Beat Bobby Flay

[tracyscott76]

Don't pay too much attention to the opening montage; unless they're doing some tricky editing, it gives away who wins through to play Bobby in a certain episode.

EDIT: lol, right after I saw

Spoiler

Brooke's distinctive high ponytail

facing Bobby in the opening and posted this warning,

Spoiler

she

showed up in that very episode.

Edited November 23, 2022 by tracyscott76

[Bastet]

I have only had a chance to have these holiday episodes on in the background, but love what I'm seeing/hearing just from that; I look forward to being able to settle in and properly watch next month when things settle down.

[Backwards999]

Holiday episode 3 was pretty good.  Bobby is really pushing out some shocking wins, but I kind of knew the sides would hurt Brooke's team while they saved Bobby's team.  Anyways, I enjoyed the friendly snark between the guest chefs.

[tracyscott76]

The pairing of Bobby and Damaris will always make me laugh, so I'm kinda glad she lost early so they could work together. He's lucky they did, too, since she got him the win! They didn't even try to hide it 😆

Edited November 30, 2022 by tracyscott76

[Grizzly]

So frustrating that it's not Bobby getting these wins, it's his partner. No way did I think he and Damaris would beat Zac and Alex. 

[chessiegal]

13 minutes ago, tracyscott76 said:

The pairing of Bobby and Damaris will always make me laugh, so I'm kinda glad she lost early so they could work together. He's lucky they did, too, since she got him the win! They didn't even try to hide it 😆

Bobby clearly adores Damaris.  Their show The Bobby and Damaris Show was a hoot.

About the show from the FN site:

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From the moment that Bobby Flay met Damaris Phillips on Food Network Star, he knew they were going to be friends. The pair are never at a loss for words when chatting about their passion for American food, Southern classics, great cocktails and the latest food trends. Bobby brings his chef sensibility and Damaris is the self-proclaimed "food geek" who's not afraid to school her mentor as they cook together, test quirky food ideas and entertain friends.

[Pattycake2]

Wha??  The judges liked the filling, but the rest?  Heck, Bobby didn’t even fork the ganache to make it look like wood.  Stuffed toast fingers and hot chocolate.  I don’t get it.

[mlp]

I liked and enjoyed everyone on the show tonight although I find Damaris' shtick OTT, juvenile and tiresome.  I wish she'd cool it as I like her much better when she's not carrying on.  I never knew she'd gone to culinary school.  She must have done that after she won FNS because I don't recall that she had that background then.  

I especially like Zac Young so I was pulling for that team.  I was very surprised that he and Alex together didn't win.  

I was happy to see Dan Langan on the judging panel.  I'd never heard of either of the women before.

[tracyscott76]

6 hours ago, mlp said:

I liked and enjoyed everyone on the show tonight although I find Damaris' shtick OTT, juvenile and tiresome.  I wish she'd cool it as I like her much better when she's not carrying on.  I never knew she'd gone to culinary school.  She must have done that after she won FNS because I don't recall that she had that background then. 

No, she'd definitely already been a culinary school instructor when she competed on FNS. I remember when she won a preliminary challenge and her reward was to sit on the judging panel for the main challenge and critique the others' dishes. The others were surprised at how sharp and insightful her comments were (partly because she had been sort of a goofball up to that point) and realized it was probably because she was an instructor.

Damaris can be a bit much, but I still enjoy her, particularly when she's with Bobby. His reaction when she first came out was 😆 

Edited November 30, 2022 by tracyscott76
Fixing her/were

[mlp]

8 hours ago, tracyscott76 said:

No, she'd definitely already been a culinary school instructor when she competed on FNS. I remember when she won a preliminary challenge and her reward was to sit on the judging panel for the main challenge and critique the others' dishes. The others were surprised at how sharp and insightful her comments were (partly because she had been sort of a goofball up to that point) and realized it was probably because she was an instructor.

I remember that situation but I didn't know she'd actually been to culinary school.  I'm sure you're right.

