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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Saturday, August 14, 2010 - 11:43 am
I'll miss Kenny on the show. However, I cannot wait until Alex goes home. I was wondering if they are allowed to look up recipes prior to preparing them.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, August 14, 2010 - 1:30 pm
The only "recipes" most chefs would need to look up are dessert/baking ones - hence the wholesale avoidance of dessert dishes. As a rule "cooking" recipes are a matter of taste/art, and baking is a matter of science, relying in many cases as it does on chemical/temperature reactions.
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Stillett0401
Member
08-06-2007
| Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 6:59 pm
Yes, finally! Alex is gone! So, many better chefs left before him. Darn pea puree thief! 
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Allietex
Member
08-16-2002
| Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 9:53 pm
Love Tiffany. Wow! She has really stepped it up lately. Won both challenges tonight. I am so happy for her. She is getting married soon and she has won $20,000. and a trip to Paris. How great is that? And she does it while remaining a great person.
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Kappy
Member
06-28-2002
| Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 11:16 pm
I really like both Tiffany and Ed and can understand why they became friends. I'd love to see them in the final four with Kevin and Kelly. I know Alex (and Amanda) should have been gone long ago but honestly didn't you all just kinda hope Angelo might be gone tonight? 
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Marameko
Member
07-15-2002
| Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 3:18 am
I did wish he was gone Kappy; actually I thought it quite appropriate that he follow Kenny as the next Chef booted. However I could never understand why Alex was there in the first place.So I am happy with the outcome. Tiffany rocks..........I am jealous of her deep dimples !
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Daydreamer
Member
05-30-2008
| Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 5:06 am
I think someone on the Food Network should make Tiffany the "Next Food Network Star" -- they wouldn't even have to have a show next season to find her. She has it all -- the cooking chops (no pun intended), the personality, that KILLER smile -- I'd watch her. I'd love to improve my cooking by learning from her.
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1jetsfan
Member
07-21-2010
| Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 5:35 am
Alex is gone! YEAH!!! Tiffany and Kevin are my faves.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 6:31 am
I am SOOO glad that Alex is finally (!!) gone! I wouldn't mind seeing Tiffany, Kevin, Kelly, and Ed in the final four. And I definitely wouldn't mind seeing Angelo and Amanda leaving within the next two weeks. I do think the next time Amanda is in the bottom, she's outta there, though. She's been in the bottom a lot, hasn't she? She's been lucky that there have been others that have screwed up worse than she has. But I think the judges are gonna start paying attention to how often she's in the bottom. Loved that Tiffany won both the quickfire (and $10K) and the elimination challenge (and her honeymoon to Paris). Oh, and did I say how glad I am that Alex is gone? I don't know how he managed to get on Top Chef (especially after having only 6 years of experience). If they brought him on for entertainment value, they certainly failed there. The only thing he did was add controversy, and not in a good way.
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Nerovh
Member
06-12-2005
| Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 6:53 am
I'm sooo relieved that Alex is gone. I don't want to accuse him of stealing the puree when I don't know what happened, but I can't help but think of that everytime I see him. I never liked him, especially after he said he would spend his prize money on a prostitute and an eight ball. I'm just glad he's gone, he couldn't cook and he was uber-creepy. I LOVE Tiffany. She seems to bring such joy to her cooking, and her smile is just stunning. It's funny that the show seems to want drama, but I enjoy it the most when the chefs are happy and enjoying what they are doing. If Amanda goes home next, I can at least live with any of the remaining ones winning. I don't like Angelo, but apparently he can cook. If he would keep a drop of the humility he had last night, he would be more tolerable. I would be much happier if Tiffany or one of the others won though, lol.
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Jezzedout
Member
09-07-2006
| Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 7:21 am
Darn Amazon hasn't posted the new episode yet, but I couldn't resist popping in here to get spoiled. Sounds like it was a good episode! Can't wait!!
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Allietex
Member
08-16-2002
| Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 11:15 am
I loved how Tiffany helped Kelly out. Make the rice on the stove if the cooker is not working. Duh! She kept her head when Kelly was panicking. She is just so down to earth. I think she would make a great friend.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 12:15 pm
Jezzed - please tell me how I can see this on Amazon! TIA!!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 2:23 pm
TNT - it's on under their "video on demand" option.
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Jezzedout
Member
09-07-2006
| Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 6:27 pm
Hey TNTitan, Amazon Video On Demand carries the episodes, but to be clear, they aren't free. They are $1.99 per episode if you purchase them singularly, or $1.89 per episode if you purchase the whole season as a prepaid bundle. You may have seen other posts where I mentioned that I disconnected my cable roughly two years ago. My cable bundle with HBO and a few On Demand movies each month was running me about $90/mo. Now I spend about $16/mo. (give or take $5, depending on my viewing for the month), which is the cost of 4 Top Chef episodes and 2 movies each month. Every once in a while I jump on board for some other show available on Amazon, such as Work of Art, but pretty much everything else I watch is free on the web. Anyway, if you're still interested, go to Amazon.com and select the department called "video on demand", then search for Top Chef. If you've never done Amazon VOD before you might have to install some small piece of software -- I can't remember exactly since it's been a long time, but I remember it was pretty simple. You'll in put your credit card info, create a user name and password and you're good to go. The video streams, and once you purchase an episode it's added to your video library that you can access anytime. You own it, in a digital format that is stored at Amazon. I personally like the Amazon VOD option. It's pretty much the same as buying video on iTunes, but I'm not an Apple fan so I prefer to do business with Amazon. Hope that helps

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Nerovh
Member
06-12-2005
| Friday, August 20, 2010 - 10:48 am
They put the most recent episode on bravotv.com. Wednesday's show is up right now.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, August 20, 2010 - 10:53 am
Did we get an answer to pea - gate?
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Allietex
Member
08-16-2002
| Friday, August 20, 2010 - 12:44 pm
I don't think we ever will. Apparently whatever happened to the puree was not caught on film. As much as I did not care for Alex, I feel a little sad for him. If he did not take it, then he is taking a lot of heat for something he did not do. And it is so possible that it got left behind and tossed. We have seen chefs leave part of their meal behind before. Several times.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Friday, August 20, 2010 - 2:45 pm
But I wasn't a fan of Alex prior to pea-gate, anyways. Pea-gate was just the final topper. I wasn't ever impressed with him anyways.
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Weinermr
Member
08-18-2001
| Friday, August 20, 2010 - 4:32 pm
Perhaps Bravo will explain what happened to the pea puree in a podcast.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Friday, August 20, 2010 - 6:53 pm
Chef Tom has explained (twice, I think?) that the producers do NOT know what happened. There are only 2 cameras in the kitchen so they don't record every cook every second. I think it was the week after pea-gate when he explained this on his blog. I can say one nice thing about Alex - he never talked smack about the other contestants. *WHEW!*
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Allietex
Member
08-16-2002
| Friday, August 20, 2010 - 8:09 pm
I wasn't impressed with him either and I am glad he is gone. I think he was a little creepy. But I still maintain that it is a shame that the pea situation could not have been cleared up because that could be a detriment to his career and if he did not do it, then it is sad. And on the other hand if he did it is too bad he did not have to face the music.
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 12:55 am
Ron Colicchip cleared up the Pea Puree thing on his blog last week - Alex made his own puree - people saw him make it. You have to read the blogs, they fill in the blanks so much.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 12:09 pm
Sadies - who is Ron? I thought I WAS reading all the blogs, but I've never seen his name. Is it linked at the Top Chef site?
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 5:01 pm
I think she means Tom Colicchio. In one of his blogs he says some other contestants did see Alex blanching peas the day before pea-gate.
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