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Hell's Kitchen Season 5
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Recap Hell's Kitchen 5 Episode 5
We start with the summary of what happened in the prior episode. The women win their first challenge. Robert and Danny do not well, but Seth was worse and eliminated. Colleen can't count Beef Wellington. Lacey is sent to the Men's team.
This episode starts with several of the Red team laughing because the Men now had to deal with Lacey and they didn't. That sort of catty behavior the women exhibited has been known in past seasons to come back and bite them. I look forward to seeing that, as I think they gave Lacey a rougher time than she deserved. The Blue team started off by giving Lacey the freeze-out, particularly Ben. Watch what happens as they say on BRAVO.
The challenge is to go to the Asian market and select $100 of ingredients in 25 minutes suitable for 1 seafood, 1 poultry and 1 meat dish, then cook it in one hour when back at Hell's Kitchen. The chefs were teamed up in pairs, with a faceoff of 3 pairs from Red against 3 pairs from Blue. The dishes selected were to be Asian fusion meaning bring a novel element to Asian cuisine according to Ramsay:
Carol/Coi - chicken
vs. Robert/Danny - Pad Thai barbecue chicken
Paula/LA - Ahi tuna tempura with aioli
vs. Ben/Lacey - pan-seared Scallops with sea urchin caviar
Andrea/Colleen - Kobe beef sashimi with spicy Korean sauce
vs. Giovanni/J - beef pizzaioli w rice (pizzaoli is Asian fusion when paired with rice? Huh?)
Judging was by Ramsay and www.epicurious.com editor-in-chief Tanya Steel (who will have a retrospective of the challenge in her blog later today). They rated Robert/Danny, Paula/LA and Andrea/Colleen the winners. That means the women have won again. They get to go on a special Asian trip. It is to a martial arts venue and they watch two Sumo wrestlers(Gordon Ramsay and Jean-Philippe in massive fat suits) go at it, then the women get into the ring with the wrestlers themselves. Next they drink a lot of sake (there is a reference to Coi imbibing 9 glasses). I would expect the Red team dinner service to be a disaster if most of them are still drunk.
The Blue team gets to do a nasty task first, making individual homemade fortune cookies. Ben gives Lacey a pep talk to keep her from withdrawing; she recognizes that it's BS but likes the underlying sentiment. Next the Blue team must make origami decorations for the dining room. I have tried origami and it's tricky stuff. That's what the Men found out, but they do have one expert on their team. It is Lacey, she teaches all of them how to do it and now she is part of the team and they owe her.
Ramsay announces that Paula's ahi tuna dish will be on the evening's menu. He also announces that they will have some special guests dining. The service starts with both Giovanni and LA excelling on the Appetizer Stations, with the risotto going out being quite special. The special guests show up. They are several real sumo wrestlers and they order "everything on the menu" (really). However, they appreciate really good food and appear to be knowledgeable about what they are eating. The "everything" order is split evenly between the 2 kitchens. Lacey is doing a really good job on the Garnish station and appears to even be organizing the efforts of the whole Blue team. There is no way she is going to be leaving Hell's Kitchen tonight.
Andrea is having a difficult time (too much sake?). She burns 4 consecutive Beef Wellingtons. J is on the Meat Station and has to deliver beef Wellingtons but he screws them up by leaving them too rare. Ramsay tells Colleen she left the oven doors open; she is not sure if she did but accepts that she might have. Ramsay catches up to Andrea's mistakes as she hid the 4 burned beef under the counter. She exposes this with his usual ranting and raving. Robert is on the Men's Fish Station and Ramsay discovers a jar of wasted food. He is incensed and continually refers to Robert as "Bobbie", a name which Robert hates. They have a private meeting and get it sorted out.
Ramsay calls out Andrea for not being a team player. J's chicken was raw in the middle, a major faux pas. Next J forgot a lamb order. He's in big trouble. Andrea was told she was absolutely clueless this evening. Colleen sends out a dessert frozen.
