Top Chef - Wisconsin

[Biff Tannen 45687]

Weird to type that out, but here we are.  Two Austinites in the cast.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/dining/2024/02/07/top-chef-wisconsin-milwaukee-chef-dan-jacobs-airs-in-march/72503043007/

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Here is the full cast list for Season 21 of "Top Chef":

Kaleena Bliss - Chicago, IL

Kevin D’Andrea - Austin, TX

Alisha Elenz - Chicago, IL

Danny Garcia - New York, NY

Valentine Howell Jr. - Boston, MA

Dan Jacobs - Milwaukee, WI

Manny Barella Lopez - Denver, CO

Savannah Miller - Durham, NC

David Murphy - San Francisco, CA

Kenny Nguyen - Athens, GA

Laura Ozyilmaz - San Francisco, CA

Charly Pierre - New Orleans, LA

Amanda Turner - Austin, TX

Rasika Venkatesa - San Francisco, CA

Michelle Wallace - Houston, TX

 

[TonyTexas 10514]

I’m going to miss Padma. 

[WBT 20572]

That's gonna be a lot of brats and cheese curds

[Radical Larry 28621]

Someone better use some Old Style in one of their dishes.

[Herpa Derpa 6126]

https://people.com/top-chef-season-21-wisconsin-trailer-kristen-kish-new-host-meet-cheftestants-exclusive-8559844

Article with contestant pics and bios.

No more immunity from a Quickfire.

Edited February 15 by Herpa Derpa
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[ztejas 43452]

Labatts and Culver's for everyone!

[Herpa Derpa 6126]

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David Murphy

The Texas native

Edited February 15 by Herpa Derpa

[Skipper 6135]

Wisconsin?  WTF.  Hopefully not as bad as the international show last year we ditched after a few episodes.

[Deej 76795]

6 minutes ago, Skipper said:

Wisconsin?  WTF.  Hopefully not as bad as the international show last year we ditched after a few episodes.

There's a really good chance it will be. 

[DixonHur 11305]

On 2/7/2024 at 8:25 PM, TonyTexas said:

I’m going to miss Padma. 

It's definitely going to be different, not sure Kristen Kish can pull off snarky quite like Padma, but I think she'll be good.

That said, as a straight male, I'm going to miss lusting after Padma.

[Herpa Derpa 6126]

6 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

It's definitely going to be different, not sure Kristen Kish can pull off snarky quite like Padma, but I think she'll be good.

That said, as a straight male, I'm going to miss lusting after Padma.

As long as I still have Gail's comfort pillows I shall endure.

[Texzilla58 4736]

It's definitely going to be different, not sure Kristen Kish can pull off snarky quite like Padma, but I think she'll be good.
That said, as a straight male, I'm going to miss lusting after Padma.

I believe Kish is Tom’s heir apparent when he leaves, and they bring in another to be the host.

Glad immunity is gone. Here’s your truckload of Mountain Dew and PopTarts for winning the quickfire.

[Biff Tannen 45687]

One week heads up.

 

When: Season 21 premieres March 20 at 8 p.m. on Bravo, available the next day on Peacock.

Added value: This season's episodes will be supersized at 75 minutes. There are two digital companion series, too: "The Dish With Kish" and "Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen" will air on bravotv.com.

[shadow_operative2.0 15984]

Odd they switched to Wednesday after all these years. 

[shadow_operative2.0 15984]

Pretty good first episode.

Would rather see a scarred arm than a tatted one, but that ship has sailed.

Spoiler

Drive home fucking safely, hat bro. 

[Texzilla588 769]

The show seems revitalized without Padma’s boredom with the whole thing. I like Kish and think her being a chef, a winner in the show, brings a great foil to Tom and a great perspective.

I think I like the new rules; we’ll see as the show progresses. I liked the initial challenge as a great test and they got rid of the right guy. And they held the line on the dude that failed to finish his dish. Padma would often advocate for folks that didn’t finish if she liked the dish or chef.

[Nicole44 22060]

I like the addition of Kish. Her style is so pleasant. I’m not big on change so I miss Padma but I do like Kish a lot. I won’t like the show if Tom leaves however. Also, I love Gail but that overall looking onesie thing she had on at the beginning not good look. I love the new rules. I really like Michelle the BBQ pit master contestant. Excited about this season. It’s not going to be stale. 
 

