Padma and guest judge Tim Love, who’s kind of a hottie, inform the contestants that for this Quickfire, they must taste a bunch of tequilas, select one, then create a dish that pairs well with it. Reason #2 I can’t be a chef: I hate alcohol. (Reason #1: I’d weigh 476 pounds.) No immunity, but the winner will win $5K. That’s ok. $5K > immunity.
Can I just say that I love early in the competition, when there are a bunch of chefs running around, throwing things to each other, yelling angrily about all the [food item] being gone, and darting around shouting “Behind!”
It’s chaos in the kitchen! Anyway, Ty-lör wins the Quickfire with his steamed clams in Thai style fish caramel sauce, paired with the 1942 tequila. Caramel + seafood + alcohol?????? I would rather beat my head into a wall than eat that, but yay Ty! I like him and his goofy grin. And after nearly chopping off his finger and then being in the bottom last episode, he needed a pick-me-up. I hope he and his boyfriend go on a fun-filled vaykay with that five grand.For the elimination challenge, the chefs are split into teams of two. Padma says “the game is on,” and Tim says each team has to cook a dish for his “game dinner,” so I at first I thought they were talking about stupid sports. Then I realized they mean game meats, thank god. Nyesha and Dakota get venison; Sarah and Paul, squab; Grayson and Ponytail Chris, elk; Lindsay and Cute Chris, boar; Heather and Beverly, duck; and Edward and Ty, quail. And all the chefs will get to judge each other’s food and send three teams to the chopping block … and an entire team is going home. Double elimination, oh no! The winning team gets to split $10K. Fat ass prize money, oh boy!
Last episode, Dakota called Heather an obnoxious bully for how Heather treated Beverly. At the beginning of this episode, Nyesha said how Heather treated Bev showed a lot about Heather’s integrity. And now a third person has taken notice. 
“Honestly, Heather’s being a complete bitch.” says Edward, who’s not one to mince words (COOKING PUN!), and I have to say, I wholly agree with him. Heather is extremely bossy, not at all willing to compromise, and hypercritical of Bev. She “doesn’t think like a chef,” Heather sniffs (twice). But what really started to annoy me was when Heather simply would not stfu about “I just want to make sure that the whole dish isn’t too Asian.” “Bev cooks Pan Asian, and I cook American farm-to-table plates.” “We might wanna think about the name of our dish. I don’t want it to appear to be a completely Asian dish.” Jesus christ, Heather. I bet if an Asian water showed up to take the dish to the judges, Heather would start screaming about a conspiracy and demanding a white guy. To her credit, Bev never once flies off the handle at Heather, the way I would if my teammate kept repeating that she doesn’t want our dish to be “too black.”The Voltaggio brothers’ Samsung commercial: THEY ARE SO FRIGGING HOT.
- Lindsay and Cute Chris: roast rack of boar with peach barbecue sauce, kohlrabi slaw, farro fried rice - Beverly and I Hate Asians: five-spice duck breast, polenta, pickled cherries, herb salad
- Grayson and Ponytail Chris: juniper roasted elk, sweet potato, citrus greens
- Ed and Ty: sorghum quail, pickled cherries, eggplant
- Nyesha and Dakota: roast rack of venison, kabocha squash, beet gratin
- Sarah and Paul: pan roasted squab breast, squab meat sausage, nectarine pickles, shallots, jalapeno
Ed and Ty made the fave dish. Yay Ed! Holy crap, Ty won TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS in this one episode. Color me jealous. The chefs get together to decide which three teams will be up for elimination: Nyesha and Dakota, Grayson and Ponytail Chris, and Beverly and Asians Keep Out. The judges say Beverly and Please No Asian's dish was too disparate. Tom asks Asians Are Icky if she feels she deserves to be in the bottom; she says no, it’s the result of everyone being jealous that she won the steak dinner challenge. Eyes roll. The judges loved Nyesha and Dakota’s dish, but the meat, which Dakota cooked, was too rare. Grayson and Ponytail Chris’s meat was yummy, but the sweet potatoes, which Ponytail Chris cooked, were a major misstep.
Tom asks Bev why she thinks her team is in the bottom; before she can get three words out, Down With Asians interrupts her, tells the judges that she and Bev have never gotten along, and that all Bev did in the steak challenge was cook shrimp for two days, which means Bev has a bad work ethic. Dakota, bless her, stands up for Bev. Bev defends herself but starts crying. I HATE CRYING I HATE CRYING. Only slightly less than I hate No Asians Allowed. Back in the stew room, Asians Go Away irritates the living hell out of everyone bashing Bev and the Asain aspects of their dish. Dakota points out that it wasn't the Asian flavors that the judges had a problem with; Grayson points out that throwing your partner under the bus make no sense because it’s a dual elimination; one of the judges points out it’s pointless to bring up old issues.
And … Nyesha and Dakota are sent home. This decision makes sense; it was a game challenge, after all, and their meat was undercooked. (But in last week’s steak challenge, the person who made potato gratin, not steak, was sent home, and the person who made cake, not steak, won. Go figure.) Bye bye, fellow black girl. :(
But wait! Nyesha won Last Chance Kitchen. So she's still in it. Yay!
No comments:
Post a Comment