New next food network star

That two minutes of silence from Lisa was unbelievable. I met her at her husband's restaurant - Suze. She couldn't stop talking - she was a chatterer. And she was pleasant. I do not know this romulan!
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because all of these people suck, I'm thinking the only one that has any real shot at being a food tv personality would be adam, if they put him on a traveling show (like diner's, drive-in's and dives or $40 a day) or had him as the host of something like Unwrapped. He can't cook, but he's by far the most comfortable in front of the camera and there are plenty of shows on food network that don't require the host to be able to cook well.

kelsey is probably going to win, as she has the best mix of cooking ability and personality (though neither is particularly high quality).

what a piece of crap this show is, yet, I want to know what's going to happen...
 
After last night's show....

dumb.

I just have no idea what these idiots are looking for. The contestants do what they ask and they get punished for it. When Kelsey was asked why she strayed away from her culinary point of view during her throw down, she should have said: "Well, my POV is for the intimidated cook to get into the kitchen and learn basics. But that doesn't include coming to Vegas and cooking in a competition so that's why I changed it. I did it because you asked me to do it."

And to that Bob Tucshman, shen he brought up the Culinary school thing, I wish she would have said: "Well, Bob, you can take that 'authority' and shove it up your nose. I am a recent Culinary School graduate, that's who I am and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. If you didn't want me on your network, why'd you waste my time by having me on this waste of a TV show?"

Bleh. Now I hope Lisa wins because she's the least watchable and whatever show she has will bomb after 5 episodes.

Stupid 'reality' TV.
 
The two food network executives are idiots. They have no idea what they are looking for. One finalist is good in front of the camera, but isn't a great cook. Another is a great at cooking, but gets so focused on her cooking that she forgets to talk. The other finalist is also a great cook, but gets nervous in front of a camera and doesn't like to cook and talk at the same time.

Did they randomly draw names to determine who would be on the show? They pick a 19 year old and then criticize him for lack of experience. They also picked a 20 something fresh out of culinary school and then get mad whenever she talks about culinary school. They also criticize her lack of experience. If they wanted people with more experience, why were Shane and Kelsey on the show in the first place?

I wouldn't be surprised if the final is between Aaron and Lisa and they criticize Aaron for not looking like a Romulan. Or maybe they'll get mad at Lisa for not being a black man.
 
After last night, I am entirely convinced that Bob has wanted Aaron to win from the beginning, no matter how much of a train wreck he is when he tries to cook and talk simultaneously.

I agree with the above... let Lisa win, fulfill her contract, and go back to her home planet.
 
Flay likes Adam, and has from the start. That's what's keeping him in. His signature dish is Macaroni & Cheese?!!! Next week I guess he'll kick up a notch on a PB&J.

Aaron evidently can cook, but he's a muttering stumbling trainwreck in front of the camera. Dude is a stiff.

Lisa - best combination of cooking expertise and screen presence left on the board. Kelsey's loss was her gain...

It's Lisa's game to win, but I'm still pulling for Adam - I want to watch his new show next year: Kitchen Chaos...
 
My wife gets onto me for doing things like calling ESPN when I get WNBA games on 2 ESPN channels, while missing an MSL match, but she said she would be fully in favour of me calling foodnetwork and asking them what major malfunction they have.
If the issue is being on tv, which is where the foodnetwork is, then you have to have someone who is watchable. Adam and Kelsey are the 2 most watchable of the final 4. I think Lisa is the best cook, but isn't great on tv, but is better than Adam.
I often times can't understand what Aaron is saying sometimes. He muddles his way through his words without using great diction. I thought for sure he was going to go last night.
The execs are just out to lunch. I don't like Bobby Flay, but he seems to be a much more shrewd guy when it comes to who should win.

Btw, mac and cheese can actually be a pretty sophisticated dish. Lobster mac is a great twist, and has hardly anything to do with Kraft mac and cheese. It is about like comparing ragu to a great marina sauce at a fine restaurant. They are the same thing, but totally different.

They really messed up last night.
 
This show is complicated. It appears to be a cooking show, but it isn't.... and more importantly it should not be. I'm not going to watch a cooking show if the food sucks... but who really thinks or in fact cares, if the items cooked in the show aren't 100% conceived of by the host? Which is to say, you can accommodate a winner who is a mediocre cook, but a great chef who sucks on camera is absolutely worthless here. The cooking challenges make it appear as though the contestants ability to put together great food is requisite... but the fact is that would just be a bonus.

