Top Chef New York

[erika]

Ugh why did Carla listen to Casey about that meat? You don't souvei (I don't know how to spell that) a thick cut of meat like that. And a souffle that you don't test before you decide to make it your last dish? I don't get it.

I am underwhelmed by this finale, as well as the whole season. Bleh.

[Omar]

Hosea won because he likes to work with big flavors, unlike other chefs who actively try to remove flavor from their dishes. 

[Sarah]

Ugh why did Carla listen to Casey about that meat? You don't souvei sous vide (I don't know how to spell that) . . .

Now you do!

Carla was a dope.  She got scared and let herself be led by her sous chef.  Into disgrace and defeat.

[Kim Kelly]

I yelled at the TV, "DON'T LISTEN TO THAT LOSER, CARLA!!!!!!!" both times. I don't think she heard me. 

Seriously, Casey was probably the weakest top 3 contestant in the entire series. Ugh, hated her.

Hosea is a doucheboy. And I still love FGS. I loved him going on about the Prius and hybrid cars in that video Sarah linked, and I agree with all of Sarah's random observations about the finale.

[jbissell]

Seriously, Casey was probably the weakest top 3 contestant in the entire series. Ugh, hated her.

Lisa from last season?

[Kim Kelly]

Seriously, Casey was probably the weakest top 3 contestant in the entire series. Ugh, hated her.

Lisa from last season?

Oh god, I think I blocked that heinous asshole from my memory.

[Sarah]

I can't let the show go yet, so here's Casey being classy:

Carla was not prepared and in over her head. The show did not talk about how the first course (crab) took her half of the friggin’ cooking time that day, I was left to work the rest of HER dishes.
She also did not have a plan. The ONLY thing she had in mind was a cheese course! I would NEVER do a cheese course. And where in the hell did french come from!? She is not even classically trained! It (the show) didn’t talk about how I worked on a sauce for 2 days and Carla forgot to put it on the plate… It didn’t show how the 2nd course (fish) was MINE. It didn’t show how she took the sous vide idea and decided to GRILL it last minute causing it to be tough… And it didn’t show how she WANTED to do the souffles which she does not even know how to make! That was HER food, because it certainly was me asking her how she wanted to do this and that while she was busy picking crab the entire time and making a souffle that didn’t rise!

I am done with TC. I did not influence her. She has NO ideas of her own, oh, except a cheese course.

Some guy named MikeR responded to this, "Casey is lucky she has large breasts."  Which made me laugh.

P.S.  Regardless of my contempt for Casey's response, I am astounded at all the people who seem to be blaming her entirely for Carla's failure.  Carla spinelessly reverted to the woman who allowed herself be bullied by Eugene and Danny in the pathetic "Gail's Wedding Shower" episode.  She lost because she was a wimp and a waffler, however sweet-natured and capable of making good food.  And I suspect she knows it.

[Martin]

Speaking of which... Gail. Va-va-voom or what?

Don't judge.

[erika]

Casey is dead to me.

[Sarah]

I noticed, too, Martin.

[senorcorazon]

Speaking of which... Gail. Va-va-voom or what?

Don't judge.

Yes, Sra. Corazon and I both noticed that. But really, how couldn't you? I think it was funny because for once Padma actually dressed a little less like a tart and Gail rolled in all "HEY, I might have been gone for a few weeks but you aren't passing me over for Toby --- I am smart AND HOT. Go ME."

[jbissell]

I can't let the show go yet, so here's Casey being classy:

She is not even classically trained!

Didn't Carla mention at some point that she is classically trained?

[Kim Kelly]

I can't let the show go yet, so here's Casey being classy:

She is not even classically trained!

Didn't Carla mention at some point that she is classically trained?

She mentioned it once or twice. Also, her bio on Bravo mentions "the refinement of her Classic French training." Also, Carla apparently has a cute tortoiseshell cat (picture 10!) and lots of purses. And works with people who wear Jamz.

Addendum: Jamie also has a tortie.

[mrCoffea]

I'm so pissed

it was already too much to see Fabio get eliminated while Hosea got to continue, but to see Hosea beat Stefan in such a bullshit way...

I have to say, for everything stupid Toby said during his tenure, he made the most sense when judging in the final, and it's a shame that Gail "I'm a fat, ugly generic canadian girl just like every fat ugly generic canadian girl east and west of Quebec" Simmons, Tom and Padma "the model that tries to fit in with culinary experts" chose to dismiss everything that happened before that in the series because a desert *looked* outdated.

I mean, the entrees were tied, Hosea's first dish lacked seasoning and Stefan's was "watery", so I'll call that one a tie as well. Stefan's second dish was the strongest dish of the night as they said, and Hosea's last dish was stronger (but not better than Stefan's second dish)

So right there, advantage Stefan. But if we wan't to say "ok, they're tied", apparently they were supposed to look at past accomplishments on the show, and in that case Stefan smoked Hosea out of the water.

So how did Hosea win? European bias? I think so!

[Andy]

am I the only one that is totally grossed out by squab?