Here we meet again for an anger packed episode of Hell’s Kitchen. Lets see how it all goes!

I think the girls are really at a disadvantage since Ji had to quick over her foot. I wonder if they can pull it together this week.

So they off on an unknown field trip and Scott asks if anyone has a heart condition and tells them to grab a barf bag. They are in a meat processing plant. It is pretty obvious that they are going to have to break them down because Scott tells them where everything is on a side of beef. They get back to Ramsay who has big fake cows and a bunch of cuts of meat. First challenge is identifying what type of cut and the second is where it comes from. Basically a person came up and put the cut name on the meat. Then you found out how many (not which ones) were wrong and then the next person tried. Then ones all the cuts were identified they moved onto labeling the cow. The guys ended up winning and Lacey really messed it up and took a while to do it. It was obviously that Lacey was moving labels just to be doing something. Maybe if she would have quit then someone else could have done it.

The guys got to go wine tasting and out to dinner. The girls got to butcher whole sides of beef (duh). These girls are ridiculous. One said it was like a scene out of the Godfalther, please. Then Ramsay arranged for a tasting for the girls of all the ickier parts of the cow. Let the puking begin!

Ramsay said that Hell’s Kitchen will be a steak house (once again duh). The twist is there will be 2 seatings with 1 team cooking while the other team serves. The men chose to cook first. Each team get 2 hours to serve as many as possible.

Now the girls were a little mean to the guys because it took 20 minutes to get the first order in. But that didn’t seem to help. The guys got a bit in the weeds with the salads. Ben sent out 6 desserts before the first appitizer went out. Then they are rushing the steaks so that they are sending out basically raw steaks. It is really going to bite Giovanni because he runs a steak house. Then the guys run out of filet so Ramsay sent Seth over to cut some more. Seth had no idea how to clean a tenderloin so he just hacked the thing. It didn’t help that he tried to hide the waste and Ramsay dragged it out and made a huge deal about it. Ramsay ended up closing down the blue kitchen.

Then it was the girls’ turn. Charlie was the one who messed up the salads wasn’t doing much better in the dining room. He asked another guy to go see if he took someone’s order. Colleen couldn’t remember how many and what kind of salads were needed. But salads did go out with so of the shrimp being partially raw. Back in the dining room Charlie is dumping bacon everywhere on a table. Andrea seemed to be rocking out the steaks but the guys kept bringing back steaks. But Ramsay decided that many of them were perfectly done.

The women didn’t quite finish but it seemed Ramsay called it right at 2 hours where as the guys had more time. Charlie was the worst waiter and Lacey was the worst waitress. The women served the most entrees. So the guys had to come up with 2 people to nominate. Seth was honest that he wanted to pick the best to go.

Ramsay asked Jay who the nominees were. The nominees ended up being Seth, because he doesn’t have the experience, and Charlie because of his execution issues. Then Seth wanted to go down the line and see if everyone agreed. Ramsay wasn’t having any of it. Seth went on and on about why he should stay. In the end Ramsay sent home Charlie.

I agree! Charlie claimed how he had more experience but if so why has he been in the bottom so much? Seth may not have as much experience but that means maybe with a little knowledge he might have done better. Where as Charlie had the knowledge and didn’t do it. Ramsay also said that Charlie was a prep chef and that isn’t what Ramsay needs.

The next episode looks like it will be very interestig so I will see you all next week.

It is time for the hostility and cooking that is known as Hell’s Kitchen! Last week I had thought that the women would do really well but then they disappointed. Lets see if they get any better.

I give Coi credit for apologizing to Lacey. But when Lacey starts with “I don’t have the experience” it make me think she isn’t up for the game then.

They all seemed so surprised that they were awakened by the drummer early. They ended up having to get scallops out of the crates. I had no idea they came in crates full or water and sea weed. Then Colleen fell in. LA didn’t know that scallops came in shells. Where ever she went to culinary school should give her the money back.

