[Ron Burgundy]

I think the salad course sealed Marcel's fate much more than forgetting the fish. As Tom said in his blog, this is supposed to be the best meal you've ever made, and you made a boring salad? Then the isomalt gimmick was just totally wrong, even if had been able to do it. The goal of getting vinagrette onto a salad is to get it evenly distibuted. If all the vinagrette is hovering above the greens in a synthetic sugar bubble, what happens after you break it open? It's just going to make a puddle in the middle.

Marcel is so eager to use innovative techniques and do really impressive things, but he does them without thinking about how those techniques are going to create good food.