Sunday, November 6, 2011

The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs week 2 power rankings

Ah, the traditional "elevate a common cuisine" challenge, this time focusing on ballpark food. If you loved the tailgate-themed episodes of Top Chef: Chicago and Top Chef: Masters, and the baseball concession stand challenge from Top Chef: DC, then you'll love and/or tolerate this episode.

OUT: Robert Irvine. The judges aren't messing around, aren't they?

1. Beau MacMillan
2. Alex Guarnaschelli
3. Geoffrey Zakarian
4. Chuck Hughes
5. Elizabeth Falkner
6. Michael Chiarello
7. Anne Burrell
8. Marcus Samuelsson

Honestly, these rankings are leaning on the arbitrary. They may not even be worth doing. With so many high-caliber chefs, nobody is going to truly be bad. The degrees of separation are negligible - it wouldn't surprise me if Samuelsson won three straight challenges and MacMillan lost in the next episode. I'd imagine that a favorite will emerge in a few weeks but right now the playing field is completely even.

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