In the schucking competition the girls got 35 but the guys got 36. The guys got to go to Catalina while the girls got to set up a raw bar. So Lacey went to bed and cried. She wants to quit. Robert didn’t get to go because he weighed to much for the helicopter (around 400lbs). Lacey didn’t go down to prep with her team. Then it looks like Ji hurt her leg real bad by slipping.

I can’t believe that they are once again having to serve something. Each team is having 1 of them serving the raw bar. Both teams seemed to have people on apps who didn’t know how to make risotto and that caused problems. Ramsay has had it with Colleen. He says that she is robbing people because she can’t cook. He tosses her out to the raw bar.

The guys won. The girls put up Colleen (duh) and Lacey. Lacey did well during service but slept through the prep of the raw bar. I think he should just send both of them because they will go soon. Ji volunteered to go because of her ankle. I think she should have stayed but I understand due to the pain she was in. Ramsay told her to keep her jacket which has never happened before. I have to say at half power she was still better than the 2 up. Hopefully she will come back next year.

So here we are at this season’s finale. Christina gets handicapped by having Matt on her team and Petrozza was handicapped by Jen. I think Petrozza shot himself in the foot a little because it was so hard for his team to execute perfectly.

I think it was fitting for Christina to win. I was in a discussion today with someone who didn’t think she had paid the dues in years needed for this. I totally don’t agree. I believe in meritocracy. If she has proven that she has the knowledge and can put it into practice, why shouldn’t she get the job? We talked about if she was authoritative enough. Well, I think she is but the fact she can fire people helps with that. Not that she needs to rule a kitchen in fear but for those who won’t respect her just based on her age, that is how you deal with them.

The other thing for her kitchen to remember is, if you do a good job there is plenty of room in Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants for promotion.

So here we are, down to the final 2 and the last step before the finale. Of course that means that we are at the “Set up your restuarant” challenge.

Christina goes back and starts working on her menu but Petrozza couldn’t focus and went to bed. At 36 hours until opening Christina has a menu and Petrozza doesn’t. Then they start meeting with the designer. The designer wants to see Petrozza’s menu to set the scene and he just throws out some ingredients. Christina seems to have strong opinions. Petrozza likes a celedon green chef’s jacket and flowers. Whereas Christina wants plain black suits and t-shirts. Then they worked on their menus with the sous chefs.

Then Ramsay calls them into his office and says he isn’t sure that he has the right finalists. But then he said he knows he does. That was a mean joke;). He tells them that they are going to New York City. They all pile into the private jet and go. They all get out in the middle of Times Square and the big screen has their names on it. He then tells them that he is going to send them both to Dubai for 5 days to eat at his restuarant and observe there. Christina doesn’t know where Dubai is. Then he took them to London New York and told them they had to cook their signature dish there.

They had 45 minutes to make their dishes. Petrozza is making a filet mignon with a risotto and demiglace. Christina was making an aged NY strip with succatash and fingerling potatoes. The judges were Ramsay’s 5 Executive Chefs. I have seen some of these chefs on a BBC America show. Petrozza won and as a reward he gets to choose first out of the contestants for his chefs. Then Whoopi came out. Can we just get to the cooking?!?!?!

Then they came back to LA. Petrozza is very happy with his dining room but Christina is not happy at all. Then they all go to sleep.

Next up is choosing their staffs.

Christina’s line up: Corey, LouRoss and ???
Petrozza’s line up: Bobby, Ben and ???

I think there wasn’t a lot of cooking in the episode and I find that dissapointing. This was very predictable if you have ever seen the previous seasons. But next week should be very good! See you then.

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Sorry for the delay in this week’s blog post but life has been nuts. So lets jump right in. Going in Christina is looking good but I don’t think that Ramsay likes her. I think he respects Petrozza but he is a mess in the kitchen. We shall see.

Ramsay is cooking for the final 3 and their families walk in. I remember the chefs having to do some cooking/challenge with the families so we will see why there are here. So after the families leave, the final 3 will have to recreate the dish they just ate. Christina seemed to be the only one on the ball enough to try to figure out what was in the dish.

