So we are really starting to narrow the field and hopefully it is going to get really good! I think this week will be really interesting with Suzanne on the guys team!
So we are really starting to narrow the field and hopefully it is going to get really good! I think this week will be really interesting with Suzanne on the guys team!
As we head into this week’s episode I think Dave is going to remain on top but I think that Suzanne will be the next red person to leave.
Ramsay starts talking about his French training. Our challenge is that each team has to produce 4 crepes. 1 each for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert. Then he demo’ed 1 crepe. I had never seen a crepe that big being made. They made them on a big flat surface with a little spatula. They all had a hard time making the physical crepes. JP helped Ramsay judge this challenge. The guy’s breakfast crepe was pretty but to spongy. The girls wasn’t a pretty but was overall better. Tenille’s crepe didn’t look very good and it was very spicy. Andy’s looked very plain, similar to the girl’s breakfast crepe. The boys won lunch. The blue’s dinner crepe was huge and Ramsay said it tasted good. When asked what was in the crepe, Suzanne went on a huge diatribe on crepes, them being street food, etc. Both teams won a point on dinner. Dave’s dessert plate looked horrible and Ramsay didn’t even try it. The girls’ dessert crepe was delightful and they won.
So for service that night they are adding some French dishes like escargot, frog’s legs and crepes. The guys have to prep both kitchens. The girls are going to a surprise. They are going to learn mime. The girls also go to the best French restaurant in town.
While both teams were finishing up prep, Andy sliced the tips of 3 fingers off on the mandolin. So Any got taken away to get fixed but they don’t think he would be back that night.
Then service begins. Andy comes back right in the beginning of service but unfortunately he doesn’t seem to know the menu. Dave is starting his team off with good risottos but Sabrina’s were bland. Ramsay brought over Dave’s for Sabrina could compare. Then Sabrina made a good one and Ramsay was yelling at her about being consistent. Then Andy made ugly crepes. Kevin stepped in and helps Andy with the crepes. The girls were flying, working together and keeping time with each other. Then Suzanne screwed up and threw everyone off. Dave was working on meat and so he let Andy make his own risotto. When Andy couldn’t make his risotto, Dave did it both and seemed to be doing it well. Now Suzanne was slicing lamb a minute and a half before it was to go up. So then Suzanne had to start the table over. Andy then started making salads wrong. Suzanne finally had lamb to take up but they were cooked wrong. Sabrina keeps adjusting the recipes to her way and not Ramsay’s, he was hot as she messed up the frog legs. Ramsay tossed Andy out of the kitchen. So the guys were left with 3 in the kitchen. Then back in the red kitchen, Suzanne over cooked an entire pan of lamb. He then tossed Sabrina and Suzanne out for being inconsistent. Then Tenille and Ariel were left alone in the kitchen to finish with just Heather’s help (sous chef).
Since neither team was complete Ramsay didn’t have a winner. The blue and red team had to come to a consensus as to which 2 chefs to put up. Ramsay emphasizes that they need to work together and be sensible. I think next week will be the merge week. Andy doesn’t want to go up. Suzanne said she messed up a pan trying to get it all right. The decision was Andy and Suzanne. Suzanne can’t figure out why she is up. She says she puts up good food and wins challenges. Then the discussion comes up of what they have to do to guarantee Suzanne getting tossed. It was said that if Andy went up he would go home. So they were debating putting Suzanne and Sabrina up.
In the end they put up Suzanne and Andy. Suzanne says she should stay because she can cook every station. So Ramsay asks Tenille. Tenille says they are better without her even if that means they are short. Andy said he was bad because it was his cutting hand that got hurt. So Ramsay sent Andy home. Then he sent Suzanne to the blue team. Man, did they not look happy.
This is going to be fun! Se you next week!
So we are doing the taste test today! I love this one! Andy was talking about his special taste buds that taste things no one else can. We will see if he can measure up to his talk. Kevin guessed that clams were spinach. Sabrina said tuna but at least it was fish. Andy thought that avocado was boiled coconut. The girls won!
