Nate Appleman is his name.

Appleman...Appleby. Close enough.

"Watch out old man!"

Surprised to see Maneet--she couldn't have been a judge more than once or twice. Would have been great if Scott Conant was competing, then they would have definitely put red onions in the basket.

Not surprised that Alex isn't in there, with her gigantic ass she would knock everyone over every time she went to the kitchen.

I had to laugh at what Jeffery made in the appetizer round. His dish had fish, cheese, bacon, pasta, and red onion in it: all cardinal sins in Scott Conant's book.

Congrats to Aron. I hope he wipes the floor with the others next week!

I just caught up with this particular chopped championship. The second show with Anne and Robert completely blew our minds (my family loves the show, hates conant and old man Zakarian, and my daughter digs that Ted wears what look like sketchers with his suit).

After watching last nights episode, It seems that Anne will win this. It will be interesting to see how Aron will do against her tho.

I think Anne is the (slight) favorite, but Aron and Appleman are both exceptional chefs, I certainly don't think you can count them out. The NFNS dude, though, is completely out of his league.

question. i'm avoiding this thread because the shows are being recorded out of order for me. i haven't started watching them yet. do they tell you at the end who the winner will be going up in the finals? if so, i don't want to spoil it by watching them out of order. but if they don't spoil it, i will wait until they all record at the end of this week.

Def, not sure if I understand your question (I think maybe you meant to write "going up against in the finals"?). At the end of each episode they say who the winner is that will move onto the finals, obviously. Are you asking if they disclose any of the other winners in that episode? I think they do disclose it somewhere in each episode, not sure but I think so. So you may want to watch in order.

yes. do they disclose the winners from episode 1 or 2 if i'm watching episode 3.

Going by memory, I think they do somewhere in the episode, maybe in the very beginning? I just feel like in this past episode I saw pictures of the 3 previous winners.

Yes they show it at the beginning and at the end of each episode.

ok. i shall wait then. thanks guys.

Yes, they recap the winners at the start. So watch them in order to avoid spoilers.

Definitely looking forward to the All Star championship this weekend.

My money is on Anne to take it, she's been killing it so far.

FYI, Food Network is re-running all 4 prior episodes of the All Stars today starting at 5 pm before the finale at 9 pm.

Same here she works under presser better then any of them. The food network star will be the 1st to go and it will be down to Ann and Arron.

Solid ending, still think Robert vs Anne was a better episode(probably the best ever), but this was still great. Won't spoil the ending, but I think the right person won, dessert battle was awesome.

I thought that the way they edited the episode made it obvious who would win the first couple of minutes.

didn't seem obvious to me

Damn, Appleman may be a fantastic chef, but after seeing him on this and on Next Iron Chef, he comes across as incredibly cold and lacking personality.

I was hoping for the finale that they'd use the exact same ingredients for the first two rounds, then throw a mix up in the last one.

Chick pea whipped cream.

Those were tough baskets!

Finally caught up on these. Was pissed Robert Irvine didn't move on. I thought he would've won it all if given the chance. I also was rooting for Geoffry Zackarian for some reason. I just like that guy. Don't know why. Nate Appleman wasn't all that impressive and I think he only won because the final was essentially a toss up. As someone who seemed to be a big meat guy (basing that on what I saw on the next iron chef competition) his meat dishes didn't seem all that appetizing.

This week's episode ("A is for Apple, U is for Udon") ended with an "In Memory Of..." card. A contestant from this episode, Chef Debra Whiting, died in a car accident a few months after the episode was taped.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...nw0H_blog.html

wow i missed that...sad.
love this show. i cant even watch iron chef america anymore because of it. the multiple ingredients is much more interesting to me.

Just caught up with the All-Stars competition because they had a marathon before the Food Network Star finale.

Interesting series. I like Appleman and am slightly surprised that he won against the FN personalities. Guess the fix wasn't in after all.