December 4, 2008
Top Chef is really getting tough for the contestants. In this week’s episode, chefs not only had to test their cooking skills, but their teaching and performing skills as well. The elimination challenge consisted of preparing a dish for a 2 minute and 30 second cooking demo audition for the Today Show. And how appropriate for a challenge on TV personality to be preceded with a Quickfire with none other than TV personality Rocco DiSpirito.
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November 20, 2008
Playfully titled “Show Your Craft,” episode 2 was named for the elimination challenge where Tom Colicchio handed over the knives to his own restaurant: Craft (pictured above). But, one contestant’s attempt at being ‘crafty’ with an exotic ingredient backfires and sends [him/her] home. That’s irony number one. Another irony came from the hot dog quickfire challenge. Inspired by the $10,000,000 New Yorkers spend on hot dogs a year, this challenge paved the way for a non-New Yorker to triumph. But that’s not all the irony, read on for more…
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November 13, 2008
Aah…so that’s why they casted so many contestants this season: because they planned to eliminate 2 in the first episode! Very sneaky Top Chef, very sneaky and…obnoxious. For those of you who didn’t watch, Bravo decided to eliminate contestants in the elimination challenge and the quickfire challenge, leaving 15 contestants left at the end of episode 1. Couldn’t they have started with 16 instead of getting one extra chef’s hopes up?
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November 6, 2008
It’s that time again. Did you miss our favorite show as much as we did? Well, Top Chef Season 5 begins this coming Wednesday (November 12th)! While we’re going to miss the Chicago season, we’re very excited to welcome Top Chef New York to Chew on That’s Top Chef Watch. That means we’re going to dish about every episode each Thursday right here at Chew on That. We can’t wait to get a taste of the delicious challenges the famous city of New York will serve up!
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