Hell's Kitchen and Top Chef?

[Cataholic]

Oh, that was the first HK of the next season, last night's? I think the guy is a bit over the top with his language. I wondered how the one girl was to know that you don't feel raw fish to a pregnant woman. Are you to ask the customer? "Hey, are you pregnant, or just fat"? Should the wait staff ask that same question to someone when they serve alcohol?

These shows are all the same- drama and more drama.

[RICHARD]

Oh, that was the first HK of the next season, last night's? I think the guy is a bit over the top with his language. I wondered how the one girl was to know that you don't feel raw fish to a pregnant woman. Are you to ask the customer? "Hey, are you pregnant, or just fat"? Should the wait staff ask that same question to someone when they serve alcohol?

These shows are all the same- drama and more drama.

I start to watch and get discouraged because of stuff like that!

In the last 5-10 years we have have been bombarded with the bad fish, bad breathing, bad water, bad cellphoned, bad mold stories that we MUST be careful about what we eat.

Now, I can see a pregnant woman from Cambodia who lives by, fishes a river and eats contaminated fish every day....

Does that translate to a woman in CA that eats a dish of farm raised shrimp in a sushi bar?

Or, what about the woman who makes a HUGE deal about her having a kid and why did the restaurant serve her a raw shrimp, when she goes home, drops a lap top onto her uterus and irradiates the poor fetus for hours at a stretch?

PM, You spelled Quaaludes correctly, I know that from reading the packages!

GR asked the dude to pick a name, this em effer was way out of line.

It's great TV, but I am waiting for someone to flip out and stab someone!

[sparks19]

Oh, that was the first HK of the next season, last night's? I think the guy is a bit over the top with his language. I wondered how the one girl was to know that you don't feel raw fish to a pregnant woman. Are you to ask the customer? "Hey, are you pregnant, or just fat"? Should the wait staff ask that same question to someone when they serve alcohol?

These shows are all the same- drama and more drama.

Well this particular chef was supposedly an EXECUTIVE chef at some restaurant.... you DON'T feed RAW shrimp to ANYONE farmed or not lol. Especially not when you are an Executive chef. YOu should KNOW better... and KNOW how long shrimp needs to be cooked. I thought the whole up play of her being pregnant was stupid. I mean who CARES that she was pregnant... you don't feed raw shrimp to people in a restaurant

But... it's all really played up for american television. his BBC shows are WAY more tame. although the swearing is the same but I think that's a cultural thing.

[blue]

Well this particular chef was supposedly an EXECUTIVE chef at some restaurant.... you DON'T feed RAW shrimp to ANYONE farmed or not lol. Especially not when you are an Executive chef. YOu should KNOW better... and KNOW how long shrimp needs to be cooked.

I thought the same but I came across this.

It is a delicacy for shrimp to be prepared raw in sushi. Though some connoisseurs may go after it for the fresh taste, shrimp is considered to be the tastiest when lightly heated and medium rare, since the sweet flavor is magnified. If it is poached too long, the flesh becomes too hard, and the flavors are bled out into the boiling water and you are left with a rubbery piece of shrimp. When consumed raw (which has to be extra fresh), shrimp has a slight metallic aftertaste that lingers on your palate and can mask the tastes of the following sushi that you may eat. Therefore raw shrimp is usually served as a sashimi in Japanese cuisine, prepared by lightly washing it in chilled water (arai method) and served with citrus and herbs to counter the after taste.

Link.

[carole]

I really don't think the swearing is a cultural thing, maybe the odd B word, but his F words, are not ,I am sure our Brits can tell us for sure.

I used to enjoy his shows, but i am so over him now, he is just OTT with his language, it becomes tiresome, he has a new show starting here soon, i might give him a few minutes of my time, you can cook along with him, so hopefully his swearing might be down-played and i might enjoy watching him again, here's hoping.

[RICHARD]

I thought the same but I came across this.



Link.

Thanks, I was just about to mention that!

Black Tiger Shrimp, raw, is one of the most wonderful seafood types there is on the planet, it's really a tie between that and an oyster shooter.

I agree that serving a raw shrimp in a dish that is ordered as a cooked shrimp dish is very irritating, But I think that a consumer/dinner has to use the same precautions when ordering a dish like that.


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I would equate that to a person with a peanut allergy showing up at a baseball game, coming in contact with a bag o' nuts, getting sick and suing the club because they allowed peanuts to be sold and consumed in the bleachers.

Um, they mention it in the song twice, peanuts and cracker jacks?


Do they care if they ever get back?

Well, It's root, root, root for the home team, and if they don't win do we all get a refund?

[sparks19]

ewww... well... OK I guess my palate is not high class lol cause I wouldn't eat it raw lol. not worth it to me. I like the taste just fine cooked thank you lol.

but yeah the idea was the dish was a COOKED shrimp dish. that coupled with the fact that she did NOT know how to CLEAN shrimp? and coupled with what happened with her the episode before. sorry... she desreved to go home... maybe not based on the one raw shrimp thing but as a whole... she wasn't performing. and yeah if I had gotten raw shrimp I would NOT have been happy since that's NOT what I ordered lol.

but I also don't eat sushi.

and as for the language... I guess maybe it's just american BBC shows but I hear A LOT of bleeps. and on Ramsey's shows on BBC it's not just him being bleeped all the time... it's the others on the show too.

[RICHARD]

ewww... well... OK I guess my palate is not high class lol cause I wouldn't eat it raw lol. not worth it to me. I like the taste just fine cooked thank you lol.

Oh no, please don't think you need a high class palate to eat sushi.

When the 'fad' started about 25 years ago, you have to find a REAL sushi chef to eat, now it's very common and you can get little trays at local supermarkets..

Some people do not care for or cannot eat seafood in any way, but you can get a rocking good veggie/sushi roll or

http://www.ask.com/bar?q=veggie+sush...recipes.org%2F

[anna_66]

I watched HK last night and wow...he has to pick one of these people? I feel sorry for him.
He needs to kick Joseph's a$$, seriously he is a real jerk! Lovely & Tennille need to go home asap!

[sparks19]

Oh no, please don't think you need a high class palate to eat sushi.

When the 'fad' started about 25 years ago, you have to find a REAL sushi chef to eat, now it's very common and you can get little trays at local supermarkets..

Some people do not care for or cannot eat seafood in any way, but you can get a rocking good veggie/sushi roll or

http://www.ask.com/bar?q=veggie+sush...recipes.org%2F

High class was the wrong word....

Maybe... an immature palate LOL.

Actually not so much my palate but I just can't get past the idea of eating it raw lol. stupid brain plays tricks on me.