All of this is to say that Adam, **** up that he is, is the only person on this show who is in any way marketable as a Food Network chef. No, he is never going to compete on Iron Chef... but he has enough charm to hold people's attention and would be GREAT on the travel/eating shows which seem to be about 40% of the lineup right now anyway. He would knock a revamp of Diners and Drive-ins or $40/day out of the park... which makes me wonder why the format of the winner's show is set ahead of time. A traditional cooking show takes a special kind of talent to be watchable. It seems if you are going to cast your shows this way, you should at least play to the strengths of the winners in regards to format.

That said, either the casting this season was terrible or the challenges are overhard... but the result is a barely watchable "season" of NFNS. They let a bunch of incredibly flawed contestants in and then bashed their plainly obvious weaknesses. If this is the best they could do, then they need to stop doing this show.
 
Adam had to be going out of his goddamned mind after this week. He finally knocks the ball out of the park from a food perspective, and he did it when it mattered... and then it turned out it didn't actually matter. I can't think of a worse outcome for him... you know, after of course getting kicked off.

What I keep coming back to is this... you can make up for smarts with good writers, you can make up for culinary chops with good producers... but if your host isn't charismatic, then you are **** out of luck. Aaron, as good as he is, has no business with his own solo show on the food network. Lisa, has a solid perspective and is a great cook, but just isn't all that likable. That said, it is worth noting she is at her best in front of the camera when she is having problems in the kitchen... that tells me she is too far into her own head... someone needs to get her some garters a la Bull Durham.

Adam is isn't a quarter of the chef that Aaron and Lisa are... but he is charismatic, and you just can't pass that up. The alternative is a show with someone who is highly creditable but unwatchable, and frankly I don't see the point.
 
They want Aaron to win this thing. Bobby Flay did a good job of coaching him during the promo. Guy was pretty much a dick to Adam and Lisa from what they showed on camera.
 
They want Aaron to win so badly it is insane. His food was the worst, and his presentation couldn't have been worse! I just don't get it at all. He is completely unwatchable. I like him as a person, and I would love to eat some of his food, but I won't watch even one episode of a cooking show that he has. He just doesn't have the big personality.
Was I the only one who felt like Guy had a HUGE chip on his shoulder? He was just a big prig as if he was so much greater than the 3 contestants left this year. Is the only show he has left, DDD? Because he doesn't cook on that show at all. He describes someone else cook, and then tastes it..... We all know that takes amazing culinary acumen.. (SARCASM).
Adam is the only one of the three I would watch on a cooking show. That is just the way it is.
 
Definitely. Aaron is a good guy, I just don't think he's cut out for this. Lisa is the same way. They are both great cooks, they just aren't good in front of a camera.

I hope Guy was an *** because he senses his short lived food network career circling the drain. It's much easier to understand the dumbassery of the 2 food network execs when you remember that they once picked Guy as the winner of this show.
 
I dislike watching Lisa because she squints her eyes up all the time.

Adam at least has a pleasing personality and could hold the viewers' attention. Plus, he knocked himself out with his buffet last night.

Aaron's commercial was by far the best, but he sure isn't that relaxed when he presents at other times.
 
I have never seen a reality-show judge with such a blatant hard-on for a contestant as Bob has for Aaron. The "bring 3 to the finals" was all him, b/c Aaron was about to go home.

Bobby did make a valid point - "this was the first time we've let him cook 'his' food". No, he's not an Iron Chef, but neither is Guy, who I agree nees to come down a few pegs.
 
Actually, from reading Bob's blog and watching Suzie's vlog, Bobby is the one that likes Lisa. Susan likes Aaron, and Bob's got the Adam crush going on.
 
Guy is a huge douchebag. I didn't realize that he was a nfws winner. These judges just lost any remaining credibility with me.
 
I think I may be the only one who likes Guy's show. Not the Diner one, but Guy's Big Bite where he actually cooks. I can see where he comes off as d-baggy, but the he can cook.
 
Guy can be over the top, but he seems nice. He's alot more natural than the remaining three, who all have, imo, fatal flaws. The chick that won last year, omg, now that was a bad pick.
 
