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Puzzled
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08-27-2001

Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 5:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Puzzled a private message Print Post    
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.

Flossiebebe
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09-01-2005

Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 10:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Flossiebebe a private message Print Post    
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?

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 11:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
Yes, I like the show - HATE the title as it does belittle true Chefs, true Master chefs even more...

Schoolmarm
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02-18-2001

Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 4:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Schoolmarm a private message Print Post    
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.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 4:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
But they do make a distinction in giving the contestants aprons, not chef jackets as on Top Chef, etc.

Rslover
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11-19-2002

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 9:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rslover a private message Print Post    
Maybe?
cayenne
oregano
allspice
cinnamon
another meat
green chilies
carrot
nopale
coke
coffee
applesauce

Flossiebebe
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09-01-2005

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 3:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Flossiebebe a private message Print Post    
nopale
coke
coffee
applesauce

I'm not a big chili fan, but these ingredients sound intriging, RsLov

Nickovtyme
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07-28-2004

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 3:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nickovtyme a private message Print Post    
I think Faruq and Adam (I think that's his name) are plants/ringers.

Maybe even Construction worker guy.

Karen
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09-06-2004

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 4:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
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?

Jezzedout
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09-07-2006

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 7:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jezzedout a private message Print Post    
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?

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 4:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
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!

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 6:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
IIRC, Sharone won the cupcake challenge. Whitney was one of the top three though.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 7:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
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.

Kookliebird
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08-04-2005

Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 8:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kookliebird a private message Print Post    
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.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 9:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Right! Sharone did win the cupcake challenge - I was dozing as I watched apparently!

Kookliebird
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08-04-2005

Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 1:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kookliebird a private message Print Post    
Sharone was the one who said he'd never made a cupcake before. His wife usually did all the baking.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 3:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
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?

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 4:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
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.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Friday, August 27, 2010 - 4:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
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!

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Friday, August 27, 2010 - 5:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
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.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Friday, August 27, 2010 - 8:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
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

Nickovtyme
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07-28-2004

Friday, August 27, 2010 - 1:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nickovtyme a private message Print Post    
So much for Faruq being a plant.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Friday, August 27, 2010 - 5:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
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.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Sunday, August 29, 2010 - 1:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
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...

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Sunday, August 29, 2010 - 3:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
"Those papers" would go a long way toward explaining how someone who had never made a cupcake could make one!