It's an amazing thing, this Top Chef All Stars. Isn't this what we all wanted to see? Some of our most favorite characters back competing against one another? This first episode really had to set the tone, to plant the flag and claim, We're sorry, fans, Top Chef DC was an utter failure and we will do everything in our power not to lose you even if it means running this first episode eight hours in a row. But how to do that? First you have to get the chefs everyone wants to see. Tre, Tiffani, Asshat. Convince them to come back. Tell them they're an All Star. Build them up. Because here's the meat of the matter. No matter what their bios say, no matter what they've done since, no matter how many fans (outsiders) tell them
they should have won, they all lost in their seasons of Top Chef and they all want redemption. For one chef, that will happen. For the seventeen other chefs, each will give themselves back up to their Top Chef masters to dance to the tune they call. Eventually each of those seventeen will be making that darkened exit through the double doors into the apartments (most likely different floor) of shame. Is another taste of fame and fortune worth it?
Rooming in close quarters with people you may not get along with? Sleeping on a bunk bed? In rooms with large windows and no way to shut out the light when you're trying to sleep?
Sleep you desperately need so you can face a thirty minute Quickfire with some semblance of ingenuity and finesse and face a kitchen full of moving, cutting, hustling chefs, if only to avoid the sharp instruments in their hands.
Will you remember all the things that made you successful during your season? Will you forget the Basic Rules of Top Chef Cuisine?
Taste your food. Not just once, but all along the cooking process.
Be prepared for anything because you never know when your fish will fall on the floor or when Padma might come walking into the kitchen to announce a Twist.
Know the difference between confidence and arrogance and when the situation calls for each. These Judges don't care what great things you think you've done outside the closed confines of Top Chef, they only care about one thing and one thing only, the dish you've just laid down in front of them.
Know and follow the rules.
Because for a chance at winning $200,000 any one of seventeen other chefs (except maybe Carla) will rat your out in a New York Minute.
And while this last one isn't really a rule but more of an observation, being angry and pissy at the judges when you're one of the bottom three generally does not work out too well in your favor. However the other seventeen chefs
do thank you
It's an amazing thing, this Top Chef All Stars. Isn't this what we all wanted to see? Some of our most favorite characters back competing against one another? This first episode really had to set the tone, to plant the flag and claim, We're sorry, fans, Top Chef DC was an utter failure and we will do everything in our power not to lose you even if it means running this first episode eight hours in a row. But how to do that? First you have to get the chefs everyone wants to see. Tre, Tiffani, Asshat. Convince them to come back. Tell them they're an All Star. Build them up. Because here's the meat of the matter. No matter what their bios say, no matter what they've done since, no matter how many fans (outsiders) tell them they should have won, they all lost in their seasons of Top Chef and they all want redemption. For one chef, that will happen. For the seventeen other chefs, each will give themselves back up to their Top Chef masters to dance to the tune they call. Eventually each of those seventeen will be making that darkened exit through the double doors into the apartments (most likely different floor) of shame. Is another taste of fame and fortune worth it?
Rooming in close quarters with people you may not get along with? Sleeping on a bunk bed? In rooms with large windows and no way to shut out the light when you're trying to sleep?
Sleep you desperately need so you can face a thirty minute Quickfire with some semblance of ingenuity and finesse and face a kitchen full of moving, cutting, hustling chefs, if only to avoid the sharp instruments in their hands.
Will you remember all the things that made you successful during your season? Will you forget the Basic Rules of Top Chef Cuisine?
Taste your food. Not just once, but all along the cooking process.
Be prepared for anything because you never know when your fish will fall on the floor or when Padma might come walking into the kitchen to announce a Twist.
Know the difference between confidence and arrogance and when the situation calls for each. These Judges don't care what great things you think you've done outside the closed confines of Top Chef, they only care about one thing and one thing only, the dish you've just laid down in front of them.
Know and follow the rules.
Because for a chance at winning $200,000 any one of seventeen other chefs (except maybe Carla) will rat your out in a New York Minute.
And while this last one isn't really a rule but more of an observation, being angry and pissy at the judges when you're one of the bottom three generally does not work out too well in your favor. However the other seventeen chefs do thank you
