First, Robin may be the luckiest cheftestant in the history of the show. I'd have to think about that a little longer to confirm my suspicions, but she should have been gone in about every episode this year and has simply been lucky. Part of luck is creating your own luck and it appears that is how she got through last nights episode again. I do not think that she will last much longer.

Ron has been hanging on by a thread on occasion as well and this time I think he just got confused and ran out of time. Again, a part of the game/contest. I enjoyed watching Ron, but there was never a doubt that he was not going to make it to the final eight chefs.

Michael V, Kevin and Bryan V are consistently creative and produce the best food.

Micheal I and Ely are less consistent but produce interesting meals.

The remainder are brilliant on occasion and middling on average. I suppose it will all depend on when they peak in their brilliance compared to the others.

That Lasagna last night looked great. I am not into Pot Roast, but it sounded amazing. Great work by the chefs.

If you are not reading the Blogs on Bravo TV, you might be missing a quarter of scoop behind a lot of the competition. Especially the look behind the judging table. This is well worth a gander once a week, or if you do not mind the trees, print it out and it makes for better reading than your Hemispheres.