Miri and Marie: Two Extremes
Air Date: 04/26/2006
Contestants: Okada Miri (岡田美里), Takada Mayuko (高田万由子), Marie (マリエ), Takano Yuri (たかの友梨), Sugita Kaoru (杉田かおる), Manabe Kaori (眞鍋かをり)
Guest Judges: Okuda Eiji (奥田瑛二), Hanada Masaru (花田勝), Katsumata Kunikazu (勝俣州和)
Theme Ingredient/Recipes:
Chicken / Chicken Curry Udon and Chicken Rice
Recap: This episode was a battle of the Celebrity vs the Ai-Epu. It also featured perhaps the shortest cooking time I have ever seen, lasting barely long enough to have a quick chat with each of the chefs. They then segued into the reward that Aoki Sayaka had won during the Christmas special. In this episode, one of the celebrity judges was a star baseball player. The reward for Aoki's team was going to the stadium during a game. She actually was given the opportunity to throw a pitch (which while they called it a strike, was far from it). While normally I would complain about these segments taking away from the show itself, Aoki really had come into her own as the star of the show. While she usually comes off as this very gruff and tough competitor, there are times where you can see that she can still be a bit shy and nervous. I can't wait until the next show which is going to feature the Apron Boys, and Aoki will be one of the judges.
Kaori was the first to be judged and everyone was pretty pleased with the Chicken Rice. However on her second dish, there was way too much in the way of vegetables. She also overloaded the dish with some spices, such as cumin. The one issue most of them would have is that the Udon dish turned out to be more like a straight curry rather than a soup-based curry dish.
Which is what happened to Kaoru as well. Things looked okay with her rice and I think she was hopeful that she would edge closer to the Special Epu ranking (she is only a handful of episodes away from hitting the Iron Rule). However, she really messed up on her Udon. She added flour to the mix to thicken her soup-base, which resulted in one solid mass of udon noodles. Not only was there a reference to the Alien movie, but to the way the mass would appear to look like certain forms of kanji.
Mayuko on the other hand did a great job with both of her dishes and Yuri then followed up strong as well. There seemed to be a little friendly competition going on, and it seems that everyone had singled out Miri as the one they would all have to beat.
But before the judges could have a chance to taste Miri's dishes, they had to endure what Marie had cooked up. They did a special feature on her during the show, including a tour of her kitchen and doing the typical 'refrigerator check' that they do it hese segments. She seems to live quite the ritzy life, with her parents having homes in Tokyo, Nice, Monaco, and the United States. Unfortunately this type of life is not conducive to cooking your own meals (apparently her family has their own personal chef). Which means that both of her dishes were disasters. She put fish in with the chicken rice and neither of them were fully cooked. Her curry had an entire chicken leg sticking out of it, and there was way too much cayenne pepper used in the dish. Not only did all the judges go running for the 'bucket of love', but after trying her own dish Marie did as well.
Luckily, everyone got to enjoy Miri's cooking in the end. She was definitely a ringer, having written books on cooking and teaching cooking to her circle of friends. The judges were asking for seconds it was so good.
Judgement Time was a bit anti-climatic. Miri beat out Yuri for the Special Apron ranking and nabbed the trophy as well. Kaoru found herself moving up just a tiny bit from before, but at least no longer ranked a the Last Apron. That honor instead went to Marie, who has gotten probably about as far as one can go outside the studio without leaving the district. Both her and Kaoru ended up doing the dishes at the end of the episode. As I mentioned earlier, the next episode will feature the Apron Boys and will air on May 10th, 2006.
Ranking ( out of 111 ):
Okada Miri: 3 (Special Apron Ranking)
Takano Yuri: 14
Takada Mayuko: 45
Manabe Kaori: 69
Sugita Kaoru: 109
Marie: 111 (New Entry - Last Apron Ranking)
Contestants: Okada Miri (岡田美里), Takada Mayuko (高田万由子), Marie (マリエ), Takano Yuri (たかの友梨), Sugita Kaoru (杉田かおる), Manabe Kaori (眞鍋かをり)
Guest Judges: Okuda Eiji (奥田瑛二), Hanada Masaru (花田勝), Katsumata Kunikazu (勝俣州和)
Theme Ingredient/Recipes:
Chicken / Chicken Curry Udon and Chicken Rice
Recap: This episode was a battle of the Celebrity vs the Ai-Epu. It also featured perhaps the shortest cooking time I have ever seen, lasting barely long enough to have a quick chat with each of the chefs. They then segued into the reward that Aoki Sayaka had won during the Christmas special. In this episode, one of the celebrity judges was a star baseball player. The reward for Aoki's team was going to the stadium during a game. She actually was given the opportunity to throw a pitch (which while they called it a strike, was far from it). While normally I would complain about these segments taking away from the show itself, Aoki really had come into her own as the star of the show. While she usually comes off as this very gruff and tough competitor, there are times where you can see that she can still be a bit shy and nervous. I can't wait until the next show which is going to feature the Apron Boys, and Aoki will be one of the judges.
Kaori was the first to be judged and everyone was pretty pleased with the Chicken Rice. However on her second dish, there was way too much in the way of vegetables. She also overloaded the dish with some spices, such as cumin. The one issue most of them would have is that the Udon dish turned out to be more like a straight curry rather than a soup-based curry dish.
Which is what happened to Kaoru as well. Things looked okay with her rice and I think she was hopeful that she would edge closer to the Special Epu ranking (she is only a handful of episodes away from hitting the Iron Rule). However, she really messed up on her Udon. She added flour to the mix to thicken her soup-base, which resulted in one solid mass of udon noodles. Not only was there a reference to the Alien movie, but to the way the mass would appear to look like certain forms of kanji.
Mayuko on the other hand did a great job with both of her dishes and Yuri then followed up strong as well. There seemed to be a little friendly competition going on, and it seems that everyone had singled out Miri as the one they would all have to beat.
But before the judges could have a chance to taste Miri's dishes, they had to endure what Marie had cooked up. They did a special feature on her during the show, including a tour of her kitchen and doing the typical 'refrigerator check' that they do it hese segments. She seems to live quite the ritzy life, with her parents having homes in Tokyo, Nice, Monaco, and the United States. Unfortunately this type of life is not conducive to cooking your own meals (apparently her family has their own personal chef). Which means that both of her dishes were disasters. She put fish in with the chicken rice and neither of them were fully cooked. Her curry had an entire chicken leg sticking out of it, and there was way too much cayenne pepper used in the dish. Not only did all the judges go running for the 'bucket of love', but after trying her own dish Marie did as well.
Luckily, everyone got to enjoy Miri's cooking in the end. She was definitely a ringer, having written books on cooking and teaching cooking to her circle of friends. The judges were asking for seconds it was so good.
Judgement Time was a bit anti-climatic. Miri beat out Yuri for the Special Apron ranking and nabbed the trophy as well. Kaoru found herself moving up just a tiny bit from before, but at least no longer ranked a the Last Apron. That honor instead went to Marie, who has gotten probably about as far as one can go outside the studio without leaving the district. Both her and Kaoru ended up doing the dishes at the end of the episode. As I mentioned earlier, the next episode will feature the Apron Boys and will air on May 10th, 2006.
Ranking ( out of 111 ):
Okada Miri: 3 (Special Apron Ranking)
Takano Yuri: 14
Takada Mayuko: 45
Manabe Kaori: 69
Sugita Kaoru: 109
Marie: 111 (New Entry - Last Apron Ranking)
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