Ramsay did provide them 1 sample dish for them to try again. Christina seemed to jump right in. Christina went with a white bean puree that she was really sure of. Corey used a parsnip puree and Petrozza didn’t use a puree at all. Christina’s mom was right on the cream as a binder but she didn’t use it. Corey used the wrong meat but finished the sauce right. Christina and Petrozza used the right meat (venison). In the end Christina won the challenge! That makes 3 in a row.

So Corey and Petrozza are on bar duty. That includes polishing classes and crushing block ice. I think that will really suck the energy out of them for service. Chrstina’s reward was a 3 course meal and sight seeing tour with Ramsay and her parents.

Of course we all remember that when we get to the final 3 they each get a chance to run the hot plate. Ramsay also gives each of them a little advice on how to do it.

Petrozza seemed to do pretty well. He caught the planted mistake along with some others. Christina seemed to be screwing up a lot while Petrozza was on the pass. Corey got on and seemed pretty aggressive and on it but she didn’t catch the sauce plant until it was to late. Christina took a second to get agressive but then she got the hang of being assertive. Christina caught the planted mistake (basil instead of mint).

Overall the service was completed well. After service Ramsay said he didn’t know who should go to the final. Corey was perfect on the meat station but not at the hot plate. Christina was good on the hot plate and not on the fish station. Petrozza was ok but not great. Then they each had to nominate one to go home. Corey nominated Christina because she becomes a deer in headlights when she get yelled at. Christina nominated Corey because she is a team member but not a leader. Petrozza nominated Christina because of the problems with service and that she will be a great chef but isn’t yet. In the end the final 2 are Petrozza and Christina.

See you next time for the final!

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So here we are for a gripping episode of Hell’s Kitchen. We have an amazing amount of women this close to the end. So will a woman win it all? Could we have an all female finale? I think the idea of having messy Petroza in one of Ramsay’s kitchen would kill him. So I don’t think he has a chance of winning but will he hold out a little longer? Let’s see!

Today’s challenge is to come up with a dish and cook is for 80 customers. They had 1 hour to make a lunch special. Prep was interesting. Christina was light hearted and confident. Petrozza was actually pretty organized. Corey looked like she wasn’t going to get anything out and is worried about running out. I don’t think Jen made enough food because she is talking about getting 20 servings out of one piece of fish.

Their customers were 80 very pregnant women. Jen was pretty confident because women “will eat anything”. Corey wasn’t done makeing food and she said she would be doing better if it was men and not “b****” pregnant women. Christina stopped by Corey’s table while carring her food to her table and went ahead and served there.

Christina- Island Turkey Sandwich with Curry and Avacodo (Winner by 2 votes)
Corey- Grilled Salmon BLT with Vegetable Chips (4th Place)
Petrozza- Monte Cristo with Ham and Turkey with a spicy sauce (2nd Place)
Jen- Grilled Grouper with Rum Butter Sauce and a Mango Salsa (3rd Place)

Christina’s reward was shopping in a boutique in Beverly Hills. Losers got to clean up after lunch, shine silver, over all cleaning the dining room and then prep. Corey and Jen are bitter because Corey isn’t big into clothes. Ramsay took Christina to Lisa Kline. So when Christina gets back Corey asks to see the clothes and when she went to change the girls were bitter. Then when she came in to prep no one would talk to her at first. Ramsay cautions them all to unite as a team before service begins.

Service starts out well. 25 minutes in the appetizers were flying out and then Jen messes up the risotto. Ramsay slammed Jen for inconsistancy because she pulled it out. Then we start with entrees. Then Christina put down the garnish pot and the handle burned him. He warned her to say something if the handle is over the fire and not to burn him again. Then she did. As entrees start to go out, Jen wouldn’t drop eggs for Corey’s scallop dish (and it was her job). She said she didn’t have time so Christina did and Ramsay said something about team work and Jen started to help in. To get Ramsay to not yell as her she put up John Dory that wasn’t done. Ramsay didn’t catch it but it got sent back. Petrozza is doing great except his station was a huge mess. Ramsay said he was doing the best of anyone in that station. I think Petrozza has to have gotten himself a ticket to go on.

