This season of Top Chef Masters is just enough to tide me over until another Top Chef season. There's something about the fact that Masters competes for charity that takes away from the magic of the show. Watching the Top Chef contestants work their butts off to achieve their culinary dreams and to really jump-start their careers is just so much more interesting and compelling than watching already established chefs on Masters compete for a cause.
That being said, I adored last season of Top Chef Masters. It's actually what got me into the Top Chef franchise. The caliber of chefs competing was primo, with the likes of Susur Lee and Jonathan Waxman, two chefs I'm just in awe of. The difference this season may be because the first few episodes of Season Two were a ton of chefs competing for spots in the actual competition, while Bravo chose to just choose the chefs from the beginning for Season Three, which I feel has kinda toned down the quality since they kinda weeded out the weak chefs from the get-go. Right from the beginning of Season Three some of these chefs didn't seem up to the Top Chef task. Several of them didn't even finish the first Quick Fire! /fail.
It's only a few episodes in, and my "picks" have already been kicked off. My boyfriend and I always make "picks" during the first episode of each season of Top Chef for who we think will win or who we want to win. This season, I picked George and Suvir, who were kicked off one after the other! So while I no longer have people to root for, I still enjoy watching the show every week. Hugh is always entertaining and lovely, and Naomi is just a powerhouse.
Tonight's episode found the chefs competing in a 7-minute quickfire, and later they cooked for Maroon 5. They had to prep and cook in RVs, which caused them some problems. Not only was there a limited space to cook, but the chefs were forced to make food while the RVs were moving! I love Top Chef for the ridiculous cooking circumstances they put the chefs in, and seeing the ways they work around them to create amazing dishes is so interesting. I can barely cook in a fully equipped, unmoving kitchen, so I'm impressed when they cook five-star dishes in a challenging environment.
Each episode, there's always a dish that I'd love to try myself. This week I was really interested in the Vegan Enchilada made by Alex. He made it without cheese, which sounds very strange for an enchilada, but without cheese or a tortilla I found it to be the most unique dish on the table. Unfortunately, the dish put Alex in the bottom three, but I still applaud his effort.
Seeing Alex go home at the end of the episode was definitely sad, because he's made some interesting dishes and worked very hard. He was almost one of my picks, so I'm feeling like I'm losing everyone I care about on this season! I'm just happy Hugh is still around.
Until next week, that's a wrap on my first Top Chef Masters blog!
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