Top Chef - Season 5-
"Le Bernardin"

The quickfire is a a three round fish filleting contest. !st round is 5 minutes to fillet sardines. Everyone is complaining about how hard it is to cut the small fishes. The judge said Leah (wtf?) and Fabio did the best job. Carla and Jamie did the worst.

Artic char is the 2nd fish. Well Leah gave up on this fish. Shocking. She is pretty bad but how the heck did she do well last round? Leah of course lost this round. Fabio joins Leah as a loser of that round. Hosea and Stefan have to tackle a fresh water eel, peel and fillet. An odd little quirk to this challenge is that the eels, although recently killed, are still moving quite a bit. Stefan is the winner as he apparently has had some experience skinning and filleting eels.

The chefs are taken to Le Bernadin to enjoy a nice 6 course meal. Their elimination challenge is to reproduce one of the dishes and as a group to reproduce the meal they had just eaten.

Fabio's red snapper was very good according to the judges.

Leah is panicking over her dish, the mahi mahi. The judges are not pleased with hers at all. At times it is shocking she is even still in here.

Stefan's lobster dish is well received and a very good imitation of the original dish.

Carla's dish was the escolar. She did well. Her classic french training helped her out in this french style competition.

Hosea did the monkfish dish. His cooking of the fish was not well. His sauce was close but the fish was overcooked and over spiced.

Jamie is doing the dish she liked the least, the black bass with the braised celery. She overcooked the celery and did not reproduce the dish as well.

Stefan, Fabio and Carla are the top 3 of the challenge. The winner was Stefan. Yet another win for him to put in the bank.

That means the bottom three was Jamie, Leah and Hosea. The chef that was asked to pack their knives and leave was Jamie. How does she get asked to leave and Leah gets to stay? She's been performing poorly as of late and flat out gave up on the quickfire.

The updates list:
1) Stefan (was 1)
2) Fabio (was 5)
3) Hosea (was 3)
4) Jamie (was 2)
5) Carla (was 6)
6) Leah (was 7)

Labels: Television, Top Chef

- posted by Doug @ 12:46:00 AM