Minicap: Top Chef Seattle

45 Comments

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   Parisi LaRoe
   Posted January 24, 2013 at 5:42 am

   Bernie didn’t bring Tums, just some Pepto-Bismol back from season 2.

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   Detinha
   Posted January 24, 2013 at 7:08 am

   The moment I saw Thumby making that face I knew you’d use it, J-Mo! LOL Thumby is such a douche. Loved that Padma lost her composure and called him a bull***ter with his Cordon Bleh!

   I actually liked the show last night. I really enjoyed seeing Wolfgang Pluck (thanks, Dad Tom) and the other “chicken experts” chefs having a good time there! They made me laugh! Now I want me some fried chicken..wonder if WealthyChoice will make a healthy version of it…
   LMAO @ Paula Mean!!! Can’t wait for the recap!

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   Coopcal
   Posted January 24, 2013 at 7:28 am

   I have had an epiphany! Somehow my greatest pleasure in reality shows is watching people get their comeuppance. This episode did not disappoint. Love the mini and excited about the full recap. You rock, J-Mo!

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   ConfusedinCanada
   Posted January 24, 2013 at 7:35 am

   J-Mo, welcome back I had to go to Wikipedia to find out who left and who won Last Chance Kitchen. Can’t wait to read your full recap

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   Miss Molly
   Posted January 24, 2013 at 7:49 am

   I would totally eat at Wolfgang Cluck.

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   featherhead
   Posted January 24, 2013 at 8:27 am

   Naked Sushi Party???? I hope she paid a arm and a leg for the hooker!

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   chaosbutterfly
   Posted January 24, 2013 at 10:28 am

   That dinner party actually looked like a whole bunch of fun.
   Good wine, beautiful landscape, (some) good fried chicken and Daddy Tom.

   It also helped that Wolfgang is the shadiest bitch to ever rock a pair of dad jeans.
   I could listen to him talk shit about people in his cute accent all day.
   Looking forward to the full recap!

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   Aunt Dorsey
   Posted January 24, 2013 at 11:10 am

   It must have been a great chicken dinner party since they held off on judges’ table until the next day. I’d say from the jokes that the vino was flowing.

   Glad you and the BF had a great vacay J-MO.

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   MellyMel
   Posted January 24, 2013 at 11:58 am

   So I actually thought Stachebear was kind of adorable and charming this episode. If he’d been like that the whole season, I would actually be rooting for him.

   I second wanting to get Wolfie drunk and have a shiz talking session with him. He was hi-lar-i-ous.

   So I have decided that there was something unsavory going on between Padma and Blowsie. She defended Blowsie again this episode. Maybe the old men are a cover and Padma really is a lipstick lesbian with a thing for bull. Just a theory.

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    sagittariuskim
    Posted January 24, 2013 at 12:55 pm

    The only thing that gives StacheBear an ounce of likability is the sarcastic way he talks to Blowsie.

    The best thing about the elimination challenge was watching the judges get drunker and drunker.

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    chaosbutterfly
    Posted January 24, 2013 at 1:51 pm

    “So I have decided that there was something unsavory going on between Padma and Blowsie. She defended Blowsie again this episode. Maybe the old men are a cover and Padma really is a lipstick lesbian with a thing for bull. Just a theory.”

    GIRL.
    I was gonna save it for the full recap, but YES.
    Last week was weird enough, but her defense of Josie’s nasty chicken was the clincher. Guess now we know what Josie’s one true talent in life is, because Padma was fighting for dear life to keep Josie around.
    I bet she was the one who brought Josie back in the first place, because it was never quite explained how such a mediocre chef was chosen when there were so many other better candidates.

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    Pegalicious
    Posted January 24, 2013 at 2:03 pm

    @Melly and @chaos: My thoughts exactly. I thought Padma went completely overboard in her efforts to defend Josie, to the point where she was (IMO) both transparent and pathetic.

