As far as instant skill credibility goes, you can't ask for much more in the world of cooking than 'Could not get Gordon Ramsey to stop eating my food.' Okay, so there may have been some triple-pandering there -- Gordon for a UK meal, Joe on the Italian styling, and Graham just because it's good food -- but you couldn't argue with the result. For Gordon, you literally couldn't argue with it, because he would cover his ears to avoid hearing you long enough to get another bite in. And when you consider just how much they all have to eat during a standard audition day...
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Barbecue chicken sushi?
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One standdown from the failed auditions: the white chocolate brownies. I have never met a white chocolate brownie that wasn't made from pure 100% epic fail. Anyone who could successfully pull them off should earn an auto-pass to the top ten. That contestant didn't. No surprise.
I'm starting to think they're unbakeable.
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A couple of last night's apron handouts felt like a tribute to 'But you failed in such an interesting way.' Cannon fodder or the panel deciding it takes a talented cook to get things that wrong? Leaving out the sauce = forgetting lyrics? Only Joe's expressionless face knows for sure.
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No mother-son battles? Such a pity. But think of the TAR potential!
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As one of the few who watched any part of Marcel's Quantum Kitchen, I'm semi-thrilled to be getting a science chef just for the chance of his really bringing something new to the table. He's just got one problem: molecular gastronomy is not the province of the typical well-stocked kitchen -- not even one that's up to the panel's standards. He can't improvise equipment in one hour and liquid nitrogen will not be found in the pantry. This forces him back to nearly the same techniques everyone else will be using -- and there goes his edge.
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The ratings are apparently down by about a third from last year. Worry.
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