pairs cooking, anyone?

It’s all about food pairings on Top Chef this week.

Charlie Palmer greeted the chefs for their Quick Fire Challenge and he revealed that he has worked with the brothers, Bryan and Michael V., before. Hmm, I wonder if that intimidates the other chefs! Their challenge required them to pair a snack item with a dish and this definitely got the chefs nervous.

Jennifer seems to be losing composure slowly. This is particularly bad because she is clearly the best female chef in the kitchen. Robin, Ash, and Jennifer were in the bottom this week for the Quick Fire and that’s only surprising because of Jennifer. She is so good normally! On a better note, Kevin, Bryan, and Eli landed on top with Eli taking the win.

The Elimination Challenge had the chefs pulling knives to determine what part of a pig they would be cooking with! Then, they had to pair the pork with Pinot Noir. They had to prepare 150 tasting portions of their dish! To help prepare for their pairing, the chefs got to taste 9 different Pinots and chose one of them as the inspiration for their dish.

Okay, while I think that some of the chefs could be a bit more civil with Robin, I do agree that she is annoying as heck! She just needs to learn to stop talking sometimes. Stop using your “life experiences” and age as an excuse and influence for your cooking. Just cook and shut up!

Finally, Jennifer made her way back to the top as she was called out for a favorite dish a long with Kevin, Michael V., and Bryan. It really seems like it’s going to be down to these four chefs in the end because they are constantly the best chefs in the elimination challenges. Can we please just fast-forward to them being in the top?? Please? Anyway, Kevin’s Pork Leg dish caused him to win his 3rd elimination challenge and the chance to be a guest chef at the 2010 Pigs & Pinot event for Charlie Palmer.

The bottom chefs this week were Ash, Laurine, and Robin. I hope this is Robin’s week to go home because she is just not a chef! Yes, maybe she can cook but that doesn’t make her a chef by any means. She’s surprisingly quiet at judge’s panel and maybe she should take a note of this. Ash’s surprise at being in the bottom is stupid. He constantly second guesses himself and is in constant awe of the other chefs. He just needs to go home, too. And Laurine was really dumb to make what she did. Again, can we please just fast forward to the Top 4??

Ugh, Robin escaped another week and Ash was sent home. This is certainly going to piss off the other chefs like none other!