Cutthroat Kitchen - Season 0 Episode 5 Alton's After-Show - Planning Under Pressure - S01E05
No matter how prepared a chef may be when he walks into Cutthroat Kitchen, or how well-conceived his ideas are for one round’s challenge dish, he can’t say for certain whether he’ll be able to use those skills or his thought-out plan, as a sabotage may ultimately get the better of him. The key to success in this contest is a competitor’s ability to adapt to culinary interferences as he meets them — finding new ways to add flavor to food when salt isn’t an option and learning how to fashion utensils out of foil when traditional devices are prohibited, among them.
But what happens when, whether because of strategic game play or simple good fortune, a chef has the opportunity — the time, ingredients and equipment — to make just what he had intended?
In the latest installment of Alton’s After-Show, the host and this week’s judge, Antonia Lofaso, dished on the competitors’ seeming need to do more and cook more than they ought to have or needed to simply because they could.
Antonia explained that Chef McNutt’s Round-2 tuna burger would have been far more successful had she served it without the bread, which she decided to purchase for $2,200 mid-challenge because she didn’t have any. “I’ve seen this in so many … chefs under the gun,” Antonia explained. “They have a plan and they start to doubt themselves, and all of a sudden, their plan just goes right out the window. And it’s so important for them to just stick with what is good in their gut … and do that first idea.” Similarly, Chef Brian should have realized the need for straightforwardness in his fried chicken dinner, instead of forcing additional components on it just because he had the time do so. “The technique of restraint is what chefs always need to work on,” Antonia noted. “These days, just keep it simple and do it well.” Alton may have said it best when he admitted, “Very often, less is more.”
Read more at: http://blog.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/2013/09/cutthroat-kitchen-altons-after-show-episode-5/?oc=linkback
Year: 2019
Genre: Reality
Country: United States of America
Studio: Food Network
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Cast: Alton Brown
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First Air Date: Aug 11, 2013
Last Air date: Sep 22, 2019
Season: 15 Season
Episode: 195 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 6.30/10 by 31.00 users
Popularity: 20.252
Language: English
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Alton’s After-Show - Man vs. Sabotage - S01E01
Alton’s After-Show - Strategy Reigns Supreme - S01E02
Alton’s After-Show - A Win For Sale - S01E03
Alton’s After-Show - Succumbing to Self-Defeat - S01E04
Alton's After-Show - Planning Under Pressure - S01E05
Alton's After-Show - It All Comes Down to Experience and Meeting Expectations - S01E06
Alton's After-Show - Frugal Spending, Big Rewards - S01E07
Alton's After-Show - Mastering the Garnish - S01E08
Alton's After-Show - Wild Sabatoges Revealed - S01E09
Alton's After-Show - Respecting the Challenge Dish - S01E10
Alton's After-Show - Struggling for Simplicity - S01E11
Alton's After-Show - Back to Basics - S01E12
Alton's After-Show - Two Times the Trouble - S01E13
Alton's After-Show - Hot-Iron Woes and a Chilly Ball of Ice Cream - S02E01
Alton's After-Show - Hand Masher Gone Wrong and Indoor Campfires - S02E02
Alton's After-Show - Cooking Without Necessities - S02E03
Alton's After-Show - Did You See What Giada Had to Eat? - S02E04
Alton's After-Show - Grown-Up Sabotage in a Kid-Size Kitchen - S02E05
Alton's After-Show - Payback, Cutthroat-Style - S02E06
Alton's After-Show - Oh, the Irony - S02E07
Alton's After-Show - Round 2, Take 2 - S02E08
Alton's After-Show - A Not-So-Happy Birthday - S02E09
Alton's After-Show - Simon’s Starch Demonstration - S02E10
Alton's After-Show - Sabotaged Chefs Return to Battle - S02E11
Alton's After-Show - How Do You Define Breakfast? - S02E12
Alton's After-Show - Allies and Enemies - S02E13
Alton's After-Show - Dressed to Souffle - S03E01
Alton's After-Show - Double the Victory - S03E02
Testing the Cutthroat Sabotages: Can You Muffin It?
Alton's After-Show - S03E03
Testing the Cutthroat Sabotages: When a Standard Whisk Won’t Do
Alton's After-Show - S03E04
Alton's After-Show - S03E05
Testing the Cutthroat Sabotages: From Cooking Station to Shopping Cart.
Alton's After-Show - Chicken, or Something Like It - S03E06
Alton's After-Show - Initial Suspicions Confirmed - S03E07
Alton's After-Show - Meet the Wheel of Heat - S03E08
Alton’s After-Show - Just Deal with It - S03E09
Camp Cutthroat 2: Alton's Revenge: Heat One, Axe to Grind