The girls’ reward was to go to Opaque to dine in the dark. The guys’ punishment was to hand make fruit sorbets (including taking fruit delivery) and then to shine the glassware. Dave had to sort frozen berries and Van had to see tons of pomegranate. Their lunches were blended plates of food, like risotto with scallops and duck.
The girls want Suzanne out. I don’t know if they want her out enough to sabotage themselves but they want her out bad.
Then we launch into service. Tenille is doing apps and running the reds. While Andy is doing garnish and running the blues. Tenille tells Suzanne that her scallops are to dark and Suzanne ignores her and is right. Kevin is doing the apps for the blue team. Both teams start well. The chefs have to serve the sorbet palate cleansers tableside. Kevin left Van on his apps while he did the sorbet and Van put up bland risotto. Amanda was on garnish and is messing it up while she is telling Tenille that she doesn’t need help. Andy was coordinating for the team and wasn’t clear as to what was next.
Then we get to entrees in the red kitchen. Sabrina is on meat and Suzanne is on fish. Sabrina tells Ramsay that it will be 4 minutes and Suzanne is ready to go. But then lamb comes back. Sabrina said that she pushed it out to soon because of Suzanne. So Ramsay handed Sabrina the plate and kicked her out to eat it. When someone asked Suzanne what happened she said nothing. Nothing?!?!? You are now down a person and that person is on meat. This is ridiculous. Then Tenille got put on the meat and she said 3 minutes. Then Suzanne said 2 minutes and Tenille called her on it and stuck to her guns. Andy said that he was 3 orders short on mashed potatoes. But they made them stretch. Then Suzanne holds everyone up with her fish and then she messed up the fish and everyone had to start over. Then she starts cleaning up her station while she was cooking. Then Andy ran out of potatoes. Dave ran in got the potatoes ends to make some more. How did Andy not start some more when he knew he was almost short on the other order. The red team’s fish station was sinking quick. Amanda tried to help Suzanne and thought she was finishing a piece of fish and put it up half done. Then Suzanne hung Amanda out to dry on it.
The winner was the blue kitchen because Dave bailed them out. Tenille was the best of the worst. So she had to come up with 2 to put up for elimination. I think Tenille should say the only person who should be tossed is Suzanne. Suzanne doesn’t understand why everyone is mad at her. Tenille ended up nominating Suzanne and Sabrina. But Tenille made it clear that she thinks that Suzanne is the weakest link. Then Ramsay called Amanda out. Ramsay doesn’t like Amanda and I think it is just because she so soft spoken. Suzanne said she was just pushing and everyone said that wasn’t true. Then Ramsay asked is Amanda could win it and she said she could. He tossed Amanda out. I can’t believe he did that! Suzanne should have been tossed!!!!!!
Well, maybe next week. A girl can hope.
I don’t get these chefs. 1 week they are decent but then the next they totally stink. So are they going to completely unravel? Will Robert be back? Let’s jump in and see!
The chefs come down to some big thing covered with an orange cloth. It is a dice game with letters on the dice. They will toss the dice and pick an ingredient starting with that letter. Then they have to make 1 dish with them all. The girls have rabbit, hariot covert, potatoes, garlic, and ham hock. That is a decent set to make 1 good dish. The guys pick haddock, figs, angel hair pasta, apples, tomatoes. This could be disastrous. Dave picked the figs because he went blank (ick). If the girls cook decently I think they have this in the bag. The girls break up the jobs but Suzanne has to tell everyone what to do. Then it seems the guys are pulling out a sauce with the figs in it. Ariel and Tenille couldn’t agree on Ariel’s garlic sauce. The guys actually ended up winning. The girls lost because the garlic sauce was to overpowering.
As a reward, the guys are going to Vegas. The other side…it’s delivery day. The girls are taking deliveries, scrubbing down everything, taking inventory, prep both kitchens and then the wine delivery. Right off the girls drop a box of lemons outside. The girls get woke up in the middle of the night to take delivery. BTW at this point there is still no Robert and the blue team likes it that way.
An hour before service Robert walks in. He is back and his team isn’t really happy to see him. While they were all working on prep Robert went to the dorms to eat. Robert has been told by the doctors to know his limits.
