I’ve very excited about this episode as Eric Ripert is on and he is my favorite chef! I am off to a bit of a late start because The CRAZY is kind of strong today and I have the puking part. One of my parents was that way too. Anyway I am fine now. It’s just so random. I could use a little bit less of THE CRAZY today.
It’s early morning the what is arguably the most gorgeous house the chefs from any season have lived in and that includes the Charleston house in my opinion. Nini is feeling herself after her well deserved win. The guy who hogged the budget with his rack of lamb is feeling really guilty. I hate that they don’t put up enough chyron to remind me of the names. ESPECIALLY this early in the season.
Richard Blais and Brooklyn are on hand for the quickfire. They have two minutes and one box to shop for ingredients to create their best holiday dish. It doesn’t sound like they even get the basic pantry items and if I am right, grabbing salt and pepper could be important.
Mental heath update I feel much better after puking actually. Sorry for the triggering visual. It’s just that my mood lifted. They don’t call it THE CRAZY for nothing, y’all. Plus I have the best Internet friends EVER.
The shopping was chaotic. OMG. They are going to do a yankee swap with the boxes! I was just asking my sister to host one this Christmas last night when I thought my circumstances were different. Some of these boxes are awful. Thank God this is not an elimination because Kelsey’s box is awful. Nini seems to be making the best out of the box she got. This is a terribly hard challenge so early in the game.
Blais is his usual dickish self. I hate this challenge. They win or lose based on what people put in their box. Blais says Umami which is still not recognized as word by any spell check but chefs keep trying to make it the fifth taste. It’s a made up word. And when it is positively uttered on this show it means you won So congrats, Eric. At least I am an Eric fan. The other beard, Justin was in the bottom along with Eddie and KELSEY! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Sarah, David and Nini’s dishes were in the top. David won. That’s twice in a row. Apparently no one lost.
Back at the best house ever, the chefs return to a sit down Christmas dinner! And if that was not great enough, Eric Ripert was the chef! The chefs feel the same way. He’s created Le Revillon de Noel. (French Christmas dinner) and I am in love! I love that they talk about family traditions. I miss mine. Eric says that every Le Revillon de Noel has 13 desserts. With 13 chefs left, the final challenge is desserts. And the time starts NOW!
And they are cooking for Eric Ripert! Did I mention how much I love him. I. Could. Not. Do.It. even if I were the most experienced chef in the world. And I am a cook not a baker. If I had my mother’s divinity recipe in my head, andI do not. I’d do that .
I like that one of the guys with beard is doing a cheese dish. I hate that I have the worst facial recognition skills in the world. It’s filed in my brain like “black guy with beard” “fat white girl” That Asian girl who wins a lot.” I have serious issues with identifying facial features and I didn’t even know it until I started doing this. I mean I did know on my teaching job when I had to fill out all their test shit at home. Then we got to race and I literally had no idea, I knew what to choose, PROBABLY if your last name was Rodriguez, but I am here to tell you being color blind when it comes to race us a real thing. I know I will get shit for this but it is a true thing.
Kelsey, Nini and Eddie were in the top! Nini wins again! Kevin, Pablo and Brian are on the bottom, has the vagicide ended? The judges are Brutal! Three guys in the bottom is new. Tom sends Kevin home.
I am still angry that Eddie let Natalie get sent home last week. So I am glad he is feeling guilty, he deserves to.
Why? I mean I didn’t want her to go either, but I don’t blame anyone other than Natalie. She knew she needed a certain number of lemons and she went with the “I want to be a team player” instead of saying “Sorry, but I need these”. This is not a congeniality contest it is a cooking contest, plus she was cooking for ERIC RIPERT for goodness sakes!!!
Eric Ripert is a great chef who loves making a diner in his restaurant feel special. I couldn’t believe how he went out of his way to prepare a perfect meal for a friend who had recent medical issues. I ❤️ Eric Ripert too. I
want him on Top Chef every week. I am getting into stalker territory.
I kept waiting for Anthony Bourdain to show up to dinner with Eric Ripert 🙁
Other than that I think they have a really great group of chefs this season, and Restaurant wars so early in? Yes!
Hey! Tonight Andy Cohen announced that he is expecting to be a father in 6 weeks! Maybe I misunderstood but I think he was saying that the baby was due to be born in 6 weeks. Sorry if this is off topic but …. I wonder if it is a boy or girl.
I thought that was a great episode. My friend does Yankee swap with her relatives and they have a theme, sometimes it’s books, but this year it was “as seen on TV” items! I want to be in her family.
Nini is a force, I hope she continues with the same great cooking, she is so humble and sweet.
The two beard guys confused me , so glad one of them is going home, that will help.
I totally have house envy, even with the retro wallpaper there is so much character.
I love that house too. Liked the window treatment in kitchen.
Nini and Kelsey are my favorites at this point but have to say, I kind of like Brandon (good looking blonde guy) also but he didn’t do such a great job with the chocolate.
Umami is the “awesome ” of the chef world. I too am still annoyed with guilty lamb guy. If he gave up 1 lb of lamb, there would have been enough lemons for everyone. Of course, everyone caved in so I guess that’s on them.
Still, it’s a fun show to watch.
Lamb guy won my heart back on this episode when he was feeling remorse over the lamb incident, and even moreso when he was so star stuck by all the celebrity chefs.
I loved how excited they were about the star chefs. Eric Ripert is just dreamy.
Umami is so weird that autocorrect keeps inserting Miami 😆
Great episode. So glad you recap this show! Thank you!!!!
Go Nini!!
And I also agree that Richard Blaise can be a pompous @$$! Eric Ripert definitely made up for it though. So dreamy!
I have never, ever liked Richard Blais ;P
Well I mean he is better than Hugh Acheson, so there’s that.
I love the mansion too and even Googled it, lol. This is shaping up to be a great Season, with Restaurant Wars coming up!