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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 5:20 pm
I am trying to think of the briefest way to say this - a real challenge for me! I volunteer at our local food bank which opens to serve a buffet meal to the public every Friday to make money to buy whatever is needed but not donated. We have six rotating menus, one of which includes mac and cheese. We have a running joke about one-handed mac and cheese (where a hotel pan of mac and cheese can be stirred with one hand) up to team mac and cheese (where many strong men are needed to stir a pan of it!)
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Lurkin
Member
02-15-2002
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 5:32 pm
I backed up tivo because I couldn't believe I saw but I did. Nikki drug her pigtails over the bacon she was putting in the oven. Thought chef's were supposed to contain their hair. There is no villian "Steven" or "Marcel" type this year. Richard is a little snarky I thought the houses were stocked also. I can see having 25 hot dogs for the party but all the fruit and some of the other ingredients. I didn't buy were on hand. I liked the red teams have fun with the people attitude.
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Bluejaxrock
Member
04-23-2004
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 6:02 pm
My grandmother's mac-n-cheese recipe calls for Velveeta, but you make a white sauce (bechamel?) and add the cheese to it to create a cheese sauce, not just melted cheese. Our mac-n-cheese is even better the next day, straight out of the fridge, for lunch. Ours never turns to a brick. Did she just melt the cheese in butter? Guess I wasn't paying too close of attention. Hard for me to think of a fave right now. None of them are appetizing. Yes, I went there...lol
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 6:23 pm
If she didn't want pasta salad, she should've spoken up. From the judges' comments I got the impression she did not do a decent salad; they called it bland and oily. Not a good combo and not a dish a good cook should be presenting on a cooking show. The judges seemed to think that bunch had a poor palate since, after tasting the salad, none of them suggested any changes. If she'd done anything to "kick it up a notch," it might have helped. Bland = bleh when you're on a cooking show. 
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Marej
Member
09-20-2002
| Friday, March 28, 2008 - 9:27 am
I was waiting for Chef Tom to tell Spike to get rid of that hat. <76>
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Allietex
Member
08-16-2002
| Friday, March 28, 2008 - 11:50 am
Allison, I was thinking the same thing! I could not believe that professional chefs did not know that. I am a cook (not a chef) and I know that. My mother taught me that trick years ago.
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Allietex
Member
08-16-2002
| Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:13 pm
Bluejaxrock, that is the way I always made the creamy cheese sauce for my au gratin potatos.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 6:46 am
I have no favorites yet either. Andrew lost me on Day 1 with his muther-f'ing this and MF-that throughout all his dialogue. He not only has done nothing to raise my opinion of him since, he's spiraled down even further with all that "you'll have to have security drag me away" and "this is my house" BS. I think he just didn't perform as badly as the others in his team this week, and that's why he's not out of there. I have a feeling he'll be on the judges radar after this. Who was the other guy who basically insinuated it wasn't a big deal to not cook beyond a certain standard cause they were just cooking for a bunch of commoners? OK, I know he didn't really say it that way. But the way he pointed out the judges had superior palates, where as the people they were cooking for didn't, and implying for that reason it was OK to cook substandard food......well, he pretty much lost me too. So maybe by process of elimination, as these people continue to rise up to the ugliness inside of them; I'll eventually be able to single out a favorite. 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 2:19 pm
I think they may have thought of past competitions where the people served were the judges and that has included children in the past and maybe they thought they should stay uncomplicated.. of course that down't mean they can serve a brick for mac n cheese or soggy corn dogs. Oops! And oops again, the judges were of the sophisticated variety.
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 6:52 pm
She was not very creative with her answers on the mac and cheese either. If I had been in her shoes, I would have pointed out that it was a "block" party so the M&C was served in "blocks". I am pretty sure that I could have kept a straight face while telling the judges to "expand their concept of M&C" and that looser M&C is "so deconstructed and 50s." 
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 7:03 pm
All this talk of mac and cheese made me decide to make some for dinner tonight. I used whole wheat rotini and extra sharp aged white cheddar from the local dairy. I made a white sauce, and then added the shredded cheese along with some cumin and paprika for a little zing. Poured the sauce over the pasta, added buttered panko bread crumbs, and baked it in the oven. Yummy!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 7:04 pm
I think it may have been Spike who was the "commoners" commenter. I haven't been impressed w/many of them yet, so I'll have to watch a few more episodes to see who starts to step things up and meet the challenges rather than just "getting by."
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 7:11 pm
Yah, no faves here yet, either. I do find it interesting though that there are so many chefs from San Francisco. Not that I'm surprised... there are some phenomenal restaurants in the Bay Area. Just odd that so many are from the same neck o' the woods.
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Marameko
Member
07-15-2002
| Monday, March 31, 2008 - 9:41 am
Ohhhhhhhhhh Prisoner that sounds yummy ! Thank you for mentioning the Panko bread crumbs. I like being introduced to new things.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - 7:53 pm
I'm guessing Spike will go, but I think Zoi needs to leave and take her bad attitude with her!
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - 8:00 pm
For anyone who wants to know, the person who got kicked off tonight is > - > - > - > - > - > - > Manuel.
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Kappy
Member
06-29-2002
| Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - 10:10 pm
I'm with you, Julieboo ~ Zoi needs to leave. To come right out and put down the winning chefs of the week to their face was just poor sportsmanship. And then next week, it looks like her partner is ready to have a fist fight. Where the hell did they get these people?! I want to know where they work so I can make sure I never end up in their restaurant.

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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 4:03 am
I heard her critisize the winning dish, but I thought they weren't in the room when she did it. I thought it was along the lines of (when the two teams were called into judges table) she said 'IF that's the winning dish, i don't want to be a part of this'
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 5:38 am
They are all sore losers. I dont think I have seen that before on Top Chef. Where they got this years collection I have no idea. There isnt anyone to root for.
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Nerovh
Member
06-12-2005
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 7:15 am
I can't stand Zoi. She has such a bad atitude about everything. She didn't want to make pasta salad? Boohoo. How many of the challenges have forced people to make something they didn't WANT to make? And then to bad mouth the other team like that. "That does not taste good, I promise you." Well, sorry, but the dinner guests all seemed to disagree with you. She needs to pack her knives and her bad manners and ill temper and go home.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 7:29 am
Chocolate and spice is a classic combination (think chicken mole). Once I thought of it that way, the wasabi and white chocolate made sense (even though white chocolate isn't really chocolate...). The link with Harry Potter was good as well, emphasizing creativity and imagination. Andrew's Oompa-Loompa idea was just silly, though. While I agree with Maris about lacking anyone to root for, I have a growing respect for Richard. If only he would get a grown-up haircut.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 7:44 pm
RATS! Just watched and so close to losing Spike AND his hat.. Arrgh.. Agree about Richard's haircut! Oy
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 8:03 pm
I'm not thrilled w/Zoi's personality either - but I think there's hope for her partner from the movie challenge. (sorry -no idea what her name is). When they said "fiery women" I figured they'd do something with some SPICE! I wish Manuel had stayed longer so I could snitch some of his Mexican cooking tips, but he didn't seem to have much fire.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, April 06, 2008 - 6:44 am
Finally got caught up on this yesterday evening! I think the guy from NZ is cute as can be, but I don't have much hope for his cooking skills!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, April 06, 2008 - 8:55 pm
LOL, TNT! You notice he cooked lamb...
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