Ramsay said the team needed to come to a consensus to who should go up for elimination. I think it should be Corey and Jen because they screwed up food. They all decide that they are going to each write down 2 different names to see. Jen cheats. So they end up putting Jen and Corey. Petrozza volunteered to go against Jen to try to assure Jen getting bounced. But they did go with Corey because it was more justifiable. Corey says she should stay because she did bounce back and she is team oriented. Jen said she should stay because of her passion and this would change her life and is a dream. In the end Jen got tossed. So the final 3, let’s see what will happen.

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So here we meet again for another gripping episode of Hell’s Kitchen. Now that we are rid of Matt I think it is going to be much more competitive. But will Jen’s attitude be her own undoing? Let’s go!

Ramsay demos the new dish for the menu which is Lobster Spaghetti. Then Ramsay announces that Hell’s Kitchen is opening a cooking school. They will each get a student and have to teach them how to make the Lobster Spaghetti. They are descibed to be society wives and they are all dressed up in heels. Petrozza is a little distracted by his partners beauty. I was a little surprised to see Corey having her student toss instead of using something to turn. Jen kept trying to cook for her student. Ramsay liked Christina’s student and Corey’s. The others all had things that went wrong. The winner was Christina. The losers got to scrub out Hell’s Kitchen including the fryers. Christina got to go to lunch with Ramsay and some of LA’s best restaurantuers. The students all got Ramsay’s new cookware. It looks as if Christina is having the lunch in the blue kitchen. Everyone was already annoyed that they lost and then they got more annoyed when Christina was talking during prep. She has definitely pushed all their buttons and needs to watch herself.

Ramsay warns the chefs before service that there will be a party of 12. Over all the restuarant is booked to its full 120. Christina started off service by only delivering 1 of 2 spaghettis. Christina and Corey has apps flying out. Bobby started off the meat entrees really bad. Jen started messing up the fish. Then JP heard and was having all the wait staff push the meat instead of fish. But Bobby’s meat wasn’t looking up so then JP was trying to have everyone push the chicken. Jen and Ramsay got into it a little. An hour and a half nothing is moving between Bobby’s meat and Jen’s fish. Things started moving and then the party of 12 came in. Corey and Christina go all the apps out together. Then the moved onto working on dessert. Jen couldn’t get the fish done and so Ramsay kicked her off her table and cooked the fish himself. Petrozza’s timing was off and Bobby had a flaming skillet.

Ramsay said dinner service was too painful but Christina stood out as doing well. She got to nominate 2. Of course, Jen doesn’t think she needs to go up. Christina puts up Jen and Bobby. Jen says she should stay because she will give it her all and Ramsay said he didn’t know if he could work with attitude. Bobby thanked Ramsay for stopping the bad food from going out. Ramsay asked Bobby if he is a better cook than Jen and he said yes because he handles pressure better. Jen said she is more organized and comes up with ideas Ramsay likes. Then Ramsay asked who she thought should go and she said Jen. But in the end Ramsay sent home Bobby.

I can’t imagine Ramsay actually hiring any of these people. I think it might be better to cash them out on the first year salary and look else where.

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So here we meet again for a drama pack episode of Hell’s Kitchen. If the previews are any indication it should be very interesting.

So at the end of the last episode Ramsay switch Matt and Jen back to their teams of origin (Blue and Red respectively). As we begin this week, no one is happy.

We get an early morning call where all the chefs are loaded into cars and blindfold. They were taken to the roof of the soon to be Ramsay’s new restaurant, London West Hollywood. We now have all the chefs combined into 1 Black team. Then they went into the empty building and Ramsay was showing a little of how things are going to be. Then back to Hell’s Kitchen.

We are having our first individual challenge. They each got a protein ingredient and 45 minutes to make something with it. The only dish that had a problem was Bobby’s with tough duck. Christina and Jen were in the top two with Jen winning it. She got to go to Vegas to visit last year’s winner, Rock. She got to take 1 person with her and chose Corey. The punishment was taking delivery.

