Tre in a wifebeater and apron, making beautiful comfort food at aught-o'clock in the morning: GUH.

Yes. This alone should have won him the challenge.

I agree with what you said about Howie cf bulldogs. Howie is a much more bitter and angry creature and more difficult to work with. Possibly more of a snapping turtle.

Yes. This alone should have won him the challenge.

Seriously. From the way the show was edited (completely unnecessary but hot scene of Tre talking about taking off his shirt), I think the powers that be knew that too.

Hmm.

I'm not sure how I feel about this.

Part of the problem I have with the challenge was the way in which it sexualized and effectively demeaned the women. I'm not altogether comfortable with sexualizing Tre's cooking here as well. Or I guess, if I'm going to do that, I better not rant about the women's clothing.

Adding a post to say, I don't mean to harsh anyone's squee. Tre is a fine, fine looking young man, and also, I would eat his bacon wrapped shrimp on cheesy grits any day, and by that I mean food.

But I was getting ready to get all shirty about the women's clubbing gear and sexualization, and I guess I'd better get all equal opportunity shirty.

Obvously, the producer's should have brought working clothing to the site so that they could all change.

Also, I really thought that they were going to go out and be caught to do the elimination on their way back after clubbing.

Yeah. I think it would have been a better challenge that way, with at least a minimal amount of gratification for the subjects of this psychological experiment that is reality competition. But I figured they didn't want to in case everybody got wasted.

But then, Tom commented that they wouldn't stop anybody from drinking whilst in a challenge, so maybe that wouldn't have been an issue for them.

There's a difference between grabbing a drink in the middle of cooking and going out DRINKING and then being thrown into the kitchen, though.

I thought Casey's statement about how she wouldn't even want her coworkers to see her dressed to go out was weird. Would she flip out if she ran into someone randomly?

I think she should have explained it better. I think that professional kitchens are still so male-dominated it's like when women had to wear suits that looked totally like a men's suit with a skirt in order to be taken seriously. So, if you come into work all dresssed up to go out - who is going to take you seriously?

Part of the problem I have with the challenge was the way in which it sexualized and effectively demeaned the women.

why do you think the challenge was sexualized? As it happened, the men were better dressed to cook, but the women made the choice of their outfits. The other Sara(h) didn't have any problems with her outfit, that was a choice they made.

The bloggin Top Chef people posted this picture of Sara N's shoes. I'm guessing that state law probably meant that TC had to have proper shoes for the chefs.