Anyone watching? Still enjoy top chef which seems more realistic..lol

Although I love when Ramsey has inexperienced cooks try and make some simple concotions.

I am sure that they cannot even give away free meals in that pseudo kitchen.

While I realise only some of these contestants have, or have had, jobs in the industry, I'm truly amazed at how unskilled they all seem to be.
First challenge, a signature dish; from what I saw I would not let any of them in my kitchen. I sure will not be rushing to dine at where the winner will be the head chef...

Entertaining tv though...(all hail Tivo...)
Top Chef is tops.(for me, in reality cooking competitions.)

Last night is the first time I've ever seen this show. I laughed my ass off, although I'm not sure it's supposed to be a comedy.

I did set up a new season pass on Tivo.

What happened to the waffle house cook? Wasn't she supposed to come back this year after some professional culinary training?

Good opener last night, but I would have kicked off the spineless "General" myself.

-mJ

Wow, they seem to have found even worse contestants than previous seasons
We are in for some serious entertainment

The waffle cook is at the cracker barrel off I 81 somewhere between Virginia and West Virginia

I don't know if this thread will get very far without a barfing graemlin available.

"Hen in a pumpkin"????

I'm guessing "Wafflehouse Cook" didn't complete her training before the new season was to start (if at all.) She didn't seem very grateful for the opportunity Ramsey was giving her. And I still don't think Rock was qualified to be a head chef at Denney's. Anyone know how he fared at his new gig?
These new yahoos are probably the "Top Chef" rejects. There's a whole country full of good to great cooks out there, why do they keep scraping the bottom of the barrel to fill these reality-tv archtypes?

What was interesting to me last night was the prize. Ramsey's own place? I wonder if that was a concession on his part?

The "wafflehouse cook" will be coming back next season, according to an interview with Ramsey that I read....

Worst group that I have seen. They don't even have a "hot chick", or for BD's sake, a "hot lesbian chick"....

And I still can't get over the fact that all of them are smoking....and picking the toe jam out of their toes right before service....

Hen in a Pumpkin! I couldn't stop laughing at that. Damn.

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Hen in a Pumpkin! I couldn't stop laughing at that. Damn.

Shove a hen in an unseasoned jack-o-lantern. Classic!

I've caught his series in England where he tries to save dying restaurants. Very good show.

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Originally posted by Dom'n'Vin'sDad:
picking the toe jam out of their toes right before service....

Yeah, I forgot about that, disgusting.

That was just wrong. Someone needs to take away his sanitation certificate.

I once worked with a guy I'd catch LICKING his knife and dipping it back into the meringue. He always seemed surprised when I'd take the meringue and dump it and tell him to stop.

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Originally posted by Een:
That was just wrong. Someone needs to take away his sanitation certificate.

I once worked with a guy I'd catch LICKING his knife and dipping it back into the meringue. He always seemed surprised when I'd take the meringue and dump it and tell him to stop.

At least he wasn't wearing a wife beater and cleaning it off in his armpit....... Ick.

Tivo missed the very end. What reason did Ramsay give for ditching Clark Kent, other than having a bad rug and standing there like a muppet?

Interesting that they started with 15 contestents. Seemed to me that a bloke was always most likely to get kicked off simply to even up the numbers.

I have deemed the dismissed contestant the feeble-minded cousin of Dunder Mifflin's Michael Scott!

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Originally posted by Dave Tong BBP:
standing there like a muppet?

with scallops in his left hand....

Dave,
The guy could not function in the kitchen...basically he had no experience and Gordon, would rather give the general another shot since he has some experience....

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Gordon, would rather give the general another shot since he has some experience....

Jeez, some general. He stood there like a fragged general for 3 frickin' hours, manning the entree station, while his dysfunctional team couldn't even finish sending out the appetizers. Ramsey should have sent them both packing.

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Originally posted by mneeley490:

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Originally posted by mareff:
Gordon, would rather give the general another shot since he has some experience....

Jeez, some general. He stood there like a fragged general for 3 frickin' hours, manning the entree station, while his dysfunctional team couldn't even finish sending out the appetizers. Ramsey should have sent them both packing.

Agreed...but I am sure he is setting him up for a future fall....cant wait

How about old Gordon last night picking his own to boot off....pretty interesting! -mJ

What's the point of having a contestant nominate two for elimination if Gordon is going to pick somebody else? Now she's got two pissed off "teammates".

I've never seen the show before last week. Has this ever happened before?

It should make for some entertainment next week.

Yeah, I think he over-rode a nomination a couple seasons ago, IIRC....

By the way, WTH is a "Room Service Chef" - in Vegas, no less....

DnVD, you know that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.