I too loved Tiffany on the show. She had to be the most down to earth person they've had on the show for awhile. I cried with her when her name was called. Best wished Tiffany. I had picked you to be in the final! You're still a winner in my book.

Why has Bravo decided you are a good candidate for a blog? You were entirely unpleasant on your season, and no one liked you.

This finale is going to "truely suck!!!" without Tiffany. Why her...when she was so close? I have yet to see an African American win the title of "TOP CHEF", and well............I guess I'll still be waiting! I just hope it won't take as long with this, as it did to get an African American President!!!

Very disappointed in the judges decison to let Tiffany go. She has been the most consistent cook during the program. I was sitting with my mouth open when they her name to leave.. it was a fair judgement & I think the best cook by far was Tiffany.. I'm not so sure i will watch the final episode.

wonderful blog! I love it!

I guess my favorite always goes home in 5th place.

I am still having a hard time with Tiffany being the one to leave, my season has now ended for top chef. Maybe next season.

I thought the concept of the challenge was ill-conceived from the start. A lot of science, planning and trial-and-error go into creating and perfecting dehydrated foods. The chefs had no way to know how the flavor and texture of the food would be changed by the dehydration and re-hydration processes, because they've never had a chance to experience that. Nor did they have any experience with the consequences of the size of pieces, or having too much or not enough liquids, spices or sweetness in the finished product. It's not really fair to judge them on those criteria.

Really, the best they could have done, and I think did, for the most part, was to prepare dishes for which they did understand the flavor and texture profiles, and that would present well to the judges here on Earth, while trying to address the "theme" of astronauts and space food.

To Tiffany: I am truly sorry you didn't make it to the finale. I was really looking forward to seeing you there. YOU ROCK, GIRL!

How about handicapping the final 4. BTW I am enjoying your blog so much.

First off there were a couple of dishes that had no chance of becoming space food. So to single out Tiff after such strong past performances is an outrage. She is hands down the best cook in the house. This really makes me wonder about this show. Really makes me wonder.

I think these are not deep thinking chefs that have the vast creativity and cooking skills to pull off dishes that meet all the criteria of the challebnge. I was wondering how different dishes would have been if the V brothes, you, Elik, and Kevin, or Richard Blaise had this challenge. You all seemed to grasp, not only the need for something wonderfully delicious, but the essense of the challenge. It requires more imagination and very sophisticated cooking skills to meet the essense of this kind of challenge successfully. As you said, these chefs just decided to make something delicious. I think Eric realized that in his criticiisms, saying that the food was too complicated, too busy, etc. but he was shot down by Tony, who for once, seemed very agreeable and kind to the chefs. Tom was also subdued, maybe through editing, but he echoed some of those comments. These chefs just weren't as skilled and creative as some of the stars of the last group. Actually, Ed's dish, even though it was complex, seemed to have the right elements of flavor, lack of sugar, and smallish pieces that would translate well to freeze drying. It was a kind and gentle show though, and not alot of performance dramatics. I liked that. Also, the people at the space center were so interesting and agreeable. On the whole, a very interesting episode, don't you think?