Top Chef Chicago – Wedding Wars

Okay, so last night was a great night for Top Chef, two former challenges were revisited for tonight, so let’s get started.

Quickfire:
First off, the chefs are told that from this point on, there is no more immunity. Yep! About time! Then they divide into two teams, and I can see problems already. Team One is Richard, Andrew, Anotina and Stephanie. Team Two is Dale, Spike, Lisa and Niki (trouble in the making). So the challenge is the relay race, the frist person has to segment five oranges, the second cap two artichokes, the third clean and filet a munk fish and the fourth make mayo. Starting with the decisions on who does watch we see big problems for dale’s team, the girls haven’t made mayo by hand since school! UGH! None of them seem to have any idea how to do any of the tasks except Dale.
So the challenge starts and it is Lisa vs Antonia on the oranges, and Lisa wins and build a hugh lead, then comes Spike and Andrew on the artichokes, well, Spike not only loses Lisa’s big lead but ties with Andrew, third is Dale and Richard fileting the munk fish and it’s a tie, then we get Stephanie and Niki on mayo, and since Stephanie does this all the time she is a quick winner.
Now, Dale gets a little upset at losing and hits the lockers, and yes it was a little over the top, but if you watched them they were all jumping and cheering and the aderaline was flowing so I can understand it. Now Antonia’s PI the dale had a temper tatrum and needed his diaper changed was just WRONG! I wanted to climb through the tv and smack her, I mean really, isn’t that a little childish, well…the pot just called the kettle black, duh!

Elimnation Challenge:
This is going to be a take off the resturnat wars, only this time it is Wedding Wars, the winning team picks the Bride and does a buffet for 125 people, and the losing team gets to cater to the groom. Let’s start with the Bride’s Team.
So the Bride’s team mets with her and she wants meat and potatoes, southern food, so they do alot of meat and then Andrew revisits his chicken from the neighborhood challenge, with about the same bad results. Stephanie bangs out a great looking cake, but one that doesn’t taste that bad, but the groom’s cake actually ends up tasting better. Bride’s team wins, because most of their food is better, and Richard actually wins the challenge but he opts to give the win to Stephaine because she did the cake.
Groom’s team, well he wants italian food, which is Nikki’s specality, and she starts out really in the lead and talking about what to do and how to do it and all that, but about the time everyone starts asking her how to do something or what she wants, she backs off and tells them she is not the leader, make a decision. I think if she would have stepped up and been the leader she shoudl have been we would have had a different result. In the end, it seems like they all decided to make Dale the gunt, and have him do all the work and yet no one wanted to let him take the credit for it, yeah it was all half-cocked and not the greatest, but he had too much to do, and when he mentions it, espically Spike pawning the zucchini grilling off on him, it comes to light that there was no leader to say this is too much stuff, and Dale just wanted to do what he could so he just banged out everything that everyone else just left on the side, and although it wasn’t that good, he did it all because he knew if wouldn’t get done if he didn’t do it.
In the end, the judges called Spike out for not doing his part (pawning off the veggis and spending three hours on the fish….even if it was good, it wasn’t that good), Dale for trying to do too much, he should had stepped up and said it was too much and atried to get everyone to listen (although we know that would never have happened because Lisa and Niki and Spike all seem to have something against Dale, maybe the fact that between him and Richard they seem to win almost all the challenges and quickfires) and then Nikki was called out for being the person that had the experience to be the team leader, should have been the team leader, but who flaked on it and refused to be a leader. In the end they send Nikki home. Thank you!

You know, the call in asked “who annoys you more Lisa, Dale or Spike? Well, for some reason people picked Dale, but personally Lisa and Spike annoy me more than Dale. I think Dale knows he is a good cook and sometimes he comes across a little cocky, reminds me a little of a mix of Stephen and Harold from season one. He doesn’t annoy me at all. He wants to win and he is invested in this, but at the same time i don’t see him being mean to annoy.
Lisa annoys me the most! She is cocky and yet at the same time she doesn’t have the skills to back up the cockiness. She is in the bottom all the time and never has a clue as to why she is in the bottom, and she never listens to the judges and always tries to spin whatever they are saying. She needs to pack her knives and go asap.
Spike, well I was over him a long time ago, but since Lisa has annoyed me more than him and I have though he is fine, this week showed me that hi needs to go just as bad as Lisa. I would love for next week to be a double elimnation, Spike and Lisa pack your knives and go!! He is alot like Lisa, he has a little better skills than she does, so he is doing a little better in the challenges than her, but he thinks his way is the only way and he voices it all the time!

Looking forward to next week, and hoepfully we can say goodbye to Lisa and/or Spike! I still think it is between Dale and Richard as to who wins this, they are both just good and they work well together, although sometimes Dale can let others bring him down, but I am lookign forward to watching more of them.