I only just figured out how notifications work in Disqus, so I'm showing up from the near future to respond now. Generally speaking, on competitive reality television productions, the eliminated contestants are sequestered in a hotel away from the main competition until primary filming ends. Among other things, this…

I've suggested before that current LCK winners probably have a leg up over the recently eliminated chefs in that they haven't been subjected to the same sleep deprivation and pressure of filming, making winning streaks more likely. The flip side of this is that they don't acquire the same comfort with consistent…

It's possible that part of the reason some of the chefs do so well on LCK is precisely that they aren't suffering from sleep deprivation and the other more extreme conditions of the filming process. By the same token, when chefs who have recently lost come in, they're probably at their most strung out, which may be…

I've been wondering the same thing about her inevitable appearance on this season of Food Network Star.

Last week, one of the judges (probably Ramsay) referred to "the recipe" for the pressure test dish that Bime faltered on. I'd like to see the show contextualize these elements more fully. Instead, they've always seemed dead set on giving us the impression that all of the "home cooks" must be brilliant, intuitive…

Joe Bastianich remains one of the most strangely dressed men on television. Here, he's wearing one of his trademark too tight suit jackets complete with silk pocket square over a pair of jeans that almost but don't quite match the color of the jacket along with a pair of red sneakers. He clothes himself like a high…

Not only did they bring a large stack of the models, they seemed to have quite a few left by the time the show was over. I bought one, but now I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it. In a public conversation with Dave Ball, Ware himself claimed that it took him two weeks of work to put the model together.

Not only did they bring a large stack of the models, they seemed to have quite a few left by the time the show was over. I bought one, but now I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it. In a public conversation with Dave Ball, Ware himself claimed that it took him two weeks of work to put the model together.

More to the point, is Graham wearing a bow tie with his unbuttoned shirt? That may not be an LA thing, but it doesn't even begin to make sense?

More to the point, is Graham wearing a bow tie with his unbuttoned shirt? That may not be an LA thing, but it doesn't even begin to make sense?

I literally just created an account to point this out. The consistent attribution of this idea to Tarantino drives me batty.

I literally just created an account to point this out. The consistent attribution of this idea to Tarantino drives me batty.