This Top Chef recap is going to be rather brief. I was trying to stay awake to start it on time, but laid my head down for second while watching the trial and half way woke up when the phone started ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing. I was convinced someone had died. I really didn’t want to deal with anymore stress. So, I figured whoever it was would still be dead when I woke up. Banjo on the other hand also woke up and needed to go out. I still have to take him out on leash due to the unending tree drama. Then I decided to check on a delivery. And now I am here to watch Top Chef while half asleep. Banjo is comfortably back in bad. I want to be a dog in my next life. Feed me, pet me, take me out side to pee. I’m thirsty. Being a human is a gyp.
Quickfire
The quickfire his week requires the participants to make eight breakfast plates in 30 minutes. Each of the All Star Chefs places and order and the first two people to ring in get to battle each other. Somethings are easy like steak and eggs. Melissa wants dim sum for breakfast? Oh hell no. What the hell is fancy toast? One of the Asian guys on the show, who looks nothing like John Legend, still looks like John Legend to me. Does that make sense? Texas Gabe wins this round.
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Shota wins his round (that may or may not be who I previous thought was John Legend.) I’m clearly not awake yet and will be going right back to bed after this. Jamie won on the shrimp and grits order, though I was disappointed in both dishes. Gabriel won the SPAM fried rice challenge. Sasha wins the egg challenge without making an egg. Brittany made the best fancy toast. It was a mushroom thing. Blech. Chris won his challenge. Jamie’s shrimp and grits won over all. I wish I had shrimp and grits.
Elimination Challenge
Half of the team has to use coffee in their dish the other half has to use beer based on a random draw. It’s a “brew challenge” get it? I’m still half asleep. Am I making any sense? I’m ready to go back to bed. Tom shows up to throw in a twist. It’s a team challenge. Both teams have to have a beer and coffee dish. Or something. Oh they have to pair into teams. One beer person and one coffee person? Sorry. Lots going on over here. Then they are making one dish? I am so confused. I’m going to have to watch this again tomorrow.
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Shota AKA John Legend is doing it for me. I’m just saying. I had thawed out and prepared to make a sockeye salmon and shrimp dish with pasta tonight. But I missed the mental window to get it cooked. Maybe tomorrow…
Judging
My man Shota is doing very well. Actually everyone is doing very well so far. Oh and then Sasha and Brittany get bad reviews. Byron is worried about his partner, Chris’s too thick pasta. So are the judges. Gabe and Sarah’s dish is going to win the whole thing. It’s a pork tenderloin and a tortilla of some sort. Gabriel and Dawn’s dish was ribs and compressed watermelon. This could be the winner. My boyfriend Shota and his partner Avishar won! YAY! Sasha is eliminate for bad Romesco sauce.
It seems like some of them are just making the dumbest mistakes.
Thought the quick fire was actually kinda cool despite Richard & Melissa’s ridiculous orders. Otherwise, Jamie is already on my last nerve with her squeaks & odd sounds. It’s like a child is in the kitchen. And was over Gabriel the minute he brought up Tom C last week. He looks to be a class A prick. Loved the Asian bro love of the winning team. But it does appear that Sarah is the one to beat this year.
I agree about Jamie and her noises. It’s not funny, and it’s not cute and honestly makes me wonder why they cast her in the first place? We are watching a cooking challenge show, not a third grade talent contest. My god. And I know what you mean about John Legend lookalike but not really guy.
Ha….I can vaguely see the resemblance.
I know exactly what you mean when you say this person looks like this person even though they don’t look like them!
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Thanks guys something about his demeanor reminded me of John Legend then as the show went on I didn’t see it anymore. I still find him John Legendesque in his general likeability, I’m weird. lol.
I loved the quick fire/short order cook challenge. I will now have more patience and sympathy for my cooks when I order breakfast. I will also simplify my orders.
I think the not John Legend guy is Nelson. I pass on the Jamie squeaks but her shrimp and grits looked good, really good. Right now Shota and Sarah are my favorites. Nelson, too, if that’s his name. I like his demeanor. I have to admire the adaptations for covid.
