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Top Chef Season 7 Episode 6: Duck Testicles and Strategy
RECAP
July 22, 2010
We're happy to report that on the Entertaining Scale of 1-10, this week's episode of Top Chef clocks in at precisely 7.5 which is a whole 7 points better than its previous rating of just 0.5. I'm sure even the TC-bashing critics over at Time would agree.
So what made this episode more blood rushing than most? For starters, the chefs had to cook with nasty ingredients for the quick fire which is always interesting. But on top of that, Andrea had to cook for guest judge, Michelle Berstein, whom she views as an equal back home in Miami. It even got down to, "I decided to have kids first." Yes — this is what we want! And to top it all that, Kelly (our favorite chef) took the win. CONT'D
For the elimination challenge the chefs had to prepare a cold meal and then had the opportunity to taste and critique some of their competitor's dishes. If this doesn't make for ripe food TV that I don't know what does. The theme of this episode — actually this entire season — is strategy. If everyone had to take a shot of tequila every time the word "strategy" was said, you'd be shit-faced. (First Top Chef drinking game, anyone?) It's actually getting to be a bit much. I can just hear the producers asking the chefs during their confessions, "What's your strategy for the elimination?" And then the chefs casually repeat the question making it seem like they are asking themselves this aloud which no one ever does in real life, as in, "What's my strategy for the elimination challenge? Well.."
But ultimately this worked out to be quite entertaining as we got to decide whether or the not the chefs were critiquing the dishes based on their quality or whether they were trying to frame their toughest competitors. Tamesha's dish sounded downright nasty — half cooked scallops and, what was it, long pepper? – but was Kenny's dish really that much worse than Amanda's with cartilage in it? And isn't it a little peculiar that Kevin, who has been consistently on the bottom, came out winning this challenge? Now this is good food TV.
Posted in FOOD on July 22, 2010 12:37pm by Jena Steinbach | 20 comments
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