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Wedding Wars

Wedding Wars - It's bride versus groom as the chefs burn the midnight oil to see who takes the cake.

2008.05.07
2008.05.08
N/A

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Air/Pub'l

Grade

Author

4-8
Recap

Family Dinners with Funny Uncle Ben

Common Threads - Antonia totally cheats and uses her experience as a single parent to win both a quickfire and an elimination challenge about stretching a buck and feeding a family. How dare she?

2008.04.30
2008.05.06
B

LuluBates

4-7
Recap

Flop Sweat

Improv - After a Second City improv troupe delivers a colorful and emotional Elimination challenge, Jen does it for Zoi with an unintentionally comedic dish of phallic asparagus and gets sent home for erectile dysfunction.

2008.04.23
2008.05.01
B+

Chuck

4-6
Recap

Stupid Displeasures

Tailgating - Ryan hits the road for his inarticulate -- but very wordy -- approach to tailgating fare, serving bread salad and poached pears (yes, you read that right) to hungry football fans.

2008.04.16
2008.04.21
B-

Chuck

4-5
Recap

The Elements

The Elements - Which probably wasn't what Team Earth had in mind, but Zoi would rather talk about how she loves to use seasonings than just shut up and use them.

2008.04.09
2008.04.15
B-

Chuck

4-5
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The Elements

The Elements - Don't forget the salt! A contestant is forced to pack their knives after forgetting to season.

2008.04.09
2008.04.10
N/A

Chuck

4-4
Recap

Film Food

Film Food - The cheftestants divide into teams along gender lines and imagine dishes based on their favorite films for a movie-themed dinner party.

2008.04.02
2008.04.07
B

Chuck

4-3
Recap

Block Party

Block Party - OK, we get it. If you're transporting food to serve later, choose your menu items carefully. Can we move on, please?

2008.03.26
2008.04.02
C

Chuck

4-2
Recap

Zoo Food

Zoo Food - After grazing at a farmer's market for the Quickfire, a high concept Elimination turns the cheftestants into animals and goes to the birds. Blame-resistant Valerie gets axed for some bad-idea blinis.

2008.03.20
2008.03.24
D

Chuck

4-2
Recaplet

Zoo Food

Zoo Food - The chefs get wild with an animal-themed challenge.

2008.03.19
2008.03.20
A+

Chuck

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