For the
past few weeks, my choice for the final two has been Mr. Mohawk and mixed up
Cyndi. They both seem like the most
ready, the best fits for Ramsay’s restaurant at this time. Was I correct in that assumption? We’ll see, but first we have to get through
the individual challenge. This one
started out with a puzzle, an actual puzzle that the contestants had to put
together. The team of Mr. Mohawk and
squeaky voice completed the puzzle ahead of the other team of skinny black girl
and mixed up Cyndi pretty easily and wins…nothing. Of course. The real challenge is the now infamous “Taste
it Now Make it” challenge in which Ramsay brings out a fairly simple dish with
multiple components that each of the contestants need to get right. The dish this year looked a little busy in
terms of plating, but I’m sure it was delicious. The three components of the dish that the
chefs need to correctly guess is the protein, the puree and the vegetable. Everyone thinks that the puree is butternut
squash, which is incorrect as it is carrot puree. So no one gets eliminated there. The protein is what usually trips up the
chefs in these competitions and this one is no different as Mr. Mohawk and
squeaky voice are both eliminated because they didn’t choose venison as their
protein. Mixed up Cyndi chose venison
and buffalo but only plated the venison so she lucked out. It all came down to the vegetable. Mixed up Cyndi had turnip while skinny black
girl had parsnip I believe. Mixed up
Cyndi wins!
For her
reward she gets a $1000.00 shopping spree at a kitchen supply store in which
she purchases a stand mixer for her mother, among other things. She also gets a one on one lunch with Ramsay
at his new restaurant “Fat Cow”. The
other contestants have to not only clean the dorms, but actually move stuff
out, all the beds and everything and then set up for dinner service that
night. There aren’t too many surprises
in the cleanup, except someone left their thong laying in the corner
somewhere. They didn’t say anything
about it being able to tie a boat to shore so I’m assuming it wasn’t fat black
girl’s but I could be mistaken.
Mixed
up Cyndi returns to the kitchen and dinner service begins. This is the night that each chef gets to run
the pass, expediting and plating food while being the “last line of defense” as
Ramsay likes to say. First up is mixed
up Cyndi, who does an ok job of running things.
She does miss the fairly obvious blemish of crab substituted for lobster
in the risotto, but she does keep food moving at a steady pace.
Mr. Mohawk on the other hand gets
his ass handed to him. He misses the
white fish substituted for the scallops in the appetizer. That is ridiculous though as I don’t know how
anyone could really tell without tasting the dish, or squeezing the “scallops”
and having them fall apart in your fingers.
He also was thrown a curveball by Jean Phillipe as a diner requested
that the prosciutto not be included in the Beef Wellington. That’s all well and good, except the
Wellingtons are all pre-wrapped, so there’s no way that’s going to happen
without them tearing apart a Wellington (which isn’t going to happen). I think Mr. Mohawk got screwed here, is what
I’m trying to say, and if he went home after this service I would be
disappointed, but not surprised.
Skinny black girl is up next and
does a decent job of running things.
There’s not much to say because I think she caught the mistake by Chef
Andy and ran a pretty tight ship. The
same can be said for squeaky voice as she caught a big screw up where the Chef
Andy sent up a Veal Wellington instead of a Beef one. She also caught many of the smaller mistakes
presented by the other contestants, something that Mr. Mohawk was unable to do in
his time at the pass. That voice of hers
served her well in this instance as she was able to be heard among the din of
the kitchen and her orders were carried out correctly, probably to shut her up
but I’m sure that was okay for her.
Elimination time came next, and the
first person to make it into the finals was squeaky voice! She wasn’t my first choice but she did show
that she could run the pass and improved every single service for the most
part. I’m okay with that choice. Of course this meant that at least one of my
frontrunners wouldn’t be going through to the final round. We are treated to the revelation next as
Ramsay sends home mixed up Cyndi. This
was a surprise to everyone as I was sure that not only was she going through to
the finals, but that she would win the whole thing. Ramsay mentioned her lack of assertiveness to
be her downfall, which makes sense, it’s just kind of sad to see her go after
she has done such a good job up to this point.
That leaves one spot open for two
people. Who’s going to face squeaky
voice in the finals? No one knows, at
least not until next week when we get the whole finals experience. The trip to Vegas, the choosing of new teams,
the final reveal (though I wouldn’t be surprised if they expanded the finale to
two weeks). We’ll see!
See you next week!
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