Top Chef Masters Recap: Pop Up Freakshow

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By MisRed | Saturday, September 15, 2012 | 8:51 am | 15 Comments
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When the Chefs draw knives- Chris and Patricia are team Yellow with Chris on the hot line and Patricia in the pantry. They are, as always, excited to be working as a team. It feels like home to them. They practically finish each other’s sentences.

Team Annoying is Lorena in the pantry and Kerry on the hot line.

The Chef start immediately. Automatically the pantry chef, has, sort of, more running around to doing. They need to hunt and gather. Chris is instructing Patricia, although I’m surprised they don’t communicate telepathically. Kerry is barking out orders to Lorena, which, of course, she resents, because she feels like a sous chef… and she isn’t. She is Lorena Garcia: Taco Bell Chef. But she get Kerry everything he needs.

Get me a turkey pot pie!

Lorena, however, is very particular about her rice and is concerned because she can’t actually COOK it herself. Lorena’s dish has a Salmon that needs to be seared. Kerry tells Lorena that he can sear hers now, but he needs to sear his shrimp at the last minute. I’m unsure why he can’t sear some shrimp AND a few pieces of salmon at the same time, but he can’t. Lorena is NOT happy about this- and I agree with her. It’s another Classic Kerry D*ck Move!!! He is putting his dish first and it’s supposed to be a team effort. Lorena’s rice is undercooked so she hands it back to Kerry. After several requests, Kerry gives it back to her, but she doesn’t get it on the plate in time.

And I was planning to put cilantro all over this!

Kerry’s elements are perfect, Lorena’s are not.

Over at Chris and Patti’s, things are love and light. Birds are singing. There is a doe gently drinking water from a pot on the stove. Oh! There’s a rainbow and I think I spot an Unicorn over by the Kitchen Aid. Seriously, Chris gives Patti a complete list so she doesn’t have to run back and forth 100 times and Patricia, in turn, designs her dish so Chris can execute it easily.

Patricia feels badly for Lorena, having been the victim of Kerry’s nonsense a few episodes ago. Not only is Kerry executing ONLY his own dish with car, he’s making Lorena run around like a lunatic. Normally she just has to slap it in a tortilla and hand it out the drive thru window.

Time is UP.
Johnny and Curtis come in to taste the results.

First up is Chris’s Berber Duck.

Vinnie Boombotts doesn’t like fat on his duck

Johnny immediately says that there is too much fat on the duck and that it should have been rendered down further, Curtis agrees.He likes his ducks without cellulite and preferably a size 0.

You, clearly, have no idea what you are talking about.

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15 Comments

  1. 1
    Bobbi
    Posted September 15, 2012 at 9:00 am

    I swear all these shows are rigged.

  2. 2
    2muchbravo
    Posted September 15, 2012 at 9:52 am

    Was sorry to see Patricia and her mole go. Sad horns.

  3. 3
    Bobbi
    Posted September 15, 2012 at 9:58 am

    Since Patricia is gone I am through all my support and energy to Chris. I know him to be a great chef.

  4. 4
    Bobbi
    Posted September 15, 2012 at 9:59 am

    wow should have checked my spelling going to throw all my support for the above

  5. 5
    TalldrinkofH2O
    Posted September 15, 2012 at 10:00 am

    Team Chris!!!

  6. 6
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted September 15, 2012 at 11:23 am

    I was Team Chris from the start, but by the second episode it was Team Chris/Patricia/Takashi, so I’m gutted that the Black Hole of Caracas has been responsible for two of them leaving. She’s even making me rethink my own love of cilantro because, gurr, find a new fresh herb. It’s not that great.