Christina is playing it smart by taking charge. She got to delegate but was also checking things off. That is good because that has bit people in the past. Matt was very angry and also angry at Christina for taking control. Matt seems as if he is going completely around the bend and Christina seems to be the target.

Jen and Petrozza on appetizers, Bobby on fish, Corey on veg and Christina and Matt on meat. This is going to be a show. I think Christina has any easy job just showing up Matt.

In 30 minutes Jen and Petrozza have out half the appetizers. Over all, the communication is down the toilet. It was frustrating Corey and she looked as if she was going to cry. Both Bobby and Christina try to cook 2 different proteins in the same pans. Then meat was coming back for being raw. Corey burned her hand and Ramsay told her to go to the medic and she was refusing because she was trying to work her station. She ends up going and then got to come back. Matt and Christina seemed to be having problems tracking their orders. Entrees didn’t go out for a long time. And then they started moving and Matt was messing up on the meat. Matt was complaining about having a headache and about getting yelled at. Matt was spiraling and wouldn’t respond to people and kept saying he had a migraine. Then he said he had no feeling in his handshttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.video.gif
Add Video and Ramsay tossed him out of the kitchen so he could go lie down. Then Jen left rice on at Christina’s station and it burned. So Ramsay sent everyone out of the kitchen.

Ramsay sent them to the dorms for them to come to a consensus of which 2 should be up for elimination. Everyone (except Matt) agreed that Matt should go up. He was very sure in himself that he won’t go. For the other nomination it appeared to all be up to Petrozza, again. In the end Christina was the other nominee. Corey said that she should also be up but the team didn’t agree but Ramsay did agree. Corey said while she was bad at least she didn’t give up like Matt. Matt said he wasn’t the worst, Christina was. Ramsay asked Christina if she should leave due to her having the least experience and she said that she only had 3 years of professional experience but had been cooking much longer than that. In the end Matt got tossed out. Finally!

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Hi everyone, welcome back for another dramatic episode of Hell’s Kitchen. The season opens with Matt apologizing to his team and the blue team complaining about Jen.

Our challenge is focused on timing. They have 3 dishes that must be cooked and finished at the same time but only one person in the kitchen at a time. They will cook for 6 minutes and then have 15 seconds to communicate with their team members. Jen thought that Lou Ross should step out (since they had an extra) and convinced everyone else to. Ramsay thought Lou Ross was fast so it surprised him that they selected Lou Ross to step out.

Matt talked to Christiana and she said yes (even though there was more time) but she said she had no idea Matt said. So why did you say yes? The last leg of the race was Corey and Jen. I think the Blue team was torn between wanting Jen to fall on her face and wanting to win. Corey forgot the salad in the first dish but Jen over cooked the eggs and the scallops were raw in the center. The Red Team won that dish. Of course in the confessional Jen doesn’t know what he was talking about. The second dish didn’t look good for the Red Team but the blue team didn’t have the sauce. So the Blue Team won that one. On the third and final dish, the Red Team forgot the baby leeks and the Blue Team forgot the sauce. So the Red Team won that dish and the challenge.

Jen says she did everything perfect except the last sauce but she isn’t going to say she sorry. After all the crud she gave Lou Ross last week? So the Red Team gets to go to the beach and the Blue team is on maintenance duty. Including cleaning the red carpet.

For dinner service they are creating their own menus. They had 1 hour to come up with their menus. The Red Team seemed to collaborate on a menu whereas Jen tried to bulldoze the Blue Team. The cherry on the top was her telling someone to write this down. If you are going to dominate at least have the pen. It seems that no one except Jen is happy with the Blue Team menu. Ramsay loved the Red Team menu but it depends if they can get it on the plate. Now when it came to the Blue menu, Ramsay was less than excited. When he questioned Lou Ross on wrapping the halibut in zucchini and squash, Lou Ross was very clear that it wasn’t what he wanted. When it was clear that this was Jen’s menu Ramsay had them redo it. So I think it is clear that Lou Ross and Jen are going to fight through the whole night.

