If Carla wins Top Chef - that's it. I'm done with Colichio

[GoneOffShore]

I was done with the Padma a long time ago.
I hope she doesn't get Richard - Marcel would be good.

[GoneOffShore]

1. She got Casey - this could be good

[Lucian]

2. Woohoo! Casey!

:loveya:

[GoneOffShore]

3. I'm glad she got Casey

Who was totally unmemorable.

[Lucian]

5. Oh I remembered her...

but not for her cooking. ;)

BTW, I can't stand Carla. I hope Stefan wins.

[LostinVA]

4. Carla is an excellent, classically-trained chef, and Casey is THE perfect helper

She is good at prep and has no ego -- like most of the rest.

ColiciJerko isn't fond of female chefs, so I expect Stefan to win.

[Lucian]

6. She had no idea what "sous vide" was.

[Ava]

8. she knew what it was

she just has never done it herself :shrug:

[LostinVA]

10. Yes she did

[GoneOffShore]

7. I'm hoping that Hosea wins - even though Stefan is the better chef

Carla just doesn't have it.
Every chef I know is hoping she doesn't win.

She's a good prep, sometimes, but not a chef.

Besides the whole thing of not working to recipe is rubbish. Every chef I know works to recipe cards.

[Lucian]

13. Hosea whines too much.

And you're right, Stefan is the better chef. He deserves to win.

[GoneOffShore]

14. The reason I'm rooting for Hosea is that he's got Richard on his team

And Richard should have won.

[Lucian]

15. Sure, Richard should have won...

but he fucked up at the end. That's what did him in.

[sniffa]

56. Perfect helper?

:rofl:

[GoneOffShore]

9. Mrs GoS is going to puke if Carla wins

Esp if she does another 'Sun Salutation'.

No, you can't cook "angry", but if Carla talks about the "love" I'm throwing something at the TV.

[Lucian]

11. "Sure, my food tasted like crap, but it was made with LOVE!"

:eyes:

She annoys me to the high heavens.

[GoneOffShore]

12. Good to see that she's freaking during prep

[GoneOffShore]

16. Hosea's ap is a little busy

And he missed the salt.

[GoneOffShore]

17. Brandon is my man

"I could eat foie gras all day."

And Carla's main course sucked.

And she screwed the souffle. She's going down!!!!

Huzzah!!

[NYC_SKP]

18. That Fabio had to leave is an abomination and an outrage.

I feel that his mohawk haircut contributed to the producers obvious lapse in judgement.

Sad, where is he now?

Fabio. Faaabio! :cry:

[GoneOffShore]

19. Yes, Fabio should have been in the top three

Carla should have been out ages ago.

And blaming her assistant and letting the sous chef take the lead was a big mistake.

[Lucian]

20. I know.

I nearly cried when Fabio had to leave. :(

[Lucian]

21. Carla is out.

[charlie and algernon]

23. yup, i'm surprised they came out and said it so early

last year they left it open till the very end

[GoneOffShore]

24. I'm opening a bottle of fizz!!!

She's a low end caterer.

[Lucian]

25. I'm not going to go that far.

I hope she has success in her culinary career. She just wasn't the strongest chef on this season's Top Chef.

[GoneOffShore]

27. In talking to professionals that I know, that's their opinion of her.

[Renew Deal]

44. How long have you been eating at Burger King?

[GoneOffShore]

51. ....

:boring:

[bullwinkle428]

26. No, she blew it by letting loser Casey take control of things,

instead of doing what got her to the finals in the first place!

[Connonym]

52. yeah, IIRC, this isn't the first time she's let second guessing herself get in the way

it's too bad. Hard to say how things would have turned out if she had followed her first instincts.

[Missy Vixen]

53. And your point would be?

>She's a low end caterer.

Gosh, how nice. Jacques Pepin certainly didn't agree with you.

I think Stefan's a prick, and both he and Hosea should have been gone a long time ago.

[GoneOffShore]

22. "We can all agree that Carla is out of the running"

OK.
That's the good news.

[GoneOffShore]

28. Go Hosea!!!!!

[mth44sc]

31. I'm happy with that

The top 3 were the tops

[GoneOffShore]

33. Well, two of them were.

[Lucian]

29. Goddamn it.

[charlie and algernon]

30. wow, Hosea with the upset

:wow:

[GoneOffShore]

32. He did good!!!

[LynneSin]

37. Thank god - I can't stand that pompous ass Stefan

I was hoping it was Carla but glad it was Hosea

[LynneSin]

34. I think that was Carla's to lose and she let Casey make the decisions

this is your last meal - don't let someone else screw you up

[bullwinkle428]

35. That's okay, Carla haters - you're nuts if don't think she's got

"fan favorite" wrapped up at this point!

HOOTIE-HOO!!!

[Lucian]

36. Fabio will win it.

[GoneOffShore]

38. Not food professionals.

Fan Favorite is just that.

