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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 4:57 pm
Just back in town from two weeks in Mexico studying Spanish! What night and time (CDT) is this on? I LOVE it, and The Owl twped the first two episodes for me while I was gone!!
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 5:45 pm
Wednesday night TNT.
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 5:45 pm
Tnt, it's on Wednesday nights at 9pm CDT on Bravo where I am. It's usually rerun right away and then a few times a week, too.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 7:53 pm
You should be able to find the two re-runs.. Yep Monday on Bravo at 8pm is the first ep, 9pm the second one (which you will love, being a zoo theme, TNT.)
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Seattlemom
Member
05-10-2005
| Monday, March 24, 2008 - 12:45 pm
LOL Reduction reminds me of the last Time I went out with friends from the Victims program they treated me to dinner at this FANCY place and the menu had all those words I have no clue about on them LOL. Anyway I ordered the steak That I knew I should be safe with LOL. Anyway it was like $40 came with just the steak some kind of greens under it and it had the reduction done to it (whatever) Anyway It was the BEST melt in your mouth Steak I ever had, and it was a small steak but Very Filling and Oh my gosh I still think of it. The desert was a choco holic lovers delight LOL. I would Love to learn to cook some of those things.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, March 24, 2008 - 6:24 pm
Well, I caught up on the first two episodes tonight - thanks to The Owl! I am, of course, in love with the Kiwi guy, but we shall see as time goes on. I do think we have an impressive group of established chefs in this group, so things should be intresting and challenging as well -
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 2:36 pm
I agree Tnt - altho I have to say I am so disappointed they were filming in Chicago and I didnt get a chance to stalk... I mean observe them live!!
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 7:42 pm
best part of tonight's show, the Macy's commercial with the hot Calvin Klein Model. I just love those commercials. Otherwise, first season I can remember so many poor sports.
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 8:13 pm
Richard is just odd looking to me and that hair do kills me! He did good tonight, though...
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 8:29 pm
I do not like Andrew and I do not like Spike. Maybe this year a woman will win 
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 8:46 pm
Was it Andrew that had the audacity to say "I'm not leaving, this is my turf" um hello - wake up and smell reality tv ! I will say I gave him credit for being passionate - but it just came across as crass and arrogant... I just cant imagine cooking without a recipe!! I mean I often add this and that but I have an outline - the recipe!!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 8:50 pm
I sooooo wanted to see Andrew booted after his obnoxious comments (and I suspect that thought seriously crossed Chef Tom's mind, too!). Richard did a great job, but I was amazed that these chefs didn't think about 1) what happens to fried foods when you cover and move it and 2) what happens to velveeta anything when it isn't piping hot. Two rather obvious things, IMHO, but I also didn't like that gal whining about pasta salad. It is SOOO easy to make a good pasta salad w/fresh spices and lots of crunchy veggies. Best moment of the night -Tom's comment on their collectively poor palates! No mincing words there. 
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Kappy
Member
06-29-2002
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 10:41 pm
Yes, Teach ~ I too loved Tom's comment about the collective palates and it worked in shutting their egos up. And yes, nothing easier to make ahead and take then a pasta salad. Erik looked like a really easy guy to get along with but he had a tough time at each challenge. And Andrew reminds me of the kid with ADD but with a weird sense of entitlement to boot. The sooner he goes the better IMO.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 3:51 am
I don't know where we got this season, but these people seem to lack basic understand of how food works. As Teach says, of course the corn dogs got soggy. Did y'all learn nothing from the blinis last week? And what chef can't make a good pasta salad? Every chef should have a decent fresh salad dressing in their repertoire -- take that, add al dente cooked pasta, some crunchy fresh veggies, and voila, pasta salad. And you didn't realize Velveeta would turn into a brick when it cools? Honey, why do you think they sell it IN BRICK FORM! I'm just not impressed with this group as a whole this year. And yes, I'm ready for Andrew to go as well. I can swear like a sailor with the best of them, in the right circumstance, but if you can't even clean it up for TV -- or when you're in front of kids -- I'm just not impressed. Certainly not as impressed as Andrew is with himself. Oh, and Richard? The 90's called. They want their fauxhawk back.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 5:08 am
best part of tonight's show, the Macy's commercial with the hot Calvin Klein Model. I just love those commercials. Wasn't that hot model Halley Berry's boyfriend?
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 5:23 am
it must be a testament to this season's chefs, but the thing that stuck out to me the most was Padma's comment "Chicago is a city made up of neighborhoods"....aren't all cities made up of neighborhoods????? Andrew is definitely ADD or ADHD..do you see him fidget in the wide shots?