So diners get to choose which color menu they order off of. Matt starts off with salty pasta and was holding up the output of appetizers on the Red team. Then when the Red Team finally get appetizers out, they come back as still being to salty and Ramsay says it is because of Matt sweating into the food. Christina took Matt’s place on appetizers and Matt was upset with that because he wanted to keep trying. Now over on the Blue Team Lou Ross was putting out raw steaks. After 3 returned steaks Ramsay says if they get one more steak returned that he will close the Blue Kitchen. Then Matt messed up the veg station. Matt gets angry and starts throwing things. Then Corey kicked him out of that station. 2 hours in Christina and Corey are banging it out and was putting out more food than the entire Blue Team. All Matt was doing is cleaning. Over at the Blue Team, Jen’s dessert station was a mess and she took up a raw souffle. Both teams did actually complete their services.

Matt appeared shocked when Ramsay said that the parpadelle dish was a down fall of the Red but in the end the Blue Team won. Petrozza was the best of the worst in spite of being a very messy cook. I don’t know why you would need any time to figure it out. Not shockingly Petrozza puts up Lou Ross and Jen. Ramsay asked Petrozza which one of the 2 he should send home. Petrozza said Lou Ross and Ramsay agreed and sent them home. Then Ramsay called up Jen and Matt and said he wasn’t sure about either of them. Then Ramsay sent Jen back to the girls and Matt back to the boys.

I think Petrozza should have picked Jen. While Lou Ross may be a less capable chef you can teach someone who is open. But Jen is a poison. Now I think and hope that the girls eat Jen alive and don’t let her dominate. I am predicting that either Jen or Matt will go home.

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So here we all are again. The kids are down and the Tivo is purring so let’s do it!

We left Hell’s Kitchen waiting for a volunteer to go to the men’s kitchen. Corey is trying to get Jen over to the Blue team so Corey can take back leadership. In the end Jen did volunteer to go over.

The challenge was to make 4 dishes using all 20 ingredients on a tray only once. The red team seemed to be logical and have a system. Where as on the blue team their was some chaos. During the challenge Matt managed to cut the tip of his finger off. That left the Red team down a person so the girls rallied. Then Ramsay brought up that no one knew where the tip was. It may be in with the pancetta. Now on the blue side no one was talking and Scott came in a pointed out that there are over lapping ingredients. Then there was an issue with the veal, Lou Ross and Jen. Jen sold Lou Ross out as the him deciding to do a surf and turf and then not putting it on. So the Blue Team lost and go to spend the day doing laundry by hand(ie no washing machine). The Red Team got to go do the annual photo shoot. Back in the kitchen Jen is choosing to be both a grouch and a jerk. She totally blames Lou Ross and is going to make him pay.

Tonight there are going to be food critics in the restaurant and their comments will help determine who will win. The Red Team said they are great now that Jen is gone. So Jen has her sights set on the Red Team. At the critics table both teams are going head to head on the same dishes. So the Red Team’s appetizers come out first and the critics like them.

Matt starts on the meat with inconsistent sized meat and Ramsay jumped all over him. Then Petrozza slices beef before it rested and about 3 minutes early. Jen steps up in the Blue Team to lead. Then over at the Red Team Christina over cooked one side of salmon. The critics like Lou Ross’s salmon better than Christina’s.

Then the Red Team seemed to quite putting out main dishes. Rosanne was burning the vegetables. That seemed to lead to her running out of gnocchi and carrot puree. At the same time the Blue Team starts working well and getting everything out. Matt isn’t doing well with the meat and is losing heart completely. Then he tossed the Red Team out of the kitchen. On the other side the Blue Team finished the Red Team’s service and Jen is taking great joy.

Corey got to be the best of the worst and had to put up 2 people for elimination. Ramsay said that she put out a solid performance. So she put up Matt and Rosanne. Corey even said she never wanted to cook with Rosanne again. Ramsay also wanted Christina to step up. After Rosanne said how she was getting better and learning more, Ramsay sent he back with Corey. Then he bounced Rosanne out.

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