Yeah that was confusing. In fact the last two weeks have been confusing.
From the NYT: The Restaurant World Can Be Heated. ‘Top Chef’ Is Lowering the Temperature.
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Not usually
Oops! That was supposed to say did you watch “Last Chance Kitchen”! I will assume the answer is the same.
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Just catching up so this is late but: gross. Just gross an not really an acceptable addition to any conversation.
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Fat shaming’s hilarious in a food forum, innit?
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Spoilers!.. And a paywall towards the end.
LCK season finale. Winner comes back next week.
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Yeah, that was gross. Saw it a few weeks ago and was pretty amazed that someone on this site would be so unkind and so flippant. Also she looks great.
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Just started reading Kristen’s memoir, Accidentally on Purpose. Interesting.
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I’m looking for a recipe for that dish that won LCK finale. 
Only 5 episodes! ETA I’m not talking about the one in the You Tube picture of a few days ago.
Spoilers!
Well, let’s hope the winner this weekdoesn’t get as amazing of a prize as last week’s by picking last on the elimination challenge. 
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A certain person should feel immensely lucky. I can’t believe someone went as route one as Eton Mess for desert. I mean, that’s Come Dine With Me level thinking. I kept hoping there’d be innovation, but no: just the thing done badly.
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Dislike mayonnaise a lot so this episode wasn’t my favorite. Still trying to get into this season. I think I’m not a southern food fan.
The result on this episode seemed producer-driven again (as previously with sending Sieger home vs the twin with the congealed cheese everyone hated).
They couldn’t even get a word out of Kristen to justify it, after the face-covering drama of “indecision”.
I mean, how does Oscar go home after winning the first part, for which course the comments for Rhoda were “too salty” and “interesting”. And on the second course, his main error was adding rice, and badly cooking the rice, and the sancocho not being great, but Rhoda had a completely crappy and severely lacking dessert after 4 hours – bad meringue, lemon pith was a failure, and there really wasn’t a redeeming element on that plate that anyone could point to. She could have added anything else to that dish as a crunchy element or to improve it overall, using whatever was left in the kitchen. Bake something. Fry something. Kristen (and someone else too, maybe Gail or Shuai?) actually said – what did she DO for FOUR hours?
So how does she stay vs Oscar just based on the food, and not a showrunner decision on storyline of LCK kitchen needing to continue?
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All my thoughts. Except I thought the choice of dessert alone was cause for Roda to go home (as I suggested above)
I had to re-watch the judges table to understand what Tom was communicating to Kristen (“where are you?”), which I thought he said in a bit of an overbearing manner.
I felt like the main dish was judged independently, and I felt like the fact that Rhoda got the last pick might have been considered. Also, did the four hours include her appetizer?
No, just for dessert – the order of the dish determined how much time the person had to prepare it.
Not getting to pick was part of the LCK return deal, so I don’t see it as a disadvantage.
The other thing that was really dumb was that the only advantage Duyen got for winning last time was that she got to pick the first course, but then she got last pick for the main course, which made zero sense – she could have gotten first pick again, and the rest of them could have gone in reverse order.
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