Claudia Greco

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OK, I was out of the room when they weighed the girls' fish.....what did it come in at? ← Boy's at 5.9 (Ben) and girl's at 4.8 (Carey).

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Petrozza was the dude. Roseann was the woman. Did ANYONE on the blue team ever memorize (or even read) their binders? Jesus. What a bunch of losers. And Jason obviously disdains women because he never gets laid. I wonder if the women will drown or poison him in the hot tub next week - BEFORE he quits. Loser. Double loser.

No, we prefer wanker. ← Wanker it is, then. Speaking of wankers - Bobby. And Jason, a crappier-looking version of Paul Giamatti. Jason talks a good game about how he's going to beat down those "bitches" on the girl's team, but I saw him standing, slack-jawed and clueless, with a handful of raw scallops - just like Dominic did last week. Oh, yeah, we got us some real raw talent in the kitchen THIS season, oh, yes! And what's with Roseann? She held the tickets for a while (like, 2 hours?) because she didn't want to overwhelm the kitchen? Hadn't the red kitchen waited for tickets for 45 minutes at the beginning of service? OMG! You NEVER hold the tickets! And does Gordon hate blondes in general, or jusy blonde women?

"Fresh turkey and Virginia ham . . .[rolled into] Hawaiian tigerfish!" (with a basil cream sauce.) "If Schleigel filets - we know he likes to filet - he can get 350 servings from one dragon . . ."

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Brilliant. ← Oh, this is just getting better and better. A few of you guys should have been the "creative consultants" to the competing chefs!

OH MY GOSH! That would have been beautiful in the most sick way possible. My mind is now heading down a devious path involving pot pie and Sweeney Todd. You'd have thunk Spike would have figured this out, but hind sight is twenty twenty. ← Both brilliant! Meat pies? Bunnies? A little offal, maybe? Bourdain would been yowling in delight had someone gone that route and had he been judging that ep!

don't they get, "snaps" for using the Glad stuff? I'm pretty sure Tom does the booty shake every time someone showcases a product. "Andrew, next time hold the beer so we can see the label, or pack your knives..." Seriously, it's the face-time for product placement game. I would think they were told to use the products whenever possible. Although I may never know that for sure. ← I think, more importantly, there's only so many times Richard can smoke and wrap a dish before it gets tired. One more time, and I think tast dog won't hunt anymore.

They could've used Moonstruck, too, as inspiration. I'm still trying to work out the food inspiration in Dumb and Dumberer, but I have to admit, I unfortunately missed that stellar bit of film history.

omg, Big Night was the first thing in my head when they said that. They could have made bolognese LOL "my uncle makes a bolognese..." Spike had never heard of LWFC. When Manuel said that I thought "quail in rose petal sauce!!" Ryan is officially bugging me now. The kiwi totally saved his butt on this one. ← How About Babette's Feast? Chocolat? Or even Godfather I - all that Italian food, plus: "Leave the gun. Take the cannolis". Lots of dessert inspiration in there. Big Night? Bolognese, risotto, sure - OK, maybe not the big timbale piece de resistance. Or how about food inspired by Ratatoulle? Duh! Dumb and Dumberer Ryan insinuates MARK is a dumb Kiwi? Pretty freaking funny. Ryan is looking dumber by the week, as well as . . . u8hhh . . . not a team player. How many resturants has he now not "been a good fit" in? Three, so far? Butthead.

From the trailer for next week, it looks like we're in for The Long Night of Raging Lesbians - looks like one of the guys baited Jennifer. And I think we can count on Andrew irrevocably melti ng down or blowing an o-ring at least once, before he gets eliminated. Good times, folk. Good times (!)

Ummmmm . . . seems Ryan is not a good fit at a lot of places. Maybe he did quit of his volition, but it's equally possible he was . . . encouraged to move on? Or, at least, his decision to move on were enthusiastically supported by each of his exec chefs of the moment? To have no less than three judges not only know him but to be rather underwhelmed by him, both culinarily and personally, doesn't sound good in terms of Ryan's rep, even in an industry where cooks do move around. If he had moved around and they all remembered him fondly, that would be another thing entirely. Just thinking out loud here.

