night: Top Chef

27 Comments

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   2muchbravo
   Posted February 10, 2011 at 11:13 am

   I had a Qiana dress just like that turquoise one on the left! Come to think of it we ate alot of fondue, too! Ahhh, the 70′s!
   I thought it was a good epi. Happy for the winner. But, yeah, some *BASIC* stuff was fucked up good!

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   vallegirl
   Posted February 10, 2011 at 12:00 pm

   I really wish someone would introduce Blazehawk to the concept of the Voltaggio Brothers because once they started using liquid nitrogen to do more than make lumps of frozen crap and call it ice cream, his one trick became tired.

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   Snootchy Bootches
   Posted February 10, 2011 at 12:34 pm

   SPOILER ALERT: And Blaze is an egotistical dickhead asshole. Oh wait, he acts like that every week, so I guess it isn’t really a spoiler, eh?

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   Bioscotto
   Posted February 10, 2011 at 1:54 pm

   I’m glad I’m not the only one who probably hit the rewind button make sure they heard Pigshit right. I was like “Did he really just say that??” The answer was, “Yes, of course he did.”

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   LAC
   Posted February 10, 2011 at 2:04 pm

   @Snootchy…NOOOOOO!! Blais is a an asshole? Really? I just thought he was an insecure, weirdly coiffed douchenozzle who week after week takes all the fun out of cooking. We get it, Blais, you was robbed in Season four, okay?

   Wait, that is an asshole….

   and yeah, bioscotto, IsaBlimp opened his Magilla Gorilla mouth and out spewed his brand of Jersey Shore shit. What a shock…

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   Lauryn Morita
   Posted February 10, 2011 at 2:26 pm

   You know why I think no one gave Blais the Fondue challenge? Because he uses liquid nitrogen every single f***ing time and the rest of the cheftestants knew that. And I think it’s funny how Pigshit likes to go on and on about his Italianness. He really builds himself to be a true Italian, despite the fact that there’s one contestant who actually has the accent to prove he got off the boat from the boot.

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   Fan-Ann
   Posted February 10, 2011 at 2:39 pm

   Popeater had an article last week about the birth of Blaze’s baby girl. The writer referred to him as the winner of Season Four. I can’t help but wonder if that was the writer’s mistake or if Blaze thinks no one remembers. As for Pigshit, I guess he is homophobic as well as a misogynist…what a jackass.

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   Snootchy Bootches
   Posted February 10, 2011 at 2:57 pm

   I wonder… do you think Blaze named his daughter Nitro Jen?

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   vallegirl
   Posted February 10, 2011 at 3:01 pm

   Embry Lotus…which is somehow worse.

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    lestermaddox
    Posted February 10, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    Glad I am not the only one who noticed what a dick Blais was being. He is very full of himself, even though he just has the one trick to play. Plus his elimination record is not that impressive – 4 middles and 1 bottom to 2 actual wins and 2 top dishes, with only a single individual quickfire win (for his hideous black ice cream, which no one even ate, though to be fair he does have 2 team quickfire wins also. His only saving grace this week was showing Antonia how to use the pressure cooker for the tongue.

    Carla was so cute when she selected chicken pot pie on the picture taking thing – she was dancing around and so excited, it was fun to watch. Love her!

    I was happy with the final selection of both who won and who went home. Both were justified and I am so glad I don’t have to listen to the loser talk about how the elimination challenges are so unfair because they aren’t all about his style of cooking any longer. Ciao!

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    Derek Hazelton
    Posted February 10, 2011 at 5:34 pm

    @ Fan-Ann, I think Blaze lies about winning Season 4 because Stephanie Lizard is such a non-entity.

    I live in Philly, and I don’t understand why Dale would use pretzel bread for his cheesesteak roll. All cheesesteaks are ALL ABOUT THE ROLL (Amoroso’s preferably), but I do think he was at a disadvantage because the breads sold at Whole Paycheck market are not the breads used at a local deli or bodega. Dale definitely made a terrible choice with the pretzel roll and should have used a generic white roll.

    On an unrelated note, I was really happy for the winner, because that person would actually translate well on-screen for their cooking segment on the Jimmy Fallon show. Does anyone know when it will air?

