Thank you for this and your second answer. I was really curious. Knowing that it goes back all the way to season 3 clears up any question in my mind.

Please no, I am grateful we were spared of her presence this season.

If I am not mistaken, she was the first to go for cooking the same dish that sent her home before in the exact same way.
She felt that her dish was good and the judges were wrong the fist time.
Then in confessional, she regretted returning.

That Nick business was bad all around. You make a great point

God, I forgot that raw turkey business.

ROFLMAO

I don't think he cut corners, I also don't think he intended to make a bad dish, it just didn't workout for him.
I guess, my perspective as someone who is in recovery also is that at times we can be so hard on ourselves as part of our personal healing / redemption work. This reminds me of one of those instances.

Is that a good thing?

Unfortunately.

I've just wondered if the previous elimination challenge did not play a bigger part in Jamie's decision to give up his immunity. We see the episodes a week later, but for the participants it couldn't have been more than 48 hrs.
That means that twice is a span of two days, Jamie gets by in spite of his mistakes because…

She then criticizes the decisions the other chefs make.

Thanks.

LMAO.

I am not going to pretend to remember every season's cast, but I don't recall any with more than two black chefs. I have noticed that there is a certain point where it is too early to have them all gone, when they get down to 5 or 6 it happens.
My focus isn't only on those, I always notice the number of boxes that are…

As I said in my first post, he is the only left and there are 9 chefs. The optics of numbers matter to producers.

That is a much better description.

As annoying as it is to us, it is what brings many viewers back.

Which is OK with him unless you apply the same game play against him. Then he gets whinny about it.

This is the word I use to describe myself as a person of color. I don't say African American, I say I am a black person.
That's where it comes from, not an intention to be racist or discrimating against anyone. Simply, my personal habit.

Disruptive may not have been the best adjective but it's OK, we can disagree on that.