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Top Chef 14: Charleston

HailToTheDeacons said:
Damn, it was painful watching the second team in action. John's emotional regression was pretty funny, though; "you rat-fucked me, Katsuji!"

I figured it was over for Katsuji once they aired his immigration story, which was about the only agreeable thing he's ever uttered in two seasons.

Really small nitpick, but did anyone else think it was BS that Katsuji didn't get to choose night 1 or 2, but rather had to win a coin-flip? He just picked second, at least give him the night selection (not that it mattered).
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Not sure I follow this. He didn't pick 2nd. He picked John second to last, and Emily went to Shirley.
 
Maybe I got the details wrong, but whoever picked second should've been given the selection of service night IMO. Instead, there was a coin flip for night selection.
 
unless there were other shenanigans going on that were edited out I don't see the advantage of going 1st or 2nd night. If anything, katsuji's team should've had more time to get their shit together.
 
There was a comment from Tom that made it sound like their expectations would be the same or even higher for the second night because of the additional planning time.

It obviously didn't matter, though. Shirley's team decimated Katsuji's team.
 
woulda been a different ballgame if katsuji had picked emily instead of john
 
Going 2nd should have absolutely been an advantage. More time for menu planning, sourcing ingredients and front of the house items, divvying up responsibilities, etc.

Unfortunately, John was just a horrible executive chef. Still makes zero sense why Sheldon wasn't given the reigns to that team.
 
I don't think they had extra time for sourcing. It looks like each team was given two days: one for shopping/prep and the other service. So the second team started their shopping/prep day the day the first team did service. And they pretty much sat around the house during the first team's shopping/prep day when pretty much all they could was menu plan.
 
tigerswood said:
Going 2nd should have absolutely been an advantage. More time for menu planning, sourcing ingredients and front of the house items, divvying up responsibilities, etc.

Unfortunately, John was just a horrible executive chef. Still makes zero sense why Sheldon wasn't given the reigns to that team.
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i seriously doubt they gave the 2nd team more time to do these things. they might have more time to refine menu and discuss strategy in the home
 
TownieDeac said:
woulda been a different ballgame if katsuji had picked emily instead of john
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probably. emily dodges another bullet

i think from the TV viewer's perspective it's clear that john was going to be a terrible leader/team player but the guy runs restaurants so Katsuji's strategy wasn't awful, just his decision to make 3 dishes
 
I mean I don't think they could have taken their cell phones from them to prevent them from calling whole foods/restaurant depot and seeing what was available, but maybe that was written in the rules.

Either way, still an advantage to menu plan and divvy up the responsibilities. The fact that with all that time, no one knew that John was solely planning on expediting and not cooking during service is absurd.
 
tigerswood said:
I mean I don't think they could have taken their cell phones from them to prevent them from calling whole foods/restaurant depot and seeing what was available, but maybe that was written in the rules.

Either way, still an advantage to menu plan and divvy up the responsibilities. The fact that with all that time, no one knew that John was solely planning on expediting and not cooking during service is absurd.
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iirc their cell phone usage is severely limited during filming. This is why they have to memorize baking recipes, etc.

I was super confused by Katsuji's immigration story, he made it seem like he still might not be legal and rather than tell him to become legal, culinary school agreed to hide it if he became a good chef? That seems shady.
 
tigerswood said:
I mean I don't think they could have taken their cell phones from them to prevent them from calling whole foods/restaurant depot and seeing what was available, but maybe that was written in the rules.

Either way, still an advantage to menu plan and divvy up the responsibilities. The fact that with all that time, no one knew that John was solely planning on expediting and not cooking during service is absurd.
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I think they give them phones to use in situations like this. You always see them calling between Restaurant Depot and Whole Foods during RW challenges.
 
ChicdeaC said:
iirc their cell phone usage is severely limited during filming. This is why they have to memorize baking recipes, etc.

I was super confused by Katsuji's immigration story, he made it seem like he still might not be legal and rather than tell him to become legal, culinary school agreed to hide it if he became a good chef? That seems shady.
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more or less the story of half the restaurant industry
 
Emily passing on all of those blind taste tests is just SO Emily.
 
So is making cake at a $500 per ticket event. They were being kind to just how bad of an idea that was


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