Last night Holly and I sat through two hours of Master Chef. Clearly Fox started this show too late into the summer season and is now rushing to make room for Hell's Kitchen in the fall. An hour at a time the show would be far more tolerable but at this length Holly and I find ourselves rambling -- not to worry, I pruned most of what was not applicable.
I think that the most compelling part of last night's cooking extravaganza, was the now infamous crab incident. The question that it raised was should someone get an accommodation because of religious beliefs? Though I certainly do not agree with how this was handled I think that it was a very good reminder that even though these cooks appear homogeneous they come from vastly different places and have a plethora of unique experiences. As one who is used to the White guy as expert coming from the Food Network, this unexpected glitch on Fox serves as a good reminder to the viewer that their is more to food than how it looks and how it tastes.
After the drama, we of course took time to laugh at Ramsey -- who thinks that sucking in his gut actually makes him look better. There was also the obligatory Joe is a douche comment. I have finally found someone who makes the song puke in my mouth make sense.
Renee: Here we goI am already unhappy to see Joe
Holly: As soon as I saw him, I immediately thought "Someone is in trouble already!?"
Mystery box challenge! And from the preview, it looks like one woman is going to walk out.
What's in the box!?
I keep thinking about the movie Seven "What's in the box, what's in the box!?"
Renee: Crab.. all of that drama for a freaking cran
Holly: A live crab!
Sheetal can't kill the crab.
Renee: He is an asshole because she is breaking her religious convictions to do this
Holly: I don't like that Sheetal is saying that she needs to grow up. She has already put herself in the position of being wrong for no reason.
Renee: I think she said that because of how she thought he was going to treat it. He would not even let her off camera.
Holly: I wouldn't go as far as to say that he is an asshole. He asked if she wanted him to put the crab in the water so she wouldn't have to.A bit insensitive, yes, in regards to not letting her off camera, but not an asshole, because he did want to make sure that she was okay and was attempting to reassure her and it was her putting a lot of pressure on herself.
Renee: Yeah but how does that help? She is still party to the killing of the crab.
Holly: Yes, but what else could he have done besides offer to put it in the water himself instead of her doing it on her own when she doesn't feel she can?
Renee: Make an alternative. It is his privilege to think that all people can eat the same food. This is like asking a devout Jew to cook in a non Kosher manner and he should have considered that when he orchestrated this show
Holly: Then that would be considered preferential treatment and if these chefs ever want to work in a restaurant, are they going to insist that anyone who orders a crab dish get a salad instead because they can't kill a crab? Or they'll use frozen crab which is worse than the freshest ingredients you can get.
Bottom line, this is a competition and it's a cooking show. Every cooking show is the same in that respect.
Renee: There you go again with ignoring the way that people eat. There are plenty of restaurants that serve only vegetarian food. There are several in the small town where I live alone. Whenever someone needs an accommodation, it is always constructed as "special treatment" and that of course is privilege talking. It would not have hurt to offer two options. It would still have been a cooking competition,.
Holly: An accommodation is one thing, but having her cook a completely vegetarian dish when everyone is cooking crab which is a little tricky to cook is indeed called preferential treatment.
Renee: At least they are going to taste Sheetals food after putting her in that terrible position.
Crab is not tricky, you throw it in a damn pot and boil
Holly: I'm glad that she got called out for making a good dish with it. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that she has never cooked with fresh crab before, so that's a victory for her.
So people who are vegan and want to go on a cooking competition reality show should also be allowed "accommodations
When you don't put everything on the same level, as long as people are physically able to do something, then there really is no stopping when it comes to people needing accommodations for what they are and are not willing to cook for some reason or another. Or does it only work when people have a particular religious belief?
Renee: I think that in this case a religious conviction is reason enough to ask for a consideration. She is a minority and she was forced to bend to the will of the majority and that is offensive. Not killing a crab does not make her any less of a cook.
Holly: I never said it made her any less of a cook. Obviously she's a damn good cook.
Renee: Well the framing of this is that unless she complies she is less than
Holly: Chocolate, passion fruit and some weird cheesy milk product that looks fucking disgusting.
He picked passion fruit to work with.
Renee: I think they should have been allowed to test it first, cooking blind is not right, and Slim seems to suck at everything
Holly: I have never tasted a passion fruit before. I would have no clue what to do with that.Slim is kind of pissing me off. I don't really like her.
