I’m not
sure if Ramsay just really wanted loud guy gone or what, but for the moment at
least he seems pretty content with keeping the five chefs that he has (even if
one of them is blonde girl). The whole
mess about “only giving out four black jackets this year” was a bunch of
baloney. I started the episode late,
about fifteen to twenty minutes in, and they had all been given their black
jackets. I’m not sure if Ramsay just changed
his mind or what (I’m assuming there was some kind of challenge associated with
it given the amount of time I missed, but if you know for sure, let me know in
the comments below!) but when I started watching the episode it was right
before the pressure-cooker challenge.
The
pressure-cooker challenge had the chefs open up a pressure cooker placed in
front of them to determine their mystery ingredient. This was a “humble” ingredient, not one that
you would normally find in a fine dining restaurant, and with the help of a
pressure cooker the chefs were supposed to turn that ingredient into something
that Ramsay and his two guest judges would deem restaurant quality. Blonde girl had pork belly, but apparently
she had no idea how a pressure cooker worked because she kept opening the damn
thing and therefore her dish was undercooked.
Mixed up Cyndi had some kind of pork, a roast or butt I think or
something of that nature, and her dish turns out to be stunningly bland. Mr. Mohawk received lamb shanks and while in
the process of cooking them in the pressure cooker, burns the meat. He tries to clean out the pressure-cooker the
best he can in order to finish cooking the meat without it tasting burnt, but
he simply can’t. Luckily the chef at the
pass for the women’s team (the one that helps Ramsay expedite food while he is
running around ready to tear someone a new asshole) gives Mr. Mohawk a second
pressure-cooker so he can finish his dish.
This is after she also sets him up with a new station when his gets
overrun by the output from the steamer.
Is she pulling for him or trying to help him advance, or would she do
this for any chef in that situation? I
think it’s the latter, especially since we haven’t seen any other hint of
favoritism, but who knows. His lamb
turns out ok, but a little undercooked because of the time spent out of the pressure
cooker while cleaning it. Skinny black
girl gets goat ribs. I’ve never had goat
anything, but with the way the judges rave about this dish, and appropriately
award it a 14/15, I may just have to try some.
Squeaky voice gets beef short ribs, which is what everyone probably
wanted because of its versatility. She
decides to make a beef stew with it and makes her own homemade pasta to go in
it. Everything is perfect and she
rightfully receives a perfect score of 15/15.
For her
reward, squeaky voice is given a chance to spend time with her family (which is
apparently what the time I missed was all about). She gets a private dining
experience at a fancy restaurant, just her and her family. I believe it’s her mother and
husband/boyfriend, but I’m not sure, but either way, they live it up for their
short time together. The losers of this
challenge have to do some landscaping as well as dumpster diving to separate
the garbage into recyclable/non-recyclable piles. These are dumpsters that have apparently not
been emptied since the first dinner service so a lot of that stuff is pretty
rank. In fact, skinny black girl dumps
out a bag of garbage to go picking through it and wonders where all the “rice”
came from. That’s not rice, that’s
maggots you dummy. This sends her into a
kind of a tailspin as apparently maggots are the one thing she can’t deal
with. Despite skinny black girl’s
inability to get over that fear, the chefs finish their task of picking through
garbage and head in to the dorms to clean themselves up. They get a call from Ramsay to come down the
stairs right away, which they do even though blonde girl still has her hair in
a towel (and apparently gives away just how cool Ramsay keeps Hell’s Kitchen,
if you know what I mean). Ramsay then
states that the black team will be working together for the first time the
following evening at dinner service, but they won’t be working in a
vacuum. The black team will be going
against an all-star staff (according to Ramsay anyway). Of course they don’t show us who these people
are, but based on the reactions of the current chefs, it’s not people you would
expect. And to be continued.
Last
year when Ramsay did this he welcomed back chefs from the past seasons. Some were very good, others were just okay. I don’t remember the end result of the head to
head, but unless the chefs didn’t watch last year’s season, they wouldn’t be
this surprised and this blown away that Ramsay got the old chefs back. I don’t think the other team is made up of
strictly returning chefs, or if it is, it’s made up of past winners. I don’t think Ramsay was able to wrangle
cooking show heavyweights like Bobby Flay, Wolfgang Puck, etc. either. At this point, the identity of the opposing
chefs is anyone’s guess, but if nothing else it should be interesting. Not only that, but this week there seems to
be a fracture amongst the black team already, which, duh.
See you next week!
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