    But I will defend Kerry’s seemingly dick move in the QF. They could have had better communication and he was kind of a jerk in running her around, but what failed her dish was the rice not the salmon and she admitted that she was very particular in the way she wanted the rice prepared. Why would you choose something you’re very particular about if you can’t control the situation? Yes, Kerry focused on perfecting his dish…and his dish won. Would they have won with her Marie Callendar’s salmon dish…with Cilantro? Doubtful, so they probably won specifically because Kerry said “Screw you and your rice, Lorena. I’m focusing on my shrimp and pasta.”

  7. 7
    lindaw205
    Posted September 15, 2012 at 11:30 am

    I was so pissed off that Lorena didn’t go home and I’m really hoping we’re not being set up for a Lorena win. I’m definitely rooting for Chris!

  8. 8
    susie smith
    Posted September 15, 2012 at 1:30 pm

    I predict Lorena will be the winner because during final commercial break the same Taco-Bell-Lorena-Ad ran in succession…no other chef really had a chance…why have I so needlessly wasted my precious time on this….OH I Know…Hot Host Curtis!

  9. 9
    zerocool
    Posted September 16, 2012 at 8:29 am

    Well, I have to disagree with everyone here. I was glad to see Patricia go; what a snob she was. So what if Lorena cooks only Latin, that’s her specialty. Does that mean Patricia’s better than a top French chef, someone like Guy Savoy, because she has more “worldly experience”? Give me a break. Patricia seemed to enjoy demeaning Lorena, which besides it being mean, it may have been sexist as well.

    Not that Lorena’s my favorit – Chris is. But that’s based on his skill. And he seems nice enough. Patricia needed to go home.

  10. 10
    Bobbi
    Posted September 16, 2012 at 8:32 am

    If Lorena wins then the show is definately rigged. She should never have won last week. This show has disappointed me.

  11. 11
    Mummy Butterfly
    Posted September 16, 2012 at 10:33 am

    @zerocool – I have to disagree with Patricia being a “snob” overall – was she a snob to Lorena? Yes, but I think Lorena is a “one trick Monkey” (to quote PR). HOWEVER, I think overall, Patricia has shown that she respects other chefs, even the ones with Jerk Moves (I’m looking at YOU – Kerry). I think we heard Patricia consistently praising other chefs (not just Taskashi and Chris and she even praised Lorena in the last episode).

    Lorena, on the other hand, has consistently been derogatory about every other chef (with the exception, occasionally, of Art) and only has praise for herself. That to me is much more snobbish.

    Of course, we KNOW the producers (even in a “Masters” show), ask the questions that they know will get the most drama. And, personally, the Taco Bell commercials aren’t helping Lorena in my eyes, either…

  12. 12
    Danielle
    Posted September 16, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    Not understanding the Lorena hate. I’m not a fan of that Oaf Kerry. Liked Patricia, but agree with ZeroCool that she came off as a snob toward the middle/end of the season. Too bad.

  13. 13
    Danielle
    Posted September 16, 2012 at 3:23 pm

    Also, I find the critic with the balding hair and glasses to be enormously irritating.

  14. 14
    LAC LAC
    Posted September 17, 2012 at 7:43 am

    Loved your recap – I am with you – Team Chris! I respect his culinary viewpoint about the total use of an animal, his boyish love of food, his nerdy glasses and nice pecs! ;) I love terrines and pates, so it would be treat to have something like that at my picnic.

    I am sorry to see Patricia go, but I understand the reason why. The story she had with the picnic was good, but the execution was flawed. But I will miss the big sister/little brother vibe with Chris.

    Kerry and Lorena – meh… I am not invested in them enough to hate, but not feeling them for the title.

    Hey, anyone looking forward to the tightly wound douchtastic “Life after Top Chef”? :)

  15. 15
    kloewent
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    I don’t know, Lorena had two crap dishes in the same show. Do you think Bravo bought Taco Bell? Sort of how Arsenio won Celebrity apprentice right before his show started? Suspicious!! Waving White Flags comment was HYSTERICAL!!! I also wouldn’t want to wear nice white clothes and carry chairs around. Guess I don’t get the concept, being American!

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