As most of you have seen from last week's preview and from the pictures being passed around the 'net, Padma and Nigella Lawson (popular English cookboook author and TV chef) are in bed together for this week's Quickfire Challenge. Okay, maybe not in bed together, but in beds that are right next to each other (I'll leave it up to your imagination as to what's under those robes though). They're demanding breakfast in bed from the cheftestants- they want it hot, and they want it now.
From the looks of the preview video below, Eli is attempting some god-awful sounding sauce concoction, Robin makes like eggs and frantically scrambles her way around the kitchen, and AngryBro (Mike) curses up a storm (surprise) and blames Robin for wasting 5 minutes of his precious time.
For the Elimination Challenge, each cheftestant has to cook a dish inspired by one of the big hotels in Las Vegas. It's great to finally see them do a Las Vegas-themed challenge because I think many of us forgot where they were this season.
In the preview for the Elimination Challenge, we get to see HotBro (Bryan) and AngryBro (Mike) visit the hotels that will serve as the inspiration for their dishes. AngryBro states that he will be paying homage to firefighters (his hotel is New York, New York) with his dish but still "cooking it his way". I hope that means he's going to light something on fire – that would surely blow his brother's creation out of the water (you'll get the bad pun if you watch the video below).
Tune in to Bravo tonight at 10 pm EST/9 pm C, check out our own live Tweets during the show (Jeff: @TheStew, Katie: @culinarypirate), and listen to our podcast here tomorrow! (You can now download on iTunes and check out Jeff’s Top Chef Flickr page.)
Videos after the break.
This article appears in Nov 18-24, 2009.