Am I the only one who likes the weird Matrix type music right before the Judges Table elimination? I just dig it. It’s my theme music under pressure while cooking stuff at home. 

[Deej 76795]

1 hour ago, Nicole44 said:

It’s my theme music under pressure while cooking stuff at home dumping bodies in the lake. 

 

Edited March 21 by Deej

[closetohumping 17442]

This to me is still the benchmark cooking competition show

 

I think Kirsten is a suitable replacement but believe Parma was the heart of the would. Maybe they should’ve acknowledged her?

 

Hunter s Thompson looking guy sucks 

[Texzilla588 769]

Padma had turned into a beating. She was bored with it for years except for playing her favorites. The show had an energy with Kish it hasn’t had in a long time.

[The Ace of Aces 5184]

Kristin will be great - it needed a shakeup and she can let Tom be more surly. 

I wanted to punch that David dude in the face. Anytime he was on screen my BP rose. Good riddance. 

[Biff Tannen 45687]

I think everyone reacts to the pressure and being on the clock differently. Everyone thinks they know how it’s going to be, but you can’t prepare for actually being in it. Even great chefs don’t always thrive in those conditions. I honestly feel bad for every person that goes out at any point in this competition. It’s the hardest thing most of them will do in their careers. 
 

I think David knew he wasn’t handling it well and his anxiety about it really got to him.  I also think you can adapt once you get a couple of challenges deep, but someone has to go out first. 

[closetohumping 17442]

2 hours ago, The Ace of Aces said:

Kristin will be great - it needed a shakeup and she can let Tom be more surly. 

I wanted to punch that David dude in the face. Anytime he was on screen my BP rose. Good riddance. 

Worst contestant ever.  Made excuses left and right. Didn’t know what he was cooking.  Fucked up his first dish bad

[The Ace of Aces 5184]

5 hours ago, closetohumping said:

Worst contestant ever.  Made excuses left and right. Didn’t know what he was cooking.  Fucked up his first dish bad

Go look at his restaurant menu and it’ll make “sense.”

[Deej 76795]

Kristin has some seriously shitty tattoos on her arms, but chefs seem to have a knack for shitty tattoos. 

[Texzilla588 769]

Kristin will be great - it needed a shakeup and she can let Tom be more surly. 
I wanted to punch that David dude in the face. Anytime he was on screen my BP rose. Good riddance. 

He got on the show because some producer read about him being a “food waste” chef. I’m all for reducing the amount of good food being thrown away by restaurants and grocers but I’m not going to pay $50 a plate for that dickhead to make me a slimy salad and nearly turned rotten meat.

[Herpa Derpa 6126]

11 hours ago, Texzilla588 said:

He got on the show because some producer read about him being a “food waste” chef.

He certainly was a waste of a chef.

[DixonHur 11305]

I'm only about 18 minutes into the first episode but couldn't wait to read everyone's thoughts on David.  

Bonus is that now I can watch the rest of the episode knowing he gets shit canned first.

[shadow_operative2.0 15984]

Well, that was quite gimmicky. No one gives a shit what you can make with Corn Nuts.

Cave was pretty cool though. 

On to the next. 

[TonyTexas 10514]

David either bailed or was sent home after his elimination. He wasn’t involved in the first LCK. They brought in a new guy to go against Valentine. 

Edited March 28 by TonyTexas

[kevwun 15789]

He was a smartass to the Judges on camera, I could see him being a bigger pain in the ass behind the scenes.

[usmc0331horn 953]

6 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Well, that was quite gimmicky. No one gives a shit what you can make with Corn Nuts.

Cave was pretty cool though. 

On to the next. 

They always do some stupid shit like this. Elevated bar snacks is super lame.

[Texzilla588 769]

They really stretched the hype on Miller, the champagne of bottle beer. But you take your sponsor money where you can.

At the dinner they were drinking it out of old timey champagne glasses. Those aren’t right for beer or for champagne.

If you watch closely it appears the levels of the Miller bottles remains the same thru all those courses and dishes. Only the comedian and Joe Flamm were drinking it. It always tasted soapy to me. In high school girls loved those Miller ponies. They usually puked before they got drunk enough to fool around.

[MagicSoccerSpray 1732]

On 2/15/2024 at 12:08 PM, Herpa Derpa said:

 

Jeans aren't skinny enough

[Biff Tannen 45687]

1 hour ago, Texzilla588 said:

At the dinner they were drinking it out of old timey champagne glasses. Those aren’t right for beer or for champagne.

