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I'm not quite sure why I keep watching this show. It keeps making me cranky. To go from Top Chef to this is...annoying. Partly because there's been so much emphasis on the contestants making these spur-of-the-moment deadline dishes week after week, and I'm not stupid enough to think that Rachael Ray pulls a 30-Minute Meal out of her ass at the last second. Or Bobby Flay simply grabs a hunk of meat and runs full speed towards the grill, snagging handfuls of random herbs along the way.
People on the Food Network PLAN. And have people. And minions in the network kitchen test things out first. And then everything is pretty well scripted.
I get testing people for true culinary skills, and the ability to think on the fly so they're not wasting the crew's time while they're filming, but I keep thinking the challenges are completely out of whack for what these people are competing for.
That being said, one thing the challenge did do was weed out a person this week. Although that happened way before they even had to serve their nutso Iron Chef food. A food host that can't touch fish without having a meltdown? Erm... Doesn't Indian cuisine use fish at all? (I'm sort of a bit clueless on this, really. I'm just not all that familiar with Indian food.)
But even if fish isn't all that common in that cuisine, if Nipa had been paying attention to the Food Network at all, she'd know that they like their personalities to multi-task. They're looking for people they can put in multiple shows, rolling them to something else when one show has run its course. EVENTUALLY THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN FISH. And icking out in front of one of the judges? O_O
And I've never filleted a fish before in my life, but I know I could have done a better job than she did. Just cut it along the bones! GAH! I was with Michael - I was a bit irked she wasted a perfectly good fish after cutting something the size of a quarter out of it.
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principia_coh was right - she lacked any sort of technical skills, and we really saw that last night.
People on the Food Network PLAN. And have people. And minions in the network kitchen test things out first. And then everything is pretty well scripted.
I get testing people for true culinary skills, and the ability to think on the fly so they're not wasting the crew's time while they're filming, but I keep thinking the challenges are completely out of whack for what these people are competing for.
That being said, one thing the challenge did do was weed out a person this week. Although that happened way before they even had to serve their nutso Iron Chef food. A food host that can't touch fish without having a meltdown? Erm... Doesn't Indian cuisine use fish at all? (I'm sort of a bit clueless on this, really. I'm just not all that familiar with Indian food.)
But even if fish isn't all that common in that cuisine, if Nipa had been paying attention to the Food Network at all, she'd know that they like their personalities to multi-task. They're looking for people they can put in multiple shows, rolling them to something else when one show has run its course. EVENTUALLY THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN FISH. And icking out in front of one of the judges? O_O
And I've never filleted a fish before in my life, but I know I could have done a better job than she did. Just cut it along the bones! GAH! I was with Michael - I was a bit irked she wasted a perfectly good fish after cutting something the size of a quarter out of it.
principia_coh was right - she lacked any sort of technical skills, and we really saw that last night.