It's time once again for one of our Top Chef: Masters commenter live blogs. Why not partake with us? You don't have to be a foodie to join in. After all, Kelly Choi doesn't even eat, and she's the host!

The live blog happens in the comments section under this post, where anyone can participate when the show gets underway on Bravo, at 10 Eastern. To get an idea of the sort of wittery that goes on here, check out this selection of a few of my favorite comments from last week's edition.

We all had fun watching last week's entertaining group of season one veterans compete. Most of us seemed to be pulling for Wylie Dufresne but, like last season, he came up just short of making the finals despite performing well. So I guess Wylie's kind of like the Susan Lucci of Top Chef Masters—except Susan has much better hair. Meanwhile, Ludo Lefebvre performed badly and gracelessly, but entertained us greatly in the process- for example, by insulting English people and their "fish and sheeps" with French-accented taunts, like a character out of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. We will miss you, Pepe Le Pew!

As for tonight, we're up to the last of the first-round episodes in which new groups of chefs compete each week. Starting next week, things will change to the traditional single-elimination format. Tonight's group includes:

  • Jody Adams, owner of Rialto restaurant in Cambridge, Mass., and author of the terribly-titled cookbook, "In the Hands of a Chef." She won James Beard Award, so she's apparently a lot better at cooking than she is at naming books.
  • Susur Lee, a Toronto-based, Hong Kong-born, Chinese-French fusion chef who looks likely to be one of the more interesting contestants this season. Not only is he a talented and charismatic, but with his long hair and striking features, he looks like a character out of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. (In this picture he does, anyway.)
  • Debbie Gold, the James Beard Award-winning executive chef of The American Restaurant in Kansas City. She once had her own restaurant called 40 Sardines, but she packed it in. Sardines … packed it in. Get it?
  • Maria Hines, yet another James Beard Award winner, who owns Tilth in Seattle and specializes in organic cuisine. Wouldn't it be funny if they made her do one of those vending-machine-junk-food challenges? "Hey organic chef — let's see what you can make with these Twinkies!"
  • Rick Tramonto, Executive Chef and Partner at Tru restaurant in Chicago. And yes … he also won a James Beard Award. Seems like you can't swing a dead cat In the culinary world without hitting a James Beard Award winner, huh? They must hand out those awards like the U.S. Army handed out bronze stars after the Granada invasion.

To prepare us all for live-blogging tonight's episode, here a few things I gleaned by watching the preview clips:

  • For the quickfire challenge, the chefs must create a "perfectly styled fruit plate," which will be judged by a food photographer. I'll bet all that James-Beard-Award-winning expertise will come in really handy when it comes making a bunch of fruit look extra-pretty!
  • The quickfire will also be a "high stakes" challenge, with a shocking twist! (I know what it is, but I won't reveal it here.)
  • For the main challenge, the chefs will prepare lunch for the cast and crew of ABC TV show Modern Family – which seems odd, because Bravo is owned by NBC. I guess the modern television business is even stranger than modern families are.

Anyway, everybody knows that Gawker commenters are the James Beard Award winners of live-blogging — so it's time to turn this show over to you. Let's get this party started!