There's a podcast that had an interview with the executive producers a few weeks back (Pack Your Mics) and it sounds like LCK is filmed concurrently. It's just filmed very early in the morning, before the main show, to fit with Tom's schedule. I think the eliminated contestants are put in a holding space until filming…

He does. Carlos got one in 2013, as well - http://www.mexiquechicago.com/

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I know I'm a big fan of her ZzzQuil commercials.
(I actually feel a bit bad for her. Everyone seems to relish her career downturn.)

I hope I'm remembering correctly - Toby got in, changed his mind about going, then decided to attend again. But by the time he'd made his final decision, it was too late and he'd have to wait until the next year or semester or something.

Which is sad. Us Americans really enjoyed his presence.

One of the Vanillis died?

I pretty much agree with you re: knifegate. I think it was a time issue and Carlos was probably getting to cleaning it, rather than taking care of it first like he probably should have. But I think Nick went into this looking for a fight about his super-important wedding gift knife that he deigned to borrow an…

I'm surprised they're still doing immunity this far into the competition. It seems like they usually take it away when 6-7 chefs are left. I wonder how this ep would've gone down without it - would anyone have even attempted the corn silk nest without immunity?

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The Pretty Man is right. I had such a crush on him as a 7-year-old. I think I still do.

Giggling 14-year-old girls at sleepovers. Only we had to keep changing the channel lest parents find out what we're watching, due to it being 1999 and satellite tv technology was such that every tv had to watch the same channel.

I feel like people who never listened the the Best Show suddenly hated it around here because of the slide-whistle bit. That made me sad, since I became a fan of the Best Show because of this site.

So true. It makes the food less interesting and more about quantity than anything else.

Really? I feel like Walt's death was inevitable - it was just finding out whether his cancer or his criminality killed him first.

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Beef stroganoff is my pick, too. My mom served it with toast - egg noodles, if we were lucky.

Is that why I'm annoyed every time I see someone post a link to Upworthy?

Completely agree. That's what was so successful about LCK last season - a short, simple contest that's 100% about cooking. Since it's edited down to ten minutes, there's really no time for twists or additional obstacles. I really hope this week is more of an anomaly for LCK because I really like how it usually lets…

Yikes! Why did I click that link???