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Hell's Kitchen Season 6
TexasLady:
Thanks for the reminder apskip!!!!!!
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OHHHHHHHHHHH!! Just checked, it's a two hour show and my DVR had already picked it up and set to record! (Just in case.)
apskip:
No, thank you, Texas Lady. I was thinking 9pm and one hour episode. 8pm tow hour episode is correct this week only.
puddin:
Hell's Kitchen's Gordon Ramsay Promises Big Food, Bigger Attitudes
* Jul 21, 2009 02:22 PM ET
* by Adam Bryant
Hot flames and high tempers are nothing new on Hell's Kitchen. But this season, it's not just Gordon Ramsay who is turning up the heat.
The sixth-season premiere of the Fox series (Tuesday at 8/7 CT) features a crop of 16 aspiring chefs, and a handful of them don't show any sign of intimidation. In fact, one contestant whose attitude is more pro wrestler than gourmet chef even asks Ramsay if he'd like to step outside to handle their disagreement.
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Ramsay said he encourages that kind of confidence, as long as the culinary skills back it up.
"When you have the arrogance and you can't cook, then you're only going to look stupid," he said. "I suppose they've watched the show and they think they want to come in with bravado, but I always say [to] let your food do the talking."
The cook whose food talks the loudest this season will earn $250,000 and a job as head chef at the Araxi Restaurant in Whistler, British Columbia. Since all of the produce used by Araxi is grown within 100 miles of the restaurant, Ramsay deems it a unique place for any chef to hone his or her craft.
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"That's a dream come true for any chef," he said. "[It's great] for a young winner to be in that position and to learn and respect what it's like to use things only when they're available, as opposed to have a fascination with fresh ingredients that can be obtained from all around the world."
Another added bonus to the Araxi job: Whistler will host the 2010 Winter Olympics.
With such a prize on the line, Ramsay said he has raised the bar at Hell's Kitchen. And despite the bevy of boneheaded moves made by the cooks in the premiere, Ramsay promises that the overall skill level "is far greater" this time around.
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"We've been a lot more creative in terms of the challenges, and entered in a few twists and turns that are completely different [this season]," he said. "This year is going to be very interesting."
Will you be watching Hell's Kitchen this season?
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apskip:
I watched the first 2 episodes of HK6 last night. There are rumors that this cast has the most skills of any HK cast ever. I must admit that I did not observe that. Their first-night perfcormance was ludicrous. What the Blue team does have is high testosterone. We were treated to what looked like a fake staged confrontation between Jean- Pierre and Van, then a serious one with Joseph challenging Gordon Ramsay to a brawl in the parking lot. There are not the type of challenges that make Hell's Kitchen worth watching! The ToBeContinued happened before there was any closure on the brawl. I have to guess that Joseph either figures out or is told by other Blue team members that beating up Gordon Ramsay is not the way to a $250,000 salary. Not that Joseph would ever be considered real potential for it, because he wouldn't. Van might but he is not going to lasty long in HK6.
I am going to classify the members of each team into losers, don't know, and winners:
RED
Losers - Melinda, Lovely, Amanda
Don't Know - Suzanne, Sabrina, Ariel, Robert
Winners(it is too soon to really tell so this is my best guess) - Tek, Tennille
It would be nice to put Robert in the winner's circle, but he just doesn't deserve it. He may last a long time, but he will not win HK6.
BLUE
Losers - Louis(already gone), Joseph and Van (note- Joseph and Van are too stupid to understand kitchen hierarchy even though they may have undiscovered skills)
Don't Know - Andy, Dave, Tony, Jim, Kevin
Winners - it's too soon to rate any here
This is a bit premature, but after they clear out their weak performers the RED team should allow multiple from the Don't Know category to blossom into Winners. For the BLUE I expect the same process with fewer total entries in the Winners category. We'll see.
The singature dish challenge can't be beat any time. I hate to mention this, but it's just like how Top Chef, a vastly superior food show, would do it. The shrimp cleaning challenge is also one worthy of being on Top Chef, the ultimate standard. I found the "cook your signature dish" classic and any chef not ready for that at the beginning is a fool. The shrimp cleaning challenge in ep. 2 was also a good one. I loved seeing pounds of shrimp fall out of the ceiling and (mostly) in the vat on the table.
I think there is too much staged B.S. for this show to be ultimately a total success. In episode 2 there was the Van vs. JP incident and the "pregnant woman gets questionable shrimp" appeared to be equally phony. I will continue to watch Hell's Kitchen because it's fun to write about, but I might not if writing were not an issue.
RHR:
--- Quote from: apskip on July 22, 2009, 06:26:07 PM ---This is a bit premature, but after they clear out their weak performers the RED team should allow multiple from the Don't Know category to blossom into Winners. For the BLUE I expect the same process with fewer total entries in the Winners category. We'll see.
--- End quote ---
The problem is that it'll take until we get down to the final two before we've ridded the group of the weak performers. In Season 4 you could see any of the top four winning (even the bitch), whereas this past Season the final four was a joke and we all knew it was going to be Danny and Paula in the end. Last Season downgraded the overall talent, and from the first look at this new group I see the trend of "more drama, less talent" continuing.
And I agree, the staged crap needs to just stop.
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