As I said up thread, professional chefs look at Carla as a joke.

[PVnRT]

57. Yeah, like Eric Ripert

That's OK, I'm sure you have a good, representative sample of "food professionals" to back up your claim.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

58. I love Hootie-hoo!

[NYC_SKP]

39. Here is the your Top Chef, this is your fan favorite and best all round chef:

[GoneOffShore]

41. Have to agree with you.

[Renew Deal]

45. How can you consider yourself credible when you think that Fabio is better than Stefan or Carla?

The only reason he survived as long as he did was on personality.

[GoneOffShore]

50. His food was better than Carla's

Maybe not up to Stefan's and Hosea's but certainly better than Carla's.

[bullwinkle428]

63. "His food was better than Carla's" - how many of those dishes

did you actually get to taste? Unfortunately, as viewers, we can't really make a decent judgment on any of the food beyond the visual aspects. I have to put some level of trust into what those who are eating the dishes have to say about them, and Carla's food seemed to get lots of love from some of the titans of the business...

[Lucian]

48. Agreed.

:thumbsup:

[Renew Deal]

40. Carla was robbed

I know she screwed up 2 dishes, but she's more talented than Hosea and better overall than Stefan. Major disappointment.

[GoneOffShore]

42. OK - whatever you say.

But, as a food professional, I was never impressed with her.

[Renew Deal]

43. "As a food professional"

As a food consumer, I was impressed. She has talent and she's got more style than the other two. One of the guys said that if it's about soul, she should win.

BTW, I used to be a food professional to. I worked at Pizza Hut for a few years.

[Lucian]

47. Food can taste like shit and have soul.

Having soul in your food is meaningless.

[Renew Deal]

49. That is true.

She screwed up tonight, but she didn't do her thing.

[Missy Vixen]

54. We know "food professionals"

They're remarkably charming, and do not watch "Top Chef". They're too busy running their own restaurants.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

59. What sort of "food professional" are you?

[BuddhaGirl]

68. do you consider Jacques Pepin to be a "food professionial?"

because he was VERY impressed with Carla. I daresay he is more of a professional than you are.

[Lucian]

46. She wasn't robbed.

She just didn't have the talent the other two chefs have.

[LynneSin]

61. Carla robbed herself

she listened to Casey instead of 'listening to the love'

I thought Carla should have been eliminated in the early weeks of the show but she came on strong at the very end and personally I think this was hers to lose. But Casey started giving her advice and she made dishes that were not her styling. Had she just did want she knows best she would have won that whole event.

[pinniped]

55. So, Mr. Go Big or Go Home Hosea decided to take the easy way out.

What a BSer. He criticizes Stefan for taking the eaaaaaaasy lobster dish at Le Bernadin , but when it comes to cooking some gator he chickens out.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

60. This seemed like the hollowest victory ever

Hosea just never did it for me. Plus, didn't he ALREADY do a venison with a blackberry jus earlier in the program? Or was that someone last year? I just think I recall that dish.

I always thought that being a Top Chef was bringing a unique viewpoint to your food and not just being a technician.

Carla did have the most unique viewpoint and the most personal food and I wish she did not let Casey take over her menu like that. Oh well, a Top Chef cooks the food they want to make, so I think she legitimately lost.

My favorites on the show were Carla, Fabio and Jeff. I wish they had been the final 3. I always thought Jeff just got completely screwed, especially when they kept Leah, who brought NOTHING instead of him. He really looks like a tortured genius.

This year, pfft! Hosea is eminently forgettable.

[LynneSin]

62. I think Jeff would have been in the final 3 if Stefan wasn't bottom 2 for that last challenge...

before the final.

He and Carla were pretty much tied but they couldn't justify sending home Stefan, who was scoring big all season. If Jeff won then Fabio and Stefan would have been sent home (Hosea was better than those 2).

So they gave the win to Carla to keep Stefan in the game.

[bullwinkle428]

65. In the Super Bowl head-to-head challenge, Fabio did a venison

dish when he faced Spike. Spike's dish actually was preferred by the judges (Fabio apparently overcooked the meat in the eyes of the judges), while the fans preferred Fabio...

Spike


Fabio

[siligut]

64. From the way it looked, Fabio played a part in the downfall of Stefan.

It seemed they (Colicchio and Young) used Fabio so they wouldn’t look like they were choosing based on personal feelings. The editors showed Fabio twice surprised at and criticizing Stefan’s choice to make dessert.

[BarenakedLady]

66. Meh.

I liked Hosea, but he didn't WOW me with much. Stefan was the best overall. I'm surprised he didn't win really.

[underpants]

67. Have you seen Colichio's commercial ....for Diet Coke?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d4AOZ1KCds

[PVnRT]

69. Does it go well with oversalted food?

I've heard some interesting things about the saltiness of the craft Restaurant family's dishes.