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Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, February 05, 2009 - 6:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
He started talking like that on his science show on Food Network. Drove me nuts then too.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Friday, February 06, 2009 - 1:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Eeeww on that one guy double dipping his tasting spoons! I notice he had a "what's the big deal" attitude about it when they called him out on it. And then he went and did it again!

What I would have loved to see happen would be for the lady judge to refuse to taste/eat his food after she caught him double dipping again. The she could say something like, "you were warned not to double dip, and you did it again anyway. I will not be tasting your food, and will only be able to judge on your presentation."

I sure wouldn't want him cooking my food, especially since he seemed to think it was no big deal.

Bombaycat
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07-21-2007

Friday, February 06, 2009 - 7:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bombaycat a private message Print Post    
I couldn't believe the guy who decided not to use the bananas and thought he could squeak by. That is the challenge - use all the ingredients. Given the choice, I'm sure all of the other chefs would have chosen to eliminate the bananas. I'm glad the judges eliminated him in the first round.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Sunday, February 08, 2009 - 7:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
There are lots more people who say - in the What Reality Shows Do You Watch? thread - that they watch this show than comment here! I certainly don't think this is the all time greatest cooking challenge show, but I do enjoy having different chefs each week!

Serate
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08-21-2001

Sunday, February 08, 2009 - 12:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
I don't comment on the show in this thread normally because I TiVo it and usually we don't watch it until Sunday, so I stay out of this thread until I watch it and it seems so after the fact to go ahead and comment in here. I'm lucky to have a hubby who likes to watch Food Network with me, so while he tells me to just go ahead and watch it w/o him, I'd rather wait until we have time to watch it together.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 2:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Serate - we are still interested in your opinions whether they are expressed later in the week or not! And you are indeed lucky to have a DH who watches Food Network with you!

Just out of curiosity what is HIS favorite show? Do you all also watch Hell's Kitchen on Fox and Top Chef on Bravo?

Serate
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08-21-2001

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 3:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
TNT his favorites are Challenge, Ace of Cakes, Ultimate Recipe Showdown and will watch these on his own on purpose if I'm not around. He also likes Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives, Good Eats depending on the subject, and Iron Chef America. He doesn't admit to liking the original Iron Chef but I have caught him watching it many times.

He'll watch with me pretty much any show on Food Network that I want. We have the same tastes for personality. I'm not a fan of Giada but never mentioned it. She was on one day and asked if I minded he turned the channel cuz he really didn't like her. We both used to watch Emeril, but he got old quick so the nightly watching of him went away, but every now and then we'd turn him on.

No we've never watched Hell's Kitchen or Top Chef. Not sure why not. Might be we watch something else at those times since I have no idea when they are on.

NASCAR is back on and so there won't be that much "I can't find anything to watch" on the weekends, but the past 3 months if he was downstairs on the weekend and couldn't find anything to watch he'd turn on Food Network.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 3:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Oooo-- I LOVE Ace of Cakes! My DH was afraid to come home when he was in Baltimore for business, saw a baseball game, but did NOT take the time to find Charm City Cakes and get me a picture! (I wouldv'e been happy w/just the building!)

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 4:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Doesn't Mocha live in Baltimore? She could get you a shot!

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 5:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Darn! Hoping for a spoiler this AM!

Bombaycat
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07-21-2007

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 6:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bombaycat a private message Print Post    
Chef John Keller lost the appetizer round. Chef Andrea Bergquist lost the main course round. Chef Ed Witt lost the dessert round. Winner was Josh Emmet a chef for Gordon Ramsey.

All four were good chefs. I was surprised when the didn't chop Chef Witt in the main course round. He dropped a piece of beef on the floor, picked it up and used it in the dish. One of the judges saw what happened and confronted him in the judging, but they kept him anyway. YUK!

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 2:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Thanks! Now I can watch the taped show without all that stress!

Serate
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08-21-2001

Friday, February 20, 2009 - 6:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    


Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 4:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Well, I taped it again and was hoping to find out the outcome here before viewing. Apparently I am the ONLY viewer!

Serate
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08-21-2001

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 5:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Nope I watch it too, just haven't watched last nights episode yet. Sorry.

Dovez
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08-27-2005

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 5:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dovez a private message Print Post    
i watched it and can't remember a single name.
but the outcome was a surprise.

so much misdirection, methinks.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 6:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
OK so I just watched it and can't help you much with names.

The chick got chopped first.
The guy who did the tamarin [sp?] mashed potatoes got chopped 2nd.
The guy from Isreal who seemed to fly way above the others lost in the third round.

The winner was the smaller dark haired guy.

No vegetarians this time around. Which is good cuz I'm tired of hearing them whine about having to cook with meat, and then saying they got chopped because vegetarians are always discriminated against.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 9:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Thanks, guys! I am pleased that there are at least a few of use who watch this!

I personally love the "out of left field" ingredient in each challenge. You should just hear me telling them how to use it each time -

Sadiesmom
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03-13-2002

Monday, March 02, 2009 - 10:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sadiesmom a private message Print Post    
Whoa, what a strange night last night was. A vegetarian - again! lost cause. A fancy chef and the first 2 get chopped because they ran out of time??? I have no idea how someone knowing they don't have time, still tries to cook a thick piece of meat.

The desert off was odd to say the least - a dessert salad? An oatmeal parfait? Neither appealed to me visually.

