On Feb 3, 9:39*pm, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:40:39 -0800, sf > wrote:
>
> >Nope. *Never heard of it. What channel is it on, The Shopping Network?
>
> >> Each to own, and all that.
>
> >Yeah.
>
> Bravo TV

Not anymore - it moved to Lifetime this year. 9 p.m. CST on
Thursdays. There have only been two episodes so far, so you can start
watching and not miss much.

N.

In article >,
Kate Connally > wrote:


> These people are so bad, or were so bad at the beginning, that
> I wonder it they are "faking" their incompetence to make the show
> more interesting.

My suspicion exactly. Of course, most taped shows have far more footage
than is actually used. I would suspect culling for the worst on the
first show, and showing only the best on the last show.

> Very entertaining for a reality show. And it makes me feel
> like a cordon bleu chef. ;-)

Of course, that's a big part of it, also.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

In article
>,
Nancy2 > wrote:

> > OK, I've seen this show twice and to tell you the truth I wasn't
> > watching it with both eyes but that's how I watch tv. *As far as I
> > could tell, the chefs were pretty good at instructing their teams in
> > basic technique and directed them from the observation box without
> > intimidation. *Frankly, the chefs seemed to be reminding their teams a
> > lot about cooking 101, which is read the *entire* recipe first and
> > wash your hands. *Nobody was yelled at and there didn't seem to be any
> > pressure, so I don't understand why some team members fell apart. *I
> > think they were just being drama queens.

I suspect that not only were the two shows you watched not enough to
figure out what was going on, but that you watched the later shows,
where they had already eliminated the worst of the worst, by yelling at
them and making fun of them, and generally trying to make them fall
apart and FAIL.

> I thought Anne Burrell was the master of negativity. She made fun of
> most of her team at one time or another; made stupid faces at them
> like a teenager; over-reacted like a ham actor, and generally acted
> like a juvenile. She totally turned me off the program, which didn't
> take much, because who wants to watch failure?

Lots of people seem to want to watch failure. I think that is the
specialty of reality shows.

> I love reality competition programs where a person can learn something
> or see something new - this show, not so much.

Yeah. I only watched it because my wife and daughter had it on, and I'm
not good at ignoring tv. Still, sometimes I went to bed early so I
didn't have to see it all.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

In article >,
sf > wrote:

> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:25:58 -0500, Kate Connally >
> wrote:
>
> > Actually, they did. The chef erased it from the blackboard a short
> > while after they started preparing the dish. If they had copied it
> > into their notebooks at the beginning they would have been okay. But
> > they weren't told the recipe would be "taken away" so they would have
> > assumed they could continue to refer to it as they worked.
>
> I didn't see that one.

Apparently not.

>In the episodes I saw, each person had their
> own recipe on their own recipe card and it wasn't taken away... they
> just didn't refer to it as much as they should have. IMO: the erased
> recipe was an object lesson in "you can't make the dish if you haven't
> memorized the recipe and you never refer to it. I guess the chef's
> should have articulated the concept behind why they erased the recipe
> better

It was pretty obvious why they suddenly erased the recipes, especially
since they had always left them up before, and there was an expectation
they they would be there for reference while cooking. They were trying
to "break" them, to get them to start crying and totally lose it.

> so the audience wouldn't feel so sorry for the contestants.

The "coaches" made a big point of asking the contestants, more than
once, if they had read the recipes. After getting several "yes"
answers, the coaches then erased them.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

In article >,
Kris > wrote:

> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:47:32 -0800, sf > wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:12:12 -0800, sf > wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks, now I need to look up the winner -
> >
> > Ok, I remember her. The dorky one with the big glasses.
> > http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/wor...-test-0004-wmv
> > Congratulations to Rachael and Jen.
>
> Well, I was going to call her "nerdy" but wasn't prepared to deal with
> the backlash. :-D

I'm sure they had the makeup and costume people working overtime on her.
Nobody could look that dorky without a lot of professional help.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA