Wake up, you sleepyheads, wakey wakey wakey! Padma needs to watch some old Gomer Pyles, see how "real" drill sergeants do it.Well, enough about Alarm Clock Padma, it's a nice concept and I really really want one but I still haven't gotten my Christmas Story Leglamp.
The breakfast quickfire went relatively well. Very well, actually. I'm a big fan of sunnysideup eggs, glad to see them getting good exposure. Now I just need to get an online petition started to get my local Health Department to quit being such anti-sunnysideuppers, so what about the health risks.
Anyway, all the breakfasts looked tasty, I probably would have selected Dale's as my favorite. Congrats though to Hung for his winning steak and eggs breakfast. It looked good too but I would have disqualified the jerk for serving booze for breakfast, everyone knows mouthwash is the only acceptable morning booze.
So, everyone pile into the plane, it's off to... New York City! How original.
But first a layover in Newark for the elimination challenge.
Um, any you Bravo folk reading this, in last week's thread when I predicted an airline chow elimination challenge... I WAS JOKING!!!
These challenges throwing top chef contendors into specialized cooking circumstances for the purpose of spotlighting a show sponsor, CUT IT OUT!!!!! Enough already. It's called Top Chef not Top Product Placement!
Well, being demoted to airline cooks for the day, the remaining six tried to rise to the challenge, it actually seemed to go a lot better than the flashfroze Italian supermarket dreck challenge.
Congrats to Casey. Brian's Flintstones-sized hunk of meat looked especially challenging for us chowhounds out here, but way too much to work through while being held captive in a metal tube at 30,000 feet. Casey's cutlets were the perfect choice to milehigh cuisine, and looked nummy too.
Hated to see CJ walk the plank, but it is always a bad sign when the words "prison food" are used. I really thought Sara's "catfood" deserved the kiss of death, I've cooked a lot of salmon and have no idea how you get it to be dry as a bone.
"If all machines were to be annihilated at one moment, so that not a knife nor lever nor rag of clothing nor anything whatsoever were left to man but his bare body alone that he was born with, and if all knowledge of mechanical laws were taken from him so that he could make no more machines, and all machine-made food destroyed so that the race of man should be left as it were naked upon a desert island, we should become extinct in six weeks." (Samuel Butler, "Erewhon")
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