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if it's hot, it's well.

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I think this should read:

If it's hot, well, you've just been branded!

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The Harvard Lawyer turned Food Critic needs to be thrown out. I don't think he knows exactly what he's talking about 1/2 the time. An absolute joke of a critic, imo.

Hard Chorizo could not have been overcooked by Trevino. It's cured.

Roberto Trevino's dishes, to me, were a bit more original (especially the catfish fritter w/ chocolate mole). However, Mario can make reading the classifieds interesting. So, I think he talked his dishes into sounding more original than they really were.

Taste-wise. I was shocked by the difference in scores. I wonder if this is a case where the judges loved Batali's dishes mainly because they were easily identifiable. As opposed to Trevino's dishes which were decidedly ethnic.

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I, too was shocked at the scoring difference. I was salivating at all of the dishes, so I thought it was going to be really close.

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Haven't watched this show yet, but are all the challenger chefs work in the US? When I watched certain episodes of the Japanese version, I could not help but think of the "home palate advantage" that I thought the Iron Chefs had.

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