Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Tom Colicchio On Bravo's "Top Chef" Season 5

Tom Colicchio On Bravo's

Chef Tom Colicchio kicks off the fifth season of Bravo's "Top Chef" (premieres 9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12) with a particularly brutal Quickfire Challenge (that will also result in one cheftestant being eliminated): Peel 15 apples using a paring knife! (Good luck not cutting your fingers off, kids.) The first group to finish without hacking up the apples is safe, and the bottom group must move on to a second, even more harrowing challenge.

Launching the whole season with an apple-peeling challenge feels a little uncreative and arbitrary. Do the judges really care about knife skills so much that they'd eliminate someone based on them in the first few minutes of the show? On the other hand, don't knife skills reflect, in part, how well a chef will handle the pressures of a chaotic kitchen?

Sure enough, the cockiest cheftestant finishes his apples with a snicker and a shrug, like he can't help it that he's surrounded by a herd of intolerable amateurs. This is exactly the attitude that we've seen in other winners, from Harold Dieterle to Hung Huynh. I'm willing to bet good money that this guy (to remain unnamed) will end up in the final five.

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