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LOL and I agree. I don't think the Madres are going to last much longer though. They seem nice enough but not too bright. Mama doesn't seem to do anything but walk around out front waving the flag. You'd think they'd want to make it look like an authentic Mexican Mama is cooking even if she isn't and have her in the truck. I seem to change my mind every week. I started out not liking the bacon guys or the Feast crew and now they're my favorites. I do wish they'd all shave though. I prefer food servers to look like they bathe.

I'm almost not looking forward to this one because I like David Burke a lot and I adore Takashi. I really hate that one of them has to lose.

I liked those dipped cones too although we called soft serve "custard" back in Buffalo where I grew up to differentiate it from regular ice cream. I think I was an adult before I realized that custard is actually something else. I can think of two old-fashioned Dairy Queens in my area (Central Illinois) but most of them are now super DQs with all kinds of fast food and indoor seating.

I really appreciated the Remax link because it showed me clearly that what I had envisioned was totally wrong. Now I get it. The $1.6 million evaluation seemed staggering until I realized that the ad specified one unit but the figures mentioned 8 bedrooms and almost 4000 sq. ft. so were for the whole parcel. I'd love to know why the value dropped a full million $$ from June to August. I wonder if that's accurate.

I totally agree. She's really unpleasant to watch. I don't care much for the girl with blue hair either. Or maybe it's really her mother I don't like. The child is what? 11? And she's allowed to have a punk haircut dyed blue? She's actually quite pretty but that "look at me" hair style is way too old for her IMO. I like all the boys. I wish Rachael and Guy would stop talking to them all like they're toddlers. And fawning over everything they do. It also annoys me to death that they keep calling the kids "chef." None of them have even approached earning the right to be addressed that way. Gordon Ramsay, of all people, was much better at dealing with kids on his MC Junior show.

I agree with the posters above. I have tried and tried to visualize the area as a whole and can't. I thought maybe there would be a map of sorts on the HGTV site but I couldn't find one. I would absolutely hate to have a pool and all the associated partying and noise right in front of my windows and there's no way I'd even consider the condo with the open ceiling or the one with orange everywhere. I hope the brothers win.

I don't know whether to thank Kroger for changing my mind about ice cream or blame them for about a million calories I wouldn't have eaten otherwise. I grew up when ice cream basically meant a gallon carton of rock hard, grainy Sealtest that came in vanilla, chocolate or Neapolitan (which I loathe to this day). For decades, I rarely ate it and never bought it for home. Then, a couple years ago, I was looking for something in a freezer case at Kroger and noticed they had butter pecan which I remembered liking at some time in the past so I bought some. Delicious. Since then, I've tried many flavors of the Private Selection brand and they're really good. Schwan's has good ice cream, too.

Ted made me laugh when he did that. The point of After Hours is to show what the judges might have done with the basket ingredients and to show them having fun doing it. They aren't really competing or being judged. I get a kick out of the horseplay and seeing them just be themselves. Even Aaron whom I can't stand as a judge is likeable after hours - as someone else also observed.

I didn't care for Brooke during her season. I didn't actively dislike her though. I do now. Mike, of course, was always a toad but, watching him with Antonia, I thought he might have finally grown up. Wrong. The two of them kidding around while Stefan was cooking reminded me of third graders who think they're just so smart and funny when they gang up on another student. I have no more respect for either of them.

Stefan may be an ass on the surface but I love him anyway. I think that he's really a nice person underneath. I think if you scratched CJ hard enough and deep enough, underneath you'd find John Tesar which would not be a good thing. There was absolutely no point to having them go shopping for meat other than to advertise Lexus. That was ridiculous.

I think that's a fair assessment. Even so, she's annoying and I was hoping both she and Jason would be sent home. She needs some maturity before she'll succeed in that business. Speaking of which..................... Every time I see on the screen that Rachael is 24 y/o, I think that must be a typo. She looks like she's at least 40 to me and I can't see a woman that young in her no matter how hard I stare at her. To my surprise, I've grown to like Cig despite his goofy facial hair and hats. He, George and Damien seem talented as do Stella and Dina whom I've liked from the start.

That's the way I remember it. I do recall that I felt very strongly that the other chef should win and I was both shocked and angry when the judges picked Fatima despite a major technical error. I thought her sob story carried the day. She went on and on this time around too. She's pretty but I just don't like her. Giorgio seems to have picked up some ego along with his success. I was sorry to see that as I liked his modesty the first time he was on.

I liked Sarge too. In fact, he's the first contestant I have liked. Glad he won a nice amount. His daughter seemed to be in tears a lot. It made me wonder what kind of injury he had to win a Purple Heart and then fight his way back from. She was clearly proud of him. I was glad to see that Eric Greenspan has cleaned up. The last time I saw him, he had dark stubble all over his huge face and neck and he looked vaguely sinister and unclean. I like him so I was happy to see him look better although I wish he'd lose some of that weight before he drops dead.

