I don't know about anyone else but I'm liking it. We all know I'm a Top Chef crack monkey but even I get tired of changes in the show that turns it away from the food. Do I care if Hosea and Leah play touchy feeley in some dark corner? No, I don't care and I really don't want to watch it. I want to see the chef's total concentration on the food. I don't want to see Real Top Chef World. Which is why this is such a breathe of fresh air. All the fun parts of Top Chef (UnMasters) with all the skill and ingenuity of well established chefs. New judges or should I say Critics. Round robin, show us your best or go home weekly competitions.
Week 1 features one of our faves here at the Kitchen, Hubert Keller. A judge from Season 1 and a chef who wanted to feel what it was like on the other end of the competition. I feel for our other three chefs, they may have watched Top Chef on TV but Keller definitely had the edge having been involved with the show since the beginning. The most important skill to bring to the competition?
Juggling eggs?
Don't think so. Juggling time, however is one of the most important skills you can bring to any version of Top Chef. You can lose track of those little red blinking lights and you'll end up with a Quickfire dish like this...
Perfectly fine but just not blowing away our diners.Or you can perfect your time management skills to produce this...
and earn yourself five valuable stars. Beautiful, tasty and appealing to that particular audience. Added bonus? The Quickfire results counts to your final score for the episode which can really help when chefs are so closely matched.
The Girl Scout Seal of Approval can't hurt either.
