Last night was a very good night in Hell’s Kitchen – not just one, but two of my most hated people got the boot by Gordon Ramsay and I, well I sat there clapping my hands in glee. First though, before we got to all the elimination goodness, we had some challenges.
The first challenge required the blue and red teams to both chase some pigs. Each pig was wearing a collar and had either a pork product or a side dish printed on said collar. All the teams had to do was catch the pigs and grab their collar. Sounds easy, right? Well, it was easy enough for the blue team who got succulent dishes such as bacon and pork loin. But, the red team once again proved themselves to be entirely useless and they ended up with things like blood sausage and prunes. Blech! Of course, when it came time to cook their dishes, the red team failed miserably and the boys in blue, and Autumn, were declared the winners. As a reward, the blue team then got to go get wrapped in healing mud, while the girls got to dress up in some lovely overalls and clean the pigs. Then, everyone was back in the kitchen to get ready for that night’s service, which was barbecue night.
The service had a twist in that the restaurant was overbooked and so, there would be two services. For the first service, the red team would cook (and probably fail abysmally at it) and the blue team would serve front of the house. Then, the two teams switched positions and it all came out that the red team cannot cook, they cannot catch pigs, and they cannot work in the front of the house. Tell me, is there anything the red team can do? But, Chef Ramsay managed to find some light of hope in Fran, and chose her to do the picking for who was getting kicked off the red team. And then, the real drama of the red team started.
Fran actually wanted to put up Maria and Scott. Maria, if you don’t remember, is the immature blonde who can’t seem to do anything right except bitch about Autumn, stick her lower lip out, and spit out sentences constantly using the word “like” as though she was in sixth grade. “Like, I don’t know, Chef. That was like, my worst service ever, obviously.” But Fran had a dilemma. Mostly, that was the fact that she let Scott talk to her. He convinced her that if she were to put up both Maria and Scott, they’d both go home and then Fran would be next. What? Does the dude think he’s on Survivor? It’s Hell’s Kitchen and if Gordo wants to get rid of you both, he will. Whether you’re put on the block or not. But unfortunately, Fran couldn’t see this fact and put up Maria and Nilka.
Nilka was infuriated that Fran put her up and called her out on it in front of Ramsay. But just like I said, in the end, Gordo didn’t care about who Fran actually put up, and told Scott to step forward. In the end, Maria, with her lame ass excuses, was told to give her jacket to Chef and leave the kitchen. Scott was given a stern talking-to by Chef Ramsay but was told to step back into line. He would serve another service. But the drama wouldn’t end there. Once they left the kitchen, Nilka, who was enraged by the nomination, turned on her entire team telling them that they could all go “f*&^k themselves” and that she meant that from the “bottom of her ass.” I think her team was left shrugging just as much as the viewers were.
The second challenge once again, saw failure from the team. First, Siobhan thought that her pigeon was a Cornish hen, and she left it swimming in blood, which was a bit unappetizing. Holli thought her sea bass was a halibut, and Scott thought his duck was a chicken. What exactly is going on here? A team that can’t even identify simple ingredients? How will they ever run the Savoy? Well, the good news for future diners of the Savoy is that they probably won’t. The challenge actually ended up in a tie but Gordo gave it to the blue team. He said this was because Jason’s dish was particularly good, but I secretly think it’s because the blue team knew what they were cooking!
That night’s dinner service was in honor of Family Night and Chef Ramsay was trying desperately not to swear, and giving the cooks hell for doing the same. However, Chef lost his own battle and soon, he was cussin like a trucker in there. One of my favourite parts of this service though, had to be when a little girl drew a picture of Gordon Ramsay with the words “stupid donkey” written in a balloon from his mouth. Love it! But no one else saw the humor as Chef Ramsay lost his patience with the red team and had to kick all of them out of the kitchen. Chef Ramsay and his sous chefs finished the dinner service without them. And isn’t it amazing that three well-rounded and experienced chefs can complete, on their own, something that five brainless twits couldn’t?
When it was time for elimination, it was obviously the red team that had lost. Again. And ya know, I can’t even remember who went up with Scott. I think originally it was Fran, but Chef Ramsay once again overruled and I think just ended up kicking Scott out. I personally don’t care how it happened, and that’s probably why I can’t remember. I’m just happy that Scott, that arrogant, egotistical donkey has finally been removed from the kitchen. But Chef Ramsay wasn’t done. He had one more move to make.
And that was moving Benjamin over to the red team. I guess Chef Ramsay saw the desperate need for a leader on the red team and thinks Benjamin might just be it. I really like Benjamin and I truly think that he’s a good cook. Plus, he doesn’t talk a lot of smack or make himself out to be something he’s not, which I appreciate. But how he’ll do on the women’s team, I don’t know. Scott was right about one thing. It’s hard to cook with people who don’t know what they’re doing. But Scott was one of those people, and I don’t think Benjamin is. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see but from the previews, the women on the red team try to devour Benjamin for breakfast. Ben, on the other hand, is excited about running his own team. Sounds like a fight to the death to me.
Last night’s episode of Hell’s Kitchen started for me what this show is really all about: finding out who I hated the most, and finding out who I liked the most. This is when it all starts to get interesting as we keep finding out more about the competing cooks and forming our own opinions of them. It also had a very interesting challenge where the women’s team didn’t seem like it would fair very well, but they ended up doing not too badly on it.
