Top Chef All-Stars

~the business~ is def a thing that ppl say, get with the times hombre

reflecting, i think i say it about hot dresses a lot

I should have realized they were doing a little hubris foreshadowing with Tre talking about how he won on a risotto in his season

quickfire was terrible

The look on Mizrahi's face when Creep-o was going about his love of Roberto Cavalli and alligator was pretty lol.

Cant believe (well I can, but you know) how bitchy Mike and Fabio were about Antonia's winning dish. "She won for steaming a bunch of mussels". No dudes, she won for being on point, which neither of you were or you would have won. Especially Mike and his undercooked rigatoni. And not even clapping when she came back to the stew room? Kind of a dick move from the fellas there.

You've really gotta undercook fresh pasta to make it taste like "bullets going down your throat" (as bourdain remarked in his recap).

i can not believe antonia won for mussels, whether or not mike or fabio would have won.

i kinda wanted tiffani to win, even though she annoys me. they seemed to really appreciate her dish and it would have been a cool coup.

i really enjoyed this episode. Weird about the fondue in that some of the chefs are like 'This is for key parties and hippies!' I mean fondue is classic Swiss/French/German cuisine. But I must say everyone's food looked good for the elimination challenge.

carla is insane

v good ep tho

Carla looks like a crazed ostrich most of the time, she is nutty as a fruitcake. Was dying to eat her pot pie though, bottom crust is genius.
Fabio's booooger, oh dear. Mr Veg and I knew he was doomed when he said he was putting the melted cheddar on the side. Cheddar is the worst as a melted cheese unless you melt it ON something. It sounded gross from the get go.

Loved the quickfire..Dale and his "Pho-ndue".

I kinda thought it would be Dale to get axed, followed by "oh the cruel game, I won the quickfire but didn't get immunity."

I love Jimmy Fallon but he was insufferable.

he's the nicest guy and so embarrassingly boring
IT WAS OUT OF THE PARK
Fabio and Carla both need shows of their own.

Bravo tried to give one to Fabio where he sat around and talked with former Top Chef contestants. It was disastrous.

what he needs is a show where he seduces old women and then shows them how he cooks gnocchi in crazy detail
and sometimes he goes bowling

lol yes

booooooouuurger

Him and Richard Blaise need a "Perfect Strangers" sitcom together. <3 <3

That "top chef dinner" that Fabio hosted was TERRIBLE.

I'd watch a show hosted by just him or him and Stefan.

The Quickfire Challenge last night would have been great if you were 2. Otherwise, it was a very bad idea.

And why use only crockpots and hot plates? Did they not allow them the full run of the store? Even in the kitchen section along with the crockpots you can find fryers. Plus, nowadays most Targets maintain a camping section year round. Those camping stoves can kick out some serious heat.

i was surprised & tbh a little disappointed to see big sosa go home

it's weird tho, like, angelo seemed like one of the most confident chefs & he even he got knocked out by a bout of insecurity w/ what he was tasting

hose camping stoves can kick out some serious heat.

I thought of this too - sure there's no kitchen-standard gas lines, but surely one of them must know how to use a propane tank

Angelo made a serious seasoning error: if your dish is "missing something," add salt or bacon, not both.

Nice fake out showing Carla in the weeds, no protein with her dish and in the bottom 3, and then sending Angelo home.

Camp stoves would have been a good idea, but my guess is that they were not allowed to for fire code/liability reasons.

I think Target took a big risk in sponsoring this challenge and putting their name all over it. By the end of it, it was clear that the chefs were frustrated by not having the cooking equipment they'd have preferred and had to make do with chefs' equivalents of Easy-Bake Ovens. They couldn't find some of the ingredients they wanted to cook, either.

For BTUs, I'm surprised nobody went to an electric skillet. Those things can go nuclear in a minute or two. They're a southern-kitchen staple, maybe they're not widely used elsewhere.

yeah i thought they were really gonna boot carla, but honestly it would be bullshit imo to boot someone who has won the most challenges just cuz of one dish -- i always thought that whole idea was BS

i ended up liking angelo a lot more this season.

And more then any of the other chefs this season, I felt like when Angelo was on top of his game he couldn’t be touched

Carla's quest for tablecloths was an impossibly dumb decision.

xpost I've been liking Angelo more as well. Helps not to have another bit about Russian mail order brides.

I've noticed Dale has been getting the douche edit lately.

Carla's quest for tablecloths was an impossibly dumb decision.

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even the editors themselves showed utterly no desire to integrate the random designer associated w/ target into the show

I had a dream that Blaise and his wife were at some function I was at and I felt awkward pretending I liked him and didn't refer to him as Tintin behind his back. also both of them were kind of orange skinned and both had that weird Dr. Seuss-ish haircut that he has.

it was clearly gonna be mike or angelo.

Mike is one of those rare guys whose neck is wider than his skull

I think that exact line was used in a recent review of the movie The Eagle, maybe in the New Yorker?

no one ever makes Indian food on this show, do they? I guess there have been a samosa or two...

Carla's quest for tablecloths was an impossibly dumb decision.

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i know i just wanted to shake her. because i love her.

think i am developing a crush on richard blaise; not sure how i feel about it.

kevin made indian food last season i want to say but i believe he was specifically assigned to do so for a challenge.

indian girl from a while ago, radhika, would make indian-inspired food i think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8pARgwB19Q

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LOL

"no one ever makes Indian food on this show, do they?"

Is this maybe a time limit thing?

^^^yeah that's what I was thinking. it takes a while to make a decent curry from scratch. and then I guess there's the issue of ingredients (I don't shop at Whole Foods, have no idea if you can find Indian stuff there - ghee, garam masala, etc.)

otoh you'd think someone would try to suck up to Padme by making some goofy "deconstructed" indian dish or something

She's so picky though! She hated Mike's things on principle for not having fresh coconut.

He did say it was a fresh coconut flavor first though!

Yeah, she wasn't hating his stuff, just calling him on hyperbolic bullshit.

I still want to see a slow-food challenge. Probably will never happen though.

Padme is a horrible horrible human being

"Yeah, she wasn't hating his stuff, just calling him on hyperbolic bullshit."

Didn't she say "I can only eat one bite." That seems pretty hating on to me.

Why, for being criminally sexy? xp

Oh, I forgot that was the same dish. Yeah, that was pretty hatey.