Maybe its just me but Richard did not look scared or nervous at all during this elimination compared to other eliminations. I think he knew his dish was good. I liked he said he didn't believe the lobster was undercooked, would have liked him to say it to the judges.

When Tom was explaining at the judges table, he said "a majority of us"....

For some reason I don't recall them ever using this kind of language, and in my mind this means the guest judge was trying to say Richards was the worst. This is all in my head btw with no real evidence haha.

I got bad vibes from the guest judge. I feel like she had to overcompensate for her some insecurity she was dealing with, maybe because she was on tv? But she would not back down at all. They kept cutting to her as she was insisting on describing every dish feverishly and being very adamant about her opinion despite Tom clearly disagreeing with her. Which is fine, but I got the vibe that I would hate to be around that woman.

weakest guest judge for a final 4 ever?

yeah how dumb can you be if you know the finals are in the Bahamas and don't practice cooking conch? unreal, i dont get it

Also, at this point in the game winning a quick-fire should give you a minor advantage in the main challenge like 5 extra mins or something

also, lol @ Tom thinking Blais made real pasta

amateur

Tom is always pompous, I am sick to death of him on the show. However she got it, Padma's still a celebrity will minimal contributions on the food critique. I know Gail is a food critic, it doesn't change her presence on the show.

I like Gail but the one thing that annoys the crap out of me is she always uses the word "incorporate" when describing a dish. It's fancy word syndrome and she's overplaying it.

So the "spoiler" photo I posted a couple weeks back was in fact a top-3 spoiler. Thanks, Tom and Padma. Hopefully they weren't dumb enough to do the typical 2,1,3 seating arrangement.

What did Tiffany expect putting a cold ceviche on top a warm soup on a windy beach...? She said she was outcooked, but I think she shot herself in the foot this time.

What's up with the card in next week's preview? I think Padma said, "You al remember this" while flashing it. Is it an immunity card?

It's early in the year, but it's going to be hard to find somebody with two worse consecutive opinions than what you've shown in this thread. The wolves that raised you have horrible taste.

Thoughts on the EP:

HATE HATE HATE giving them this type of challenge this late. I want to see how people cook, not having them jump through hoops.

Thought the editing on this one was exceptionally manipulative. While they made it somewhat obvious Tiff was going home (and thank god for that)- they basically played it way too coy with who was going to win. I don't like feeling like information was held back from me so that I couldn't guess the result- and it really felt like they didn't give us enough about Mike's dish to make me think he'd win.

Loved Antonia's response to Padma's stupid critique (like I mentioned about the last ep, I feel like they often have Padma be the negative voice just so there's something to say- which means she's left making these utterly nittastic, stupid remarks). Given the challenge, caring that the food wasn't pushing boundaries is really stupid.

While I like seeing the pretty ladies not wearing much- the big with Padma in the bikini felt sooooo pandering it was uncomfortable.

You ever have one with conch and snapper and curry and banana leaf?

The card in the preview is an invite to top chef masters, obv

What on earth?

I have to agree with Dids, hating on Tony and Tom in this thread probably won't get you much respect.

That's fine, I'm not looking for respect from someone who talks like that. Not sure he's capable of it.

The real wtf in the episode wasn't actually in the episode itself but in a commercial. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to give Marcel his own cooking show...........on the Syfy channel?????

Did anyone else notice the insane horse-faced woman of death amongst the dinner guests? Damn she was scary.

Wonder if Tiffany makes it if she serves her conch ceviche on a lettuce leaf on the side, and serves the chowder HOT.

Lastly, I wonder how many conchs the Top Chef producers seeded that part of the beach with. Surely they aren't so plentiful that a bunch of bumbling chefs with almost no swimming or diving skills at all could easily bag 10-12 each?

I have no idea how pervasive it is there, but if it's staple food- maybe there's tons.

While I'm busy knowing nothing about the area- anybody else find it weird that in an island I presume is mostly populated by poor dark folk we got a bunch of whites and near whites in white doing white people things. Just felt weird.

it is a yacht club....

No, but it sounds delicious! The way she said it she wasn't talking about all the ingredients coming together at once. She was saying that each individual flavor being paired with another specific flavor was unique. And then especially she leads off with two flavors that you can find combined in a Pizza Hut. Not to mention a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

I was thinking the same thing. It would have been funny if there was an undertow and all the shells got swept away and the chefs couldn't find any.

Yea the whole thing was very odd. I was half expecting clan members to come out.

they had poor darks on the last show. not weird at all to have a sailing club this time imo

they definitely seeded a bunch of conchs there ldo

Yes, this. I hate Marcel but am intrigued by that show. WTF indeed.

All the dinner guests were terrifying imo.

Re: the conch's I'm sure they seeded them out there. Of course, I know nothing about the area but I can't imagine they'd risk shooting that scene and for some reason there's no conch's out there. Looked like they were evenly scattered throughout the shallow water which just looks seeded to me.

Slightly weird but less so since the previous episode was dedicated to the native black people as judges. Also, this week's quickfire was mostly black people in the dining room. So, it's not completely one-side. The white clothes was pretty ridiculous though. The judge's table looked like the Last Supper.

Edit: Oh yea. LOL at Richard not being able to get deep enough to pick up that conch when it was like 8 feet deep. None of them seemed to be able to understand the simple principle to blow some air out of your lungs so you can sink. It looked like they were all fighting to get underwater with lungs completely full.

Did they ever address who serves first and who serves last in these types of challenges? Like, is it a draw or do they decide on their own what order to serve? Is the extra time insignificant in these types of challenges?

This Weeks Sign That Apocalypse Is Upon Us: "incorporate" is considered a fancy word

Anyone notice the camera man side step & change angles when half of Antonia's underwear ( + tag ) were hanging out of her pants during the quickfire?

The final challenge should be everyone else cooks while Blais completes a 800m swimming medley. Dude cannot swim

Two quick things:

1. I admit it--I have been manipulated into being intrigued about next week's episode. There appear to be some dramatic twists and turns and it should be really super duper etc etc ad infinitum.

2. The Padma-bikini segment was definitely over the top. Strangely, it would not have been, had she not been wearing those inane high heels. Then she just would have been some scorching hot piece of ass getting off a boat in a bikini in the Bahamas.