[DixonHur 11305]

On 3/28/2024 at 1:13 PM, Texzilla588 said:

They really stretched the hype on Miller, the champagne of bottle beer. But you take your sponsor money where you can.

At the dinner they were drinking it out of old timey champagne glasses. Those aren’t right for beer or for champagne.

If you watch closely it appears the levels of the Miller bottles remains the same thru all those courses and dishes. Only the comedian and Joe Flamm were drinking it. It always tasted soapy to me. In high school girls loved those Miller ponies. They usually puked before they got drunk enough to fool around.

I used to drink the High Life back in grad school because it was all I could afford. 

It's basically becoming my wealth barometer...if I ever have drink another it means my life has taken a horrific turn for the worse.

[closetohumping 17442]

8 hours ago, DixonHur said:

I used to drink the High Life back in grad school because it was all I could afford. 

It's basically becoming my wealth barometer...if I ever have drink another it means my life has taken a horrific turn for the worse.

Hole in the wall used to have them for 1.50

[Texzilla588 769]

I used to drink the High Life back in grad school because it was all I could afford. 
It's basically becoming my wealth barometer...if I ever have drink another it means my life has taken a horrific turn for the worse.

I understand drinking cheap, but there was always better options back in college.m than a fucking miller. Old Milwaukee was actually good, or you could get Jax or Falstaff, which were putrid but .99 a six pack. My old man splurged on Heileman Old Style which was $1.99 a sixer. It was like a hops soup, blechh.

[DixonHur 11305]

7 hours ago, Texzilla588 said:

I understand drinking cheap, but there was always better options back in college.m than a fucking miller. Old Milwaukee was actually good, or you could get Jax or Falstaff, which were putrid but .99 a six pack. My old man splurged on Heileman Old Style which was $1.99 a sixer. It was like a hops soup, blechh.

Yep, in retrospect, Old Milwaukee would have been a better choice.

[Biff Tannen 45687]

1 hour ago, DixonHur said:

Yep, in retrospect, Old Milwaukee would have been a better choice.

Feels like that picture might not be of actual swedish bikini models.  Top right could be the OU cheerleader.

[Hook1997 5354]

I was really expecting David to be really terrible by reading the comments but he was not even close being in the top ten of dickheads to ever be on the show.  I mean he wasn’t great but y'all must have just hated the cowboy hipster look.  

[Biff Tannen 45687]

Good episode I thought.  I think the wrong person went home. Have to think they didn’t have any type of refrigeration on a cheese challenge on purpose to make it harder.
 

Gail is sadly looking older. Dammit. 

[shadow_operative2.0 15984]

Cannot stand Carla.

Cheese curds dude is real damn lucky.

Now I gotta make a quesadilla. 

[Texzilla588 769]

Good episode I thought.  I think the wrong person went home. Have to think they didn’t have any type of refrigeration on a cheese challenge on purpose to make it harder.
 
Gail is sadly looking older. Dammit. 

Another instance of shitty judging and the influence by Tom. Based on that single dish it should have been cheese curds dude. Shitty dish and indifferent use of the ingredient. He has no game outside of Mexican food and simply chose not to play. But Tom likes and they let his previous dishes influence them, again.

Gail isn’t having to compete with Padma now.

[kevwun 15789]

Crab salad dude violated one of the main rules of Italian cuisine, never combine cheese and seafood.  Tom was probably offended to his core.

Edited April 4 by kevwun

[Texzilla588 769]

Blue cheese and crab offended me. It was obvious many of these chefs don’t have a clue about cooking with cheese.

[Deej 76795]

8 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Cannot stand Carla.

Same

[Pig Bellmont 8719]

2 hours ago, kevwun said:

Crab salad dude violated one of the main rules of Italian cuisine, never combine cheese and seafood.  Tom was probably offended to his core.

Plus it was soggy and no one could taste the cheese. 

[TonyTexas 10514]

Top Chef is the one show that I seldom question the judges opinion. It’s pretty much impossible to validly judge a dish without tasting it. The exception being the rare challenge where taste isn’t the goal like plating and presentation challenges. 

Edited April 4 by TonyTexas

[closetohumping 17442]

Man I’m beginning to think that they’re out of good locations or they need more pick better locations.  Beer and cheese themed dishes are lame.  
 

 

also who is the b that didn’t clean up her mess?