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Hell's Kitchen Season 6
Belle Book:
I see only Ariel as being able to compete with the guys on a regular basis, Apskip. The others -- not so much.
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apskip:
HK6 ep. 8
This episode beings with the other women criticizing Suzanne for lack of teamwork. Ramsay gleefully starts a Blindfold Taste Challenge. Tennille sits out beause Red has one more chef. Here is what happened:
Ariel vs. Van - Cream Cheese Y N Venison N N Pecans N N Leeks Y Y Ariel 2 Van 1
Suzanne vs. Dave - Turkey Y Y Zucchini N N Quince N N Egg Yolks Y N Suzanne 2 Dave 1
Sabrina vs. Kevin - Iceberg Lettuce N N Pink Grapefuit Y Y Oregano N N Clams N N Sabrina 1 Dave 1 Red 5 Blue 3
Amanda vs. Andy - Lychee Y N Avocado N Y Ahi Tuna Y N Amanda 2 Dave 1 Red 7 Blue 4
The Red team wins and get the prize of a limo to the Orpheus in-the-dark restaurant. The blue team has to unload fruit shipments and break up mixed frozen balls of Blackberry, Raspberry and Blackberry into its component parts. They also have to prepare Pomegranate, Watermelon and one unidentified fruit for palette cleansing sorbets. When finished, they get to wash the glassware used to serve sorbets. This sounds to me like one of the easiest punishments of HK6.
Suzanne comments that the girls are so catty. She just wants to do her job and not have to interact much with he teammates, but they are not going to tolerate that. Ramsay assigns Ariel to do tableside service of the sorbets followed by returning to the kitchen to help out when done. He assigns Kevin to be the first of a rotation from the Blue team to do sorbet service. Andy is assigned the critical Garnish station which directs the teamwork of the Blue Team. Tennille criticizes Suzanne's scallops as overly brown, but Ramsay loves them and that shuts Tennille up for a very short period (it's impossible to expect more than that from her as she is always critical of everyone else although it's done in the confessional so they don't know that until they watch the episodes along with us). Kevin's risotto gets a very nice from Ramsay and then he goes to do sorbets, replaced on appetizers by Van. Van's risotto is criticized and returned by customers. Ramsay asks "Where's the lamb?"and "Where's the halibut?" both rhetorically and for effect since he alredy knew the anwer was not ready yet. The question that should be asked and isn't is "Where's Heather?" as the sous chef for the Red Team seldom gets seen on camera unlike Scot. What is she doing? We have no basis to know. Suzanne on Fish and Sabrina on Meat fail the work-together test to coordinate their cooking times so food is not getting cold or not ready in concert with the other part of a table's orders. Sabrina's lamb is then raw. She is sent by Ramsay to the bar to eat it as-is. She does that without complaining and is then allowed back in the Red kitchen. While she is gone Tennille does a lamb dish and gets a good rating from Ramsay. Van gets a "perfect." for something. Andy on Garnish is short 3 orders of potatoes. Dave volunteers to rescue him and is able to quickly whip up some additional mashed potatoes that are just enough to finish the last dishes for the Blue Team. Red team diners are going hungry at this point. Suzanne was cooking halibut in response to pressure from Ramsay. Amanda stopped it cooking and plated it. When it came back for being stone cold, the finger pointed initially at Suzanne but she was able to explain what happened and Amanda lost stature for interfering without getting it right. If she had interfered and it had been a positive outcome, she might have been a heroine for the same action.
Ramsay sums up this dinner service as both teams' weak performances, but Blue the winner. He liked Dave's performance best, particularly the mashed potato rescue operation. He tells the Red team that Blue was one chef down but still whipped their asses. Tennille is rated the best of the worst and gets to nominate 2 people. She hates Suzanne, so it is clear that Suzanne will be one of the nominees (and that was probably the right thing to do anyway given Suzanne's marginal performance lsat night). Suzanne was accused and given multiple examples of how her actions make teamwork difficult. Tennille must also nominate Amanda or Sabrina for the 2nd slot. Tennille nominates Suzanne and gives consistent inability to work with the rest of the team as the reason. For Sabrina her litany of mistakes that evening made her an obvious target. It looks like Amanda might squeak by, but Ramsay is not letting her off the hook. Ramsay asks her "can you win Hell's Kitchen?" and the viewing audience knows the real answer to that is "Hell no", but she comes up with some pap. Ramsay isn't buying it. His coup de grace on her is "sweet girls do not make great head chefs." Suzanne and Sabrina live to fight another day and fight each other they surely will.
ugot2bekidinmeny:
--- Quote from: apskip on August 27, 2009, 06:20:04 PM ---good luck, ugotto2bekidinmeny. I think you have the Impossible Dream that a female will win Hell's Kitchen 6. Who do the women have left? Ariel, Suzanne, Tennille, Amanda and Sabrina. Which of those strikes you as capable enough to win? The answer I have is NONE OF THE ABOVE. They all appear to be second-raters.
On the Men's team, Dave, Van and Kevin look promising. Andy's days are numbered but each of the other 3 look like potential winners.
Please identify which female you think is able to compete head-to-head with any of those 3 men.
