I don't know why I love this show but I do! What an opening. Schweating in the food! YUCK! Throw that Schweater out Chef! PLEASE!
There are 6 men and 6 women. Oddly enough the men are the Blue Team and the women the Red Team.
The girls make a pact, they will work as a team until the men are gone! This just might work!
First Challenge: Each of you must cook your signature dish. Get busy, you have 30 minutes. Some were so delicious that Chef Ramsey besides spitting the food into a huge waste bin was nearly reduced to full-blown nausea. Someone give the Chef some wine to clear his palate! I’m not even going to discuss the hat as a repository for a portion of one entrée nor the baby poo slop.
Ok! Everyone survived the challenge so now on to the kitchen. Serve a full course dinner to the diners who obviously never watched last years show. (Eat before you come because you may never get all 5 courses. Or any for that matter, since neither team could get food out.) Close the kitchen down!! They are miserable failures. Never EVER has Chef Ramsey been so embarrassed. Because both teams were so bad, it was a choice of which team was the worst of the worst. (
Red Team, you are the worst of the worst! I already have a favorite! Heather. What a gal! Chef Ramsey sees her potential, she chooses the candidates for the first to leave hell's fire. Out OUT Polly! Pack up your knives and leave. (Wait, that was some other show...) Take off your uniform so it can be impaled on the hook under your photo! Unlike Big Brother, the photo burns to a crisp when the jacket is stuck on the hook! No turning to black and white!
Episode Two! New Challenge! Cutting perfect steaks. They must be 10 oz each. After staggering to the chopping block with a huge 1/2 a cow or so, each wannabe chef had to chop it in half, slice off the fat but only SOOOOO much then cut perfect steaks. HMMM it was a close thing but the Red Team pulls it off and is rewarded with a helicopter ride and dinner with Chef Ramsey. (If I had to choose which people to dine with, it would be the girls, because the Schweater is on the Blue Team and no telling what he'd do while dining!) Blue team, it is your job to make hamburger or something out of the truly butchered meat that remains.
Whoops, medical emergency, one of the Blue Team members can't take the heat literally and figuratively... In the middle of the night we find Larry the Fishmonger in pain. Larry calls for help and we see an ambulance. Next thing the teams know Larry is calling from the hospital. He's out for good. So Long Larry.
Too bad because earlier he’d been having a hot time in the hot tub with the girls while the guys were deciding that they should go to bed early and get some sleep.
Ah well. Time for dinner again. Will either team get anything out this time? The Red Team is trying mightily and manage to get some food out while the Blue Team waits (and waits and waits) for their order. Keith now a waitperson is rather out of shape and was tasked to go up some stairs to the balcony where conveniently or not, some wait for the pleasure of dining on inexperienced chef’s tasty food. It seems Chef Ramsey didn't like the way the order was written so Keith had to rewrite it. (What are the temperature requirements Keith? You forgot to put that small detail on the order! It seems that writing is on the difficult side for him and it took about an hour or so it seemed to finally get to the kitchen. Unfortunately some on the Blue Team have ADD or are hard of hearing, requiring a repeat of the order.. Say again? Was there Quail in that there order? ARE YOU DEAF? QUAIL? You birdbrain! (I threw that last part in there for the drama!)
OH MY!! Heather has been commanding the Red Team magnificently but reaching for duck sauce she burns her hand badly! Chef Ramsey jumps in and takes over, getting her to the sink to put her hand in cold water and calling for ice! Even then she still is trying to maintain control of the halfwits on her team, trying to get the orders out. Chef orders her to the waiting ambulance and hospital for treatment. (He really was concerned for her.)
Utter Chaos for the Red Team!! Sara who was tasked to be a waitperson for the Red Team asks if she can come back to the kitchen and finally the girls get some organization in the kitchen and orders begin to be served.
DANG! Just as the food was beginning to be served, there are no customers left! Or should I say the customers left before the food arrived. Either way, we have another dismal dining adventure for customers who should know better than to expect food in a restaurant named Hell’s Kitchen! However they were given plenty of wine so they probably weren't too upset.
Heather returns just as Chef Ramsey is gearing up to decide which team was the worst. This time the honor goes to the Blue Team who never managed to even get so much as a salad cracker out to the dining room. Garret, your mission should you accept it, is to come up with the names of your fellow wannabe chefs so I can throw one in the has-been heap with the food that we threw out last night. Garret chooses Giacomo and Tom. We have a flash back of Giacomo saying he was always picked on so Hell's Kitchen is more of the same. Tom gives an impassioned plea; he will fly right and never ever fail again.
Chef Ramsey tells Tom, back into the line and brings Gabe forward. Gabe, you are too sweet a guy. You're fired, pack your knives and give me your chef's shirt so I can impale it on the peg under your photo. (Which of course causes the photo to burn into ashes!) BTW, Garret comes from Cedar Park Texas, which is just up the road from me.
