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On Mar 14, 3:20?pm, ImStillMags wrote:

It's not a bad show, although the other day I thought it was a bit
unfair. There were 3 cooks left, and their basket ingredients for the
main course contained game hens of all things. They were given 20
minutes to finish their dishes. None of the dishes were very good.
The one guy, his hens were still raw. It was terrible. I think they
should have gotten more time; say an hour.
 
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:14:39 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
wrote:
Do the judges then rant at the contestant about how undercooked the
dish is?

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On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:07:11 -0700 (PDT), Portland
wrote:


I guess he should have cut the game hens into pieces. They would have
cooked through in 20 minutes.

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sf wrote:

The 20 minute time frame sort of makes a little sense in that 20 minutes
is about the time a customer in a restaurant is willing to wait for
their food to come out of the kitchen. What does not make any sense is
that the contestant is surprised by mystery ingredients at the start of
that 20 minutes and has no pre-prep time as would exist in a real
restaurant.

What would be much more reasonable would be something like:

- Introduce the mystery ingredients
- Allow 10 minutes to formulate a plan for the dish(es) to make from the
ingredients
- Allow 30 minutes to do the pre-prep for the day which would be normal
in a restaurant with the dish(es) on the menu
- Allow 20 minutes to produce the finished dish(es) to order for the
judges using the pre-prepped components

But these programs have been Hollyweirded by lame producers who value
"drama" over content.
 
On Mar 14, 5:35?pm, sf wrote:

Well there are other ingredients as well. He had them cut in pieces.
He browned them off, except that they were not really brown, then put
them in the oven. Result: raw inside. Not very nice looking.
 
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:01:58 -0600, "Pete C."
wrote:


Right. Even when a chef buys unusual specials for today's menu, they
have more time to think about what they're going to do with it.


Honestly, I thought they had a day or two to come up with recipes and
to request certain ingredients to be stocked in the
pantry/refrigerator and I thought the surprise was feigned. Call me
cynical.

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"sf" wrote in message
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I don't think so. I was actually very astounded that none of them knew what
dulse was. But oh it tastes terrible! I did buy some and tried it. My
friend's mom keeps it on the coffee table for snacks. They live in an area
of Canada where it is harvested.
 
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:00:01 -0700, Dan Abel wrote:


sf: Laughing!

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sf wrote:

That's how it worked on Iron Chef Japan and probably how it works on
Iron Chef America. We often see them start cooking with no discussion
at all so clearly there is time to prepare off camera.

On Chopped it does look like the ingredients are a surpise. Whether
that look is the magic of television editted or genuine I don't know.
 
On Mar 14, 4:33?pm, sf wrote:

Many times, mostly for the proteins - they're often given poultry
which needs time, or some kind of protein that should have long, slow
cooking. It's a tossup sometimes whether the contestants will go for
quick and barely cooked, or try and fail. Of course, there are
entrees that can be done in 20 minutes or 30 minutes, but that time
limit also includes prep, gathering any other ingredients available
that they might want to use, and plating.

N.
 
On Mar 15, 10:55?am, Doug Freyburger wrote:

I believe it is truly genuine surprise. That's one of the points of
the competition. Many times, the chefs don't even know what an
ingredient is or what it tastes like, and I doubt they could all act
well enough to convince us they didn't know when they really did
know. If you know what I mean. ;-)

N.
 
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:01:22 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
wrote:

Okay, thanks. That's boring. Put it in the "reasons why I don't
watch" column then. :)


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On 14/03/2011 4:07 PM, Portland wrote:


Was that one where one of the contenders had recently lost a sister? I
was impressed with the way she could turn on the tears at the right time
and try to get some sympathy points.
 
On Mar 15, 1:22?pm, Dave Smith wrote:

That's right. One contender had lost a sister. I wasn't turned on by
her. She was trying to get the sympathy vote.
 
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:04:52 -0700 (PDT), Portland
wrote:


Sister? I saw one that lost a brother.

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On 15/03/2011 7:04 PM, Portland wrote:


I tuned in part way through the program and she was displaying all kinds
of nasty game attitude. Then when the judges were trying one of her
dishes and faulted her about something she whined that the had just lost
her sister and turned on the tears.
 
"sf" wrote in message
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Half the contestants have a hard luck story of some sort. Lost a close
relative, have a disease, I'm doing this for dearly departed mom, it will
fund my kids new crutches, etc. Sometimes I think instead of a cash prize,
the winner should get psychiatric counseling. We all have problems but
don't wear them on our sleeve.
 
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