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    vallegirl
    Posted February 10, 2011 at 6:08 pm

    Tonight.

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    Janice
    Posted February 11, 2011 at 3:44 am

    I was so glad that Carla won – she was so excited when she got chicken pot pie – I can’t wait to see her on Jimmy Fallon. Also getting sick of hearing Richard Blais and his huge ego – they’re going to have to enlarge the doorways so that he can enter with his enormous head. And I’m sick of hearing how he should have won season 4 – if I remember correctly, he and Stephanie had the exact same number of wins – he won more quickfires, and she won more elimination challenges.

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    Snootchy Bootches
    Posted February 11, 2011 at 4:00 am

    Janice, hun, we don’t usually post spoilers on the “about last night” recaps. We usually wait for the main recap just in case someone hasn’t watched yet. But I do agree with everything you said.

    And I think I know why Blaze claims to have won his season. Because obviously he would have won but the judges were too intimidated by his skills to give it to him.

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    Jimbob Jones
    Posted February 11, 2011 at 9:08 am

    Blaze, Turdle, TurkeyHair, and Fabioooo should open a restaurant called “One Trick Pony”. They could serve Frozen Scallop Gnocchi with Spit Foam.

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    LostinEmotion
    Posted February 11, 2011 at 9:30 am

    J-Mo, AFYKM? Sexist Pig$hit used a homophobic slur? I must have missed that because I was so busy rewinding the fact that he calle Dale a MONKEY! A monkey?!? WTF kind of racist $hit is that?? I did not think my hatred for this man could get any bigger. It just proves that you should never say never. J-Mo, I demand you rename that fool Super-Sized (‘cuz he’s fat), Sexist Homophobic Racist Pigshit – SSHRP for short. You’re welcome.

    Also, very happy with the win! Not so sure how I feel about the loser going. Was he annoying at times? Yes. But he had some great quotes.

    P.S. Richard Blaze is officially a douche.

    That is all.

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    LostinEmotion
    Posted February 11, 2011 at 9:46 am

    J-Mo, AFYKM? Sexist Pig$hit used a homophobic slur? I must have missed that because I was so busy rewinding the fact that he calle Dale a MONKEY! A monkey?!? WTF kind of racist $hit is that?? I did not think my hatred for this man could get any bigger. It just proves that you should never say never. J-Mo, I demand you rename that fool Super-Sized (’cuz he’s fat), Sexist Homophobic Racist Pigshit – SSHRP for short. You’re welcome.

    Also, very happy with the win! Not so sure how I feel about the loser going. Was he annoying at times? Yes. But he had some great quotes.

    P.S. Richard Blaze is officially a douche.

    That is all.

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    lestermaddox
    Posted February 11, 2011 at 9:46 am

    A bit off topic – but as I am tired of listening to how Richard was so much better than Stephanie and how he should have been named the winner of his season – here is a run-down of the wins from season 4.

    Stephanie –
    4 elimination wins (+1 from Richard for week 9′s Wedding Wars challenge)
    6 high and 3 low judgings on other challenges with no middles
    1 individual and 1 team (with Richard, Antonia & Andrew – mise en plase race) quickfire wins
    Winner

    Richard:
    4 elimination wins (-1 which he gave to Stephanie for week 9′s Wedding Wars challenge; he told the judges the win should have been hers and gave her the prize)
    3 high and 1 low judgings with 5 middles
    2 individual and 1 team (with Stephanie, Antonia & Andrew for the mise en place race) quickfire wins
    Shared Runner-up with Lisa Fernandes (the judges did not award second and third places).

    Let me say that again – Richared TIED with Lisa as runner-up.

    Personally, I thought Stephanie was the better chef all season and deserved the win. Admittedly Richard choked in the final challenge and had he not done so, the outcome could have been different; but Stephanie did not win by default. She cooked her ass off all season and won fair and square.

    Blais needs to get over himself.

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    vallegirl
    Posted February 11, 2011 at 10:08 am

    Richard said he choked, but according to Tom and Gail at the time, his food was fine and he was “being hard on himself.” Or…he was paving the way to diminish Stephanie’s win by claiming to have choked. I still think that was one of the most classless things to do, because it put the eventual winner in the position of being a “default” winner. He set up the storyline of “Stephanie only won because I choked” before her name was even called. If he had let others make that claim, I wouldn’t have disliked him as much, but to do it himself just showed what a sore loser he really is.