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    roger
    Posted January 24, 2013 at 3:30 pm

    thumby sure is special

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    PacoSauce
    Posted January 24, 2013 at 4:21 pm

    Anyone else weirded out by Tom in LCK? Dearest Daddy Tom, you don’t get to act dumbfounded that Josie made it so far in the competition when you’re part of the reason why.

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    AliceinPopLand
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 12:16 am

    I was cracking up at the end of show discussion when Padma breaks out with her \but it was FLAVORFUL!\ comment, the silence that followed was so awkward. Something must be going down because it is obvious that she was coming out of left field with her support of Blowsie. Maybe its not sexual but something under the table seemed to be going on. Blowsie’s defense of her shitcken was stumbling and awkward. I’m surprised she didnt say grease is a FLAVOR since thats apparently a code word for her gf Padma.

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    Viane Slice
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 5:46 am

    L’il Volt made a video for the winning chicken. I was greatly impressed and it gave me a good tip. He fried the chicken for a few minutes to get that yummy golden brown crust but he finished cooking the chicken in the oven. I liked that. My stove is electrical and for some reason I have never been able to get a good stable temperature for frying things such as fried chicken.

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    chaosbutterfly
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 7:32 am

    ^ Rocco Dispirito does something similar that actually works pretty well. You bake it first until it’s done, and then quickly fry the outsides in a pan of hot oil until it gets crispy.

    It has that delightful fried crunch without the fat and stuff, and is so much less stressful than standing over the stove for the full time, getting popped with hot grease.

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    seepansy
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 10:03 am

    I think unlucky Padma is the producer’s tool; I just don’t see how she can defend Blowsie for ANY of her actions. I didn’t have that great sense of catharsis after this episode, because I wanted some real yelling & screaming & frothing at the mouth from the judges directed at Blowsie. To me, this was like giving the Oscar to someone a year after their best performance. Blowsie shoulda gone home LAST WEEK…and she knows it. What was all that crying and sniffing in the beginning? Nothing but a guilty conscience.

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    crankyguy
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 11:19 am

    I haven’t had a chance to see this epi yet, but last week Padma got downright NASTY with Gail about Blowsie. The term “bullying” gets thrown around a lot more than it should nowadays, but I think it applies to Padma: she bullied Gail to save Blowsie, so if somebody were to bitch slap Padma, that would be fine with me.

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    juddfan
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 11:50 am

    weird . . . I commented here yesterday, and now it’s gone . . . this is the second time . . . WHAT”S HAPPENING!!!! to quote Poltergeist . . . . this time didn’t say much, I’ll just wait for the full cap . . . .Just don’t want you to think I ain’t with ya, J-mo!!!

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    LAC
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 11:53 am

    @PacoSauce – I agree! Tom’s ingenue act was just a “bitch, please” moment.

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    Liz
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 2:10 pm

    Has anyone read the interview with the person who got kicked off, calling Kristen a mean girl? I can’t even. I would post the link but feel I shouldn’t in case someone somehow doesn’t already know?

    Also, seriously, Josie is like (according to her) every ethnicity and nationality which apparently makes her (in her mind) amazing at any type of food ever. Like, it’s cool that you have many roots. It’s not cool to claim that that makes you an expert on all styles of cooking, especially when you seem to just plain ol’ suck at cooking.

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    toomuchtv
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 2:21 pm

    I like Stephan. I’m glad he is still around. Padma seems to really have it in for him this time around, calling him a \liar\. Padma, how do you know whether he’s lying or not? In fact how much about anything do you know? Defending Josie? Just shut up and look pretty.

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    crankyguy
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 2:25 pm

    @Liz, I read the part of the interview with that person about Kristen: “The same goes for Brooke: there are no hard feelings. They showed this season that they were catty. They acted like little mean girls and that’s fine, that’s their personality.”

    They were mean to Blowsie, but she just shrugs it off. Blowsie is a saint.

