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Hell's Kitchen Season 7
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HK7, ep. 12
This episode started with the usual reprise of the previous episode. Jay was overconfident about his presentation skills, as he finished low in the challenge. Benjamin won that challenge and his dish would be featured in Epicurious.com as Pan-Seared halibut with Braised Fennel and Tomatoes along with him given a makeover prior to photographing him and the Epicurious editor calling him a “rock star”. Jay got flustered on Garnish. Ed continuously botched halibut and Benjamin was not able to help him and refused to communicate with the rest of his team (why is this so is hard to figure out, as rock stars do not do well as head chefs). Afterward, the male chefs are critical of Autumn’s limited skills while Autumn and Holli are chatting while smoking.
Ramsay gave out $10 for each chef to buy local produce and seafood at a local market to make a special dish. Benjamin chose a small lamb chop and an array of different vegetables. Jay chose a small lamb chop. Autumn chose veal for value. Jason chose tilapia, shrimp and frozen ravioli. Holli chose kumquats, tuna and asparagus. Ramsay invited Joaquim Splichal,(owner of 28 West Coast restaurants), Dana Bowen (editor, Saveur magazine) and Vern Lakusta (General Manager, Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood). They are giving the highest price they are wiling to pay for that dish. The winner will have the highest average of their prices.
Jay – lamb with crusted and spiced pita bread, salad of fenugreek, olives, tomatoes
Jason – pan-seared tilapia w/ shrimp, store-bought ravioli, sauce
Holli – 5 spice ahi tuna, w bacon and potatoes, parsnip puree w/ kumquats
Autumn - veal, saffron crisp potatoes, roasted corn, horseradish mustard glaze
Benjamin – seared lamb loin chop, fondant potatoes, w/ spinach, artichokes, red wine vinaigrette and Provençal (he pronounced the final syllable with a “k” and not the “s” which is correct even if it was missing the French accent cedilla) vegetables
Splichal Bowen Lakusta Average
The pricing results are:
Jay – $28 $30 $28 $26.67
Jason – $15 $15 $18 $16
Holli – $ 30 $32 $27 $29.66
Autumn – $26 $29 $27 $27.33
Benjamin - $25 $25 $25 $25 his vegetables should have been ratatouille style and were undercooked.
Holli won a day at the Peninsula Hotel in Hollywood at a private poolside cabana with Jean Phillippe plus $1000 in cash to spend at a kitchen supply store. She also got to take one teammate with her and chose Jay. The losers get to do laundry, all the linens plus uniforms. Holli, Jay and Jean Phillippe were personally served a gourmet lunch by Executive Chef James Overbaugh. The losers get spam sandwiches with light mayo. Holli and Jay got into the hot tub on return after spending the kitchen supply money together. Autumn hustled to finish so she could get to the hot tub and disrupt whatever was going on.
During prep Jason was slower than the rest and he asked a lot of questions. Each chef will switch stations throughout dinner service whenever Ramsay commands “Switch!” This was designed to force communications (which have been insufficient between the chefs) and test their adaptability. Holli’s dish is going on the menu for the evening. Ramsay then instructed Jean Phillippe to “Open Hell’s Kitchen.” Those rich and famous (NOT) FOX extras came flooding onto the seen. I love the striking music which accompanies that magic phrase.
Jason produced one of something for which two were needed. The Switch was a counterclockwise rotation. Jason’s Wellington were supposed to be cooked for 18 minutes, but they were not ready. Benjamin was supposed to do Holli’s tuna raw on the inside, but he overcooked the inside of them. Jay overcooked two Dorys. He then failed to communicate when directed to by Ramsay. Then Jay was not listening to the order, which was tuna and not halibut. Autumn’s communications were attempting to fix the problems. There was a Wellington refire which took 14 minutes, but Holli did not know that a refire was needed so she was not ready. Jason got the blame for not communicating. Ramsay switched the stations again. Autumn had little idea of the status of the meat cooking on her inherited station, but her first Wellingtons were “cooked beautifully” in spite of that. Holli got a “nicely roasted” accolade from Ramsay on scallops. Benjamin volunteered without any need for his help to help Holli and his scallops were rubbery and had no color. There was another switch. Jason overcooked
what looked like a Dory and came back from the diner. Ramsay left the kitchen but Sous Chef Scott took over. Benjamin used this time period to try to act like a leader and run the pass, but Scott was severely unimpressed and critical. He was even more vociferous than Ramsay in that criticism. Jason called it a wrap as Ramsay said to shut down.
Jason accused Benjamin and Jay of performing poorly. Jay is upset that he is accused by Jason of “getting quiet.” Benjamin’s nomination was Autumn but that would not wash. Holli stated that she wished Autumn had screwed up but that was not true. It had to be Benjamin, who is supremely confident that his mistakes have not earned him a trip home. The second nominee was Jason. Ramsay said that Benjamin clams up when he overthinks, but Ramsay fired Jason.
TexasLady:
I just don't know, Ben clearly cannot win this, he isn't a team player, he doesn't look after his fellow co-workers. If he wins I will be extremely upset. (The haircut seems to have been a downfall for him.) :lol:
Jay clearly is a good cook. Is he a leader? Not much really and apparently he is distracted by Holli. If Jay can't take charge in the new few challenges I don't see how he can win either.
Autumn is a good possibility for final 2, she can lead, we've seen her do it and again with the swapping of stations, I thought she more than held up her end. Ben should have been up for elimination and it shouldn't have been Autumn.
Holli, can she lead? I want to see her take charge of the kitchen. We've seen that she can win challenges.
It's going to be interesting!
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Texas Lady,
I agree with your overall assessments of each of the remaining HK7 chefs. Benjamin is a skilled technician but his ability to communicate is woeful and his leadership nonexistent. I expect he will be the next chef to bite the dust.
Autumn has good leadership instincts, but her propensity to shoot off her mouth plus her lesser chef experience makes her the probably next to depart. She has been on the bubble 5 times.
Ed has survived despite his several times on the bubble. I think his technical chef skill limitations will catch up with him before the final 2.
Holli is the strongest overall chef, but her leadership has not really been tested yet.
Jay has done well throughout, with no serious attempts to get rid of him.
I think it should be a Holli vs. Jay final. This has probably been foreshadowed by their "showmance." There is no way Holli was going to let anything happen to be filmed on national TV with young children and a husband watching. I view it as sheer FOX puffery. Also, did you notice how quickly a female chef in the hot tub gets a visit from another female chef? It happened in ep. 11 with Autumn finishing her prep early so she could "rescue" Holli in the hot tub. I think the female chefs have an understanding between themselves.
TexasLady:
Good points apskip. I do expect Holli to be in the final 2. I hadn't thought about Autumn joining them in the hot tub but I bet you are correct, the girls had an agreement to protect each other.
I expect Ben to leave next as well. He was lucky last service.
KitKat:
Well I finally watched last nights episode and hmmm next week 2 chefs leave hells kitchen.....my guess F2 will be Jay and Ben or Jay and Holli. Ramsay is leading us to believe that Ben is gonna bow out because of his health but I would be shocked if that happened....but we will see! Definitely Jay will be part of the F2.
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