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Grooch
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06-16-2006

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 8:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
I thought he found it and told her it would work so she said to grab it. Funny how people remember things differently when watching the same exact thing.

Nerovh
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06-12-2005

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 9:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nerovh a private message Print Post    
Didn't Dale take the rice off the burner, and Lisa yelled at him that it wasn't done and cooked it some more? Maybe it wouldn't have turned to complete mush if she hadn't cooked it to death?

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 9:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
anyone have it on tape?? Now I am really curious!

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Just checked my DVR'd episode. In the store, Dale pulled the rice from the shelf.

Dale: We didn't find sticky rice, did we?
Spike: No. How 'bout this?
Dale: (couldn't understand)...is for rice puddings
Spike: Well, there ya go

Dale pulls bags from the shelf, Lisa simply says, "yup"

So, they used a rice that was for rice puddings. That, I suppose, contributes to it's mushiness.

Lisa also complains to Dale during the cooking process. She said, "Who pulled my rice off guys? Seriously? Dale? The rice isn't done, buddy. Dale man, calm down" He replies, "Don't freak out, chill out"

Lisa says, "Stop throwing stuff around so I don't have to find my shit off the burner." He responds, "all right"

This all happened right after Dale had to find a way to fix the brown avocado.

As much as Lisa is not in my top 10, I think that Dale definately was the one who contributed more to Lisa's issues this week than even she did.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 9:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
So lisa wasn't even involved in getting that rice? Too funny!!

Grooch
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06-16-2006

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 10:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
So, Spike found it and said to use it. lol! So, he's the sabature! (however that girl from BB1 used to say it.)

Thanks, Hunk!

Panda
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07-15-2005

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 11:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Panda a private message Print Post    
It's just too bad that Dale had won so many other comps and had to leave. I totally got why he left though.

I like Spike so much better without his hats, I noticed there was hardly any hat last night.

oh and I love Anthony Bourdain too! He's a great judge!

Kellsma
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08-28-2002

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 12:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kellsma a private message Print Post    
Panda I totally agree that Dale had won a lot and was asked to leave last night. Lisa has been in the bottom three quite a bit lately. It seems they just go on a week by week basis rather than looking at their whole body of work. You could be doing great and have one bad week and be out and someone else that is just getting by every week but always towards the bottom can be kept on. Does not seem really right to me. I would think that past performance should be taken into account at some point.

Webchiq
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07-11-2005

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 2:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Webchiq a private message Print Post    
It's one thing to have an attitude if you are the best (although I'm the best at what I do and I don't want to have an attitude about it), but for Lisa to have the type of attitude that she does when she's not even close to one of the best. That is irritating to me. I wanted a double elim. as I watched the crossed arms. I was actually surprised when it was Dale and not Lisa this time.

Beth4freedom
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10-24-2003

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 9:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beth4freedom a private message Print Post    
For once the "advantage" won in a quick fire challenge was a REAL advantage. Antonio really was able to create a solid team by choosing Richard and Stephanie. IF Dale had won the quickfire (and he did come in a close second), I am sure he would have chosen Richard and Stephanie (he said as much) and results would have been very different. Dale and Richard always worked very well together, and with Stephanie as a solid third, they very well could have won---and likely Lisa would have gone on the losing team, unless Spike really goofed up.

Kellee
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07-07-2004

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 9:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kellee a private message Print Post    
Lisa irritates me so much with her attitude. Dale really should have let her take the lead so she would have been gone. but really BUTTERSCOTCH and SCALLOPS..really??

Bluejaxrock
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04-23-2004

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 9:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bluejaxrock a private message Print Post    
Maybe I missed it, but did Stephanie set up the front of the house by herself? If so, why couldn't Spike contribute to a couple of dishes like she did and why wasn't he called out for that?
I have a love/hate feeling about Chef Bourdain, but I loved him tonight! I only wish he'd have told Lisa what he told his fellow judges about the crossed arms and not accepting criticism from anyone at the judge's table. Loved his comment "vomit with wood shavings".
How many times does this make that she's messed up rice? And they keep asking her to do rice? I wouldn't let her near rice dish. And I'd watch her like a hawk to make sure she didn't come near my rice...lol
Sometimes this show makes me feel really ignorant and backwoods. I never knew there was a special rice to make rice pudding. Great-grandma's recipe calls for plain white rice, and it's never disappointed.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 4:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Scallops with a good caramelization on them are yummy, so maybe that was the starting point for the butterscotch dish?

There are certainly a number of different rices available - long, short, medium grain and Arborio, Jasmine, etc., but I have never heard of one specifically for rice pudding either! I will have to check with my chef friends!

Tess
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04-13-2001

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 8:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tess a private message Print Post    
The thing is that they were trying to make mango sticky rice which is a common Thai desert. You have to use a special kind of rice (actually called sticky rice) or it doesn't work. They used the wrong kind of rice and kept making it worse by trying to make it into a pudding but they didn't have the correct rice for that either nor did they have the rest of the ingredients needed. All three of them should have known to scrap that idea for dessert and go with something else since they couldn't get the rice they needed.

Webchiq
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07-11-2005

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 11:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Webchiq a private message Print Post    
I Googled Butterscotch Scallops to see if this was a "real thing" and after I got past all of the Top Chef articles, I actually found a restaurant menu with it on the menu:

http://www.marlosdu.com/menu.html

I cook and even compete in cookoffs and would NEVER make butterscotch scallops. Yuk!

Riviere
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09-09-2000

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 1:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Riviere a private message Print Post    
Ditto on that. Butterscotch is a potent dessert, my taste buds can't put that flavor with seafood entrees.

Beth4freedom
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10-24-2003

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 9:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beth4freedom a private message Print Post    
This is an odd one, but I happened to pick up on something on the TV Clubhouse home page:
There's a link in the center for the Top Chef 4 folder, and when you click, it does come here...But underneath it talks about what "Chef Ramsey" is cooking up in the kitchen...isn't that another show?

Maris
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03-28-2002

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 7:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
If Lisa isn't gone tonight I will scream!!!!!!!! She is so nasty and paranoid about gas burners.

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 7:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
lol ... she did make Peanut Butter Potatoes ... I hope that sends her home. lol!

Spike won the quick fire by carving and cooking a perfect steak.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 7:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
Lisa of the crossed arms

Maris
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03-28-2002

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 7:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
I think Spike is going to go, What will it take to get rid of Lisa?????

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 7:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
It sounds like it's either Spike or Lisa .... please let it be Lisa.

lol @ the crossed arms again!

Maris
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03-28-2002

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 7:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
I dislike both of them. so happy my three faves are going to finals

Maris
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03-28-2002

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 7:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
OK I AM GOING TO START CALLING HER TEFLON LISA

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 7:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
OMG ... I can't believe she's in the final 4. Incredible!!

Yay for Stephanie, Antonia & Richard!