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#11
05-22-2007, 05:55 PM
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Re: bobby flay\'s throwdown
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I like seeing people lose when what they suggest to be the "best xxx ever" ends up being nasty. Flay won some mac and cheese battle vs. some lady who just had some horrible looking, technically flaw mac and cheese. I was happy. [/ QUOTE ] What the heck does "technically flawed" mac and cheese mean? FWIW, it looks like he got a lot of his ideas from here anyway. He used a billion cheeses after being introduced to her idea of doing so. Teaching your opponent to beat you makes it less legit a win. I didn't see how hers looked horrible, either? Flay is a very well rounded and trained chef. He SHOULD win these. He also feels free to use expensive, exotic ingredients and probably processes that his competitors may never have even heard of. These should be slam dunks for him. That's why I usually want to see him lose, unless he's truly creative or does something exceptional. The mac and cheese one is definitely one of the ones I wanted him to lose. 
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#12
05-22-2007, 05:59 PM
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Re: bobby flay\'s throwdown
Blarg,
She just melted an assload of cheese over the noodles. No white sauce, no baking, no liquids, just a butload of uninteresting cheeses. To me, that's a good way to make some horrible ass M&C. Given that, and that there were no other agents that you'll typically find in a nice, restaurant quality M&C (pork for instance) it just seem so damn pedestrian to be trumpted as "BEST EVAR" Using a billion cheeses is hardly a novel concept. Almost anything you order in an upscale joint is going to have 4.
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#15
05-22-2007, 06:54 PM
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Re: bobby flay\'s throwdown
I see him every year at Monmouth Park and Saratoga. He owns some thoroughbreds. He seems like kind of a cocky-dick, but have heard nothing but positive things about him from people in the thoroughbred industry.
fyc
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#16
05-22-2007, 07:01 PM
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Re: bobby flay\'s throwdown
I met him at the Kentucky Derby. He was literally just walking around in the box area near the finish line by himself. I just kind of turned around, and there he was---I say "Bobby Flay!", and stuck out his hand for me to shake. Introduced myself, he said nice to meet you, looking for someone, blah blah. Nice enough to say hi to a drunk guy, and had on a sweet blue pinstriped suit, seems ok to me.
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#17
05-22-2007, 07:31 PM
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Re: bobby flay\'s throwdown
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Blarg, She just melted an assload of cheese over the noodles. No white sauce, no baking, no liquids, just a butload of uninteresting cheeses. To me, that's a good way to make some horrible ass M&C. Given that, and that there were no other agents that you'll typically find in a nice, restaurant quality M&C (pork for instance) it just seem so damn pedestrian to be trumpted as "BEST EVAR" Using a billion cheeses is hardly a novel concept. Almost anything you order in an upscale joint is going to have 4. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, but she had 7 or 11 or whatever. More importantly, the choice matters. And apparently her choices, along with whatever else she did, had been well proven to work. So it's not fair to discredit her on what is actually a big success. The no white sauce I can see being somewhat unusual. However, I don't think a mac and cheese needs 4 cheeses or more necessarily, and DEFINITELY don't think you need pork!!! in it to make it worth eating. I think I'd be disappointed with pork in it. I'd rather have mine on the side.
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#18
05-22-2007, 10:00 PM
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Re: bobby flay\'s throwdown
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A puffy taco sounds like a fat chick's nether-region. [/ QUOTE ] QFT
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#19
05-22-2007, 10:17 PM
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Re: bobby flay\'s throwdown
I've watched a bunch of these and I'm convinced that if Bobby just had like 2 weeks to a month to practice, he'd be better than these guys.
The funniest one ever was the one with doughnut-maker guy. Dude was such a pu**y. He's like the best doughnut maker in the world and his boy had to talk him into doing the challenge. The dude didn't even wan't to do it. And, even after he agreed, he wouldn't make them live, he only used ones he already had made earlier. Imagine walking up to Michael Jordan and challenging him to a game of hoops and have him thinking about whether he wanted to play or not? I think this show is one of the better ones on the Food Network. (which I guess isn't saying all that much now that I think about it)
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#20
05-22-2007, 10:45 PM
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Re: bobby flay\'s throwdown
Blarg,
I think 4 of her 11 were various cheddars as well. I don't really prefer pork in my mac and cheese, but when I see something billed as "best ever" I'm expecting a little more, you know?
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