Top Chef Las Vegas Ep. 5

Original Air Date: September 16, 2009

1) Do you want to go camping with the Voltaggio brothers? I do! (There was a moment when Mike V. was standing in front of his tent and started a sentence like, "My brother and I are really competitive but we still..." and I finished it "...like to snuggle!")

2) Another super-specific Quickfire! And one that led to bizarro results where Mike V. was one of the worst while Laurine was one of the best?!

3) Ron was ostensibly in the bottom for his mojito. I think he would have been in the bottom anyway for his too-sweet ceviche, had Mattin not made three worse ones.

4) Oh, Mattin - you did yourself in. It's NEVER the right answer to say that you were satisfied with how your dish turned out when you're in the bottom group. Robin's drunken shrimp sounded pretty atrocious, but she saved herself by admitting the dish's shortcomings.

5) By the way, Robin, TASTE YOUR FOOD! You should never serve something you haven't tasted at least once.