This article was written mid-season 2, I think, and while I think Gordo is probably a lot nicer in real life than on HK, I still think he is a first class wanker: http://www.salon.com/mwt/food/eat_drink/20.../gordon_ramsay/ On Boiling Point, I saw him nasty and belligerent to "civilians" (non-restaurant staff), totally unprovoked (no, no tricks of editing - just out of the blue), and he is totally crude and foul-mouthed. He named his first restaurant, Aubergine (eggplant) after a part of his anatomy. Having said that, I'm well aware of the profanity and screaming that goes on in a lot of professional kitchens, and Gordo is a top-notch chef, and an absolute perfectionist. I'm sure he ramps up Football Thug Gordo for TV (and I'm sure being faced with a lot of lame ass would-be cooks brings out even more of his worst), but I still think there is a belligerent bully at the core of his personality - his better characteristics notwithstanding. He was abused by his chefs in their kitchens, and he's passed that abuse along to his subordinates. I know his staff is extremely loyal to him - he pays very well, the chance to learn from a great chef is there, and a lot of his chefs get rewarded with their own restaurants in the Gordo Empire - but I STILL think he's a wanker. I think the word our Brit friends use is "bolshy".

BTW, a story from the Independent that Gordon is going to fine an offender 5 pounds every time they swear in one of his restaurants: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-...lia-803097.html Good luck with THAT (!) I have to believe it's April Fool's story.

Well, the vomiting might not have been pre-planned (I think it was!), but Ramsay definitely had "spitting out food" planned. How convenient of him to have a garbage can nearby for spewing.What a doof Exec Chef and "4-Star General" Bobby turned out to be! He should have been eliminated right off - for not reading the binders, first off, not bein g able to lead after virtually DEMANDING he be made captain, and for not once stepping in to help his team. The guy is a professional chef, after all - but obviously, a bigger professional blowhard. However, I suspect Ramsay is keeping him around for dramatic tension. So far, Louross, the black female line cook and the line cook-turned-receptionist are the only three out of fifteen who look like they have any kind of sense or backbone. What's with the new opening? Ramsay, "The Lord of Darkness"? More like the Lord of Belligerent. Marco Pierre White could still probably take him down like a wounded gazelle, anyday.

Man, he's just a twisted knot of ganglia, that one. I'm going with the previously suggested hypothesis - amphetamine psychosis!(Still laughing over Colicchio's face when Andrew told him, "it's MY house." Oh, dear God.)

Thank you. I've been having word blocks all day, most unusually . . .

Didn't Nikki have the coagulated Velveeta Mac n Cheese?

I SAW that, and was pretty horrified. But then again, I've seen it on Iron Chef, too (Japanese version), but I'd have to look at my tapes again to see if it was Morimoto or one of the other ICs. I think he was mashing up avocados in a Mexican mortar/pestle (the name of which escapes me) . . . but STILL . . . ! (Oh, damn, no green/barfy emoticon . . . )

Less swearing, although Andrew has regained the "annoying" title. ← I really hope that when/if he goes down he is removed by security gaurds... ... as he requested. ← I thought the look on Colicchio's face was priceless when Andrew told the judges, "It's MY house [i'm not leaving]." Colicchio looked like he'd been hit with a paella pan. EXCUSE me - a "Spanish-inspired rice dish" pan. (Since there apparently was no paella in this week's challenge (!))

Snort, I bet he did. I know I wanted to. ← I bet he DIDN'T. I think he's already shown how much he doesn't care about Michelob by refusing to write the newly Michelob-sponsored Top Chef blog.

I can live with discreet product placement, but there's no way I'd let them plant a 3-pound block of Velveeta in MY pantry. Not now, not ever (!) Couldn't live with the shame.

Hey! Dems *MY* reasons!!! ← And damn fine ones, too! (Hehheheheheh!) SNAP!