I was happy with the way the first round went. Fatima was worse than I remembered and I almost stood up and cheered when she got chopped first. I didn't recognize Georgio at first because his hair style was different. I remembered him well though and had liked him the first time around. I noticed he had his wrist watch alarm on again but no one mentioned it. I've wondered if he ever took his mother and sister to Italy so I was glad he answered that question. I was very glad he beat Mr. Arrogance from Jean-Georges. I love Chopped After Hours on line so I really enjoyed the filler show that came on right after the tournament round. I don't see a chef (Geoffrey Zakarian) cooking in French cuffs too often.

I don't like Nicole Curtis and her "design aesthetic" which isn't really. She was IMO a bad choice to be a judge on a show that's more about remodeling than how to decorate one's coffee table. As others have said, that exposed ceiling was awful. Someone walking upstairs is going to sound like an elephant to anyone downstairs plus all those exposed beams just made me think of nests of spiders. How would you keep that clean? It seemed hypocritical to me that Nicole praised the sisters for the hideous orange artwork on giant canvasses then turned around and criticized the married couple for decorating with blue frames. I didn't like either but I thought the concept was the same. I'm hoping the brothers win now.

Good point. I buy Hebrew National myself even though I'm not Jewish and that didn't even occur to me. Not sure about the bacon though. I think the description of the local hot dogs (already forgot the name) specified "wrapped in bacon." I've never had turkey bacon but it doesn't appeal to me. I don't know if the idea would turn customers off or be a big selling point to health-conscious crowds. They were in Minneapolis-St. Paul just last season.

The right team definitely went home. Those boys need to grow up a lot before they can run a business successfully. I could forgive them for being disorganized due to lack of experience but not for being lazy, leaving the truck to look around and then shutting down early. Even worse was fighting within earshot of the customers. No excuse for that. I agree with Fostersmom that their food didn't look like anything I'd expect from culinary school grads. I liked the bacon guys a lot better this week. I don't have high hopes for the Israelis. They just don't seem like they're enjoying anything although I did feel sorry for them having to use pork when they apparently keep kosher. The military moms can leave any time AFAIC.

I'm glad it's not just me. I've watched every episode of Chopped at least once and most more than that and I don't recognize at least a third of those people. I do think that's Fatima in the top row. I can't even recall now whom she beat in the dessert round but I do remember that I thought it was entirely the wrong decision and I was mad every time I thought about it. I hope she loses this time around.

I had never heard of Provel before this thread but I thought it sounded OK in the written description. That picture above though............. It looks like someone ran amok with a squeeze bottle. Not very appetizing. Despite that, I plan to check out the pizza just for the heck of it the next time I'm in St. Louis.

I despise Justin Warner so I really enjoyed that piece. Thanks for sharing it. I do not understand why FN keeps him around.

Me too although I did like the fellow who was on last week. I didn't like this week's woman at all. I wonder if all her attention at home really goes to the kid who's autistic or if she just made it seem that way. I was feeling sorry for the other boy and her husband. It seemed odd that her immediate family wasn't there but maybe the one kid is disruptive and the husband had to stay home with him. I always feel sorry for normal kids who are being overshadowed by siblings with problems. My first exposure to Lorena Garcia was when she was on Top Chef Masters. I didn't like her then but I have liked her every time I've seen her since so I'm now thinking it was never really her causing my dislike; it was Patricia Yeo.

The daughter is an "estetician." What in the heck does that mean? She's a hairdresser? She sells Mary Kay? She demonstrates make-up at Macy's? She does paint-by-numbers on the side?

I was making some tomato jam this morning and was reminded of a kitchen helper I can't do without - a container that solves the problem of brown sugar getting hard. Several years ago after a lifetime of throwing away rock hard brown sugar, I decided to try a particular Rubbermaid container I had on hand and it worked. It's the kind with a red lid that you can buy in the supermarket. The container is hard plastic, clear with a frosted swirl design, not the ones that are opaque. I dump the sugar out of the box or bag it came in and keep it in the refrigerator. The brown sugar stays as soft as new for months and months. In fact, I've never had any become hard before I used it up since I started using this storage container.

There's a Qdoba here in my city in Central Illinois. I went there just once and thought it was too expensive for what I got plus it had uncomfortable seating. Never went back. Quizno's went out of business here five or six years ago. Chipotle is always crazy busy. There are two universities here and it's very popular with the college kids.

Are the people on this show for real? I despised those sisters before the show was 5 minutes old. It really bothers me that Gordon invests time, money and publicity in people like that who don't deserve his help. I seriously wanted to slap the sister who was chewing gum knowing full well she was being filmed. Ignorant. I wonder what daddy does that he could afford a hotel and also apparently support those useless spoiled daughters. I was actually angry by the time this episode was over.