That was not a very sound strategy, but at least she's not a flip-flopper.  She is consistently trying to get Bev booted.

This woman needs to be in therapy, not on a reality show.

Yes, and you need to get some self confidence and let that duck skin render…just leave it in the pan and let it render!

Pretty sure that's how it's going to be.  Most likely, they'll have the top four sent off to some crazy location and then reveal that they still have to compete for the top three spots…and that's when the LCC champ is revealed to potentially nab one of the spots.

I agree that there is no way that Bev and Heather were paired randomly, but as other commenters have said, it's pretty clear that Tom has not totally lost his mind and that they are still largely sending people home for what's on the plate.  Even though they were highlighting the Bev/Heather feud, it was clear to me…

I don't think she would have, frankly.  Bev is not at all good on Quickfires as is evidenced by the fact that she almost never serves hot food to the judges.  And what would she have done with the cactus?  Sliced it up and done a "Cactus Crudite" no doubt.

Heather is pushy, but it really is not easy to be a female executive chef.  Women are always being pushed into pastry unless they can hold their own on the line which is far more fast-paced and hectic.  The producers should never have juxtaposed Bev's weepy confession with scenes of her being "abused" by Heather when…

It's pretty clear Nyesha felt exactly the same way as you.

Nyesha definitely did not deserve to go home based on Dakota's ineptitude.  And it was doubly infuriating that Hugh made that point about how, as a team, you should be open to criticism and questions from your teammate when in was clear that this was not the case with Heather and Bev.

Admittedly, Heather would be a perfect candidate for a dystopian future Top Chef wherein the contestants fight to the death Mortal Kombat style and then have to cook their victims for the judges in Soylent Green fashion.

Why can't Bev do anything besides Asian anyway?  Half the time she doesn't even cook anything, she serves it up raw.  She simply is not as well rounded or skilled as most of the other chefs.

This is true!  Unless Heather honestly thought that the judges might pull a fast one and eliminate chefs from opposing teams it was an incredibly stupid strategy to attack her own teammate.  Heather must honestly have thought that the raw venison trumped their flabby duck skin.  There is no other explanation for her…

I think the producers are going out of their way to ensure that Heather is cast in the most negative light possible.  How manipulative of them was it to have Bev go on about being in an abusive relationship then cut back to Heather yelling at her to let the duck skin render longer?

Some of us are chefs, I suspect.

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I like how she defended the egg when Tom looked skeptical, "I like an egg on my burger!"  I bet she does!

Or perhaps a guinea pig: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I think he's willingness to man up on the steaks is what saved him…had he tried to shift the blame he might have been ousted.

I'm thinking we might see a few more eps like this…Tom is probably still recovering from back surgery so he is pulling no punches with this group.

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