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I also thought it would be Nikki. Every time I see her, I think to myself, "Who's that? Did they sneak in a new player while I wasn't looking?" She is utterly forgettable.

I'm also glad the players weren't sniping at each other as much this week. I know Bravo has a formula, but I'm there to watch the food.

Now, if they'll only get rid of Nikki and Lisa ...

I'd be happy if they just got rid of Nikki, Lisa, Spike, and Andrew all in one shot. I'll settle for it that order though...

Not at all.

We had Bears season tickets for years. Poached pears? Yeah, right. We saw that A LOT. Spike and his stupid hats are next.

I'm just glad they didn't get rid of Mark, I'm a sucker for that new zealand accent. and yeah, get out of here Spike (and maybe get some Ritalin while you're at it?)

Mark looked totally wasted when he was standing in front the judges' panel.

i thought Nikki for sure and was having flashbacks to the block party episode: bad mac & cheese and now bad sausage peppers & onions. She prob didn't even CONSIDER making her own sausage.

I actually nailed this one. The second he began describing what he was making, I said "oh, he's gone."

Though, Tom's complete disgust at Mark's filthy workspace and habits had me thinking he was likely to go as well...

Nikki has been around much longer than is justified. Until last night, she had mostly managed to stay under the judges' collective radar. Her sausage subs were really just assembled from store-bought ingredients.

I was desperately hoping she would get the boot after wasting a chunk of her team's food budget on flowers for the table during the animal challenge. I could tell her teammates were PISSED about that, as I would have been. Oh, and those grody mushrooms. Heh.

Nikki = Rachel Ray.

I thought all 3 should've packed their knives...Mark and Nikki took their lucky pills that morning, they're both on VERY thin ice...and what's with the Hat making out w/Richard b4 heading out?

I kind of knew he was going to go, even though the other 2 deserved the boot more, because he basically said to the judges, screw your challenge I'm just going to do what I want, and in the ned if you're going to try something like that you have to put forth something so utterly amazing that it's forgivable, and from the comments it wasn't all that great. The others might have sucked or been slobby, but at least their efforts smacked of trying to meet the challenge.

I mean if you're hired on to be the chef at a top Steakhouse you're not going to get very far if everytime someone asks for a Ribeye you make them tofu and soy subsititue, and claim you're bringing steak to your level.

I was really surprised! I kinda liked Ryan. Here's what my sister and I think was the judge's thought process: none of those bottom three have a chance of being Top Chef, but Ryan rarely screws up so bad. So why not take the opportunity to get rid of him on this one failure, and take care of Nikki next time she tries to use Velveeta for mac n cheese and Mark next time he does something sloppy. Can't wait for Nikki to go, though, and when I saw Mark in the opening credits I thought Man, how much longer is this guy gonna manage to hang on?

We were surprised that Ryan was asked to pack his knives in that particular challenge. Regardless of whether the pears were "tailgate food" at least it sounded like it was tasty. What great cooking has Nikki done? at any point?