In this series the judges know before hand who is cooking the menu so Tony being in the comic wouldn't have mattered. He should have gone through.
oh so they know the chef for each dish? I didnt realise . That's my conspiracy theory blown up then.
I shall just have to claim racism or bullying in true DS style
So the chef who most met the brief is eliminated.....Tony was robbed
Loved Tony and his great attempts at meeting 'the brief' but Michael was always going to be the winner for me - very biased maybe for all the wrong reasons!! :D:o
Michael's accent (Inverness region and as I come originally from there) is music to my ears!
It reminds me of last week, when Matt - who had adhered to the brief - was kicked out. It resulted in Tom Aikens being a guaranteed shoo-in.
I absolutely adore Michael and think he is impossibly gorgeous and a very nice and thoroughly decent guy, but this outcome surely makes him a shoo-in too. I would have liked to have seen him triumph on fairer (in terms of the brief) grounds.
And again, a second week, where one person goes through who totally fails to fulfil the brief. The only humorous dish he did was the main with the helium.........
Tony should have gone through with Michael.
It's almost as if there's a plot to make sure that their favourite goes through with a competitor who is bound to lose.
I'm getting really pissed off again, and it's only the second week.
I think it's a bad idea to have your dish include a red nose. The eventual guests surely don't want to sit down to a red nose in each course, so at most only one red-nose dish will eventually be chosen? So you're cutting your chances by creating one.
I'm putting forward my guess that the other bloke's fish dish is the one Oliver is non too keen on going by the preview clip (*Yay! Grumpy Oliver returns )
I really liked the ideas behind Tony's dishes, but the amount preparation, work and skill that went into them was way below the other two, none of his dishes would have made it anywhere near the banquet, so I think Angela's judging was fair.
It was good to have a week where there was very few occasions where any of the chefs aimed a silly comment at one of his fellow chefs though Tony did resort to this on one occasion yesterday, possibly because Michael inadvertently switched his hob off.
I like Angela as a judge. She doesn't repeat the same mantras that some of the others do and I think she should let her hair down more often. Tony's main seemed to be marked very harshly though and in effect it gave him little chance going into the dessert course.
Overall I thought most of the dishes were more in keeping with the brief than the previous week, particularly Michael and Tony although I thought Mark's dessert had a fun side to it. I think Angela felt Tony overdid it though.
Difficult to know what sort of dishes the judges are going to want at this year's banquet. The 'party' type such as dooking for the doughnuts or something more 'cheffy' with a gimmick to add the humour. I guess it might be a mixture of the two with the dessert being more the fun dish.
Going out tonight for a friends birthday - can't believe I will miss the regional final.
Irony is my friend picked the restaurant yesterday (without knowing GBM was on) and has picked Restaurant Mark Greenaway! Feel like I'm tempting fate by eating in the 'enemy' camp at the same time as the final is actually on the telly 😁 Anyway fingers crossed....
Some very low marking this week to begin with. It was similar to last week in that there was a front runner who was some distance ahead of the others. It seems from the comments of the other chefs yesterday that Tony's pastry wasn't properly cooked underneath - which Angela didn't mention, oddly enough, instead just saying something vague about the finish of his dish, I think.
During this round, Mark seemed like an underdog and even though he was a pastry chef and produced an impressive looking dessert, it still seemed to get mostly negative reaction from her, and not as high a mark as Michael did for his, despite also a negative (damning with faint praise) remark about Michael's dessert. It was a similar situation with Mark's and Michael's main course. Tony's main was readily dismissed as a bit below par in the same way that his dessert didn't seem to make the grade. This left him with a poor starter (similar to Mark, who also had a low mark of 5) and two other dishes considered mediocre.
What was that dessert someone did a couple of years ago, think it was called all the fun of the fair or something like that, I think that would be an ideal dessert for this years brief.
Someone needs to sack the writers of all these bad puns.
And what is it with the deliberation scenes with Oliver sitting on the edge of the table and Matthew standing with hands in pockets trying to look cool?
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couldn't agree more...
That looked fun!
oh so they know the chef for each dish? I didnt realise . That's my conspiracy theory blown up then.
I shall just have to claim racism or bullying in true DS style
Hello is this your first ever post?
it did look fun.
Loved Tony and his great attempts at meeting 'the brief' but Michael was always going to be the winner for me - very biased maybe for all the wrong reasons!! :D:o
Michael's accent (Inverness region and as I come originally from there) is music to my ears!
I absolutely adore Michael and think he is impossibly gorgeous and a very nice and thoroughly decent guy, but this outcome surely makes him a shoo-in too. I would have liked to have seen him triumph on fairer (in terms of the brief) grounds.
Tony should have gone through with Michael.
It's almost as if there's a plot to make sure that their favourite goes through with a competitor who is bound to lose.
I'm getting really pissed off again, and it's only the second week.
And all that "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" eyeball business with the chefs. :rolleyes:
And hardly any of them have looked appetising.
I'm putting forward my guess that the other bloke's fish dish is the one Oliver is non too keen on going by the preview clip (*Yay! Grumpy Oliver returns )
I really liked the ideas behind Tony's dishes, but the amount preparation, work and skill that went into them was way below the other two, none of his dishes would have made it anywhere near the banquet, so I think Angela's judging was fair.
It was good to have a week where there was very few occasions where any of the chefs aimed a silly comment at one of his fellow chefs though Tony did resort to this on one occasion yesterday, possibly because Michael inadvertently switched his hob off.
I like Angela as a judge. She doesn't repeat the same mantras that some of the others do and I think she should let her hair down more often. Tony's main seemed to be marked very harshly though and in effect it gave him little chance going into the dessert course.
Overall I thought most of the dishes were more in keeping with the brief than the previous week, particularly Michael and Tony although I thought Mark's dessert had a fun side to it. I think Angela felt Tony overdid it though.
Difficult to know what sort of dishes the judges are going to want at this year's banquet. The 'party' type such as dooking for the doughnuts or something more 'cheffy' with a gimmick to add the humour. I guess it might be a mixture of the two with the dessert being more the fun dish.
Irony is my friend picked the restaurant yesterday (without knowing GBM was on) and has picked Restaurant Mark Greenaway! Feel like I'm tempting fate by eating in the 'enemy' camp at the same time as the final is actually on the telly 😁 Anyway fingers crossed....
During this round, Mark seemed like an underdog and even though he was a pastry chef and produced an impressive looking dessert, it still seemed to get mostly negative reaction from her, and not as high a mark as Michael did for his, despite also a negative (damning with faint praise) remark about Michael's dessert. It was a similar situation with Mark's and Michael's main course. Tony's main was readily dismissed as a bit below par in the same way that his dessert didn't seem to make the grade. This left him with a poor starter (similar to Mark, who also had a low mark of 5) and two other dishes considered mediocre.
And what is it with the deliberation scenes with Oliver sitting on the edge of the table and Matthew standing with hands in pockets trying to look cool?
Yes she is, wonder if the judges got sick of her aswell by the end of filming
In judges' dressing room during last Friday's episode, there is a shot of a blackboard with the details of chefs and dishes on it.