Puddle, I think I saw her shoe once. It was on like at 8 in the morning. It was horrible. She looked horribly out of place and she makes you appreciate the pros, for sure.


And that lady she went against in the finale, Rory, wow, awful too.
 
Who do you think will win? Lisa annoys me and comes off and really cocky. Most people don't have time to cook her style of food and there is no way she could teach me all the complicated stuff in a half hour show.
 
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I am being hypercritical, but they made the wrong choice. Yes, Aaron has some cooking chops, but he rushes things and misses so many details. Waht temp were you going to cook the steak? Tell me the difference between plaintains and bananas. I know green onions add that oniony flavor.
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He's not a natural and while he can cook, I just don't see him being a big draw.


I think Lisa had the best of both worlds. But, I think her true colors were revealed the first week.

Adam was the most natural on television, but his cooking chops are way behind.


Bottom line is food network could've done better. Aaron will go the way of Amy.
 
I agree with above poster that Lisa appeared most deserving. That being said, I think the "shows" the contestants made for the final let us know how much these guys can be coached up. In the end, Food Network just wanted the fun loving black guy. It doesn't matter if they have to cut the shot 5 times to get it right on the real shows. They can polish up his stuff to get the best overrall product, and his best was very good. They couldn't do the same to make LIsa more likable, imo.
 
I'm glad Aaron won, though, I would have been happy with Adam as well. I just couldn't stand Lisa. Especially last night when she was so over the top. "What separates me from the boys is that I'm not a one-trick pony." I guess she wasn't talking about her personality because all I saw was ***** from the beginning.

I told my wife that this may be the first time in my life I haven't pulled for a fellow Texan on a reality show.
 
In fairness to Lisa, I believe what she meant by "one trick pony" is that over this competition she has proven herself to be a better presenter than Aaron and a better cook than Adam. It should be noted, however, that the reverse is not true. In any event, she had the worst pitch of the three and the pilot felt rushed and uncomfortable. Add that to a middling performance last week, and she is not your next food network star.

In fairness to Adam, he has a very specific style he was pushing (smoking) which requires an amount of time to prepare that he seldom received through out this show. Yes, he lacked versatility, but when he cooked what he wanted to cook he knocked it out of the park. Furthermore when he failed to serve good food, it seems as though his biggest problem was time management (more than flavor combinations, etc) which is simply not an issue on a produced show. Add in the fact that his pitch was the most novel of the three (what Aaron wouldn't give to have someone to interact with built into the premise of the show), I thought he had the best showing of the finalists over the last three weeks.

As to Aaron, he is no less deserving than either Lisa or Adam... but lets be fair, the judges bent over backward to give him this slot. If the judges hadn't made the decision to "do something we've never done before", Aaron would have gone home last week for failing miserably in his main presentation as well as with his buffet offering. Pairing him put with Kelsey in the Iron Chef challenge was a gift as well. As to this episode, the question of "who is most prepared to start tomorrow" is answered by Aaron, only if you are talking about running a kitchen. If, however, you are talking about which one is most ready to go solo in front of a camera, that has not exactly been an area where Aaron has excelled... and certainly not when compared to his competition.

At the end of the day, Aaron was the one that the judges wanted to work with and I don't begrudge them that one bit. That said, if they want to keep drawing an audience to THIS show, then they need to have winners who don't take their 6 episodes and disappear into the night. They need someone they can market and push as much as they have Guy Fieri, or the competition is a joke. If they want Aaron to be their man, then they need to get behind him far better than they did for Amy Finley after last season.
 
I like the show, it's clean enough to watch with the family and entertaining enough. Gotta avoid scrutinizing the chosen winners, but I'm unimpressed by the choices of the last 2 yrs.

They wanted the big happy brother, period.

Trying to analyze the panel decisions beyond that is difficult...
 
Aaron is a very nice guy. I do wish him well in life, and on the Food Network. All that being said, I won't be watching his show. Not once. I have absolutely no interest in watching him cook, and I don't think I will learn anything from him at all. Not because he doesn't know more than I do about cooking, but because he just isn't able to communicate it on a tv show.
 
They've added a lot of African-Americans recently. I wonder if someone complained about their relative lack of diversity? Where are the Asians?
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Aaron, is just very unnatural, and his tenseness makes me tense.
 
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