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    MellyMel
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 2:26 pm

    @toomuchtv that made me mad also. Just because Wolfie grew up eating fried chicken does not mean Stephan did. Granted he should know how to cook it, but for her to call him a BSer was out of line. Plus I want one of these chefs to finally call her out and ask what makes her so qualified to judge their stuff.

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    chaosbutterfly
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 3:37 pm

    I like thumby too and was also irritated at Padma for calling him names.
    Thumby’s mistake is that he said in Europe, they don’t do fried chicken like Americans. Europe is too broad to make that kind of generalization. He should have been more specific to his own upbringing and background, which isn’t the same as Wolfgang’s.

    But at the same time, Thumby was the one who tried to get into Wolfgang’s good graces in a quickfire by forging a bond of nationalism between them, so…live by the sword, die by the sword.

    Also, I feel like he almost never just does the challenges that they ask for. He does his own thing, and usually, it turns out not so awesome, so maybe it’s good that they call him on it.
    Because come on man…if I asked for fried chicken and someone served me chicken cordon bleu, I’d probably slap the plate out of their hands.
    The fuck is chicken cordon bleu.
    I asked for FRIED CHICKEN.

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    Aunt Dorsey
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 4:32 pm

    @Crankyguy- re interview: ‘They showed this season that they were catty.’

    That’s what old Blowsie gets for being a tree. You know how them cats are, they likes to scratch on trees.

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    crankyguy
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 4:54 pm

    @Aunt Dorsey — good thing that it was not in the nature of those catty girls to bark up that tree, or it would have been ON.

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    Chicken Lips
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 6:37 pm

    @Everyone that thinks there is something going on between Padma and Blowsie – YES! When I was watching I said out loud “What, does Josie give amazing girl BJs?” (I’m not sure exactly what that means, but I was thinking about the story about the secretary that blows her way to the top).

    The other thing that chapped my hide about this show:

    Contestant #1 who is not American by birth: “Oh, I don’t know a lot about fried chicken! I didn’t grow up eating it.” Judges: “Understandable – yum yum!”

    Contestant #2 who is not American by birth: “Oh, I don’t know a lot about fried chicken! I didn’t grow up eating it.” Judges: “Bullshit! Yo, Wolfie – where you from my man? You eat fried chicken, right?” “Hell yeah we had fried chicken – we had fried chicken all the time in the country I’m from but that he isn’t from!”

    That’s not to say I think it was a good idea to serve Chicken Cordon Bleu – but if that is how you were served fried chicken as a kid then that’s just too damn bad for everyone else.

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    PottyMouth
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 6:38 pm

    J-Mo,

    So glad to hear you guys had a great time away. That sushi looked goooooooooood. Mmmm. Glad to fill in for ya – you know I’ve always got your back!

    I’m saving my show related comments for the full recap!! But I will say that I actually went right over to LCK and watched because I NEEDED to know what was gonna happen!

    Love ya!
    SWAK, PottyMouth

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    Aunt Dorsey
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 6:39 pm

    I just have to share this. Just finished reading the self-serving interview that Blowsie gave after the anti-climax of her getting the boot. In the comments section yet another person is reaming her for whining about the ‘mean girls’ and how what came out of her own bloviating blowhole wasn’t exactly nice. In response to that entry:

    The Nobullman’s Take: From the closet Micah is hiding in, I’m sure he agrees.

    Love it. And he was so and helped extricate her fat arse from the mud. Blowsie is as clueless as a dead stump of a tree.

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    Chicken Lips
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 6:40 pm

    Oh – and Contestant #1 was all “I always wanted my mom to get the bucket of fried chicken!” Proving that she knows exactly what fried chicken is and she decided to do something totally different but no one had a problem with that. But let Contestant #2 pull that and all hell breaks loose.

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    Aunt Dorsey
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 6:42 pm

    oops, stick a ‘kind’ in there after the so.

