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does anyone else think eli's peanut + apple + something pink soup sounds or at least looks kind of weird?

Eli's kind of weird

Finally, Robin packs her knives

Somebody stick a knife in Jen please...

stick a knife in jen?! watch it!
she's my girl, i'd personally stick a fork in her food- and eat it...mmm

How come there's only one Voltaggio in those pics?

Haven't seen it yet (West Coast)

but yeah, it's high time Robin gets the axe, if that's the case.

Eli's dish, I mean cup, looked like cotton candy.
Michael is so conceited, what he does looks amazing, but I find his personality hard to handle. What does he mean? Kevin is awesome!

Jen : (
She was sooo good in the beginning.

I too thought Jen was a contender in the beginning. She was winning challenges and seemed really confident.

Then she did a crappy quickfire one day, and the wheels started coming off. She may be one of those people who needs a sports psychologist type to keep them pumped up. "You are talented. You are a good person."

Yeah, Micheal is starting to grate on me but I still think he deserves to win. His food is will executed, refined and well thought out. He does have a major superiority complex though. He's a cute guy but it makes him look very unattractive. And that comment about "the kind of food I cook on my day off" was under the belt.

Brian, Micheal, and Kevin are going to be the top 3. I like Kevin's personality the best but I think it's going to go to Brian or Micheal. But I would be ok with any of the three winning.

SOOOOOooooo glad Robin is gone. How she made it this long is besides me.

They're calling Kevin "The Gastro-Gnome" over on the Onion AV Club.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/strip-around-the-world,35288/

I really don't like Michael. His food is impressive, but I rarely actually want to eat it. I find a lot of his winning dishes kind of gross - parmesan jelly, liquid nitrogen treated soup. I get what he's doing, but between finding it generally unappetizing, so his attitude seems really out of place. Also, I was offended at his attributing buffalo wings to New York city. That might have just been me, though.

Kevin just seems like he's on a different level than everyone else. His food's not really that simple, but it's always so well-executed that it seems that way. It seems like he's #1 or #2 on almost every challenge. Last night's salmon and the vegetarian dish show that he can do more than just hearty pork fare - it's just that it feels like he's never taking risks because he's so low-drama and so high-quality.

I like both the Voltaggios. How do you know Kevin is a nice guy? Hello? Editing! This season is more about talent than drama so the producers/editors are really stretching for drama/controversy. Michael's comment is well founded but as Tom mentioned on one of his blogs, sometimes it comes down to something as simple as seasoning(which we can't taste via a tv screen) so sometimes simplistic dishes you make at home win over more technically complicated and time consuming.

I wish Jen would win, but I can't even imagine that kind of pressure and she's flailing. Plus, now she's the lone female which is a hard cross to bear.

Michael isn't a dick. he is a middle/younger child who is smarter than you.

i'm sure that Bryan, Eli, Kevin and Jennifer are great chefs, but none of them want to supply the lube for your fap-tasm of self-indulgent self doubt.

the competition is the exciting part.

Robin was the molasses slow slack-jawed annoyance who was edited in for pumped up conflict.

how about gearing up to think some how and somewhat past that?

if you can't then get a towel.