Yes, and the choices made total sense to me. If I were in that position, I'd pick a female student's mystery bag over a dude's in an instant.

This just in, Andy Cohen is actually straight, and has been "closeted" as a gay man, as an excuse to explain his over the top personality.

Yeah, actually during the dinner shots, after Mei left the table, Jacques commented that he liked the way the skin turned out and pointed out that it is very hard to do in Duck à l’orange.

That's a nice idea, but it might be a violation of the parameters of the challenge, since the food would be cooking overnight, even though Doug wouldn't be doing anything.

The Boston Whole Foods has a special F*** Animal Rights section.

Doug's dish was a huge gamble, unfortunately, it didn't pay off. It's too bad too, because of all the dishes being prepared when Jacques and Tom did the walk through, his was the one they seemed genuinely excited about. I don't think he really thought the cooking of it through. It appeared from the edit, that he…

That "someone" who won with Dale was none other than Richard Blais. They had the emotion of Confusion, and I think it was Richard's idea to basically flavor the tofu with beef fat.

Yeah, that dinky plunger thingy they were using wasn't up to the task. I bought mine about 20 years ago, and the model I have is also a pasta extruder. Back then, it came with a big round cylindrical case for the blades and the pasta plates, that doubled as a plunger. That thing works pretty well as it almost fills…

I have a kitchenaid and the meat grinder/sausage attachment, and you're right, it's not great, but given that they only needed to produce what, maybe one pound of sausage tops to get their dish done, I think an hour is enough time…but only if you are experienced at making sausage, dealing with casings, etc. It…

Doug making a carrot soup in an elimination challenge is the ballsiest thing I've seen on this show all season.

Potato - potahto

I'm not surprised either. It usually really comes down to taste. Although Katsuji's interpretation was more obvious and literal than Gregory's, most of the judges didn't seem to like the purees he threw all over it. I think if he hadn't used quite as much, it might have worked. I think it would have been cool, and…

Neal wasn't rewarded with a promotion because the guy skipped out on work for several months. There's no excuse for that sort of slackerdom and it will not be rewarded.

Excellent point. I'd forgotten about the time period.

Actually, it is what got George eliminated in a way. The very first quick-fire of the season was the Mise En Place relay race, and it was a sudden death quick fire. That was part of the reason it seemed really unfair. You've just met these people, so you have no idea what each team member's strong suits are. That…

Yes ma'am. Free range from a local farm here right outside of Boston.

That whole episode was so unpleasant, I totally lost interest. They officially went off the rails for me. I know the character's actions on AHS often don't make much sense, but this time around it strained credibility. I don't buy two of Jimmy's coworkers just wondering off while he was confronting a guy he said…

I really enjoyed the structure tweaks. I thought it was a little surprising but great that most of the castoffs voted for George to have a chance back in, since he really got a raw deal with that sudden death quickfire right out of the gate. I'm also intrigued by the tweaks to LCK.

Not that it matters, but I call bullshit on Blais' pantry including a cylinder of liquid nitrogen…from a Whole Foods…really? It's certainly not just sitting on the shelves at my local Whole Foods. Besides, that's not even an ingredient.

I imagine if Mei had been eliminated, there would have been some fireworks. That was a total dick move by Melissa. Rushing over to snag the ingredient you want to use is part of the game, and to just steal it from another contestant is just wrong.