The new thing this week is that there are going to be chef’s tables. Ramsay is filling them with his exec chefs out of New York and West Hollywood. And then we open! The chefs arrived in the blue kitchen and Dave decided their apps without asking but at least he went over to wait on the table. Ariel didn’t go over to the chef’s table. But when she did, Ariel gave them a choice. The blue chef’s table liked the risotto. The red chef’s table thought the sear on the scallop was to much and it needed salt.
Van forgot to take the plastic wrap off the fish. Suzanne was running around the red kitchen but I am not sure what station she was at. Van had another plastic on the fish. Sabrina was cooking in a dirty pan. The blue team forgot to serve the chef’s table. Van told them(sort of) what the choices were and really did a horrible job describing or selling anything. Robert was really messing up the lamb both in cooking and cutting. Robert also put out raw rabbit. Poor Amanda got jumped on because she was waiting on Ariel to do pasta for the last couple of tables. But the guys aren’t putting out anything. Ramsay ended up shutting down the blue kitchen but the red kitchen finished service.
The guys lost. When the night started Dave had the blue kitchen ahead of the red kitchen in apps. So Dave was the best of the worst. Dave was trying to decide between Robert, Van and Andy. Then Robert layed into Andy and shockingly Andy handled it pretty well. Dave chose to put Robert and Van up. Then Ramsay called up Andy. Then Ramsay sent Van back into the group. Robert says that he can’t believe that he has to up there with Andy. The guys got into a little back and forth. How Robert does nothing all day and Andy does nothing in service. Ramsay chooses to send Robert home. Ramsay says that Robert had more experience in service and shouldn’t have had a service like he did.
While I am not shocked at all that Robert is out, I am shocked that Andy is still around. I think there is a decent chance he is the next to go.
See you next week!
Here we meet again… According to the description it looks like Hell’s Kitchen is going lo-cal. We will see how that goes. We will see if the red team can stop the bleeding and do better than last week. We will also see if they are going to just fight, especially after all of Tenille’s anger!
They have to create a 3 course menu that is 700 calories or less in total. The guys split up into teams of 2 to work on each course. Sabrina has taken the lead over all for the girls’ team. The guys seem to have a hard time getting under the calorie count so they couldn’t get to the cooking at 20 minutes left. But the men ended up going lowest at 595 calories. Ramsay liked both team’s appetizers. The girls’ team pork chop looked great but the guys’ pork chop looked horrible. The girls broke ahead in that course. The girls did a fruit bowl with lemon ricotta cream and coconut milk (I think I will be trying it) and Ramsay liked it! The guys on the other hand had an odd egg white crepe thing. The red team very solidly won!
The punishment was that the guys had to go shopping for the new dishes and prep both kitchens so they could open that same day. The girls got to go to Venice Beach and got a sand volleyball lesson. They got to go in convertabiles and get a lesson from Olympian Annett Davis. Meanwhile the guys had to ride this weird circle bike to go to the store, uphill. Robert ended up having to see the medic and then they sent him to the hospital. Robert was not going to be back for service.
Andy right off couldn’t remember how many scallop dishes Ramsay called out while Ariel messed up the first scallops. Then Jim messed up his first risotto more than once. Then Tenille made a huge batch of spinach instead of making it by order. Then Tenille didn’t make enough potatoes and Ramsay yelled some more. He told her that she was crap and so she told him he was crap. They end up cussing at each other and Ramsay tossed her out. He followed her out and they kept fighting. He was trying to get her to stop talking so she could go back in. She ended up going back to her station. While Tenille fought Jim had no emotion. It took him over an hour to get out a risotto and so Chef Scott replaced him on the risotto station. Kevin had to drive Dave and wait on him. Sabrina couldn’t cut up chicken. Andy couldn’t keep track of a table at a time (as in he needed 2) and then cooked it wrong at least 3 times. Sabrina sent out raw pork and under cooked lamb. Sabrina said the customer was wrong. Ramsay shut it all down.
I was surprised that they didn’t finish service. It seemed just a person on each team was the problem and they could have finished. Ramsay said both teams lost and they had to each come up with a person. They guys were trying to decide between Jim and Andy. Then Andy got them going on Robert. Since he missed the service he should be out. The girls were looking at Tenille and Sabrina.
