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[Imzadi]

I agree that times up means that time is up. However, we don't know how much time it took to present the meals to the judges. If the last person to go served a cold dish, the judges would have come down on that chef. They need to be able to keep their dishes hot without abiding by the times up rule.

There is a difference in keeping a dish hot and still cooking it. (Wasn't it) Marcel who threw a fit because his stuff was half plated and ready to go, and they went with someone else instead?

Whereas, Jamie even said a couple time her beans weren't ready. That's cooking.

I still consider Jamie one of the best chefs there. Sure, she let the rules work to her advantage, but in a team challenge, if the team doesn't force the issue, I just don't put the sole blame on her. A true Top Chef would force the issue instead of just bowing down. And we will never really know if Jamie's dish was the worst -- in the past she has been hard on her own food. And complaining about things afterwards just made a couple of the chefs look petty. Spike blamed everyone, but himself, for what was a bad dish. Someone from the other team didn't compete and got a free pass, yet I haven't heard a lot of mention of that. As Tom C. himself said: "But the rest of the team should have said to her, “Jamie, that was the decision. You’re going out.” And when we called for them to say whose dish was up first, they should simply have called back, “Jamie’s.” End of story. She would have had to abide by the group’s decision … and perhaps the results would have been different. But the team didn’t do that, and they have to reconcile themselves to their role in that."

Yes, they should have had her go or forfeit the point for refusing to present anything, and she would have been one of the losers anyway.

 

[RadioFanatic]

although I'm still mad at Jaime, I was actually ok with the yellow team losing. maybe it was editing, but it really torqued me off that the orange team kept being called to tell their teammate who was presenting first and then the yellow got to choose who to pick, which they did depending on the other team's rep presenting. they should have had to take turns telling their teammate first.

 

[Robinrs]

I'm fine as long as Angelo and Fabio are safe... maybe I like men whose names end in O???

 

[Imzadi]

But, did everyone notice, the other team knew that Richard would probably be the best dish. They pretty much admitted he's the chef to beat. (Along with Angelo.)

 

[ppony]

This is why the producers also needed to enforce the "Time's Up" rule. Everyone's dish should have been ready at the same time, and they should have just shoved it at her or walked the plate over for her and plopped it down, then walked away, for her to take the heat.

She didn't stand by her own dish (with some sense of integrity to her team,) by refusing to go. She KNOWS she had the worse dish, by consensus.

TOTALLY Agree!!! Why was she allowed to cook longer?!?! What were her teammates supposed to do? Arm wrestle her into plating her dish or plating it for her? She was being completely self-centered and UNFAIR to the other chefs by not completing her dish in the same time allotted the others. Blais wasn't allowed to win a challenge for going beyond teh time, why was she not called out?! I can respect her teammates for just doing teh ebst they could in the moment w/ their decisions, wat was done was done, what else could they do. Hind sight being 20/20 of course.
I agree that 2 BETTER chefs went home because of Jaime's "survival skills". I hope those skills have an end and not in the finale either! I can't remember that other gal's name in Richard and Steph's season. She really dodged bullets too all the way through the season. She was on the bottom consistently and she made it by just being not as bad as someone else on any given elimination. Though all or most of them had been on the top numerous times which she had not.

I'm starting to not dislike Marcel so much like I did going into this season. He has grown up, a little. He's trying to get along much better than he did before and I just LOVED his sound bite of "here comes the bus...neeeaarrrooomm!" But maybe he'll come in second again and "not win anything".

 

[Manhattan Princess]

I can't remember that other gal's name in Richard and Steph's season. She really dodged bullets too all the way through the season. She was on the bottom consistently and she made it by just being not as bad as someone else on any given elimination. Though all or most of them had been on the top numerous times which she had not.

Ugh, I think that was Lisa. And didn't she knock Antonia out of the final 3? Hated that.

 

[Imzadi]

Why not? She has managed to do it twice now. Maybe she will be the first to win without really cooking?

I agree that 2 BETTER chefs went home because of Jaime's "survival skills". I hope those skills have an end and not in the finale either!

Well, heck! She's got 9 other fingers she can cut and go get stitches. How many more weeks is this show?