--- End quote ---
i already stated that i liked Ariel.. in my first post but since you asked I'll say it again ARIELand whether she wins or not i think she is the strongest of the women.
i don't care for any of the men since men find it part of their own entertainment to bash/berate a woman whenever they get a chance.
TexasLady:
:ascared From the preview for next week, we might be losing another chef due to injuries. One of the ones I thought could win. :'(
apskip:
HK6, ep. 9
Teams start even at 4 men, 4 women. Tennille is on Suzanne's case for poor teamwork. Ariel is also on Suzanne's case. They are fortunate to be performing well enough that they have earned the right to criticize others.
Ramsay says that he will teach how to make crepes. He zips through it in about 20 seconds and a perfect crepe results. So nobody is surprised when the Challenge is about making 4 different types of crepes - breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert. Teams have 20 minutes to make suitable crepes and it looks like nobody has figured out how to do it. Ramsay says that he could not find another French pallette to judge this with him, so he got the next best thing, Jean-Phillippe from Belgium. The final dishes are:
Breakfast
Van - bacon and quail eggs and pepperjack cheese 0 (due to crepes damp and spongy; ingredients were good)
Ariel - smoked salmon herbs and honey 1
Lunch
Andy - ham and chees, prosciutto, fresh avocado sauce 1
Tennille - pepperjack chesse, bacon and shrimp in black bean sauce 0 (Ramsay and Jean-Phillippe say it's too spicy)
Dinner
Kevin - seafood, with scallops and crab, and goat cheese 1
Suzanne - onions and poached quail eggs 1 Suzanne says there was no Voila in my finish (like Ramsay got).
Dessert
Andy - mixed berry sauce that looked like glop; Ramsay refused to even taste it 0
Sabrina - cinnamon and Grand Marnier 1
which results in a score of Blue 2 Red 3 and Red wins.
The reward for the women is to go to a pantomine lesson in proper costume and makeup. They then go to the La Cachette, a new but acclaimed French restaurant in Los Angeles. They have a fine time.
The punishment for the men is prepping both kitchens for everything but particularly the new menu items of crepes, escargot and frog's legs which are on a special Vive la France menu. Their lunch was actually quiet reasonable, head cheese, cow's tongue and baguettes, very country and tasty French food. Dave cuts his left (most used) hand slicing something in a mandolin and chops off the tips of 3 fingers. The medic sends him to the hospital for stitches. It looks like the men will operate 1 short, but Andy does return just as Hell's Kitchen is opening (isn't that amazing how the timing always works out that way?). He has to quickly learn the new dishes and he doesn't do a good job of that.
The rest of the Blue team "help" Andy but basically they do his work. That goes on all night as Dave and Kevin step in to "help" but it does not go unnoticed by Ramsay. Dave did Andy's first risotto over and got a "very good" from Ramsay for his efforts. Sabrina has 3 risottos that have to be redone. Ramsay notices tha Dave's crepes are poorly constructed and will not pass a simple visual test. This time Kevin slides over to help. It is obvious that Andy can't keep up. He whines how his injury cannot be compared to Dave's (no use of his entire arm) or Kevin's ankle injury. I have felt throughout HK that Andy was living on borrowed time. Suzanne tells the others she needs 6, then 8 , then 6 then 5 then 6 minutes to cook several plates of lamb, all apparently within the same minute. She is having a poor night, with tremendous inconsistency. Ramsay asks her what is slowing down the Red Kitchen. She answers "lamb". Ramsay tells Dave that he is "10,000 times" better as a one-handed than 2-handed chef. He is ignoring that Dave has learned a few things from being in Hell's Kitchen in the interim. Suzanne slices the lamb early to get ahead, but that is a dumb thing to do most of the time because Ramsay then asks why and there is no defense. You lose the juices, which are critical to good taste. Andy continues to screw up and Ramsay asks him if he has given up. Suzanne is diagnosed by someone as being disorganized, inconsistent and stupid. Touche, although I think it is a temporary phenomenom if she gets the opportunity to continue. Ramsay has his blowup about the other blue team members bailing Andy out but Andy doing nothing to help himself out. He sends Andy upstairs. On the women's sides this was not a good time for Suzanne to overcook lamb and Sabrina also did something stupid. They were both sent upstairs. The remaining 2 women and 3 men were able to do the small amount left to finish.
Ramsay declare neither team a winner and tells the 8 chefs to get together and decide which 2 to nominate for elimination. It is fairly obvious, Andy and Suzanne, but a sidebar discussion on why not Suzanne and Sabrina (to force Suzanne out) is considered but rejected. So for Andy inconsistency is the reason stated by Ariel for his nomination. For Suzanne it is her timing failures and lack of teamwork. Ramsay asks Ariel and Tennille what they recommend. They tell him to fire Suzanne. He gives the usual hangman's last statement to both Andy and Suzanne. He then selects Dave to leave and Suzanne to take off her jacket. However, the purpose is for Suzanne to be able to don a Blue team uniform. Both Suzanne and Sabrina are told that they had better get it together very quickly or they will be gone.
I must comment that Tennille's extensive commentary is very self-serving, frequently inaccurate and turning me off on her despite her strong culinary talent. Why do I want to listen to this bitch? I don't want to is the answer. If she wants to audition for comedy roles there are plenty of opportunities in greater Los Angeles.
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