Dinner: Impossible on a Dinner: Train

02 19 2007

I would like to title this something to the effect of “Snakes! on a plane”, but “Dinner on a Train” will just have to suffice.

Anyway, here’s Robert Irvine’s latest setup: Two trains, three kitchens (all amazingly cramped) and just one George. Oh and sassy annoying head chef and her Igore-like sous chef. It all makes for a hot time, and a challenge with getting anything done. Irvine should have ditched Igore and Frau Blücher (notice the horse neighing in the background?) and gone with the two Georges instead. Anyway, back to the story: one Irvine, one George, a horse and Igor have to prep food in the box car, then transfer it from there to one of two kitchens on the main train, separated by 300 feet of dining cars. Then, they have to serve food up to 150 people while the train is moving. Oh, and did I mention that the train conductor is trying to crawl right up Irvine’s ass the entire time? If I had guns like Irvine, I would have used him on that guy ;-)

Entertainment ensued, as it always does. Irvine beats all odds, telling the horse off, dealing with the conductor, and even getting some work out of Igor. Which now makes my wife wonder: “Does this guy ever Fail?” – because we haven’t seen him fail yet.

And, at the end of the day, I’m still hooked on Irvine’s performance. It’s totally entertaining, and a lot of fun to watch. I only have one gripe: this episode had a little bit of that sort of American Chopper fake yelling drama that I hate. There was more of it in this episode though than I’ve ever seen. So, if Marc Summers is reading this: please (please!) keep the urgency, but lose the yelling
- it makes for bad TV in general. Thanks :-)


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