Minicap: Top Chef Masters

Top Chef

By Alejandra | Thursday, May 12, 2011 | 12:00 pm | 8 Comments
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6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a61196df970b-400wiSooooo, a Top Chef Master must be able to cook really, REALLY quickly, and also do so on a… moving tour bus.  Come on, Guys.  Couldn’t have made it a food truck or something else mildly relevant?  Of course not!

The Quickfire is reminiscent of the SpeedFire of last season’s in which Colicchio prepared something delicious in under seven minutes.  All the chefs are given a minute time limit, and THEN they’re asked to judge and rate each other’s dishes.  I have a feeling the producers thought Naomi would make this season way more dramatic than she has, so in an effort to compensate for her relatively tame behavior lately, they tossed in this little twist.  But I don’t dwell on that too much, because it’s chElf for the win with some beef carpaccio!  Huzzah!

Aside from immunity, chElf gets to pick her team for the Elimination Challenge.  Maroon 5 is returning to LA, their hometown, and they’d like the chefs to create a welcome home dinner based on their favorite foods.  Said foods include Japanese fare and steak, Greek food, and… Thanksgiving.  Nobody has too much time to dwell on the fact that their end results is going to have the cohesion of a bunch of repellent magnets, because as soon as they’re done rushing around Whole Foods, everyone hops in an RV with a three burner stove and considerably less counter space than anyone is used to.

In the end, chElf takes it all for an episode sweep!  Fist pump!  Her team wins, too, which means Mary Sue is safe, along with Hughnibrow and NaUGHmi.  As for the losing team, Alex Stratta takes on way too much in the production of two-thirds of his teams entire menu.  Celina the Staid is once again incredibly mediocre, but it’s actually Alex who goes home.  I’m on the WTF?! boat with this one.  One of Alex’s dishes was very well liked, while Celina’s singular dish was panned across the board.

Check back Monday for the full recap and feel free to comment below on this season’s continued confounding eliminations.  Extra points for alliteration.

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Alejandra lives in Los Angeles and is an actor/writer/producer of opinions.  She loves the beach, but never goes, and hates reality stars, but follows them religiously.  In addition to TVGasm, you can read her writing at the online magazine DigN2It, or various fanfiction websites if you're industrious enough to find her.  If you're not industrious at all, a bottle of fine wine will always be an acceptable bribe.

8 Comments

  1. 1
    Bioscotto
    Posted May 12, 2011 at 8:10 pm

    Let me just say that I am not enjoying at all Top Chef: Masters as a regular Top Chef season. At all.

    And I agree about Alex. I thought he was the only one of the three SAFE in this instance…of course I was wrong…alas!

  2. 2
    Robin Robinez
    Posted May 12, 2011 at 8:53 pm

    “I’ve got youth, and panache, and one eyebrow on my side.”

    Loved it!

    Robin

  3. 3
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted May 12, 2011 at 9:35 pm

    Is this the third week in a row where Celina craps out but someone else gets canned? I’m still miffed about John’s perfectly delicious, but ordinary, risotto losing to her gritty chocolate pudding, but there really should be a limit to how many times consecutive times you can massively suck and keep scraping by.

  4. 4
    J-Mo J-Mo
    Posted May 12, 2011 at 10:02 pm

    Hahahahaha, blame Jamie-Turdle… and JerseyMoobs… and Robin 80′s Hooker… and Fleasa Fernandes… :)

    love, J-Mo :)

  5. 5
    Bioscotto
    Posted May 13, 2011 at 5:45 am

    OH! I forgot about Hughnibrow! He was GREAT this episode! I also found out why I’m so strangely attracted to him…he’s a Scorpio! I’m always strangely attracted to Scorpios…always… :D

  6. 6
    crankyguy crankyguy
    Posted May 13, 2011 at 8:18 am

    If Daddy Tom can continue to insist that there is nothing wrong with the judging and seems to believe that it simply can’t be improved, then he needs to be read the riot act about Celina, Turdle, J-Moobs, 80′s Hooker, Fleasa, and lest we forget, Hoser.

    It’s inexplicable how risotto, which does take some skill and attention to detail for it not to suck, causes the boot for being pedestrian, when gritty chocolate “puddin’” makes the cut. What is more ordinary than chocolate pudding? I’m betting that Jello crap that Bill Cosby used to shill for is better.

  7. 7
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted May 13, 2011 at 9:33 am

    JMo, I’d rather not remember Jamie, Moobsy, 80s Hooker and, of course, Fleasa…but thanks for reminding me!

    Still this is Masters, I want there to be SOME standard below which the chefs don’t fall. And Celina’s been sucking on things that would get her laughed at on regular TC. And not just by Li’l Volt and Pigshit.

  8. 8
    crankyguy crankyguy
    Posted May 13, 2011 at 11:15 am

    Send Celina down to the minors. Stone should tell her that she is cut from Masters for general incompetence, but that she can have a spot on the next regular Top Chef to see how she does there. If she wins that, then she will be allowed to return to the next Masters.

    Wasn’t she one of the weaker chefs in whatever other show she was on…Next Iron Chef, or something like that?

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