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Top Chef: DC - Episode 2 Recap

Posted on 06/24/2010 by Gina in Top Chef

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Top Chef: DC

 

by Michael J. Lamp


Assistant White House Chef Sam Katz is this week's guest judge on Top Chef: DC.  Very cool and all, but where art thou, Eric Ripert?

 

The Quickfire Challenge is a biparti-sandwich challenge. Thank you, Top Chef writers. Please do go pun crazy. This challenge also marks the first knife block appearance of the season. And that was quite the epic reveal.

 

The cheftestants choose partners based on the numbers on their knives. The twist is that the newly paired chefs must cook together while wearing a Siamese-style apron. Yes. It looks like that. And hilarity ensues when Alex and Tim entertain with some silly knife banter, if there is such a thing as silly knife banter.

 

Tracy admits to having a crush on Angelo, and proceeds to giggle like a schoolgirl about sharing an apron with him. I guess Tracy forgot she was on television.

 

After tasting the dishes, Steven & Jacqueline and Lynn & Tiffany are deemed the worst. Sorry gals - and guy. To the surprise of no one, the top two groups are Tracy & Angelo (mostly Angelo) and Ed and Kenny. Tracy and Angelo go on to win, prompting Angelo's head to fill the room and Kenny's head to fill with steam. There's also some major jealousy brewing amongst the larger group of contestants. I smell a food fight! Not really.

 

Last night's Elimination Challenge had the chefs cooking school lunches - on a school lunch budget. The teams of two are doubled to teams of four for this challenge. As the winner of the Quickfire, Angelo picks his teammates and opts for Kenny and Ed on his team. Hmm. Respect? Or sabotage? Oh the scandal!

 

Timeout for a tender moment, friends. The chefs are learning an important lesson about how hard it is for the public school system to feed the kiddies with little to no money. Somewhere, Jamie Oliver is smiling. Or crying, since Colicchio is really stepping on his toes with this one.

 

Tracy is tearing up while talking about her girlfriend's daughter. No need to scroll up; she definitely said she had a crush on Angelo earlier. Different times, people. Different times.

 

Angelo is having some peanut butter issues, and the other teams won't let him use their pastry guns. He chooses to do little to no troubleshooting. This dude is shady.

 

The kids come rolling in, followed by the judges. Lost of high-pitched noises. Ears. Bleeding.

 

After tasting all the dishes, Padma calls Angelo's team and Amanda's team to Judges' Table. These are clearly the bottom teams, which is very saucy. Tracy and Angelo can't go home, since they have immunity from the Quickfire. Jacqueline's banana pudding (with 2 lbs of sugar - seriously!) and Stephen's veggie rice get picked on almost immediately, followed by Amanda's boozy, Sherry chicken. Sherry? For the children?

 

Team Angelo & Kenny (and Ed and Tracy) gets attacked for a lack of nutritional content, but the conversation quickly turns to thoughts of sabotage, which causes Angelo to feign offense. We're hip to your game, buddy. Then, the cheftestants proceed to beat each other up for about five minutes. Fun stuff.

 

Lynn, Tiffany, Kelly and Arnold are announced as the top four. Arnold's corn and tomato salad, Kelly's carnitas tacos, Tiffany's veggie-infused ice cream and Lynn's bean cake with sweet potatoes all pleased the judges. In the end, Kelly's tacos take the prize. (Yikes.)

Too bad she was a sass ass to her teammates all episode long.

 

Amanda, Jacqueline, Kenny and Ed are declared the bottom of the barrel. While it seemed Ed was headed toward being the sacrificial lamb for Kenny and Angelo, Jacqueline (and her 2 lbs of sugar) are dunzo. Sorry, Jacqueline. Maybe I'll see you around Brooklyn!

 

 

Top Chef: DC airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.

 

(Image courtesy of Bravo)

 

 

Follow Michael at twitter.com/mjlamp

 

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