[blatz]

3 contestants left can successfully own a restauant, Elsie, the older cook from New York, and the tattooed cook from LA. Anybody else wins, and it's going down the tubes fast.

The bootcamp mentality does work, though. Dealing with the stress is half the battle. And the teams have improved immensely.

The announcer cracks me up...every commercial, "And you're not going to believe what happens next" I was waiting for someone to attempt toflambe the chef, or cut their own hand off, or something...I kind of believed everything I saw.

On a side note, the most distressing part of the show was the commercial for the new series Kitchen Confidential. The book, by Anthony Bourdain, is amazing for capturing the rhytmn and emotion of a professional kitchen, fun read. Looks like it's going to be massacred as a sitcom. If anybody hasn't read it, and enjoys restaurants, it's really worth getting your hands on.