Let me start off by saying how happy I am that American Idol is no longer leading into Hell’s Kitchen. After last week there are going to be some angry women.

We start a new day with a challenge. The challenge is to make 1 crab dish each. Then they have to decide which 1 dish they will put up as a team for Ramsay to taste. Ben feels pretty cocky about his sauce while they are all still cooking. Paula asks Ramsay to find a chinoise for them. That didn’t go over well. The red team put up Andrea’s dish even though Carol didn’t think Ramsay would want the shell on the plate. Ramsay said it was bland. Ben’s dish is what the blue team put up and Ben did a long dissertation. Ramsay didn’t like it. So Ramsay called for Paula and Danny’s dishes. He liked both of them. Then Ramsay wanted to know why those dishes didn’t go up first. In the end the blue team was declared the winner. The red team has to wonder that if they would have put up Paula’s dish against Ben if they would have won. The punishment it cleaning the dorm and clean the crabs for the next night’s crabs. The blue team won a day at Santa Monica. The guys got to race about on Segways.

This service each team is designing their own menus with 3 apps, 3 entrees, and 3 desserts. So they go off and make their menus that were weirdly similar. Ben came up with this poached halibut with pomme fondont(?). Robert is telling the camera how crazy that is and then says it sounds great to his team. The red team starts with bland carpaccio and the blue with salty soup. Then the person with the carpaccio came back and whistled at Ramsay, needless to say she got told off. There is always 1 in every season. Come to find out, Carole didn’t cook her French potato gratin (isn’t that redundant?) as a dish before service so they aren’t cooking up. Then she tried to blame Andrea and Ramsay wasn’t having it. The red team had to come up with something to replace the dish. Then Ben’s pomme fondont wasn’t really a pomme fondont and Ramsay made them do something else. Then the blue team’s meat was cut weird and it came out that Ben cut them. Then Carole couldn’t get things medium instead of rare. Ramsay shut it all off.

Ramsay had customer cards to help him decide a winner. On the entrees the red team definitely won. Danny alone was to decide 1 to eliminate. Andrea was a little dissapointed that they didn’t lose because they would have put up Carole. I think that Ben should go. He has the knowledge but apparently can’t apply it. Danny nominated Ben. I think it is the right call because Ramsay yells at him the whole time. But Ramsay did want to hear from both of them. Ben says he has leadership and Ramsay wanted to know if it was leadership that cut the meat. Ramsay said he was kicking out the person who sabotaged their team and gave up. It was Carole.

So now we are down to 6. I wonder if this is the point they become the black team.

So Ramsay really lost it on J last week and tossed him out. So who will he toss out before elimination? I agree with LA that Ramsay doesn’t see what happens behind the scenes because if he did Lacey might not still be there.

So Ramsay plays a little trick on everyone. He says he is making a steak and scallop tar-tar and then asks them to taste it and tell him what they think. Now there was tuna instead of steak and sea bass instead of scallop. Everyone just says how great the scallops and beef were. So the challenge is the taste test. LA chose to sit out because they had to even out the teams. This is always fun. Andrea thought that filet mignon was liver and Romaine was celery. Robert thought that turnip was cream of broccoli? Giovanni thought that lobster was egg yolk and Robert thought it was mushroom. Carole did pretty well. Paula and Danny got Minestrone soup and had to guess the 10 ingredients. In the end the red beat blue 8 to 7. The prize is the photo shoot in TV Guide. The blue team has to make lunch and wait on the red during the photo shoot. They also have to prep both kitchens for service. Lacey is such a problem. I am really curious to see what the kitchens are running short on.

So the kitchen opens and they have actors in the dining room. Paula gets her first risotto wrong and Robert is made that Ramsay told Ben to help him. Carole was struggling in the meat station. Lacey was completely lost on the blue’s meat station. So they started telling her each little thing to do. She was lost and said she couldn’t cook meat then Ramsay tossed her out. Ramsay went and talked to her and let her back in. Then Robert split his pants and didn’t even blink. While Lacey said she was lost Carole said the complete opposite. But Carole was just as lost. Then Ramsay ended up tossing Lacey out again. This time he took her jacket and told her to say goodbye. Back on the red side, Carole was just floundering. The 3 guys on the blue team pulled it all together but the red team got shut down with 5 people and without finishing service.

So the blue team won and the red team was set to get a consensus to pick 2 who should be leaving. I don’t think he is throwing anyone out. They couldn’t come up with an actual consensus. But in the end Paula said it was Carole and LA. Ramsay wanted to know who the other one under debate was. So he called LA, Ca role, and Andrea up. Ramsay did end up throwing LA out.

So we got rid of 2 this week. Let’s see who can cut it.

I wonder if Carole is going to make it another week. Or if Jay will be the one to go. Let’s find out!

It looks like we are going with Tapas this week. The chefs are trying Ramsay’s salmon based tapas. Each team had to create 5 small plates from leftovers. They had 20 minutes to make them. But first Ramsay moved Giovani over to the red team. Lacey doesn’t have any ideas so someone had to give her one. The red tie ended up winning but just a little. The punishment has to set up both kitchens for service that night. The red team got to go to the horseraces as a reward. Lacey just can’t figure out what she is supposed to do. She is totally going to be put up if the blue looses. She feels that people are respecting her but then she asks what to do. She threatened to leave again. They said go if you need to go and she went. What really got me is when she was talking about how she is treated like a donkey and then she is supposed to help them. “Help them”?!?!?! Isn’t she doing it for herself? She came back but…

Then we open. The rice that Jay made for everyone was mush so they had to start over on the rice. Then Jay and LA just seemed to be sleepwalking. Jay finally screwed up to the point that Ramsay tossed him. Then Jay left, he really packed up and left. Then Ramsay tried to help the blue team reorganize. Giovanni has really become a leader in the red team. He is outside the girl’s bickering so I think he is taken more seriously. It seems Ramsay has it in for Ben next. Paula was getting props from Ramsay with “the best Wellington ever served at Hell’s Kitchen”. Now Ben can’t seem to get a Wellington right. Ramsay said he was aiming for Ben because he is next to go. I think Carole may take a swing at Andrea in the next week or two.

The blue team got told to go upstairs and each of them had to figure out who was the 1 person they didn’t want on their team. While Ben did mess up, Lacey isn’t a team player. I notice that Ramsay didn’t say pick someone to leave. I am figuring a team shake up especially since Jay left. All the guys voted against Lacey and Lacey voted for Robert. Ramsay called Lacey and Ben to the front. They both got told to get back in line. Nothing changed at all.