Yes, folks, that is literally the worst headline ever -- at least until next week. Our horrible headlines are the latest in SFist's effort to induce you to watch what is possibly the greatest reality TV contest show ever, since Ah-nold's is but a science fiction. The winner of Top Chef gets all sorts of cool crap; read our recaps of the first several episodes here, here, and here. This week, we review the episode that premiered last week in hopes you'll watch the brand new one tonight. Stands to reason that a good viewership could keep this great San Francisco-based show going for another season.
Down to six chefs, and everyone must be tasting the possibility of victory -- and it's their taste that's challenged for this week's quickfire/immunity challenge. Guest judge Chef Mike Yakura of Le Colonial lays out the challenge -- identify 20 exotic ingredients while blindfolded within five minutes. Nobody seems real happy with their performance, but Andrea wins! So much for our prognostication; we thought she'd be gone this week.
Truthfully, without immunity, she might have been.
Did we mention that Stephen's a bloody prat? Quote of the episode from Snidely Whiplash: "I'm always in the top 3 percentile of whatever I do." Yeah, great, you jerkoff. Did you know that 24% of all statistics are made up? Also in this episode, Andrea mentions that she is "the antithesis of everything he [Stephen] is." Hey, 'drea -- does that mean you're in the bottom 3 percentile of everything you do? We doubt it. Despite her over-focus on all things involving bowel motions, we quite like Andrea. Not a very appealing chef, but as a dietician she seems, to, er, know her sh**.
Okay, on with the recap. This week's real challenge: fuse two culinary cultures into street food, which they will serve out at a Mission BART stop in teams of two. But first: "The Fat-Ass Snackmaster Challenge," a junkfood version of the quickfire challenge the contestants cooked up themselves for fun. Miguel (a.k.a. "Chunk la Funk," apparently) versus Dave (no nickname). Miggy pulls it out.
(Photo of Lee Anne and Snidely's dish from Bravo's Web site, details below)
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