Top Chef: If You Want To Make An Omelet, Something Something Ostrich Eggs?!
Stefan's win last week has put fellow European contestant Fabio on the defensive. But as Fabio explains, they have a saying in Italy, "it doesn't matter how many dragon you kill, is who take home the princess." I think what he's saying is that Stefan is going to kill Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons, but ultimately it is Fabio who will take home Padma.
The Quickfire this week is based on a food that New Yorkers love so much, we spend over 100 million dollars a year on it. Cocaine! Each chef has 40 minutes to create a personalized cocaine dish that rivals the cocaine dish served by one of the hundreds of classic New York kosher cocaine carts that you find all over the city. Just kidding, you guys. Eating cocaine is for assholes. Hot dogs!
Of course, Stefan and Fabio both make panini hot dogs. Because, you know, Europe. What was that expression again? "It doesn't matter how many dragon you kill, is who make everything into a panini." Panini are terrible. Always. I hate panini. So do the judges.
THAT IS WHAT HE SAID! Panini are like grilled sadness. But, to be fair to Stefan and Fabio, they're not nearly as bad of an idea as SUSHI AND SPRING ROLL THEMED HOT DOGS.
Whoops, Jill and Eugene. I wonder if it's somehow sadder that you both came up with that idea. Your mistakes aren't even original. Also sad was Jamie's plating technique.
Aww. "What I did was I found half a hot dog in the garbage. Enjoy."
Radhika wins with her kabob style sausage with carmelized onions, cucumbers and tomato jam. Yum. She has immunity for the elimination challenge, which is to split into three teams and prepare a three course "New American" style lunch for 50 guests. The twist is that the guests will all be New York chefs who tried out to be on Top Chef but didn't make it. OH SNAP. Tough crowd, tough crowd. The only thing sadder than people on reality TV are the people who are angry that they couldn't get on reality TV.
Congratulations, that guy. Your moment of fame is to be immortalized on a stupid blog as the guy who couldn't quite hack it on reality TV but definitely looks like a big enough douchebag.
There are some highlights to the lunch, namely Jamie's corn soup and Fabio's carpaccio, which leads to one of the cuter moments at the judge's table when he thinks he's up for elimination and begins defending what turns out to be the winning dish.
I think they're all laughing to hide the painful discomfort of what a total c-word Padma is. The look on her face when she says "you're here because we liked your dish" is the most common look that people have on their faces right before they get punched.
The lowlights of the lunch include Hosea's crab salad, Arianne's lemon meringue martini, and Jill's ostrich egg quiche. They really set you up to think Arianne's going to go home because of how Padma spit her lemon meringue martini into her napkin, "a first" we are told "in Top Chef history." You know what else is a first? Everyone pretending like a lemon meringue martini is actually a thing. It's not. Just because you put something in a martini glass doesn't make it a martini. My famous peperoni pizzatini is proof of that.
In the end, though, it's Jill who gets sent home for her ridiculous decision to make ostrich egg quiche. You are the silliest link, goodbye. This sends Arianne into a tear-stained tailspin.
But she is comforted by the wise words of Carla.
Yes. So true. Thousands of people are dying around the world from war and extreme poverty, but there are no mistakes, Arianne, it's all come down to this extraordinary moment of you not getting sent home on the second episode of Top Chef. Ugh. That is the single most offensive, despicable sentiment in the entire world, and my only consolation is that there's no way Carla's going to make it to the top 10.
Chef's to watch: Radhika, Jamie, Jeff (dark horse), and of course the front-runners, Stefan and Fabio.
Posted by Gabe at 12:00 PM in Reality TV
Tags: Padma Lakshmi | Tom Colicchio | Top Chef
Gabe, will you make me a pepperoni pizzatini?
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Paninis are awesome. You're crazy!
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Gabe, you can try to hide your addiction to paninis, but I think we all know why we're here... INTERVENTION!
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One time I thought I had a pepperoni pizzatini but it turned out I had just spilled vodka all over the Papa Johns. I ate it out of a martini glass anyway.
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LMAO- I thought I was the only person who's done this ;-)
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Top Chef will be THE BEST the day one of the contenders valuts over the panel table and knocks Padma square in her vapid c-word mouth.
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That hot dog thing is strange. But I just read today that some "specialty" in Hawaii is a kind of sushi made with SPAM. And that's for realsies. Like, people actually make it, then other people actually eat it, and those people actually ENJOY it. Hawaiins must be weird.
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It is good.
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Where did she get ostrich eggs? Were they just chilling in the fridge for like the entire history of Top Chef as a gag and no one dared touch them? That lady's got balls to make a dish out of ostrich eggs.
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the angry reject does a creepy eye thing at the end of his angry one liner.
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I went to a wedding that had a mashed potato bar, and it was served in martini glasses. Do you know how hard it is to get drunk off sweet potatos?? We gave it our best, anyways.
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why does this site keep using "c-word" instead of "cunt"?
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best quality meat ever
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Pretty harsh on Carla there, huh? She looks like a muppet.
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that thing that Fabio said like 800 times ( the princess and the dragon) is not a saying in Italy, at least not where I live. I even asked my boyfriend to confirm it. Fabio's a big sayings maker-upper.
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oh yay, next week the Foo Fighters are guest judges. I'm so excited!!!
Sincerely,
1997
ps, i can't wait until Blessed Union of Souls is on.
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I hove to admit the joke with cocaine fooled me at first! You have to admit! it would have been truly original if they would have had to cook cocaine dishes even if right after the show they would have been arrested and forced to go to a drug treatment center. Lol!
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I hove to admit that the cocaine joke fooled at first! You have to admit! it would have been truly original if they would have had to cook cocaine dishes even if right after the show they would have been arrested and forced to go to a drug treatment center. Lol!
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