Friday, July 4, 2008

Next Food Network Star-Bon Appetite

How hard is it to describe a dish that you are eating? Apparently very hard as Cat Cora gives the would be chef stars their next challenge, a basket with six ingredients after which they will have to give a TV presentation describing the dish. The twist, they will have to describe someone else's dish. This seems to have thrown the chefs for a loop. How hard is it to describe food? Aaron eats the food in total silence for at least 30 of the 90 seconds that he has to describe the dish. All you could hear was crunch, crunch, um, um, um. I thought Lisa did well but Jenn was terrible as she kept saying that she doesn't usually eat this kind of food and couldn't tell the linguine noodle from a udon noodle. Adam stuffed so much food in his mouth he could talk without spitting out chunks of chewed food, nice! Kelsey kept saying this food looks amazing. How do you taste amazing? Shane wins this challenge as the one being the most calm when giving his critique. The next challenge was for Bon Appetite, taking a recipe that usually takes hours to make and reinvent it to make it accessible to the viewing audience. The chefs need to take that receipe from grocery bag to cooking within 45 minutes. Beef Wellington, Coq Au Vin, and Turducken. What in the world is turducken? Just the name alone sounds horrifying. It turns out that turducken is turkey stuffed with chicken stuffed with duck. One word, why? Unfortunately, Jen and Lisa get the turducken, with Kelsey and Shane on Beef Wellington, and Adam and Aaron with the Coq Au Vin. First up are the two A's, and Adam wants to cook bone in chicken breast which Aaron thinks will take too long to cook. I'm wondering why Aaron just doesn't pipe up and say that? Turns out the chicken wasn't cooking and Adam had to cook the boneless breast, thanks to Aaron. Their dishes were just sloppy with the pasta noodles falling over the bowl which lead to Judge Susie asking if that was done on purpose. Next up were Lisa and Jenn furiously cooking until Jenn takes a bottle of apple cider and tries to pry the cap off by banging it against the stove shattering the bottle all over the acorn squash. Lisa doesn't skip a beat and tells her to throw all the squash away. Good girl, no glass shards in the food please! They had to 86 the squash and the gravy which led to the judges declaring their dish very dry. Kelsy and Shane had the easiest dish to prepare, Beef Wellington which was pronounced the winner by Bon Appetite. In the end, Jenn had to be eliminated. She was just not your TV material and it seemed that every episode there was a major crisis for her. So it's back to her family, they need you in their kitchen.-Single D

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