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Debbie is a phony and she need to go home .If she is not sent packing tonight we can be assured that the fix is in.Hopefully they will get rid of Melissa she grins too much. she is not is not believable I agree with that female judge early in the season she would make me crazy watching her through an entire show

Jeffrey was a total idiot. Here is what he should have done and it would have been great, and won the challenge.

Red, White, and Blue Lobster and Blueberry Salad American Flag

Boil and shell lobster, slice into into half inch thick strips with some red "skin" on each strip.

Prepare a simple lemon creme: Beat heavy cream to soft peaks, fold in lemon zest and powdered sugar.

Arrange lobster strips on a rectangular plate like the stripes on an American flag.

Fill the upper left portion of the plate with the lemon creme, about half an inch in depth.

Arrange a solid single layer of blueberries on the creme, and press them into the creme so creme comes up between blueberries like white stars on a blue field.

Make a sauce of fresh orange juice, smoked sea salt (the third ingredient in Jeffrey's Maine basket), and tarragon. Reduce by a third, strain and mount with butter over heat. Pour over lobster portion of the flag.

I'm going to make this for 4th of July. What a great photo for USA Today Weekend!

Howard N

@DJ Dedd: Jamika. With a J.

Melissa rocked this episode. Michael did great too. They're my two favorites at this point. I'd love to see a show with either of them cuz they feel authentic, and they make stuff I feel like I'd want to make.
Debbie should *know* better than to walk up behind someone in a kitchen without announcing herself.

As for Jeffrey's "disaster" - I'm curious what others would have made with his ingredients? I mean, what kind of dish would you expect with blueberries and *lobster* and salt.

Combining blueberries, which have a really strong flavor, with lobster, seems really hard. I think he got a much harder combo than the other folks.

FWIW - one thing I thought of was a lobster and cheese-filled Monte Cristo sandwich with blueberry dipping sauce.

My point was/is that if FN sees all you folks getting gooey about their offerings, guess how much more of the stuff they are going to produce (sic).

Folks that comment here just to trash the show and the rest of us commenting on it really need to get a life. This is still Tamika's to win. There's at least four chefs that need to get eliminated before this even starts getting to be a contest. It will take a miracle for Katie to last another week.

@bojo14: I did not intend for that comment to be offensive or bigoted-sounding, and apologize if it did. I was just noting that Food Network probably loved that soundbite -- as they would if any female contestant said it -- but might wait for after-hours to show the more intimate content, just like any other channel.

I want Melissa to cook my friends and me a snack when we get home from school every day. Seriously, she’s the heiress to the Sara Moulton (one of my all time favorites, fyi) crown.

@bojo I had a similar exchange with someone on the FN blog, and to be fair, some people found Michael's comment a bit racy and even disrespectful to Bobby. I couldn't help but find that a bit homophobic, but ultimately I think some people are just easily taken aback, and not nec bigoted.

And to all you haters out there (Fred, Pavlov), you give us flak for talking about this stuff but you're on here talking about us talking about, not sure which one of us really needs a life. You also dont get it obviously, trashy tv is fun precisely because its trashy.

You folks that think these people, and this type of cooking are interesting, really need to get a life.

The whole show is just silly... and the contestants are even more so! I Haven't seen a lick of culinary talent amongst all these assmunches! Am I the only one to notice the guy who has won the most is in F!@#$*% real estate?! TVFN is so wrapped up in the "faux drama" aspect of the show, trying to find a "personality"

They forgot what TVFN was once about... oh I dunno, what's that stuff called again?!.... FOOD you dumbasses!!! Hell your crappy network even has FOOD in the title, you would think someone would notice. Like for instance the VP of programming who was there tasting the shit food and making sure to have his face on TV for half the show!

I got sucked into watching two of these crappy shows last night and today I feel like I may have actually lost I.Q. points because of it! Holy shit, where's the asprin, and what does an aneurysm feel like?!