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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 5:06 pm
This isn't a competition to get a real Master Chef. Certified Master Chefs have years of training, they don't just get lucky on a "reality" show. http://www.cookingschools101.com/careers/positions/master.aspx So I think that expecting them to know all the foreign cuisines ridiculous.
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Flossiebebe
Member
09-01-2005
| Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 10:09 am
But isn't one of the prizes is your own published cookbook; who would be interested in a cookbook if you could only cook the kind of food that your family and friends in, say, birmingham, alabama, like?
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 11:07 am
Yes, I like the show - HATE the title as it does belittle true Chefs, true Master chefs even more...
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 4:22 am
I have the MasterChef cookbook from Australia. There are recipes from most of the contestants, as well as some extremely complicated desserts that were used in the final challenges. The winner is featured. I am anxious to get the US version, too.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 4:35 am
But they do make a distinction in giving the contestants aprons, not chef jackets as on Top Chef, etc.
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Rslover
Member
11-19-2002
| Monday, August 23, 2010 - 9:33 pm
Maybe? cayenne oregano allspice cinnamon another meat green chilies carrot nopale coke coffee applesauce
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Flossiebebe
Member
09-01-2005
| Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 3:57 pm
nopale coke coffee applesauce I'm not a big chili fan, but these ingredients sound intriging, RsLov
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-28-2004
| Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 3:58 pm
I think Faruq and Adam (I think that's his name) are plants/ringers. Maybe even Construction worker guy.
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Karen
Member
09-06-2004
| Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 4:07 pm
Coffee and chocolate are excellent chili ingredients. Applesauce would give it a nice thickness and the sweetness would nicely balance some of the smokiness. I'd also be inclined to think there were other chilies aside from just the jalapeno. Chipotle?
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Jezzedout
Member
09-07-2006
| Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 7:54 pm
I had my money on Mike, but he really bombed in the Kat Kora (or is it Cat Cora?) challenge. Hope he hangs in another round. Is anyone else watching tonight?
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 4:23 am
It is Cat Cora from Iron Chef. I watched, and was glad to see the young gal win the cupcake challenge and then squeak through the CC challenge. At the truckstop challenge, the Blue Team should have showed more imagination in what they were serving. That is where the Red Team beat them out - with the toppings!
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 6:06 am
IIRC, Sharone won the cupcake challenge. Whitney was one of the top three though.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 7:00 am
Sharone did win the cupcake challenge. The top 3 were Jake, Sharone, and Whitney. Sharone's win gave him the opportunity to pick the Cat Cora dish that everyone would prepare, as well as go head-to-head with her to see if he could win and go directly to F4.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 8:55 am
Wasn't Sharone's barbeque sauce used on the beef for the troops last week? If so, that must be some barbeque sauce. The minute the red team put bacon on the hamburger, I knew they would win. The blue 'dream' team was kind of cocky about the whole thing. "The Red team won, but our burger was still better..." Uh, no the truckers preferred the one with bacon.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 9:02 am
Right! Sharone did win the cupcake challenge - I was dozing as I watched apparently!
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 1:00 pm
Sharone was the one who said he'd never made a cupcake before. His wife usually did all the baking.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 3:28 pm
It wasn't Sharone's bbq sauce on the burgers. It was one of the women who's name begins with an "S" and who's name escapes me now. The Indian woman?
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 4:02 pm
I found it interesting that someone who says he never made a cupcake before could make such a good one, yet the chefs on Top Chef shy away from desserts all the time. One would think if a home cook could figure out how to do it, trained chefs would.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, August 27, 2010 - 4:31 am
While he may not have made a CUPcake before, I have to thing the guy has some baking experience. Cooking is an art; baking is a science which REQUIRES some prior knowledge about how ingredients chemically react with one another and with high temperatures. That field is usually left to chefs who have made such studies their specialty - hence other chefs reluctance to go there!
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Friday, August 27, 2010 - 5:59 am
Surely he would still have less experience than a trained chef. We have a culinary program where I work, and all culinary students need to baking class - and that's just a two-year career program.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, August 27, 2010 - 8:30 am
i noticed they had a piece of paper at their stations - - i'm speculating it was a bsic cupcake recipe - top chef - no recipes - - i know for the cat cora challenge - no recipe they had to watch - - but several shots at different stations showed this same paper... just a guess
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-28-2004
| Friday, August 27, 2010 - 1:26 pm
So much for Faruq being a plant.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, August 27, 2010 - 5:49 pm
Reader, if what you surmise is true then the cupccake challenge was a "cupcake personalization" challenge - a perfectly legitimate endeavor - just not what I felt viewers were led to believe.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Sunday, August 29, 2010 - 1:52 pm
I really was hoping someone that dvr'd it would let me know if I was crazy or they noticed those papers too - I did point them out to dd...
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, August 29, 2010 - 3:45 pm
"Those papers" would go a long way toward explaining how someone who had never made a cupcake could make one!
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