    The only person in my mind who has a legitimate reason to whine about the “coulda, shoulda, woulda” of his finale is Angelo. Through no fault of his own, he lost a full day of prep and still managed a good showing. But when asked about it, Angelo didn’t make any excuses, he congratulated Kevin on the win and said he cooked a better meal that day.

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    lestermaddox
    Posted February 11, 2011 at 10:21 am

    Okay, so whether or not Richard choked during the finale is debatable – whatever. He still lost and Stephanie won because she was the better chef all season (she had 10 high judgings to Blais’s 7), and I forgot to mention that Stephanie also won fan favorite. Blais really doesn’t have a leg to stand on here. He just needs to shut up, put the liquid nitrogen away and cook good food.

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    tvaholic
    Posted February 11, 2011 at 11:23 am

    Why does Blais always look like he’s smelling a turd?

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    Janice
    Posted February 12, 2011 at 8:52 am

    Sorry! Hope I didn’t spoil it for anyone -I guess I am so obsessed with this show I assume everybody watches right away :/

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    Snootchy Bootches
    Posted February 12, 2011 at 9:57 am

    No worries. I know you didn’t do it on purpose. There are some of us who don’t live in the US. So sometimes we have to wait until we have access to it. And others live in the US but clearly don’t have their priorities in order. They would rather go out, work or sleep than watch Top Chef.

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    erica
    Posted February 12, 2011 at 12:17 pm

    what’s with all the blais hatred? i know that he’s cocky, but so are the majority of the chefs. i actually think his food is quite inventive and looks pretty tasty. and i loved that he helped antonia out with cooking directions for the beef tongue, while asshole mike announced he would never even dream of helping out a fellow competitor.

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    vibrantgirl
    Posted February 12, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    Blaze is not a gracious loser. Maybe it’s editing, but he can’t bring himself to be cool to the winners, as if they’ve taken something that was rightfully his. We didn’t see this on his season. Maybe his weight loss has made him cranky and douchey. And he really does need to put away the liquid nitrogen and lighten up a little already.

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    vallegirl
    Posted February 12, 2011 at 4:25 pm

    There’s a bonus video of him whiiiining that all the help he gives to everyone else is affecting his own food. Well guess what, douche? Don’t help. Easy equation help and don’t win challenge, don’t help and maybe don’t win challenge. But if you help, accept that those people might do better than you.

    In season 6, the Bocuse d’Or challenge was based around the more technical aspects of cooking, which was not Kevin’s strong point. It was the last challenge before the finale and he needed help because he wanted to sous vide, a technique with which he was completely unfamiliar. Bryan gave him detailed instructions with, I believe, an illustration or two because that’s how he rolls, and that help won the final challenge for Kevin. And yet…no one bent over backwards pointing out what an extra super awesome guy Bryan is, not even Kevin when he won. So why is Richard special? Why acknowledge his help when no other chef on the series had it pointed out for them?

    He helps, then he whines when someone he helps does better than he does, then he says they’re all intimidated by him because he can use a tank of liquid nitrogen to freeze mustard. But he never asks, why would anyone but me WANT to freeze mustard. And if by chance he does, his answer is never “because I’m a dumbass,” it’s always “because I’m awesome.”

    And that’s why I don’t like Blais.

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    Bridget
    Posted February 13, 2011 at 6:08 pm

    I am starting to think that the OrangeOne is a little bit simple, but that is okay because it just adds to his charm. He is either simple or super fantasically happy all the time, but I think the two go hand and hand. When he looks out into the world, I think that he is seeing double rainbows and unicorns all the time. I felt so bad for Angelo when he went to give J.Fallon a high five. J.Fallon left him hanging. He denied OrangJello and that is unforgiveable.

    I couldn’t believe what a dick Richard has turned into. I always thought he was a douche, but he has gotten so much worse. I couldn’t believe what he had to say about the winner. He basically said that other people need to stop winning, so that he could have a chance. Bitter, bitter man with bad hair. I wish I could remember what he said exactly. Anyone remember?