 

[ppony]

Ugh, I think that was Lisa. And didn't she knock Antonia out of the final 3? Hated that.

YES! That was her and YES, it was Antonia's season as well! She was far better than Lisa on any given day. And sadly, Lisa just never saw the realities.

 

[Imzadi]

Ugh, I think that was Lisa. And didn't she knock Antonia out of the final 3? Hated that.

UUUGHHH! Her! I did not need to be reminded of her! Hated her, too.

 

[ppony]

UUUGHHH! Her! I did not need to be reminded of her! Hated her, too.

Oops sorry!

 

[Minnie]

The team made a poor decision that "Top Chef's" should have known how to handle..... A team vote could have forced Jamie to present her dish.

Hopefully now that the judges / producers are aware of the situation they will closely at her "cooking (cough survival) skills

Still don't like Marcel - he could go home next! I like Carla and Baize :-D

 

[can84]

Well, heck! She's got 9 other fingers she can cut and go get stitches. How many more weeks is this show?

Seriously!

And Carla sliced off half her fingernail and managed to continue

 

[ppony]

The team made a poor decision that "Top Chef's" should have known how to handle..... A team vote could have forced Jamie to present her dish.

I agree, but I doubt, looking at how much everyone was scrambling in the moment and being yelled at by the judges to put someone up, that a vote even popped into anyone's mind. It was get someone up, NOW. Deal w/ the problem child later. Could have been handled better but wadda ya do. I often find myself rethinking what I did in a harried moment.

 

[Manhattan Princess]

YES! That was her and YES, it was Antonia's season as well! She was far better than Lisa on any given day. And sadly, Lisa just never saw the realities.

I could almost excuse her less than great cooking, but she was just so darn mean and snotty! And I still remember Bourdain's reaction to her "smoked" soup. But that was the week Dale, I think, had those horrible butterscotch scallops.

 

[klacey1]

I read on Tom Colliccio's blog that Jamie had "never gotten stitches" before and was really scared, so that's why she went to the hospital. First of all, if you were afraid of getting stitches, wouldn't you just tape up your finger instead of going to the hospital? Also. . .what is she, 5? Scared of getting stitches, really?
Carla for the win!

 

[Nik's Mom]

Jamie seemed to survive on her season in the same way as she is surviving on All Stars. She needs to be sent home already!

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Does anyone think that Angelo overcooked the salmon on purpose? There seems to be alot of "trust" issues surrounding him. I'm torn about it. I don't like to think any of these guys would sabotage, but I'm not naive enough to think they could.

 

[ppony]

Does anyone think that Angelo overcooked the salmon on purpose? There seems to be alot of "trust" issues surrounding him. I'm torn about it. I don't like to think any of these guys would sabotage, but I'm not naive enough to think they could.

I don't think he did, but like you, it's pretty hard to get a bead on someone we wee snippets of on TV. Heck, we can be wrong about people we've known perosnally for years. So I dunno. But I hope not.

 

[RunningGirl]

Does anyone think that Angelo overcooked the salmon on purpose? There seems to be alot of "trust" issues surrounding him. I'm torn about it. I don't like to think any of these guys would sabotage, but I'm not naive enough to think they could.

No, but only because Tre (is that his name? I'm blanking) had immunity. Otherwise I would say yes.

 

[Imzadi]

Does anyone think that Angelo overcooked the salmon on purpose? There seems to be alot of "trust" issues surrounding him. I'm torn about it. I don't like to think any of these guys would sabotage, but I'm not naive enough to think they could.

It could be, as someone stated earlier, they had to keep the food hot for the judges. Since he didn't know when he was going up, the salmon could have continued to cook away and was overdone by the time his turn arrived.

A few of the chefs have had that problem in the past. Especially the season that was mostly Catering Wars. Some foods really don't keep well being warmed for a long time.

But, there is a difference between that & cooking, like Jamie did to get her beans cooked enough. Beans require much higher heat than salmon. Salmon, you look at it the wrong way and it overcooks. I rarely get fish at a catered event, unless I can look it over closely to see if it got overcooked by the time I get to it in line.