I've always liked her.  It's the "comedy" act she puts on that annoys me.  She's in her 40s now (and still beautiful).  Seems to me that it's time for her to act less juvenile.  I remember Bobby getting on her for the shimmying on FNS.  Now he seems to think it's cute.

[Pattycake2]

One last comment. Didn’t one of the judges say that Alex’s butter cream was too buttery and too sugary? It’s impossible for butter cream to be both. It’s 99% powdered sugar and butter. The judge could have said that they would have preferred that the filling was made with something other than American butter cream, but American butter cream is American buttercream.

[T Summer]

Can anyone please tell me of chef Esther Choi beat Bobby Flay on S30 E25 Holiday Throwdown: Holiday  Around The World?[aired on 12/13/22]

I fell asleep.

Thanks!

[Salacious Kitty]

Yes, she won. 

[T Summer]

49 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Yes, she won. 

Hello,

I recognize you from the Project Runway thread(s)!

Thanks a bunch ;)

[Grizzly]

In order for Bobby to lose, they had to do 2 on 1. And he almost pulled off the win. Truly amazing.

[Salacious Kitty]

31 minutes ago, Grizzly said:

In order for Bobby to lose, they had to do 2 on 1. And he almost pulled off the win. Truly amazing.

I missed team selection. Did Bobby choose to cook by himself?

[tracyscott76]

16 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:

I missed team selection. Did Bobby choose to cook by himself?

He did, supposedly so she couldn't claim if he beat her that he only did so with help. He told Esther she could use any or all of the other chefs (even Geoffrey Zakarian), and kind of jokingly dared her to cook alone like he was. She did not take him up on that 😆 because she was planning on making the whole multi-dish spread. Once Bobby heard what she chose to make, he seemed to regret his decision to cook alone but of course didn't change his mind. Some of that might have been pre-planned, but it was still funny.

Edited December 14, 2022 by tracyscott76
Clarification

[Jaded]

I hope when they are actually filming episodes that the order in which the food is given to the final judges is changed up randomly. I mean in the way we always see the judges trying the opponents food first and then Bobby's second. 

[Backwards999]

Bobby kind of threw the last match by doing it by himself. A little help and he probably would've won. 

[Bastet]

I finally caught up on all the holiday episodes; those were fun.  So much food I wished I could eat!  I love when Bobby managed to throw together something great by himself for the Chuseok challenge, and Leah said, deadpan, "He's quite talented.  He should do competition shows or something."

I'm intrigued by the casserole he won with in the first episode, because I'm not overly fond of casseroles, and that one didn't appeal to me at all with the bread instead of pasta.  Yet the judges, who'd utterly drooled after eating Anne's traditional casserole, were all blown away by it.

Since I'd also recently binge watched the six Bobby's Triple Threat episodes (I created a forum for that show, since it got renewed for a second season just two airings into the first one), I particularly enjoyed the challenge with his "titans".  And I loved Michael Voltaggio declaring, after four straight losses, he's done going up against Brooke. 

I'd never realized until they pointed it out that, for all the shit Bobby and Michael Symon give each other, they've always declined to cook against each other. 

Since he owed one win to Tiffany and one to Damaris, I like that Bobby tried the last one on his own (and LOL at it being a Chuseok feast).  I'm not sure if he'd have won with Eric helping, though; he still got out everything he wanted to other than a dipping sauce for the pancake, and they were all well received.  The only knocks against his offering was the stew was more of an homage to something that belonged on a Chuseok table than something that truly did, and Esther won because the overall cohesion of all her dishes was better.  That wouldn't have changed with Eric helping, unless Eric had suggestions for changes, and that food is even less in his wheelhouse than it is Bobby's.  It might have been his one loss regardless.

My pet peeve is how many judges said "My one downfall is [X]" or "The [X] is my one downfall" in pointing out the one weak aspect of a dish.  First, downside is a much more accurate word.  Second, and most annoyingly, it's the dish's "downfall", not the judge's.

Edited January 13 by Bastet