This week's episode of the Next Food Network Star has so far been the most enjoyable I've seen in the whole show, and yay! finally. This week the contestants got to do a 4 minute gig in front of a live studio audience on Rachel Ray's show. The task was to make a healthy kid friendly dish and each contestant was aided by a Brownie, those girls that sell those divine cookie Thin Mints and Tagalongs. The girls were so cute!
Yikes! Someone calls Rachel "Rach"
One person is going home and the final four are going to Las Vegas so the stakes were high for this last task. Upon hearing the news of where the final 4 were going, Kelsey reacted like she jetting away to a foreign land, and to her Vegas probably is an exotic adventure. Vegas is cool and all but it's not like going overseas to somewhere exotic like Puerto Rico, Paris, or Thailand. Kelsey is really adorable but I'm with Bob in that she doesn't drive home any kind of authoritativeness, and when she called Rachel, "Rach" ye gads, I was almost expecting a little "bad Rachel" to yum-O all over Kelsey's behind.
Lisa uses Jedi Mind Tricks
The contestants created a dish based on what their Brownie liked, well, except Lisa and her girl. Lisa used Jedi mind tricks to convince her Brownie that what the kid really wanted to eat was horseradish sauce on steak, and cous cous. It was like watching the new wicked step mother convince the kids with that fake dastardly smile that they needed to upscale from their low class McDonald's eating ways. And Lisa justified her actions by suggesting that she didn't have to change her culinary point of view just to please a kid. Well Lisa, if your judge is a kid, um yeah, some mac-n-cheese or chicken fingers seems like the way to go.
Aaron and Adam would be a blast at kid's camp
Which is what Aaron and Adam did brilliantly. I have to say that Aaron finally let his true self out of the cage and wow! it was so fun to watch him and his Brownie make pizza. When he dabbed some of the flour on her face and his and blew some to the audience, he scored a 10.0 in my eyes. Adam was really warm and engaging and I totally wanted a bite of that barbecue Pita sandwich. Adam was hanging by a string in this competition, and he did knock it out of the ballpark this episode so that he could go onto Vegas.
Bye-bye, hugs and kisses
And poor Shane, it was kind of a no-brainer that he was the one to be going home. What did him in was the fact that working with a kid seemed like getting a root canal for him. But Shane is only 20, and he does have some really good cooking skills so I doubt that this is the last we'll see of him on TV.
And oh yeah, there was crying again. Six shows and six crying episodes. But, by now, I've reached the 5th stage of grief "Acceptance". Crying is just part of the Next FN Star. It is what it is.
Next week is Vegas with Paula Deen. Oooo my Paula! I love her, and can't wait to see what the contestants get to whip up for our Southern Divaliciousness.
