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Tonight's Top Chef Masters preview: Cheesy good

By Katie Machol Simon on Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:30 pm

Hugh: "Twelve minutes — it takes me that long to shave." Um, Hugh, I think you missed a spot right between your eyes.

Naomi talks about "cutting the cheese" in the first preview video. (Insert immature joke here.)

Hugh: "I could feed my family off one plate for about a week." What are you feeding your family, Hugh? Tic-tacs?!

Check out the preview videos below.

Tune in to Bravo tonight at 10 pm EST/9 pm C, join our Twitter party during the show (Jeff: @JeffHouck, Katie: @culinarypirate), and listen to our podcast here tomorrow! (You can even download us on iTunes!) Check out our fellow Top Chef fanatics, Please Pack Your Knives And Go and All Top Chef, for the latest news (and some laughs).

Twelve Minutes for Five Thousand Dollars

Struggling With Calories

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On tonight's episode of Top Chef Masters:

For the Quickfire, the chefs have only 12 minutes to create a dish utilizing cheese as the main ingredient. I'm cheesy enough, why couldn't they have asked me to be a judge for this one?!

Hooray, it's yet another plug for a fellow NBC-Universal show on Top Chef! For the Elimination Challenge, each team of three has to produce a day's worth of meals that add up to 1500 calories or less for the judges from The Biggest Loser. The biggest challenge for the chefs: learning that butter and lard don't have to go in everything they cook.

Preview video highlights: