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He seems like he's pretty insecure and awkward and just puts up this RARR I AM AMAZING front to keep people away.

no that seems right to me. and probably evidence of an insecure youth or something, i dunno. you always hope that guys like this will lighten the fuck up when they hit 25 or something but w/e

maybe he'll be a really chill 50 year old...

yeah unsurprisingly I was rooting for the black guy and the hot girl

also I wanted... Betty? Marcel's mid-season nemesis with the inconsistent food; I wanted her to stab him.

I quite enjoyed shirtless Tre in the Night At the Museum episode <3

HATED Betty.

yeah betty was the worst

Bringing Mikey back from S2 would have made for more fun, but who knows if he's even cooking these days.

spike was never very likeable to me at all

Head to head challenge was fun, the setting was cool and they really got into it.

More then just one story going on with Jamie skating by in a couple challenges by not doing anything and Angelo sabotaging peoples food.

Carla is great btw

I wanted to eat that soup so bad.

jamie is the worst -- at least angelo can cook

that's why it was hard for me to believe he overcooked a few pieces of salmon

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caucasian dim sum next week looks great!

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I wanted to eat that soup so bad.

Watched Rick Moonen recreate the dish on the TC website and think I'll give it a try this weekend.

Jamie is the worst of humanity...just UGH its like she has chromic fatigue syndrome. gtfo

lol Jamie's cute looking when she talks to the camera

I used to know a guy who looked a lot like Marcel in season 2 (bladey side burns and sprite hair - but my dude was a bit taller and could grow a full beard if he wanted to). My dude is a chill hard rocker guy who was best buds with a tall, skinny, peppy, raver dude (also a cool guy). To make a pointless story short, some badass people can look like sprites. And even though I never saw season 2, I immediately liked Marcel for his looks and real talk. It's just his temper that gets on my nerves... and is starting to make me not like him at all

Marcel reminds me of Ed Grimley. I think it's the Season 2 hair.

Tre on the other hand, I didn't remember him but it's easy to like him for the his lightheartedness. Tre is always laughing. I don't know if he is ever egotistical or a jerk (it doesn't seem so) but he didn't even talk sh*t about Angelo messing up his fish - well at least not yet. I mean he had immunity but still

tre's laugh is annoying, imo
blais being all 'u got an interesting story line' was otm. jaime looked like she bucked up with that but we'll have to see. i like it when dudes just do their best and not fool about with all this strategy shit, gamin. i mean i know it's a game but be a stand up dude and don't fuck around. sabotage is some bullshit, angelo if that's what you did. carla working thru a sliced finger was dope. and spike goin home for not boxing out under pressure was fine with me. i hated that mofo when he was on, but for some reason on this all stars he was less annoying.

lol i had my own carla moment a few weeks ago when i chopped my thumb while chopping something. blood! wondered if stitches were needed! wrapped that shit, put on a glove, and powered through to finish my dish. in the end i decided that although the cut was deepish it was probably not stitchable anyway bc it's in an awkward place and it's healing ok now so what i am basically saying is: jamie sucks.

totally. unless you cut fucking bone or sever an artery, wrap that shit & keep going.

jamie is terrible, and pretty clearly trying to game as much as possible.

And what's even the point of being on All Star Top Chef if your whole game plan is 'cook as little as possible'? Fuck her. Srsly.

i just don't understand why anyone would even bother going on an all-stars show unless they wanted to fight to reclaim their lost glory or whatever.
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I thought Jaime was hilarious. Also don't comprehend why anyone would let Angelo touch anything on their plate?!?!

^^^ this. And Spike and Tre of all people. Just shove him out of the way and arm wrestle him to the ground.

How great was the little behind the scenes clip of Mike dancing? Have a newfound love of Mike now.

so do they all get lit every night or

yeah they always get drunk in the stew room

i feel like they talk about this on the reunion shows -- sometimes they sit in there for hours just drinking & doing stupid shit like making up games

Mike is wayyy more likeable this time than on his season!

All the contestants, especially Mike, Dale & Spike seem a lot more mellow this time around. That stuffing challenge was some bullshit. Not having utensils was a pointless handicap. the 20K might as well have been handed out at random.

'. . . and make sure nobody uses that peppergrinder anymore'

Yeah that stuffing challenge was ridic.

The stuffing challenge aka the "we give the judges food poisoning" challenge

lol

I could see the no utensils twist if it was 'cook an awesome paleo dish' but yeah... random and kinda wtf for stuffing. carla was a+ this ep, had me laughing a lot.

Her soup looked great. Didn't Marcus Samuelsson make it on Masters? It was great that she won despite her teammates telling her not to make the dish altogether.

i thought the stuffing challenge was hilarious, and a pretty good way to challenge their ingenuity. esp since tre figured out that freezing/crushing is basically the same as chopping, and i think it showed in his dish

Bourdain channeling Debbie Downer:

Fabio improvised a polenta and cheese stuffing by grating cheese on a wire rack shelf, congratulating himself while doing it by commenting "That is genius!!" No, Fabio. Actually, that is "clostridium perfringens," the third most common cause of food poisoning.

I know Jamie is the least competent contenstant this season and has to go soon, but that chicken feet disaster had to be punished.

least competent remaining contestant, I should say

surprised that there was no deference given to carla & casey for stepping up & doing front of the house -- that alone should've sent jaime home

Also, Jamie hasn't made anything good yet!

If you've never made chicken feet before as a dim sum dish -- just don't.

Exactly. At least the other dishes were reasonable concepts, executed poorly. Also, giving 8000 chickens a pedicure with a paring knife, wtf? Haul out the cleaver and get busy, eh?

Yeah, or use kitchen shears.

I hope last night's show discourages chefs to stop cooking chicken feet in general.