Ozersky: So, what’s the verdict? Do you think Tre had it coming?Īmuse Biatch: No. Ozersky: You know, you have a very dirty mind, Biatch! Walking tear duct Casey “Beaver Boots” Thompson chopping onions? Perfect!Īmuse Biatch: And it was also perfect that Dale is bad at shucking oysters.Īmuse Biatch: He was appropriately better with stiff whites. What incompetence! It totally proves they picked her for her admittedly stunning looks.Īmuse Biatch: I loved how suited the tasks were to personality. Ozersky: Casey at the bat with the onions was the shadiest thing I’ve seen on this show yet. Ozersky: I loved it … that was the first time I thought real cooking skills actually came into play. What did you think about that Demise en Place? Ozersky: The sommelier? Yeah, what was his deal? He was as chatty and pompous as The Boob from Yellow Submarine.Īmuse Biatch: He always wears ties as big as his ego.

There was Madonna’s brother, ten minutes of Tre pumping iron in his wife-beater, and less than one second of Lia in her low-cut cocktail dress, a spectacle I would have been willing to pay-per-view.Īmuse Biatch: And there was another gay element, though it wasn’t as juicy as it might have been: Dale, Hung, and Stephen Asprinio Ozersky: Ew … you know, I actually feel like this whole episode was one for the gay team. Something about liking it just a little bit raw. “Howie has been here.”Īmuse Biatch: I thought of it as a tender love call. Ozersky: How about the whole Howie-Joey dynamic tonight? I love how Joey got the undercooked lamb chops and immediately saw his old friend’s handiwork in them. Everyone always went on about his skills, but he screwed up practically everything he ever made, from ribs to bread pudding. Ozersky: It was, but I never thought Tre was that good. Ozersky: Were you not totally surprised that Tre got the mitten?Īmuse Biatch: Raggaydy Andy Cohen promised on his blog today that this episode was a shocker. Even as the onetime favorite was packing his knife roll, we were sprinting to the computer for a catty IM chat with blogger Amuse Biatch, filling in this week for Adam Platt, who is in the restaurant-critic protection program. In the main event, Sara and Howie’s team bounced back to win, while the CJ-Tre group bottomed out - a failing for which Tre, as executive chef, took the fall.

A Quickfire Challenge in which teams needed to perform simple kitchen tasks like cutting onions had no real prize but was wildly dramatic anyway, as Casey single-handedly sunk her squad with her plodding slicing style.

This week’s Top Chef was a good one, a do-over of last week’s failed restaurant openings. Casey chokes on the onions and confirms that she was cast for looks, not talent.

Stephen asperino