Ramsay indicates that neither team wins tonight's service as he shuts down Hell's Kitchen. Giovanni will pick one elimination nominee from the Blue team and LA will do the same for the Red team. Giovanni correctly picks J and LA correctly picks Andrea for her communications and cooking errors. Ramsay appears to ponder this deeply and then tells them to come forward after he makes a swipe at Robert for almost being bad enough to compete on that with J. After the usual "why I should stay" sentences he tells J to remain where he is and for Andrea to get back in line. Then he astounds everyone by making his own elimination pick, which is Colleen for not having overcome mistakes after 5 weeks. Andrea was definitely much worse than Colleen tonight, but Ramsay used the entirety of the 5 episodes to make that decision. He did praise Colleen for "fight", which he tells the Red team many of them need, but his final word is that she is a poor cook and needs to stay out kitchen, no doubt meaning that more globally than just Hell's Kitchen..
I can imagine how Ramsay feels after both team went backwards for 2 weeks in a row.
TARAsia Fan:
Very good recap, ap. The regression is something at which I'm surprised. Usually, you start seeing improvement, but instead, the teams are taking two steps backwards each time. After both teams finished dinner service, rather impressively, I might add, in week 2, the teams have gone backwards. One could say Ji's departure could have a small hand in it, but overall, most likely not.
I will say when Lacey has had to step up, she has. And Giovanni cooked well. But Andrea is a better chef than what she showed last night. Perhaps the sake had something to do with it.
Colleen never showed any improvement proving that she is not head chef material. Chef Ramsey definitely made the right move in getting rid of her. Five dinner services are enough to show that she should not be cooking for a mass amount of diners.
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Here is the video of the Epicurious.com interaction with Hell's Kitchen 5. I am disappointed. I had expected it to be a critique of the show by Editor-in-Chief Tanya Steel, but no such luck. Instead it is interviews of 6 female chefs by Steel. No fabulous insights emerge. Colleen sucks up and says that her best day was when she heard about the Epicurious.com interviews. I get that makes sense since she had no good days in the kitchen. Several of them do lame impressions of Godron Ramsay, afraid no doubt to do them in public the way they really do them in private. See for yourself:
Epicurious.com at Hell's Kitchen
marigold:
HELL’S KITCHEN SEASON 5
Episode: 506
HELL'S KITCHEN KEEPS KOSHER AND TOP 10 CHEFS ARE REVEALED THURSDAY, MARCH 12, ON FOX
Teams feel the heat when Chef Ramsay challenges them to prepare food for a bar mitzvah. Each team must prepare fine dining versions of the guest of honor's three favorite dishes. Although the chefs perform one of their best services yet, the intensity of HELL'S KITCHEN keeps dinner from being perfect. Tune in to see who Chef Ramsay puts on the chopping block leaving only the Top 10 to continue in the kitchen when "11 Chefs Compete" on HELL'S KITCHEN airing Thursday, March 12 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
Episode: 507
SMALL PLATES LEAD TO BIG PROBLEMS ON "HELL'S KITCHEN" THURSDAY, MARCH 19, ON FOX
Chef Ramsay introduces the team to the latest culinary trend of small-plate, or tapas-style, dining and asks them to transform a day's leftovers into perfectly portioned delectable dishes. At dinner service, one chef's mistake nearly sabotages both teams' performances, and a lack of unity in the Blue Team leaves Gordon furious on HELL'S KITCHEN airing Thursday, March 19 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
Episode: 508
CELEBRITY SERVICE ON "HELL'S KITCHEN" THURSDAY, MARCH 26, ON FOX
Eric McCormack ("Trust Me") and Robert Patrick ("The Unit") Guest-Star
Chef Ramsay puts the team's palates to the test in a surprise taste-test challenge. During dinner service in a packed restaurant, tensions always run high. However, when a few celebrities (guest stars Eric McCormack and Robert Patrick) stop by for dinner the intensity really heats up. Who will Chef Ramsay send home this week? Tune in when "9 Chefs Compete" on HELL'S KITCHEN airing Thursday, March 26 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
marigold:
:hearts: a cute video
Hells Kitchen 2, Chef Virginia opens her first restaurant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UveDP2RfXLo
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