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Yes, exactly. Almost all the food has looked really good unlike, for example, the mac and cheese crap last season. Most of the contestants have been OK too. The only other unpleasant one was on the long departed Creole truck and she wasn't anywhere near as bad as the Khana women. Someone on Reddit said that, in Detroit, "everyone knows" that Khana "stole" their recipes from the people that helped them set up their business and promoted them as their own. I have no idea if that's true or not but it wouldn't surprise me.

I didn't care for Cade and I'm not sorry he's gone but I did feel a bit sorry for him because he's going to be embarrassed when his son sees this episode and realizes dad isn't really a hero. He should have been fishing instead of playing to the cameras. Alan has been my favorite since the first episode but I like Wyatt too. I hope they both go a long way.

Between that and her piercings, she actually gives me the creeps. I can't wait until that truck is gone. The producer machinations were too much for me. I really liked the Paisani boys so I was sorry to see them leave. I think there must be a lot of time we don't see between the assignments and the teams running to their trucks to start cooking. There was no reason for the Bald Guy to suddenly have packages of pork chops for example. The teams must plan their dishes and determine what they need and then someone goes shopping. That's the only thing that makes sense to me.

I do too. I also don't watch The Kitchen because Sunny is so loud and obnoxious. On the Easter baking show she does, she's just fine. If she acted like that all the time, I could tolerate her.

Is it my faulty memory or were the first challenges more complex and more difficult than in previous seasons? I was worn out just watching. There must be a lot of instruction that goes on that we don't see. I find it hard to believe that every contestant already knew how to operate all the equipment featured. I wonder what they would have done if one of the final two had been someone who was afraid of water and/or couldn't swim.

He did a whole series on Discovery+ a couple years ago cooking savory. According to Wikipedia, he also staged years ago at The French Laundry.

I can't wait to see the viscous predator. Maybe somebody gets slimed. :)

Me! I can't stand her. I'm actually less enthusiastic about watching Chopped since she became a regular. I did enjoy last night's episode. The two chefs I liked made it to the dessert round and the guy I thought should win did. The young woman was good but the guy edged her out. I was happy with the judges' decision.

I prefer almost anyone to Nancy but I wish they'd get Stephanie Boswell or Sherry Yard or someone who is actually a baker instead of Damaris. I have nothing against Damaris but she isn't known for having baking expertise.

I'd never heard of him either but I don't follow sports so............ He did seem nice. I like the Paisani boys. They seem like genuinely nice guys. I was fully expecting them to win based on the editing so I was very surprised they came in 4th. I'll sort of miss the guy with the green beard. He looked weird but he seemed nice unlike those two women he was with. He amused me during the confessionals because he kept nodding like a bobblehead while the boss lady was talking. I wasn't at all sorry to see that truck go.

I took an instant dislike to Zoe during the first episode but I haven't had any problem with her since. I couldn't remember what I didn't like and you just reminded me. Damaris had gained a lot of weight. I saw her recently on a new GGG and she had slimmed down and looked great. When they were filming this show, maybe she was just hungry. :)

Aw, Lee. I liked him and I wanted him to win even though he was one of the older contestants and was already quite thin. He wanted to buy a new plane to reach more people in his territory which is an admirable goal but it's not quite the same motivation as wanting to provide for your child or prove something to yourself. I think he knew he wasn't going to make it to the end so there was no reason to push himself to the point of jeopardizing his health before tapping. Ann did an amazing amount of physical labor for a small woman almost 60 y/o. She knew her body needed food and I think she was worried about having a heart attack alone and hours from help. I didn't blame her for tapping either. It was a shame she didn't get to use that great cabin she built.

I keep wondering why Gordon is involved in a show this bad. Surely he doesn't need the money. I also wonder if Caroline was hired to play a part. She doesn't seem to be all that knowledgeable and she's not attractive but she's very good at being the villain. Queen was difficult and hard to work with so I was glad to see her go. Megan seems a lot nicer but she just acted like a doormat instead of ignoring Queen and getting the tables set and so on. She's never going to win. The heavy-set gal (don't know her name) needs to take several steps back from her false eyelashes. She must think they make her look more attractive but she can't have looked in a mirror. Yike. The only one I sort of like is the tall guy with the ridiculous dangling earring but that earring puts me off. I can't remember what his product is so I have no idea if it's something Gordon might want to promote.

I was happy to see Amanda leave. I didn't like her attitude - or her eyelashes. And she was wearing heels in the kitchen.

His eyebrows are dyed too. :0 It looked more green than blue on my TV.

Sadly, this and comments above are true for me. I used to be glued to my TV, tape it and watch it again, sometimes more than once. I'm still watching but with a lot less enthusiasm until one of the "old timers" shows up.

I was surprised that brown bread in a can was such a surprise to so many. I grew up back east and we had it often, sliced with cream cheese and sometimes jelly.

Agreed. He was way too loud and just obnoxious. I thought that truck's sales were going fairly well so I wondered if the accident they caused cost them money. It seemed odd that there was no follow up about that. Tyler didn't even mention it at judging. I liked the women in the crepe truck who seemed to be conducting themselves like adults and I thought their crepes looked good. That doesn't seem like a food a lot of people are going to associate with food trucks though. I doubt they'll make it very far.

I like him. He's happily married with kids and he has a very good reputation as both chef and businessman. His manic shtick does get a little much oftentimes but he's a decent human being so I forgive him. :) I also like Eric so I think I'll be happy whichever way this goes. I did agree with the judges' decisions last night.

I think about that a lot. If I were a survival expert (which I am the farthest thing from), having to deal with all those cameras constantly would be the thing that would absolutely deter me from competing - even for the huge possible reward. They can't even stalk prey without setting up cameras first.

Thanks. I missed that completely - and I'm glad I did. TMI indeed. Perhaps - except Cade said he's an expert hunter and tracker. It seems like he would have had some idea of which way he'd been walking and would have at least tried to retrace his steps. Maybe he did and we just weren't shown that part.

I'll bet she wrote that whole thing herself. So she pals around with Paris Hilton and Kardashians. I already couldn't stand her and that information didn't improve my opinion one bit.

What Mikey says and his actual behavior are two different things. I can't imagine he'll last much longer. Ann is tiny. I don't know if that will be a help or a hindrance. She seems a bit quirky but she leads a life of physical activity so she may have more stamina than I think. When they first focused on the woman in a red shirt, she bent down out of sight of the camera then stood up and said something along the lines of not believing she did that. I must have missed something because I had no idea what she was talking about. I hope Taz got to eat some of his fish before the part he was smoking burned up. I was afraid the fire would spread and burn his canoe. It was interesting that he created that canoe in what seemed like no time when the fellow who made one in an early season worked on his for, as I recall, a couple weeks. And then it sank.

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I thought her dessert looked like a mess. All the judges conveniently overlooked the fact that her meringue was tan and overdone, a major technical error. If they had wanted her to go home, they would have jumped all over that instead of picking at the minor flaws on John's (which really did look like a cake). I actually like Anrika better than John so I'm not unhappy that she stayed but I think the decision was questionable.