Spoilers
Wow . . . I read your spoiler links before watching the episode. I’m so bummed I’m considering not watching. I was really hoping this chef would win this season 
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Usually I’ve rewatched five times by now. I can’t even watch re-runs. I watched Murder She Wrote.
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My other favorite is still in so now I hope that chef wins it all!
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Bah. Humbug.
I hope to get over it by next week.
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Sorry…I couldn’t even put together a sentence.
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I guess I’m in the minority here but, though I like Gregory he’s not my favorite. My two are still there.
Maybe, but mostly me going on and on here, because my family is tired of hearing about it.
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Thanks for posting this. In all the years I’ve watched Top Chef I’ve never voted for Fan Favorite - but I will now.
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Thanks, Shrinkrap - I’d forgotten he mentioned a back spasm. Really too bad to go out that way!
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Side eyes! That Instagram post is old news here on HO!
Padma says Chef Lorenzo and Pelagrino in project Infusion to help spurn…? Oaky, I’m still bitter.
Yes, I watched it, and then I watched it again…spurn might have been the Xfinity closed captioning. .
Wow. But that was a great episode!!! I am sad. Next week I’ll be inconsolable.
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Turns out it’s more interesting to me when I have “no horse in the game”.
Spoilers and recaps
Bryan looked like someone punched him in the gut when they called his dish soulless.
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Did I understand correctly that they were told to never cook prosciutto, but Stephanie was successful cooking prosciutto in her sauce?
Yes. In the recap;
“Stephanie is a little nervous because she’s cooking the prosciutto into a ragu despite being warned against it during the chefs’ tour of Ruliano.”
And she also had a well received fonduta, while Bryan’s was not, to put it mildly.
"Incredible. How did Family Bry stay in the competition this week? I’m just grateful that the cameras were there to capture the exact moment when Padma told him that the Italians said he was soulless, heartless, and without passion for aerating their 36-month-old parmesan. "
I’m going to have to look up fonduta.
From Uproxx
“Besides the fettucini with prosciutto ragu, she made a braised cabbage layered with prosciutto and cheese that one of the Italian judges compared to lasagna. That looked good as hell. Granted it took me 13 weeks to believe that Stephanie could actually beat Bryan Voltaggio but I’m there now.”
And Uproxx about Melissa:
“With such a dominant performance, does it even matter if she loses in the finale? Readers, I submit to you that it does not.”
Also, does anybody know what would be good about cooking something in a bladder?
“Aw, man, I forgot how much I missed these kinds of kinds of hyperbolic introductions. “Oh my God, it’s Sebastian St. George! He’s like the Simón Bolivar of fast-casual French sandwiching.””…Heehee.
I thought it was funny that they liked Melissa’s and Stephanie’s dishes with cooked prosciutto over Michael’s and Kevin’s dishes with it raw. They said NEVER cook it then complained that the guys didn’t really do anything with it by leaving it raw 
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The look on his face was epic. He was crushed. But, you know, they were right. His food is kind of mechanical.
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