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You can see Ted Allen every week on Food Network's 'Chopped' (Tuesdays at 10PM ET), but before he became host, he was a judge on 'Top Chef.' So what does the foodie think about the show's new love-him-or-hate him judge Toby Young?

"It's not helpful for someone to say that a dish looks like vomit. That's really kind of immature and sort of grabbing for a soundbite. Maybe it makes for a nice promo -- I'm sure television executives like it -- but it doesn't reveal that you have any knowledge about food. Of course I don't watch that show anymore, so I have no idea. [Laughs]"

-- Ted Allen, host of Food Network's 'Chopped,'
on 'Top Chef' judge Toby Young

The New York season of Top Chef has been fun, albeit a bit predictable. It seems like in every one of the episodes, you can peg who's going to be eliminated by the time Padma, Colicchio and company hit the judges' table. Even this week's addition of the Simon Cowell-like Toby Young as the new judge didn't derail the elimination train from its ultimate destination: the ouster of the two chefs everyone thought were in over their heads to begin with.

The fun part is that the producers are throwing challenges at the chefs that are pretty brilliant in their deviousness. For instance, last night the chefs had to cook for their potentially toughest critics... their fellow competitors. The results were mixed, to say the least. As in the previous weeks, the food produced by the chefs was mostly mediocre or uninspired. The people that challenged themselves ended up falling on their faces.

Which leads me to this question for you all: Would you eat at any of the contestants' restaurants? Follow me after the jump and I'll explain.