Yeah I liked this ep. That Quickfire challenge was crazy! And I loved the Elimination Challenge, it was cool to see all the chefs try to embrace the challenge. I'm glad Dale won...in behind the giant chip on his shoulder he seems pretty likeable and dedicated.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 16 December 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
He was just really smart. Everybody who lost lost because they were confronted by these uber-chefs and could only think the way to win was to emulate their style and do something really ambitious. Then Dale comes out and says "I can't be WD" so he does his own food reflecting on aspects of WD50. And his dish looked totally awesome.
I ate at WD50 once, pretty good...I had some kind of carbonated bourbon. A drink that wasn't bourbon mixed with soda, but carbonated bourbon.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 16 December 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, that sounds cool. Would love to eat at WD50 one day. Wiley has always been my favorite guest judge on TC.
Lol @ Bourdain saying Stephen's dished tasted like a head shop. I'm glad he's gone. I'm honestly surprised he stayed as long as he did, he truly seems completely useless in facets of chef-ing.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 16 December 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone else notice...when they came in and Stephen was like "i'm out" there was silence then other Dale was like "me too" and the place erupted in "ooooh"
hilarious.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 16 December 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
But the food at WD50 didn't kill me. Momofuko Ssam either. Either I'm a traditionalist or I just like the real cheap ethnic stuff instead. They were definitely great, but I'd rather eat at some weird place in Flushing I guess.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 16 December 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah we ate at WD50 when we were in nyc + i wasnt really feeling it
― just sayin, Thursday, 16 December 2010 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Did you expect to go to WD50 and get a really authentic bowl of pho or something?
― I Am Kurious Assange (polyphonic), Thursday, 16 December 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
No. But I was expecting it to taste as good as it was interesting. And it was cool, but it didn't really blow me away. When I've been to Jean Georges, I almost passed out out of pleasure.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah for me it just sort of made me realise what i really enjoy at a meal
― just sayin, Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to eat that egg cube
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
actual lolz
― tehresa, Friday, 17 December 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I was expecting it to taste as good as it was interesting. And it was cool, but it didn't really blow me away.
Totally agree w/ the WD-50 comments. Hard to say this with authority having only eaten there once but I feel like they put things out on the menu that are still works in progress. Some of the stuff was good-to-great but my wife said her entree was one of the worst things she's ever eaten in a restaurant (it was v. weird, some kind of fish dish with cocoa nibs in the sauce)
― dmr, Friday, 17 December 2010 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
what's the consensus on the best season btw? this show is fucking crack for me, and I wanna DL a good season Ive never seen before
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
2 & 6 are the best
― return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Season 6 had the best talent, yet not sure if that makes the best watching though.Season 5 was pretty drama and had a *shocking* conclusion.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 December 2010 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i've never seen season 1 tho
after those 2 i'd say 3 then 4
― return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
saw the season with jen in it, also the one with jamie (was that the same one?)
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
jen = 6jamie = 5
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 December 2010 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i think i missed the 5 finale. never saw marcel season.
― tehresa, Friday, 17 December 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
in a world where people regularly get excited about Bourdain, Colicchio and David Chang, Season 6 raised the bar just for having Joel Robuchon, Eric Ripert, Daniel Boulud ON ONE SINGLE EPISODE. also Thomas Keller on another. The Voltaggio brothers are arguably better chefs than most/all of the Top Chef Masters.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 December 2010 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
so i should see season 2, then, thx
xp yeah i remember season 6 having that rep---the voltaggios were v impressive
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Season 2 is like watching a slow-moving hate crime against a guy who sort of deserves it.
― I Am Kurious Assange (polyphonic), Friday, 17 December 2010 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Love love love Season 6 for all time. I liked Season 3 with Hung, and Casey & Dale were cool too. I think the only season I didn't watch was the Fabio Season 5.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Friday, 17 December 2010 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Season 2 is probably the best pure drama season. Season 6 pretty inarguably had the most talented quartet of chefs. Season 4 has some real characters in it (Spike, other guy who looked like Spike, totally self-obsessed crazy lady who finished 2nd, New Zealand dude who couldn't cook.) Plus it's in Chicago!
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 December 2010 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, this is so OTM. I started watching with this season and nothing has really measured up for me since.
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Friday, 17 December 2010 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost Season 6 had the Voltaggios and Beardo Kevin in that quartet. Who was the fourth?
― righteousmaelstrom, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
jen
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, ok. Thx.
― righteousmaelstrom, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
The talent level of season 6 was kind of terrifying; I sort of felt like any of the final 4, and possibly as deep as the final 7, would have won any of the previous 5 seasons (caveat: never saw season #1).
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Season 6 talent was too good. People who own restaurants and have James Beard awards or Michelin Stars or whatever shouldn't be competing. There has to be some kind of amateur/professional divide.
― dan selzer, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
ehhhhh, i dunno, i really watch the show for the food. the drama is kinda fun sometimes, but really i just want to see gangsta chefs go ham in the kitchen, you know. better chefs is better entertainment
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
exactly! Otherwise we end up with Priti seasons and no-one wants that
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
even Prithi who was one of the worst chefs on Season 6 owns a massive catering business and makes serious bank.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
But the first half of that season was boring because people like the Volt brothers were just so obviously superior. That's one thing I'm liking about this season, there isn't that huge and obvious disparity in skill. There's a bit, but not as much, so already you're getting a lot of very solid chefs competing against each other.
― dan selzer, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
well right, which is sorta the point, right? all-stars!
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
but the flipside is season 2, where you had the seriously repellent Marcel somehow managing to kung-fu other chefs off the show by being an infuriating mix of good enough to get judge's praise and obnoxious enough to get otherwise okay chefs to focus on him instead of their food, leading them to make mistakes while cooking or, in one incredibly regrettable case, back in their rooms that led to their ouster
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
holy shit, I just read the wikipedia entry on that season and had no idea the Marcel got attacked by a viewer with a bottle and has a permanent scar because of it
wau, dude knows how to make ppl hate him
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Marcel is kind of my favorite Top Chef contestant.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I love Marcel.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
this has to be a wiki prank
― return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
oh wait then i've seen season 2, or at least bits of it
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
marcel is so hatable because he reminds me, in some ways, of smug douchers i have met in real life. who, like him, are probably decent enough, but because they're juuuuuust good enough at something to feel smug about it and bad at a lot of other things (bein macho, human interaction) to be defensive, they're just cocks 24/7
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
like, the dude was probably teased a LOT in high school, i'm guessing. and not for being studious or a wimp, but for being a litttttle too articulate and quick with sarcasm, fucking alex p keaton style
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
or maybe it's just his haircut
― dan selzer, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
J0rdan:
http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/top_chef_2/2007_Jan_22_marcel_hit_ilan_friends
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
well yeah, and his haircut
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Honestly I can't imagine why anyone would watch Season 2 and root for anyone OTHER than Marcel. Elia before the head-shaving incident maybe (and boy did she come off badly on All Stars) and that Mike-y line cook dude seemed like a total bro, but seriously the rest of those folks were either total whiney douchebags or completely macho assholes. I'll totally take one socially inept midget egomaniac over any of them, thankyouverymuch.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Marcel seems like he's created a 'douchebag' persona for himself but I never feel like it's 100% him. He seems like he's pretty insecure and awkward and just puts up this RARR I AM AMAZING front to keep people away. lol because I know him sooo well :)
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Cliff 4eva
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link