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Post by okonomiyagi on Mar 13, 2018 9:11:55 GMT -5
Were there any battles that you remember watching and thinking, "The wrong chef won this battle?" Like, the judges were making positive comments about one chef's dishes, but not the other's, and the other chef still won?
For me, the only glaring example is Battle Chicken (Borie vs. Ishinabe), because it seemed as though they were basing their reasoning behind backing Borie on the truffle soup...which didn't actually have any chicken in it.
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Post by ironnut77 on Mar 14, 2018 11:33:20 GMT -5
I am sure there were many - but before the fall of 1995 (when they went to 4 judges) we never got to see the actual scores, so we were often left scratching our heads.
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Post by herringchoker on Mar 15, 2018 12:50:14 GMT -5
The other thing we have to keep in mind is that the judging commentary was likely edited for time. It could be easy to get a false impression of the judges' preference based solely on the comments that made it on air.
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Post by ironnut77 on Mar 15, 2018 14:41:53 GMT -5
The other thing we have to keep in mind is that the judging commentary was likely edited for time. It could be easy to get a false impression of the judges' preference based solely on the comments that made it on air. ...except for the extended version of Battle Chicken (1993) that we saw on Food Network. They stretched a 30-minute episode out to an hour in length, mainly by giving us the judging segment mostly in full. This made me realize at the time just how much chatter the chefs have to endure about their dishes, so that the editors can catch the best comments for an episode.
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