Dinner: Impossible visits Lost on Food Network

[Hober Mallow]

Everybody check out one of my favorite shows tonight on Food Network. Actually, it's two of my favorite shows combined -- Dinner: Impossible and Lost. Chef Robert Irvine will no doubt yell at our favorite cast members or crew members as they try to help him prepare a huge meal for the Lost cast and crew.

His challenge,or what I gather is his challenge from the promos, is that he's stranded on a beach and has limited resources. Let's hope the meal is more than mangos and boar.

If you miss it tonight (Wednesday) they usually repeat it over the weekend.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Wait they brought back Robert? I thought they suspended him a couple years ago and brought on that new Iron Chef dude when it was reported that Irvine lied about his past?

 

[FormerLurker]

Robert finished his degree, and they gave him the show back.

Iron Chef Mike Symon didn't like the format for the show anyway.

 

[Hober Mallow]

Symon only did like six episodes before they brought back Irvine.

 

[FormerLurker]

Which does not contradict anything I said.


Sorry, that was snarky.

 

[Hober Mallow]

Which does not contradict anything I said.

No, it added information you didn't provide.

Sorry, that was snarky.

Well, if everyone on the internet had to apologize for being snarky...

 

[FormerLurker]

Part of it, I think, is that Robert Irvine had mucho experience with catering, which is what Dinner Impossible is, really, while Mike Symon was overwhelmed by the concept. This would go a long way toward explaining why Symon didn't like the concept, and only did so many episodes, which, when you include the fact that the Food Network told Robert Irvine he could have the show back when he provably had his degree, makes it surprising Mike Symon lasted as long as he did.

 

[Colonel Green]

Of course that doesn't do anything to address the other lies he told about his background. Irvine rubs me the wrong way, and did so even before I found out about all that.

 

[Hober Mallow]

Part of it, I think, is that Robert Irvine had mucho experience with catering, which is what Dinner Impossible is, really, while Mike Symon was overwhelmed by the concept. This would go a long way toward explaining why Symon didn't like the concept, and only did so many episodes, which, when you include the fact that the Food Network told Robert Irvine he could have the show back when he provably had his degree, makes it surprising Mike Symon lasted as long as he did.

I remember a Symon episode where he tried to make something really fancy with shrimp. He asked the crowd he was there to serve if that sounded good, and they all yelled, "Nooooooooo!!!"

Irvine seems to be really great at coming up with really simple dishes on the fly and perfectly balancing really simple flavors with whatever gets thrown at him. At least, that seems to be what he does; I haven't tried his food. Put another way, whereas the Iron Chefs take ordinary ingredients and make dishes that are completely beyond ordinary experience, Irvine takes wacky ingredients or bizzarre concepts for dishes and pulls them into the realm of ordinary everyday experience, flavors and dishes ordinary people can relate to.