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 6:05 am
I am thinking that the big egos come from the fact that most of these are already established chefs. I am still liking the Kiwi guy, but I haven't seen anything amazing from him yet.
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Marameko
Member
07-15-2002
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 6:07 am
Vac I was thinking the same thing as well, he is super hot. I did not have time while getting ready for work to look at a recent People magazine. If he is then "Halle's baby Daddy "is smoking hot. I taped Top Chef and actually rewound to the commercial for a 2nd look..........
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 7:10 am
I have no idea Vac, I just loved Mariah, Martha and the Donald in that commercial. the model was hot but their reactions were priceless. I love all their Macy's commercials. These guys have big egos and marginal talents from whta I have seen. I definitely want to see Andrew GONE and they were such terrible losers, dissing the other team to the judges, left a bad taste in my mouth and sure looked like Tom wanted to kick them all out.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 7:30 am
Tnt - great point! Most "chefs" dont work with velveeta - I imagine - so I can understand her not knowing - my kids favorite fast mac and cheese is the Velveeta, it comes in a bag and is liquid!! lol - BUT several shows did contests with Mac and Cheese - and they all use hard cheddars - so again, didnt she say she has made and is "famous" (in her family I believe) for her mac and cheese? I imagine the darn velveeta pkg had a recipe for mac and cheese on it!! Good point Texannie!! Chicago does make a point on 'selling' on their neighborhoods within blocks of downtown Chicago - the Marathon runs thru the more famous of them (Greek town, Chinatown, etc) I didnt hear where this block party was - but again, part of it had to be set up by the "producers" They knew for sure they'd have "70 kids" (did anyone see 70 kids? I thought they had to make food for 50 - that part confused me) Didnt Erik say he makes a lobster corndog in his restaurant? why would anyone do that to lobster?
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 1:31 pm
All you need to do to Velveeta to keep it from solidifying is add some oil when it is hot. Like if you are making a quick queso and microwave some velveeta, just add like a tablespoon.
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 3:27 pm
My son saw the contestants at the WholeFoods he shops at. Anyway, the second I heard Erik was making corndogs I knew he was toast unless someone else completely screwed up. Corndogs or any deepfired foods need to be served hot and transporting them was ridiculous. I liked Erik for my eyecandy factor this season....oh well. BTW lobster corn dogs sound good to me ;). About the pasta salad, anyone that cooks regularly for pleasure or as a profession should have a good pasta salad down pat. There is such a wide open field as what could be done even given limited product. I once was asked last min to bring pasta salad to a party and didn't have much in the pantry and ended up using fruit and nuts with a very lite raspberry vinaigrette and tomatoes from thr backyard...no excusses for what was explained to us as a bland pasta salad. Andrew...well he's acting as if he has some sort of social issue. I wanted to see him go but there is always next week. Usually by the first or second episode I have someone to root for based on personality and another I root for based solely on cooking ability sadly this season I haven't been able to pick one from either category. I'm hoping the talent and personalities pick up in the coming episodes.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 4:51 pm
when they were "shopping" the neighborhood - didnt someone say that Erik shouldnt go - he'd scare folks, who'd give food to him? It struck me as odd, until later it looked as if he was coming out of a house with a bag of food, so I thought I must've misheard it... or it was placed in the show by a producer (because honestly you didnt see anyone "say" it - it was only "heard" - not that we are on to the schemes of the producers or anything...)
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 5:05 pm
You all have just explained why the pasta salad was an issue... "just add pasta, fresh veggies..." and "it's so simple." That's exactly the point she was making... it's so simple. She did do a decent pasta salad, no one gave her that much grief about it, except maybe it needed salt. (She shoudl've texted me and I'd have given her my phenomenal Southwestern Pasta Salad with feta and pine nuts and cilantro and all sorts of good stuff.) About Velveeta... when she started to make the cheese sauce, she was melting butter. A lot of butter. A LOT OF BUTTER! But the problem was the pasta absorbed all of the sauce and dried out. She needed to make the sauce extra runny to acount for the pasta absorption, which she didn't think about. (Same principle with noodles in a soup; too many noodles and you end up with stew rather than soup.) Andrew or whomever it was who mouthed off about being dragged out by security guards... I didn't really have much of an opinion about him until then. He couldn't believe they were the losing team? Um, read the judges' lips! Finally, every single one of those houses were "prepped" by the producers before the chef's even knocked on the door. (If you don't believe me, watch the show again and note the cameras that are filming from the INSIDE as the chef's introduced themselves). Corndogs gross me out anyways, so I wasn't surprised they were the losing dish. 
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 5:06 pm
i heard the comment, but i think it was said in a joking way...'send in the pretty boy first (Ryan) cause Eric would scare them' ha ha ha, wink wink
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