Renee: Well at least Joe knows nothing about it, and Joe is the last man that I would want to woo,
Renee: More complicated than any woman he has ever met? umm asshole
Holly: Pretty much Sharone's dish can be the best ever in MasterChef... In all the half a season!
Joe Bastianich can shut his face about Sharone's vacuum messing out though because it isn't his fault their equipment doesn't work. David supposedly has a fiance
Sharone's dish does look really good.
Renee: I actually don't find it enjoyable at all
Holly: I don't like Jake's dish of 10 hearts.
Renee: It was cute but a bit much.Whitney's dish looks good, it is a shame that it does note taste good
Holly: Tracy's looks really gross. I don't go near anything that looks that slimy, like something is already on her dish eating her food. Which sucks because I really like Tracy.
And Joe Bastianich is a major douche throwing away all of Slim's food. Albeit, her tray of bite-sized appetizers was really...inspir
Renee: Yeah I thought it looked nice and to see Joe just throw it in the garbage is ridiculous. He isn't even a chef -- arrogant prick.
David's dish actually looks nice, even considering he formed his food into the shape of a heart, which I think is super tacky, but whatever.
Renee: Tenderloin and Prawns looks wonderful
Holly: Sharone is a sore loser. He wouldn't go taste Lee's dish.
Renee: I missed that
Holly: And Lee won.
Renee: Great
Holly: Ramsay just pissed me off. I just yelled at the television.
The women should have excelled in this romance challenge? Are you fucking kidding me, sexist judges!?
Renee: "The Girls" heaven forbid that he acknowledge that their women. And how come vagina means you have to know romance
Holly: Whitney doesn't deserve to go home yet. And Slim is going home because she said she would recreate her failed dish.
Renee: Did you notice how on the preview when Gordon took off his shirt he sucked in his gut
Holly: Yep, I did notice!
Renee: It always cracks me up when men do that they look ridiculous
Holly: Oooh, Lee does not like Sharone.
Renee: Oooh Lee is throwing down the smack
Holly: Why is Sharone automatically the leader of the team of leftovers?
Renee: They team chose him
Holly: Oh, I missed that. Okay then.The blue team moved too fast, they have mistakes.
Renee: The salmon looks good and it isn't even cooked yet. How can u not prep lettuce? Lettuce?
Holly: I don't like that Graham Elliot just wrote off Tracy's feeling of Gordon Ramsay singling her out saying "I'm sure that wasn't the case, it isn't about individuals today.
Renee: I agreed with him. Kitchens work as a crew, they live and die together.
Holly: Notice Graham and Gordon go into the kitchen and Joe just stands there all "Oh okay, you guys go ahead!" because he isn't a chef.
Renee: And I hope that the contestants realize this. For all of his big talk he is useless as hell
Holly: I want just one person to tell him to fuck off during this show.
Renee: Oh look Joe cleaned a plate..he finally did something useful
Holly: Good job, Joe! Hahahaha So, looks like the red team might have won this..
Renee: We will see, but it looks that way.
Holly: They won it. And David supposedly saved the day for the team because of his seasonings.
Renee: Great now his head is going to be even more bloated
Holly: They have to make fresh pasta and sauce to go with it for the pressure challenge.
And two people are being eliminated.
Renee: Oh and how would Joe know when to cook the damn pasta when he is a business man.
She does not have time to make a lasagna. She is going home
Holly: She's making me sad. I don't want her to go home. Lasagna is a bad move.
Oh no, Mike's pasta is all crazy.
Renee: Joe is going to go all expert because the food is Italian
Holly: There he goes speaking Italian just to make everyone aware that he's Italian!
Renee: Pompous ass
Holly: Tracy's dish even looks a little weird.
Renee: So Tracy made a pasta sloppy joe. Oh the Italian expert likes the dish.
Lee's dish looks like cat spit up
Holly: Mike is still in the competition. I liked the look of those mushrooms he used when he was making it.
I would not want to stay in MasterChef with Joe Bastianich forever.
Renee: Wow Joe won on Mike
Holly: Aww, Tracy got sent home.
Renee: She was one of the weakest left anyway
Holly: Still makes me sad, I like her.Jake better not be going home! I like him too!
me: I think it might be Lee
Holly: Eww, MasterChef is already trying to sell a cookbook.
NOO! Jake left MasterChef!
Renee: At least they all acknowledged that Jake beat their expectations
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