All that's left of Mattin is his red scarf. Tear. So Mike I. decides that they're all going to pay homage to Mattin by wearing red scarves that day. Luckily, Mattin left a supply of scarves. Or the producers supplied them. Mike I. passes out the scarves to everyone and interviews that he thinks Mattin should have stayed and Robin should be gone, because she sucks. Thus begins the theme of this week's episode: "Everyone Hates Robin (Who Sucks at Cooking)."
The ladies are getting ready to head to the kitchen for the day. Robin keeps babbling at Laurine and Jen, who just kind of roll their eyes at her nonsense. Jen interviews that everyone thinks Robin should have been the one to go, but before you feel too bad for Robin, SHE interviews that she knows everyone thinks she should have been the one to go. Before they leave, Robin has to ask Mike I. for a red scarf, even though he was freely doling them out to everyone else. He does give her one, though. And then she puts it in her pocket instead of around her neck like everyone else, so I think she secretly likes being the outcast.
Quickfire Challenge. The cheftestants walk into the kitchen and Padma chuckles over the fact that they're all wearing red scarves. Padma is standing with chef Michelle Bernstein, whom Kevin explains likes "clean and simple" food. Padma explains that Vegas is all about temptation, which is all about the angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other. She specifies that the angel is on the left shoulder, although I would think the devil would be there, since the left is sinister and all. Anyway, the challenge is to make a duo that represents the good and bad sides of the chef's brains in one hour, and the winner gets immunity.
Mad scramble. Product placement. Ash decides to do a custard duo. DING DING DING! Custards = bad on this show. They never set right, or they taste weird, or the curdle or something. BAD IDEA. Eli is going to do the most obvious interpretation, which involves making one dish really fatty and artery-clogging and the other really healthy. Eli goes on to interview with a chuckle that he's "the best bleeping cook there," which I think is tongue in cheek given past Eli quotes, but then again, maybe he really does think that. But I think he was mostly kidding. Robin is taking it personally and talks about how she had cancer so she's not supposed to eat sugar (I haven't heard about this anti-cancer sugar diet; I mean, I get that sugar is generally not the healthiest ingredient but I hadn't heard about a post-cancer non-sugar diet). So she's always trying to balance her need to eat healthy with her desire to eat sweets. Like pretty much every other person on the planet except my brother who doesn't like candy, because he's a freaking weirdo. Bryan says that he's won lots of Elimination Challenges but no Quickfires, and he thinks he's been trying to do too much.














