Top Chef

This is going to be a short re-cap since I know our AI ones are so long.  Also I don't know much about cooking so I can't get too in-depth on the dishes etc.  Padma Lakshi is back and the scar on her arm is as prominent as ever.  I;m so curious where she got that.

So we meet the 15 new chefs, which include a guy named Spike, a lesbian couple, a Kiwi, and a guy that uses some kind of weird gas in cooking, among others I've forgotten what's interesting about them (if anything).  

The first quickfire challenge brings them to a gigantic house in Chicago (where this season is taking place) and they meet former famous chef Rocco Dispirito.  The challenge to create their own signature deep dish pizza, since duh its chicago.  Didn't see that one coming.  There are some classic delicious sounding ones and some nasty ass sounding pizzas, like one with peaches and other with pickled something (does it even matter, its pickled).  Some of them don't even look like pizza, more like quiche or something.  Anyway.  The judges like New Zealander Marc, who bravely put Marmite in his pizza, because yes, he is from New Zealand.  I used to have a roommate from Australia and she had some Marmite and that shit smelled disgusting, but they love it.  Go figure.  Padma and Rocco also surprisingly (to them and me) like the peachy pizza. They hated Nikkis white pizza and some other girl's one with prosciutto.  

The winners of the challenge got to pick another chef to compete against in a cook-off of classic dishes.  Among the choice were duck l'orange, eggs benedict, shrimp scampi and i guess the hardest one, souffle, which sounds kind of fun ot me, but i guess difficult.  The chefs went to Whole Foods (where, Whole Foods) and got ingredients.  There was some crisis with mayonnaise that I chose to ignore since I hate mayo, gross.  There was also some kind of smoking device and failed flan.  

Anyway bottom four was Nimma, the guy who made souffle, Marc (duck) and someone (i think named Brian) who has been cooking since the age of 11 (!) but didnt know what the chicken dish was (omg he breaded it) and is really cocky. Nimma is kicked out cause she was whiny and oversalted her "simple" shrimp. And she also made Cauliflower Cauliflower something.  

Im interested to see what happens with the couple, since any couple in a reality show competition is interesting (I don't think I;ve seen it before).  Let's see who has to pack up their knives and cuts out next LOL.