MartyQui

Two things about Dylan’s cake…how did he get lumps of flour in the batter? Did he not sift the dry ingredients? Also, not to be nitpicky, but….Murano is the glassblower’s island, and Burano is the one with all the colored houses. They’re both absolutely cool and unique, well worth a visit!

Kind of disappointed to be spoiled in the US on Instagram. I’ve stayed away from this forum until Friday afternoons.

Yeah, the right person went home!

I have hemochromatosis. The reason you are discouraged from eating raw fish is because of a gram positive bacteria called vibrio that can show up in raw shellfish (especially oysters), raw fish, and in sea water (where it can infect you through an open wound). Everyone is susceptible to the infection, but most people just get fever/vomiting. If you have hemochromatosis, you *may* develop sepsis. It's very rare to do that. And if you let the ER staff know that you have hemochromatosis, they'll give you prophylactic antibiotics to head off the sepsis. I eat sushi and walk on the beach.

I noticed that the empanada truck was using premade wrappers…no more dough drama, I guess, so there had to be relationship drama again. One long loose hair offender is gone, can’t wait for the others. I can’t believe Tyler never says anything about that! But he was right to call them out on prices this week…they should just put a $15 top limit on prices. I’m in Boston, and that’s the most I’ve ever paid at a food truck.

Plates guy going on and on about hygiene and food safety while his partner had all that hair hanging in the food. I can’t wait for one of the customers to pull a long black hair out of a sandwich.

Ty’s team’s house was just bad. All those raw door jambs and baseboards next to the dark walls looked cheap. Ugh. Alison’s team was so inefficient, and took so much of her (bad) advice. I like Taniya the most, so I was glad her team won, but I also think they did the best job (aside from that dumb cold plunge wooden tub).

Very true, but I don't think anyone who does one of these Bravo cruises is very rich. Comfortable, but not rich. Just judging by their luggage and their clothes. :)

I think I read once that when they do things like move plumbing around, it's not really done in the 7 days, they just have unplumbed faucets/toilets/showers as stand-ins. All I could think of when I saw Alison's "stone" was how filthy it would be because it would be impossible to clean without scaffolding!

First episode: HATED the winning kitchen, and why did Alison’s mentees close up the windows to the beach? That was the whole reason they moved the kitchen, and they were left with that narrow view of the ocean? Of course that horrible fake stone should have been thrown away when it arrived. I liked Tanya’s couples kitchen the best.

Re Michelle's biscuits...why didn't she cut them into rounds before she cooked them? They would have cooked faster and she could have fit them into her mosaic idea, sort of. Or at least cut them into squares. Part of the charm of a biscuit is the edges.

Didn’t Juan, Vinnie and one of the female couple speak Spanish?Ricky and Cesar were good at the physical challenges (baseball, anyone?), good at the puzzles, good At the “entertainment” challenges, and good at navigating. I was happy for their win.

I agree about Sofia…she’s unlikeable, and the actress isn’t skilled enough to make unlikeable interesting. I felt for Molly this episode…we’ve all crushed on someone who isn’t available, and Maya played that perfectly.. and on a completely shallow note, Nat Faxon’s teeth gross me out.

I agreed with the chef that the eggs benedict didn't need extra crap on the plates...the sprig of parsley was enough. The dessert from the night before was a beautiful plate, so clearly he knows what he's doing. Frazier is KILLING me this season...I want him to just do his job and quit gossiping and setting other crew members against each other. It made me uncomfortable to watch him flirt with the guest (wearing his shirt, really?)...have we seen any other stews or deckies do that on charter? Maybe a couple of times? And it made me uncomfortable then too.

I used to love to see what Cat was wearing each week…tonight’s glittery romper outfit bunched in a very weird place. Give me back my glamorous Cat!!