Top Chef season 5 ended with a thud. The blog sphere seems outraged with the outcome, thinking the third best chef took the honors. Hosea was never a top performing through out the season, but he made the fewest mistakes in the final elimination challenge and won, by default.
Stefan, the favorite going in came in close second. Carla came in third.
My only comment: why do contestants do something incredibly stupid in the finale? Carla took advice from her sous chef, Casey, and went down in flames when she didn't cook her own style. What interests me is why Carla would have listened to Casey who notoriously chocked in the finale in season 4. This was not the time to lose your self-confidence.
I wonder if Stefan had watched previous seasons? Every time a chef decided to freeze a protein or used a frozen protein the results were not good. Yet he chose to do just that. Also it seems that having several options for a course never works out that well. Stefan decided to have a plate of various desserts. All of which might have be delightful, but when thrown together seemed out of date in presentation and selection. One great dessert, which Stefan certainly had the ability to pull off, might have won him the title.
I'm looking forward to the reunion show to hear some explanations of what went on. As I mentioned earlier, unscripted competition reality shows rise and fall based on their casting. Top Chef certainly is at the top of the food chain for what they do. I think they just got a bad crop this season. That's the luck of the draw. They can cook as evidenced by the results of the masked ball challenge.
One last thing. There has been general disdain for caterers in this competition. But the two "favorites" of the final three were caterers.
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