This time issue is interesting. I wonder why when there is a countdown, there is still a problem.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Monday, March 02, 2009 - 10:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
I think it's totally unfair to pit a vegetarian against someone who isn't, and then give them meat to cook. If they are going to bring in vegetarians, pit them against each other and please DO NOT GIVE THEM MEAT. This show pisses me off because of this. And yes, vegetarians ARE discriminated against. I get really tired of going to a nice restaurant and having to ask what they can do to accomodate me. (And then being worried that an Anthony Bourdain type will be in the kitchen and will spit in my food cuz he hates vegetarians.)

Sadies, I think that was a repeat... The oatmeal parfait guy won, yes?

Serate
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08-21-2001

Monday, March 02, 2009 - 4:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Yes the episode Sadiesmom was talking about was first shown last Tuesday.

Vegetarians don’t have to apply for the show/accept the invitation to the show – however it is done. If they are led to believe that it will be a vegetarian episode, then yes that is wrong. But the vegetarians who have been on this show seem to realize that there will be meat.

I don’t go to restaurants that only serve food I don't like/can't eat. I'm sorry you can't find any/enough restaurants that don't cook vegetarian, but that does NOT make it discrimination. They are not refusing to serve you because you are vegetarian, and it sounds like when you ask they do their best to accommodate you? It's the business's right to decide what type of foods to cook/how to cook them, and the patron's right to decide what places to eat at/what concessions to make in order to eat at certain restaurants that don’t follow the patron’s eating requirements.

I think it would be cool to do a vegetarian episode. I’m not anti-vegetarian. I’d love to eat more vegetables and cut back on meat/carbs. Most vegetables taste like dirt to me no matter how they are cooked.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 7:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Serate, are you a vegetarian? Have you ever been one? If not, then really, you can't speak to whether I feel discriminated against or not. While they may not refuse to serve me, offering a pasta alfredo as the only option IS discrimination (while others have dozens of options, I get one lousy pasta dish or a salad). It is definitely discrimination as I am being treated differently than other diners.

Sadiesmom
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03-13-2002

Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 10:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sadiesmom a private message Print Post    
Discrimination is in the eye of the beholder. I have a friend who smokes and says she is disciminated against everywhere.

I like to eat fresh seafood when I go out and hate it when people pick places like Red Lobster, the food is pretty inedible to me. I hate chains and love little out of the way tiny places. Used to eat in a restaurant with 6 tables where they cooked your food to order, but it used to take hours for lunch. They had like 3 things on the menu each day, so not always vegetarian food, but you read the menu and realize you might not like what they offered that day and have to go somewhere else. They could tell you all the ingredients were though, so you knew if it was really vegetarian or not.

I agree that they could have a vegetarian only show, but if veg chefs want to compete against others, they do have to cook meat. Meat eaters might also want to compete in a veg Chopped. Segregating the chefs would meet the criteria for discrimination.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 10:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Serate, are you a vegetarian? Have you ever been one? If not, then really, you can't speak to whether I feel discriminated against or not. While they may not refuse to serve me, offering a pasta alfredo as the only option IS discrimination (while others have dozens of options, I get one lousy pasta dish or a salad). It is definitely discrimination as I am being treated differently than other diners.

Costacat no I've not been a vegetarian. Yes you can say you feel discriminated against. Nowhere in my post does it say I don't think you can say you can't "feel" discriminated against. But the fact remains that NO I don't think you are being discriminated against by choosing to go into a person's business and complaining that they only have 1 dish that is vegetarian. NOBODY makes you go into any business that only serves pasta alfredo as the vegetarian dish. Obviously they don't have enough call for vegetarian dishes in those restaurants. Why not go to someplace else? Or as Sadiesmom put it but you read the menu and realize you might not like what they offered that day and have to go somewhere else. To me, it's like somebody who only eats Mexican dishes going into a Chinese joint and saying hey they don't serve Mexican here what a terrible place, it's not right I only eat Mexican. Any person, no matter what their food choices are, shouldn't expect that every restaurant they go into will have multiple choices that they like/can eat.


I agree that they could have a vegetarian only show, but if veg chefs want to compete against others, they do have to cook meat. Meat eaters might also want to compete in a veg Chopped. Segregating the chefs would meet the criteria for discrimination.

What I meant by having a vegetarian show was cooking vegetarian. Not saying that only vegetarian cooks should be on the show. I think it would be interesting to see both vegetarian cooks and cooks who also cook with meat compete on just a vegetarian episode(s).

Discrimination is in the eye of the beholder. I have a friend who smokes and says she is disciminated against everywhere.

I agree. All I am trying to say that I don't think it's discrimination for there not to be any vegetarian options at all restaurants. I'm also not saying that they shouldn't offer vegetarian options. Those who don't offer vegetarian options obviously don't have enough requests for them. It's a business. You go where the money is. Maybe if the place ONLY offers pasta alfredo - or no options at all - it would be better to inform the host/manager that you cannot frequent the establishment due to their lack of vegetarian options. Maybe that would lead to more options.

Not offering vegetarian options at any given restaurant is NOT discrimination, although I can see how a vegetarian can feel discriminated against.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 11:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
I'm discriminated against when I go to a public restaurant and look at the menu and there is nothing on the menu that I can eat. I have to ask what they can make and I get offered a pasta dish. It's not a question of if there is only one item (which is almost as bad), it's a question of being a public place and not offering options to a specific group of people. Discrimination is treating one group of people differently.