You're Either In or You're Out

I like this show. I like this show for a lot of reasons. One is the challenges. I don't know much about the world of pastry chefs but now I know there's a thing called modeling chocolate, that there's a chocolate convention every year and that making edible couture is old hat to some of these chefs.

I don't think this challenge is out of line for this show. Making edible dresses does seem a bit silly, erotic almost bordering on cannibalistic but for a Bravo reality show it's pretty tame. It's also a good skills and knowledge challenge. Obviously chocolate work is what they are looking for and your skills at petit fours.
The last reason I really like this show is how at ease Gail Simmons is at her role as hostess. When they rolled this table of shoes out...

...and Team Diva went crazy...

...it wasn't just because they love shoes but because they ask Gail to model what shoes she's wearing every morning.

She obviously plays along and why not. She's having fun and it shows.

So it's a tough challenge and not much time to make mistakes. I would have thought the ladies of the group would have had a much stronger showing but none of them really impressed with their offerings. Zac and Yigit performed exactly as expected and poor Eric I think was lucky to have something on his dress form. The biggest surprise was Morgan, apparently a woman's shoe freak from way back.

He's done early enough to stand around and fantasize about whatever woman he can get in and out of his dress. Still it's a beautiful simple piece and I love the way the chocolate discs look like actual large sequins.

However my personal favorite was Yigit's white chocolate dress. I loved that he used white with splashes of color to continue the color from the shoes he chose.

Morgan wins the challenge and $20,000. As beautiful as Yigit and Morgan's dresses were, Heather, Eric and Danielle's dresses were a disaster.


Eric's I understand. Just not his challenge and he's lucky the other two standing up there with him were just so off the mark. Yes, in theory, you can eat Heather and Morgan's dresses, ideally if you were a goat but this is still a pastry contest. Danielle's dress from a distance looks like a bad version of the meat dress Lady Gaga wore not long ago. Except Danielle's added a what looks like a tube of intestines as a necklace.

Yet as bad as that was, poor Heather is auffed yet again only to re-enter the condo of shame and Zac is left to brood at being beat in the edible couture challenge by a straight guy from Texas. Oh the shame...