In the end the girls put up Sabrina and the guys asked about Robert. Ramsay said it wouldn’t be fair to put up Robert but if he missed another it would be discussed. So the guys put up Andy. Andy said that he wasn’t used to the system and could learn it so he should stay. Oh come on! Andy needs to get tossed. Ramsay said Jim lacks the passion and kicked Jim out!
The women did better this week so could they be turning the corner? I hope so for their sake. But I think Andy needs to get tossed!
Between surgery and a Tivo misfire I am not going to be posting a recap of Top Chef Masters or Hell’s Kitchen this week. I will return next week!
So here we meet for another episode of Hell’s Kitchen. Where we left everyone last week was Joseph calling out Gordon Ramsay. So will they fight? I think not but what I wonder is if Joseph is going to get tossed off the show. Well, lets get into it!
I can’t believe Hell’s Kitchen is back already but I am happy! I read in my local paper that this season isn’t that good but I am willing to give it a try. So let’s get started!
This is it! The final part of Hell’s Kitchen’s finale! I think I am pulling for Paula but I must say that I liked these two finalists the best out of the group! We will see if the “sous chefs” will be the end of 1 of them. I have to say that I think Danny got the better group.
So they all start prepping and Lacey screwed up the creme brulee. I wonder if Paula has to keep Lacey? It might be better to toss her out. During the tasting Ramsay thought Paula’s fish was a bit dry but the second batch of creme brulee was completely screwed up. She has to rethink her menu. Danny got dinged for a falic looking dish and an under cooked poached pear. His pear sounds so good!
Paula’s dining room looked great and she was calling it it Sunergy. Danny was calling his the Velvet Hammer. I agree that it sounded like a porn movie. I am not digging on the hanging fish that he had either.
Then service began. Danny started with a loud group but Paula’s was quiet. Andrea screwed up the first scallops and Lacey tried cover it. Over on Danny’s side Carol was getting backed up on the apps. But apparently Andrea may be the downfall of the red team. Giovanni was being a huge problem and he says in the confessional, he doesn’t care who wins.
Lacey was lost on garnish. I think that Ramsay has to remember when he judges that even he couldn’t manage Lacey. The whole team seemed to have to get on garnish to dig Lacey out. Danny finished serving before Paula but not by much.
Of course they did the door reveal. Danny won!
I think they were both very good and I am sure that Paula will have a restaurant somewhere soon too.
So here we meet as we enter the finale. Who is going to get stuck with Lacey? Or Seth? Or Colleen? This is going to be interesting.
So we start with the infamous screen drop. Then both of our finalists proceed to get blato. Danny wanted mounted fish in his fine dining restaurant. Ick! Paula seems to have a real picture where as Danny seems to be a little more unknown.
Paula and Danny then go off to make their menus. Once the menus are done the finalists are off to Atlantic City. But first they get their 2 “helpers” each so that they can work while the finalists are gone. Paula’s help is her mom and sister. Danny’s help is his girlfriend and his father. They then had 5 minutes to communicate their vision. So of course, as soon as the finalists are gone there is an issue. Paula’s side can’t use real candles so her sister oks fakes even though she didn’t want fake. Danny’s girlfriend came over and started changing things a bit. Then they webcamed together with their loved ones.
Then Danny and Paula had to go to a meeting with the Director of Marketing and 500 staff members of the resort. I am guessing it is a challenge that effects the picking of sous chefs. They got to meet the COO of the Borgata. Ramsay handed him their menus and asked him what he would order off them. Once Larry said what he would order Ramsay said they had 45 minutes to make it. Then executive chefs of different restaurants in the resort tasted their food. Paula won the first course. Danny won the second course. Danny’s beef won the 3rd course and thus the competition.
The next morning back in Hell’s Kitchen Ramsay has a row of domes. It is our former cheftestants. It is Andrea, LA, Ben, Lacey, Giovanni, and Carol. Carol was shocked that she was left for the last 2 with, of course, Lacey as last. Andrea, LA and Lacey are Paula’s team. Danny has Ben, Giovanni and Carol.
And this is where we break. See you next week for the conclusion.