So, the tenth Top Chef starts tonight. Info here on the cheftestants: Top Chef Season 10. Seattle’s got a nice food scene, so I’m looking forward to this season versus some others, especially after the dismal season 9.
Things to look for: Tattoos, ridiculous facial hair, product placements, impossibly difficult and inane catering contests that prove nothing, Padma looking ravishing, some decent cooking. Actually, all kidding aside, word is they’ve returned focus to actual cooking and less on ridiculous challenges that have marred the past couple of seasons.
Brooke Williamson
Youngest chef to ever cook at the James Beard House.
Loves to run, hike, and travel.
I’d boink her.
Carla Pellegrino
Cooked at the James Beard House five times.
Currently working on her first cookbook.
I’d boink her too.
Elizabeth Binder
Cooks with her two children often.
Born and raised in South Africa.
Very boinkable.
Gina Keatley
Named a 2011 CNN Hero and L’Oreal Woman of Worth.
Ideal last meal would be steamed blue crabs with her husband and family.
Also very boinkable.
Sort of a lame opening episode. I want to see more actual cooking. And have the chefs with Wolfgang ever cooked eggs before? I have never seen more brown eggs in my life.
I was flabbergasted that in Wolfgang group, it appeared that not one of them knew one of the two classic methods of making a basic omelette. Since Wolfgang is a classically trained old school chef, he was definitely looking for those techniques. Also, was there a shortage of non-stick or seasoned skillets? Some of the cooks used standard fry pan, which just makes it harder for you…
To be fair, even Wolfgang’s omelette looked a little brown, but he probably let it sit in the pan too long due to talking/demonstration purposes.
+1 Haha. Nice observation. Also a lot more of guys who are sweating buckets. Always makes me uncomfortable to think that some of that may end up in the soup.
Well, there’s really not much you can do in the first episode. There are too many people to really get to know anyone. I thought it was good that they had them perform basic kitchen skills for the elimination.
Completely agree about the omelettes, though I do wonder about the kitchenware. As Cary mentioned, it doesn’t look like there were non-stick pans and even Wolfgang’s omelette was darker than it probably should’ve been.