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After another great episode last week with The Wheel Of Fusion, it was time for the next Team Challenge! I’m going to be honest with you all right now, I’m not the biggest fan of Team Challenges, and how they are done in the show currently. In the older seasons, Team Challenges would take up the first half of an episode, and the second half would be The Pressure Test, so the show would move at a brisk pace. These days, Team Challenges take up the entire episode, and we only get to see a handful of creative dishes being made. But that being said, something has changed for me this season. Maybe it’s the fact that I watch the episodes in real time with my uncle, and we text back and forth what is happening on the show, or maybe it’s the fact that I am sharing it with all of you reading. In any case, I am now looking forward to talking about this episode. With all that out of the way, let’s get into the episode! This Team Challenge took place at Casa Loma, which is a Gothic Revival style m...

Hello everybody!  A few days ago, I asked on Instagram if I should start doing write-ups of episodes of Kitchen Nightmares. Enough of my friends told me that I should, so here we are! I am going to start from the beginning, because you know how they say the first episode of a show lets you know what you’re in for? Well, the first episode of Kitchen Nightmares does exactly that in the most unhinged way imaginable. Before I get into it though, there is something I should warn you all about. The way that I am watching these episodes is in an uncensored format. So, there are some instances where I will be able to censor myself, but there are also going to be some instances where writing uncensored is going to be unavoidable for me. So, that’s just a warning so that none of you have the same reaction that Roginald did when Peter Griffin said a bad word. Also, I am going to give a million points to anyone who actually understands that reference. So, with all that out of the way, let’s ge...

After a great return last week, it was time for the Wheel Of Fusion on MasterChef! At least for everyone except for us living in New York. Yeah, we were so gratefully blessed with a New York Liberty game instead of MasterChef. So, the first time ever, as far as I can tell, I was unable to watch a new episode of MasterChef on the night it premiered. So here I am, watching it a day later for the first time, and writing about it in the best way I can.  Yeah, so like I said, we are now at the Wheel Of Fusion episode. How it was going to work is that one person from each territory would spin the wheel, and whatever country it landed on, each home cook from that territory would have to fuse their culture with that country.  Basia VERY enthusiastically chose to spin the wheel for Europe, and it landed on Japanese Cuisine, meaning that both she and Aghata would have to fuse their cultures with Japanese Cuisine.  Aishu chose to spin the wheel for Asia-Pacific, and it landed on Fre...

Hello everybody!  Let’s talk about another episode of Hell’s Kitchen today! Today, we will be discussing Season 23, Episode 11! Before I get into the episode, there’s a bit of information that I feel like sharing with you all. This episode that I am talking about, as well as the entire season, was taped at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut. And so were the three following seasons. Yeah, so if I wanted to, I could have gone to a Dinner Service while any of these seasons were being filmed. So, you’re probably wondering why I didn’t. I mean, I love Gordon Ramsay, and I love Hell’s Kitchen enough to write about it, so why didn’t I go see it in person? Well, there’s a very simple reason. It would have been way too much of an ordeal. If you sign up to be at Dinner Service, from what I can tell, there’s no guarantee that you will actually get in, and for the opportunities I had to be in the audience for the seasons that just taped, I would have had to have gotten there at the most inc...

You never really know how long a month is going to be until you are forced to wait an entire month for a show to return, with little to no shows to occupy your time during the hiatus. But, here we are, one month later, with the return of Season 16 of MasterChef! I had been looking forward to this because it would give me something new to share with all of you. And best of all, when I saw the description for this episode, and the other upcoming episodes, I saw that there would be no more tie-ins to the World Cup! But seriously, if there are anymore references or tie-ins to it this season, I am going to cringe so hard. Especially considering it ends on Sunday.  So, with all this out of the way, let’s get into the actual episode! This episode was yet another Mystery Box Challenge, and underneath the boxes was just about every variety of Chocolate you can think of. I’m not even joking, here’s what was underneath the boxes. Yeah, they really got every variety of Chocolate you can think ...