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I don’t know why judges were complaining about Jamie’s plating calling it messy. Micah presented his dish in a way which could have been done by a first grade student in a cafeteria tray in bad day. I wonder if Jamie wanted to go home. When he was going back to the line after the judging, he said to the other contestants that he was ready to go home.

If I hear the word “deconstructed” again when somebody is talking about food, I am going to throw up. As as somebody said on Chopped, chefs tends to use the words “rustic” and “deconstructed” when they screw up.🍖

Everybody did good except Sarah, we’ll see what happens tonight.

Micah just plagiarized chef Grant plate. He spent every minute on camera sucking up to chef Achantz, or as Gordon would say, kissing up his arse. Dorian, zero creativity. Just putting a cake in a bowl. How the heck are you supposed to eat. I think judges support her too much. Jamie should have won. Maybe he is not as marketable as other chefs.

I just watched the epic burger episode. The 3 guys looked like a bunch of dudes having fun. Great people.

I have watched some MC seasons in the past or other international editions where some candidates didn’t receive a lot of tv time at the beginning of the show. The, in the last weeks before the finals, they started to appear more on the screen. Claudia was considered a low profile contestant (she was “saved” from elimination challenges) and she won MC season 6. By the way she has been working as a judge in MC Latino, and in my opinion she is better in that position than Aaron or Christina “I am a baker” Tosi.

When you are forced to work with a person in a state of hysteria, the last thing you want to do is to lose your mind. Shuba did good when he had to do his part.

Hawaii bald guy: he seemed like a really fun guy to hang out...but come on, he should have bought a house 20 years ago if he didn’t want to leave the area. Key West mom: why did the realtor show her a house so out of her budget?

Who is going to be eliminated next? my prediction, Bri, then Micah and the next could be Nic.

Aldi’s Salted caramel yoghurt. The McRib, I know it comes back every fall, but I wish I could find it every day.

I agree. You are looking for the best home cook, not for the best chef in a restaurant. That’s would be Hell’s Kitchen. the way the show is edited makes you believe that in the team challenges the person who yells more or runs more is the leader. A real leader doesn’t need to be screaming to everybody. In team challenges some of the people who “do good” are just managing a station, not really being creative or resourceful. Hey I fried 30 pounds of fries, I am the best... oh great. I still believe when they show Shuba totally lost during a team challenge, probably only happens a few times, and if we could be there, we would see many contestants having to be redirected several times. I haven’t worked in media in a while, but I doubt we watch even 10 per cent of everything that is recorded. In one of the European MC editions a former contestant said that in studio they spent the whole day preparing, recording and interviewing with several cameras and of course, only a small part of it was aired.

I don’t care about team challenges very much. Too much drama with the obvious casting 101 reality show contestants: the “incompetent captain” , “people who believe they should be in charge bitching and whining the whole episode” , “blame storming”, “I told you so people”... it is easy to hide in a group. Individual challenges are the important ones.

I am still baffled why they are keeping Jamie in the background. He cooks well, gets along with others but somehow I don’t see him as an MC champion. Maybe he is boring and quiet, but MC10 contestants look like Boy Scouts compared to former editions. I know the judges and producers’ decisions can be baffling. In MC junior they sent home two of the best cooks (Jaala and Mathew) and kept the other pair who did worse in the elimination challenge (Malia and Sadie).

They do that too in Dominican Republic and Spain. they did in Argentina too, but I think they don’t do MC anymore there. By the way Argentinian judges were really scary.

I like your explanation and how you defend your arguments, but I still think Micah should have chosen one of the strangest cooks. This is a contest and people don’t come to make friends. I remember watching an edition of MC Spain where two young people became a couple and the judges kept them for a few weeks just for ratings and the they chopped them in consecutive weeks.

Micah has forgotten he is in a competitive contest and he thinks he is in a high school club. I guess his role was the California dude. But somehow I can’t imagine him as a beach boy,🏖️.

Plating can be deceiving on Tv. i thought Shuba food was a mess, but the judges liked the presentation. I love taking pictures of the food I prepare or in restaurants and I have observed how difficult is sometimes to make a plate look good, specially in a quick picture in your phone.

I used to follow the recipes of a book titled A man, a can and a plan. some of the were very tasty.

In Spain they boil the cans of sweetened condensed milk and eat that as a dessert.

Of the picky eaters list I would eat everything except tofu, and I suspect I would eat if somebody offers it to me in a nice dish. I forgot, grapefruit, but I cannot eat it for medical reasons.

Any kind of ultra spicy food, specially if the eater who has no taste buds tell me that the rest of the foods are bland. i know some people who basically can’t distinguish any flavors because they pour ultra spicy sauce in everything.

I feel bad for Aaron. The writers are giving him the worse lines in the show, like they did with Christina “did I tell you I am a baker” Tosi.

No matter how good are you in team challenges and how well you cook with others, at the end, individual elimination challenges seal your fate. I know it is very scripted but team challenges are always the same...A team cooks very fast and well . But the B team gets caught in a nervous breakdown. Suddenly A team starts sending crap (burn, raw whatever) food and the judges start yelling at them. B team get their act together. Most of the times both teams are closer when customers vote, with a fed exceptions. I give high praise for the blue team for not trying to start bickering and blaming to each other. This is a very nice season of MC, compared to former seasons where the Alfa contestants were backstabbing each other.

Miicah has lost a great opportunity to send home one of his strongest rivals, or at least make that person nervous. I don’t think he is going to win. I am positive neither Dorian, Jamie or Sarah would miss the opportunity to eliminate him if they’d consider him a real threat. About Shuba, Sarah said that he didn’t do well in teams but he can cook. I still believe producers are trying to throw a red herring with supposed clumsiness. I feel bad for Fred, finally he got used to be in camera and he was not blinking nervously as he did at the beginning of this season. He drove me crazy. Great baker.

I have seen different times the pick the worst or your team or pick/save one of your partners. People are expected to save the cooks they consider they can beat or force your direct rivals to cook. Everybody knows that some of the best cooks are going to go down now. Any elimination challenge can be the last one, and yes I know the producers will manipulate the result, same they did in MC junior, when they had to cook in pairs and the worst pair was not eliminated.