    P.S. There was also Hmmmhmmmmmming going on in the comments about Padma Smacksme being so all-fired hell-bent on saving Blowsie and just what that might mean.

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    crankyguy
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 6:51 pm

    Oh, and another thing. On WWHL last week when Padma was on, Andy had a photo of her from one the the Star Treks. He asked her what the part was, and I don’t remember the exact quote, but it was something along the lines of: “Queen of the Universe, just like in real life.” I guess it’s nice to have self-esteem.

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    Aunt Dorsey
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 7:38 pm

    Okay, well last recap when I said Padma was a crappy actress, (as well as a mediocre cook) Wasn’t she in glitter?, whatever the hell that lameass movie was called. I am SOOOoooo tired of that lame arse promo with Padma ‘ACTING’ catching the BIGGGGggggg fish. ‘Oh it’s SOooooo heavy, I almost fell over’ That for me sums up her acting career…..

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    chaosbutterfly
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 8:38 pm

    lol, Josie is on twitter voting for herself like crazy.

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    JimmyT
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 9:52 pm

    Speaking of Twitter, have you guys seen Blowsie’s little banner there? She calls herself a social activist, globetrotting ambassador, and entrepreneurial freedom fighter….WTF?!?

    I agree that there was something going on with Padma and Blowsie….maybe Scar acted as serving tray in one of Blowsies sushi parties and now she was being blackmailed. Maybe that’s what an entrepreneurial freedom fighter does.

    Looking forward to the recap and everyone’s comments!

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    Parisi LaRoe
    Posted January 26, 2013 at 9:56 am

    @chaosbutterfly-I saw that about Blowsie. I haven’t seen one person vote for her. I am not voting this week since I cannot stand either of them and Kuniko is out but it is so funny. If Josie somehow beats Uniball, it will solely be because of herself and her girlfriend, Padma

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    Chicken Lips
    Posted January 26, 2013 at 9:57 am

    I think Jimmy T figured out the Padma/Blowsie relationship. Excellent work my friend.

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    crankyguy
    Posted January 26, 2013 at 10:11 am

    @JimmyT, as to Blowsie being a social activist, I vaguely remember a lawsuit she filed several years ago against some club either because she was told not to use the mens restroom because she looked like a woman or the womens restroom because she looked like a man. Does that ring a bell with anyone else?

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    chaosbutterfly
    Posted January 26, 2013 at 12:06 pm

    This is the best I could find, with her and legal problems and a nightclub:
    http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2007/11/miamis-top-chef.html

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    crankyguy
    Posted January 26, 2013 at 12:22 pm

    @chaosbutterfly — Thanks for the link, but I really think your link is for a separate incident than the one I am thinking about. My memory (which I am not claiming to be all that good) is that she was attempting to enter a restroom and an employee of the establishment barred her entry because he thought she was the wrong sex for that particular toilet. Now that I think about it some more, I’m pretty sure that it was the women’s restroom and the employee thought she looked like a man. I don’t believe there was any physical assault in the incident I am thinking of.

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    Aunt Dorsey
    Posted January 26, 2013 at 1:54 pm

    Maybe she brayed and they tried to show her to the stables.

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    Parisi LaRoe
    Posted January 26, 2013 at 2:45 pm

    I remember when she got the crap kicked out of her. I found a link to it if anyone feels the urge to read it.

    http://www.gayrightswatch.com/2007/09/top-chefs-josie-smith-malave-attacked.html

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    bubblesballentine
    Posted January 26, 2013 at 7:56 pm

    Ugh. I could almost understand Padma’s bullshit if she actually WAS getting some girl action with Josie. Because that would mean there was *something* somewhat meaningful going on, and she wasn’t just regurgitating some producer manipulated plan to make LCK more important and increase profit. And tweets, too, dammit. Vote for CJ’s missing ball – They can bring it back, too. Honest!