This long-running show has produced plenty of dishes that have us drooling.
What was the dish?
And who was the offending chef?
Chris Jacobsen, a.k.a.
“Well, I didn’t blanch it very much.
I knew it had to go in those weird ovens and I didn’t want it to get overcooked.
But they did, and looked bad, so I didn’t want to send them out.
I said, “I’m not sending these out.”
But they said, “You have to send them out.””
When asked who “they” was, Jacobsen avoids name dropping.
“I can’t tell you specifically.
But it was production.
I said, ‘I lose if I send these out,’ and I did.
“I was in a desert in Las Vegas.
I forget [the chefestant’s] name now,” he says, oh-so-conveniently.
Spitting out food is not very common in the “Top Chef” world.
But can we really blame the judge?
Eating thinly sliced warm fish in the desert is hard enough to imagine without squirming.
We get why Colicchio couldn’t commit to swallowing it.
And, surprisingly enough, this failed dish came from Season 2’s winner, Ilan Hall.
“It had a rubbery, spring action,” describes Lakshmi.
“And we had to eat it.
That’s the thing about our jobs” (viaMental Floss).
Chocolate and rubbery chicken.
Say no more Lakshmi.
When describing her work days, Lakshmi’s reveals, “I sit on my a**.
I eat and I talk.
I don’t have to cook a damn thing.
How awesome is that?”
(viaMental Floss).
It does sound pretty amazing.
