Top Chef Masters Season 4, Ep 6 RECAP Thai One On

Top Chef

By MisRed | Saturday, September 1, 2012 | 11:09 am | 10 Comments
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I’m sorry for the delay guys.  My sister in law was visiting from England for 10 days… I barely survived.

Awww, I just remembered that Thierry is gone.  ☹  Oh look, there’s Curtis, I’m over it.  


Hot Stuff Comin’ Through

Curtis is in the kitchen welcoming the Chefs to their Quick Fire Challenge.  In the kitchen is a table filled with various delicacies.  Curtis asks the Chefs “Do you have any idea what your Quick Fire is?”


Sex?  Yes, please!

The Quick Fire is to cook a sexy dish using aphrodisiacs.  Aphrodisiac is something that arouses sexual desire, in culinary it could be foods that have suggestive shapes, aromas or tastes. The table has roses, champagne, foie gras, oysters, tuna, uni, chocolate, etc.  


Let’s face it, all of my dreams involve chocolate

Art the Soothsayer had a dream the night before that the Quick Fire would be about chocolate.  Ok, Ode Mae, settle down.


Non-Hootchie Mama 

The guest judge will be Dita Von Teese, the Queen of Burlesque.  Patricia says it will be refreshing to see Dita Von Teese after seeing all of these girls in their Vegas Hootchie Mama outfits!  The boys are very excited to have Dita judging.

(BTW, Holly Madison is pregnant.  A) wondering if it happened at the pool party B) wondering if it was the garlic that made her let her guard down  C) wondering if Art’s green bathing suit had anything to do with it)

For the Quick Fire they will have 30 minutes to cook.  The prize is, as usual, $5,000 to the winner’s charity and the winner receives immunity for the Elimination Challenge.

Everyone scrambles for the ingredients!


Blenders always make the ultimate sacrifice.  Blender Fi.

Art is going to make île flottante or a floating island.  Basically poached meringue in the shape of a football.  


Jeez Art, more than a mouthful is a waste

Art notes that he likes “BIG ONES” and surmises that maybe he does like girls.  Yeah maybe.  And maybe Snooki’s baby isn’t a hairy little meathead.

Takashi is making Oysters, Lorena is making a tuna taco type thing that doesn’t seem that sexy to me, Chris is searing foie gras and making a beautiful sauce of roses, figs and champagne, Kerry is searing tuna.  Patty is making a custard and her mole is making some asparagus tempura.

Chris’s Rose Champagne Sauce

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10 Comments

  1. 1
    aliens.rock
    Posted September 1, 2012 at 11:37 am

    I don’t understand how Kerry f.. ed up Pta’s duck, if she actually had EXTRA time to cook it. I thought that the problem was that she served it raw?

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    sagittariuskim sagittariuskim
    Posted September 1, 2012 at 12:30 pm

    @aliens.rock Patrica’s duck was already done when Kerry said he needed 5 more minutes. So she had to recook new pieces because her dish ended sitting to long, and ran out of time.

    I loved how flustered Dita had Curtis and the other guys. I wished I could ooze sexuality without even trying like that.

    I’m not sad to see Art leave I liked him, but I like Patricia so much more. Has a woman won Top Chef Masters yet? I can’t remember any women winning or getting to the finals, I remember a few getting close.

  3. 3
    Mummy Butterfly
    Posted September 1, 2012 at 12:52 pm

    I actually felt bad for Patricia, I really think she wasn’t TRYING to throw anyone under the bus. She basically served raw duck, knowing she was sacrificing her dish for Kerry’s. IMHO, that is something only a true professional chef, who is confident in her abilities, would do. I feel like she felt pretty bad that Kerry was expediting (and hadn’t had the best time of it) – so kinda felt like she should do whatever she could to make it easier for him on his dish.

    Wish she had put up good duck – but glad she didn’t go home for it! I LOVE Patricia and Chris!

  4. 4
    awfuleyebrow
    Posted September 1, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    I think Patricia may have been better off serving her overdone duck, presumably the skin was crisp and rendered on that one. I was surprised that Art went home, though not entirely displeased. I would have been ok with Lorena going too. Something about her just really grates on me.

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    TalldrinkofH2O
    Posted September 1, 2012 at 3:46 pm

    Whenever Oseland is on the screen, I just want to scream, “Thumbsucker! Thumbsucker!” Am I the only one??? His teeth give him away. There is just something super-creepy about him. The Mr. Rogers vest only adds to the feeling that maybe he’s Chester the Molester of his neighborhood. Those poor guys at the pool party in the last episode probably couldn’t wait to get home and shower.

    So happy Patricia got to stay. I think that it’s great that she called out Lorena for hogging up all the burners and leaving a mess everywhere. As MisRed noted, a HUGE part of cooking is keeping things clean, and a true chef would keep cleaning things as he/she goes and not leave it around (which also begs why the heck Kerry was using that blender last week with the top off. WTF???)

    The great thing about this show is that it puts the folks in unusual circumstances to see how they roll/cope, and different ones fall by the wayside. At least at this level, most are professional enough to own up to their mistakes as Kerry did with Patricia and her duck (and unlike Lorena who acted all peeved when called out for making a mess.)

  6. 6
    Detinha
    Posted September 1, 2012 at 4:29 pm

    Lmao@ the raw duck quacking pic!!

    So long, Art! Hollywood was starving without ya!

  7. 7
    lindaw205
    Posted September 2, 2012 at 4:10 am

    I was laughing at Stone Cold Fox during the quickfire because he truly was flustered and embarrassed. I kept thinking damn, I wonder what’s going through his mind for him to be so uncomfortable.

    I’m glad Patricia didn’t go home, too, and thought her dish would have been quite tasty if cooked properly. That’s one good thing about TCM, at least they (mostly) remain professional and own up to their mistakes. Well, except Lorena. And that douche Ludo from another season who, as I recall, blamed everyone but himself.

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    lindaw205
    Posted September 2, 2012 at 4:11 am

    Oh, and excellent recap as always, MisRed. I enjoy getting an insiders perspective on things.

  9. 9
    Lalaluvr
    Posted September 5, 2012 at 10:21 am

    MisRed thanks for the LMAO moments, of which I had several reading your recap. Every time I look at Patricia, I am reminded of the Austin Powers scene thanks to you. I swear, I can’t even look at her talking head shots anymore.

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    kloewent
    Posted September 6, 2012 at 12:49 pm

    I remember that ludo guy, the greasy, arrogant french one! He opens up restaurants for one night or something. He was just on an extremely stupid test on Hell’s Kitchen. I thought maybe he owed Gordon money or something.

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