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Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 6:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
What was up with the casting? Was it "Minority Night?" I thought it was totally inappropriate to have two AA chefs and two Asian chefs all on together!

I have not seen my whole tape - just wanted to vent my first impression!

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 7:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Why? Would it be inappropriate to have 4 white chefs? Who cares if they can cook???

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 7:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
A chef is a chef.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 7:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
I bet the judges care if they can cook!

Tess
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04-13-2001

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 9:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tess a private message Print Post    
All I can say about tonight's show is "Oh, dear". I don't think that Marco is going to have to chop anyone. One by one, people will just fall on their own swords and die, taking their partners with them. Both restaurants were miserable tonight. Five day old farm raised salmon, cold cornish game hens (aka baby chickens), not enough of the non-endangered fish, stomped on cheese......oy vey. Such a mess. Apparently a cold mess. And that yellow!! I love yellow. I hated that yellow.

Jhezzie
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07-05-2001

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 10:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jhezzie a private message Print Post    
What was up with the casting? Was it "Minority Night?" I thought it was totally inappropriate to have two AA chefs and two Asian chefs all on together!

I have not seen my whole tape - just wanted to vent my first impression!


Seriously?

Bombaycat
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07-21-2007

Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 5:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bombaycat a private message Print Post    
Tess - I totally agree with you. However, I think you meant to post on the Chopping Block thread.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 8:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Thanks Bombay. I thought maybe I had missed something........ *L*

Tess
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04-13-2001

Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 11:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tess a private message Print Post    
Bombay, you are so right. The funny thing is that I started posting there and then though I was in the wrong place. Then I came here and started over.

I'm getting old!!!

We missed Chopped this week. Once again we've got the DVR set up for Saturday afternoon to catch the repeat. <sigh>

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 2:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
I guess seeing the two AA and two Asian chefs pitted against one another takes me back to days when I saw ball tournaments "rigged" by placing the top four teams in two brackets that would have the winners playing in the second game.

Let's say the top four teams are A, B, C, and D. The first game has A playing B, and C playing D. Then the winner of the A-B game would play the Winner of theC-D game. Thus in two games you would have three of the strongest teams out of the tournament!

Since I would GUESS that AA and/or Asian chefs are a minority, it just seemed like three out of four from the possible "chef pool" were eliminated in a single episode.

I am a WASP, so I don't really have a dog in this fight - it just reminded me of inequities that I have seen in sports.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 3:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
LOL @ Julie -- that sounded right in my head! I think I should have written "who cares AS LONG AS they can cook?" :-)

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 10:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
I don't think the winners from any show move on to compete against others in another show, though, so they don't get any more or less "face time" as a chef no matter who competes against whom. However, that explanation helps me understand the other comment in a much different light! Thanks! :-)

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 6:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Thanks for your comment, Teach! I wasn't sure I had traslated ball games into cooking adequately, but draining down of the "contestant" pool does happen all too often in the sports arena - and probably in other areas of life as well.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 7:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Pretty screwy judging tonight in my opinion! In other words, the judges did not agree with me! I did call the first dish right as far as peanut sauce for the solution, and was with the gnocchio guy for the entree but chose the overdone - which anyone could see - brownie for the dessert.

Tess
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04-13-2001

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 10:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tess a private message Print Post    
I agree Tnt. We just finished watching and think you are right. I knew where they would all go with the peanut butter in the first dish. Was appalled that two of them didn't take the time to clean the veins out properly when it came to the shrimp, though.

Loved the gnocchi solution for the second dish and I didn't think he'd get them plated.

The brownie. It all came down to a burnt brownie. <sigh> We picked him to win if he hadn't burnt the brownie. Showing off wasn't cool either.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 4:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
No, I didn't like the cockiness either, Tess! Besides which he should have had his eyes peeled on those brownies - chocolate LOVES to burn!

Wouldn't being a chef on private charter yachts be a blast? I thought her crepes were too big, and that the plate looked messy though.

Tess
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04-13-2001

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 7:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tess a private message Print Post    
I agree about her dessert plate. And for the appetizer course she boasted about how well she cleaned shrimp but she was one of the two who had poorly cleaned shrimp.

Apparently the judges were sufficiently impressed with her main course and the fact that she could knock out some decent crepes for dessert even if there were too many of them.

I cannot wait for next week!

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 2:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
I think the yacht chef boasted about how FAST she could clean shrimp. Now we know how she does them so fast - BLECK!

I reallly enjoy this show because I take each course personally and try to think what I would do with the stuff in the basket. I am CERTAINLY not a chef, but I love to create dishes - if only in my mind!

Knightpatti
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12-06-2001

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 2:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Knightpatti a private message Print Post    
me too TNT!

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 6:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Well, now there are at least three of us who are fans of the show!

Quality over quantity, right?

Lilfair
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07-09-2003

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 6:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lilfair a private message Print Post    
I'm the worst at cleaning shrimp (I can clean any fish with the best of em, though). But I've never served a single shrimp not de-veined properly. Their use of peanut butter was predictable but honestly if I was given 30 min under pressure I would have gone that route too.

I'm a big fan of the crepe both savory and desert. My favorite is a baked crepe stuffed with farmers cheese, vanilla, sugar.

I usually come away from watching the show thinking I could do better but then I realize the time constraints and I know I'd be the first gone.

I love this show!

Yup to be a chef on a private yacht would be grand at least for a year. The snarky part of me thought she has spent too much time in the sun though. There's a place near me call Mistiko and they serve dessert crepes in the same portion size as she did. It's off putting. I sometimes pass on them because I know how big they are....even sharing with 2 people. So I thought that was a mistake but obviously not as big of a mistake as burning brownie cakes.

They raved about her potatoes, I soooo wanted to taste them!

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 7:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Yea! We are up to four viewer/fans!
These numbers may not be QUITE enough to keep us on the up-coming season roster, but I am hoping there is a HUGE number of lurking fans who will make their feelings known to the network!!

Chitchat58
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07-25-2008

Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 1:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chitchat58 a private message Print Post    
Wow, didn't think being a minority was such a big deal, but obviously it is. If it was white people I guess it would be okay. I am appauled at this comment. Tntitanfan WOW!!!!

Serate
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08-21-2001

Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 8:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Chitchat not to speak for TNT, but she explained herself very well after making the comment, it was NOT meant as an insult. TNT thought that each of the winners would compete later in rounds against each other, kinda like a tournament. So by putting 4 minorities in one round, it would allow only 1 to have a chance to move on. Therefore putting less minorities in the running for the championship. Therefore, being unfair to minorities.

Drifter83204
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02-22-2005

Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 9:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Drifter83204 a private message Print Post    
Fan number 5 here! I very much enjoy this program and, like the others, also try mentally to figure out what I would do with the ingredients. Seems almost impossible sometimes. Some of these cooking shows have items I have never heard of so overtime I learn a lot. The entire Food Network is fascinating. I wish I were young again and could go to chef school!