Top Chef 8/1 Thread

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This episode sucked. We already have a show that is all about cooking and selling food and product placement (Food Network Star among other shows), this is supposed to be TOP CHEF. I enjoy the creative challenges, even the gas station quickfires are cool and interesting, but the product placement in this episode and catering the entire episode to it was just awful.

The whole freezing and reheating was such a gimmick and is really lame I think. No chef has to worry about whether something will taste good the next day after its been completely cooked and then frozen.

Maybe it was my additional hatred for Rocco after having seen his failed reality show, but I could not stand this episode.



Also, WTF? to that quickfire.

Hey you get to identify taro root, japanese eggplant, etc.....


Now Casey, identify this:




Are you [censored] kidding me?

That was retarded. And if you are telling people "identify this by taste alone, PUT A [censored] BLINDFOLD ON THEM, cause hint to producers THEY ARE LOOKING AT IT, THEREBY MAGICALLY COMBINING INFORMATION FROM TWO SENSES!

God that episode sucked.

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Haha, much as I love this show, I have to agree with all this. The product placement is getting really transparent and overbearing. In this show, Rocco was pimping the product hard, and it felt really cheesy.

[Dids]

I don't think there's any attempts for the product placement to not be obvious. Just pretend each ep has a different sponsor, I don't think it takes away from the quality of the show at all. I thought especially this ep was a nice way of pimping the sponsor and challenging the chefs.

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I don't think there's any attempts for the product placement to not be obvious. Just pretend each ep has a different sponsor, I don't think it takes away from the quality of the show at all. I thought especially this ep was a nice way of pimping the sponsor and challenging the chefs.

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Each episode has lots of sponsors. They are called commercials.

I would gladly accept a weekly sponsor if they got rid of commercials, but until that day, stop trying to shove it down our throats.

Also, watching a guy who owns restaurants stand alongside great chefs and people that went through culinary school and say things like "its great, because you actually have to put it in the pan and cook it for ten minutes, so you too can feel like a real chef!" is just plain stupid and should be insulting to the audience.


If they are going to have a sponsor like that, at least have the sponsors be on the level of what they try the rest of the show to be at.

It seems phony when the judges have to keep falling back on "know your audience" when they are asked to use caviar one week and Spuds Brand Insta-Taters~ the next week. Granted that does show diversity of style and creativity to be able to master the low and high brow foods, but I still don't like it.

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I do agree with Noah in that it feels like their using way to many gimmicks this season. Aside from Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares, Top Chef is my favorite food-related show and it feels like it's really going downhill this season.

Not to hijack, but if anyone hasn't seen Ramsey's Kitchen nightmares, it's amazing - by far my favorite food show. It's on tonight on BBC America at 8pm est I think.

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"its great, because you actually have to put it in the pan and cook it for ten minutes, so you too can feel like a real chef!" is just plain stupid and should be insulting to the audience.

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Great chefs don't make or endorse quickly cooked meals? I can think of a few.

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I don't think there's any attempts for the product placement to not be obvious. Just pretend each ep has a different sponsor, I don't think it takes away from the quality of the show at all. I thought especially this ep was a nice way of pimping the sponsor and challenging the chefs.

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Not sure I'd like to view the show that way, and I do think it takes away from the quality of the show when you have both the challenge and the guest chef turn into pure product placement. The way Rocco was going on about the product, I thought he was gonna stick his dick in the bag and make sweet sweet frozen love to it.

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"I do think it takes away from the quality of the show when you have both the challenge and the guest chef turn into pure product placement."

Explain why?

I mean, we're all kinda programmed to find this stuff gauche, but if you can ignore that, and realize that it's how these kinds of shows get to exist, I don't see how it really detracts from the quality of hte show.

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The way Rocco was going on about the product, I thought he was gonna stick his dick in the bag and make sweet sweet frozen love to it.

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LOL

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[bernie]

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I don't think there's any attempts for the product placement to not be obvious. Just pretend each ep has a different sponsor, I don't think it takes away from the quality of the show at all. I thought especially this ep was a nice way of pimping the sponsor and challenging the chefs.

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I agree.

I don't think it takes away from the show at all.

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I don't think there's any attempts for the product placement to not be obvious. Just pretend each ep has a different sponsor, I don't think it takes away from the quality of the show at all. I thought especially this ep was a nice way of pimping the sponsor and challenging the chefs.

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I agree.

I don't think it takes away from the show at all.

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It's not the product placement I mind, it's when they design silly challenges specifically around the product. This is called Top Chef, not Top Frozen Dinner creator.

My problem is that the task came down, basically, to figuring out the correct freezing method. That's not why I watch this show.