TOP CHEF RANT...

Poor Zoi. But-No room for babies in the kitchen. It seemed quite clear from just a few minutes into the elimination challenge that Zoi should and probably would be on the block.
First things first...It was a great quickfire challenge. This is one that they should have right at the beginning and anyone that gets under 80%...GONE. C'mon, if this is what you do for a living, and for most of us live and breathe this biz, you better be able to differentiate between quality and crap MOST of the time. For Stephenie to get only 6 of 15, and then to say "well, I never do good in the quickfire challenges." What? This was you against yourself, no-one else...you better do good, this is a measure of knowledge and taste, not skill or pressure. Lame. Now Antonia (whom I picked to lose this week, I suck) was right on solid...12 of 15, that's impressive!
Back to the elimination challenge. Richard, in all of his culinary gadgetry, and scientific wizardry didn't scale his fish properly (don't they make some sort of figga ma jigga to just remove the scales magically? Cook dude, this is not science, this is called "culinary art", and scaling the fish is one of the fundamentals! Should be mastered before you ever learn how to sous vide! As far as Team Earth, I think Antonia was right on with their dish, they just fucked it all up. Great idea, bad execution. I think Tom and Ming were full of shit that he thought a soup was perfect. I think if anyone lamed out and made a soup for their dish they would have been beaten down. They always say, "lay it out there", "was that what you thought would impress?", "don't go for the safe dish, go for a winning dish", "Top chef, not Top cook". Again, a hypocrisy, soup would have been a "safe" and lame dish to try to win. Andrew I still think is an ass and rides coat-tails, though this week I would not have wanted to have been on them. In the end, Zoi deserved to go. More than Spike, or Richard, or Mark, or Ryan...not sure about that, but she deserved to go none the less. The drama is starting to get good though, and i loved Lisa's reaction to "her chef" being "fired"...she is one tuff cookie! My pick for next week....Andrew. Not much talent and talks alot of smack.
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