Remembering Why I Like Top Chef

After last night’s new episode of Top Chef, I remember why I like watching this show. There’s excitement, creativity, teamwork, passion, and conflict all jammed into one hour. What more can you ask for?

The Quick Fire challenge of identifying ingredients and cooking instruments was pretty funny. Reminded me of Season 1 when the chefs had an unofficial challenge of who could blindly identify the most junk food and snacks. I think Miguel won that one? Some things were much easier to identify than others so it was a matter of luck of what you got.

Tre and CJ were the winners of the frozen Italian dinner challenge executing their meals the best, individually freezing their meal components. The chef packing his knives this week was stubborn Joey. Joey was paired with everyone’s favorite Asian ego, Hung. Hung knew the game plan of individually freezing everything but for whatever reason, Joey kept combining everything. You can watch Joey’s emotional farewell here.

I was thinking Howie was going to go after his tirade against partner Sara. What he said about Sara not contributing and showing her skills could very well be true, and he made sure everyone heard him.

More excitement in the kitchen next week Wednesday!

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