My not John Legend guy is not Nelson. It is in fact Shota. I know I know it doesn’t make any sense.
I’m trying to lower my cholesterol, not going to lie this show is torture for me, vile and utter torture, yes I’m dramatic! That shrimp and grits, yum!! Not familiar with all the names yet but Shota’s food, yum!!! Didn’t see judges table so glad I could read about. The ribs, just kill me now! Yeah sasha and britney’s dish did not look appetizing at all. Throw some basil on for color on an overall brown dish, ehhh, and yeah shocking it was Sasha. Ugh time for my salad!
I’d cut off my left tit, and that’s the big one, for a salad. My quarantine food is all processed and this is not how I normally eat. Which is probably why I am not eating properly and craving a Zaxby’s blackened chicken salad. I have already decided that when I get there, AND I WILL GET THERE. I am going to buy two. It’s way cheaper than buying all the stuff to make a great salad, and I do make a great salad, and then having to peel and chop and such.
My salads for my family functions used to be called hundred dollar salads because that is about how much I spent on all the things I put in it for 20 people. Delicious, fresh and expensive. I almost never had any to take home. lol.
Lol, I’ll hire you to make my salads!! Actually I made myself a decent blend of a Cobb/Tex mex said from stuff I had. Had no idea I actually had tomatoes and avocado, very filling, but I still want those ribs! The only pet peeve I have is needing to cut out the ribs from lettuce, so I never bough into the wedge salad craze.
You are making me want a head of lettuce so I could have a fattening tuna salad wrap with lots of mayo. I am sort of half assed prepper and so I am eating all the canned crap I purchased for the end of times during this pandemic. Blech.
I’m about to drunk shop at https://www.dartagnan.com/ I am out of insanely expensive pork chops. One of my rich friends got me hooked on the the Berkshire pork chops, frenched. I thought I was going to have them for Easter but there were none. I did buy a bunch of tiny chicken thighs (tiny because they are all from chickens who are sung to and blessed by monks or something and only fed caviar. I dunno). They were on sale and I have been eating them. It is great for single folks. But this fat southern girl needs a pork chop from time to time. Off to shop. I do not recommend it because you will never eat poor people pork chops again. And I loved poor people pork chopand am sadly not a PAID influencer, though I should be. We are all in a pandemic. We might as well enjoy the luxury we can at this point. And mine is fancy porkchops.
Made it out with only the porkchops and a little bit of prosciutto. Free shipping! Don’t tell the rich people, but I bake the prosciutto in the oven like I cook my bacon. This is apparently blasphemy. I don’t like raw like meat, I do NOT eat sushi. You can take the girl out of the south, but you can’t take the south out of the girl. We do not eat bait. 🙂 And if you only knew what sorts of trashy poor girl food I top with that fancy prosciutto? You would die.
me too! I never eat the ribs, which makes eating a caesar salad so annoying, and forget the wedges. I also dont eat stems, so a baby lettuce salad bag ends up with half of it in the compost bin. The best salad for me is green leaf or red leaf lettuce, easy to tear the ribs out, and they are thin anyway, and it leaves lots of leafy goodness to eat. I add dried cranberries, chopped pecans, and goat cheese, covered in good olive oil and a fruit flavored vinegar. yum yum!
can you imagine working for Jamie? I would lose my mind.
So normally I am a raging bitch about not discussing Top Chef Kitchen in the comments. But perhaps this season we should? What do you guys want to do. Do you want to know who wins Top Chef Kitchen or not? The main reason I usually don’t is because a) we all get around to watching it at different times and 4) I like to be surprised about who comes back.
Let me know in comments. If you want and if the Bravo website stops malfunctioning on sharing videos, I can start editing them in to the recaps once they air.
Hmmm in the recap weekly is good for me. I never watch it online unless it’s at the end and I’ll binge it.
I never watch it, so if you want to pass on the information, I am good with that
Could you do a separate “kitchen” recap? That way people like myself won’t get spoiled?
Did anyone else think that Padma’s face looks different? For some reason, she doesn’t look like normal self. Anyone else?