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Hell's Kitchen 9
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Gordon Ramsay is at it again. Hell's Kitchen 9 is coming on July 19 Tuesday nights at 8pm EDT.
For those really excited by Hell's Kitchen like me, a new book has recently published titled Chef Wars: Hell's Kitchen about HK1 through HK8, available through Amazon.com.
TexasLady:
I LOVE Hell's Kitchen. I'll be so happy to have a summer version! :wohoo:
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HK9's schedule has been juggled by FOX due to low ratings for MasterChef 2. HK9 will open on Monday July 18 at 8pm and also air Tuesday July 19. Here is a preview of the first episode, which looks quite similar to first episodes of other seasons:
An all new set of contestants attempt to impress Chef Gordon Ramsay with their culinary skills in order to win the position of head chef (and what the heck does that mean?) at NYC's BLT Steak restaurant (executive chef Cliff Crooks from Top Chef 2). After they present their signature dishes for Ramsay, they prepare for the first night's dinner service, but one aspiring chef must be rushed to the hospital before it starts. Later, the service is full of problems, leading Chef Ramsay to ban three contestants from one of the teams from the kitchen.
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The 18 initial competitors in HK9 are listed below, but I cannot find any biographical information no them, which is strange indeed:
Elizabeth Bianchi
Natalie Blake
Amanda Colello
Chino Chang
Jamie Gregorich
Brendan Heavey
Carrie Keep
Monterray Keys
Will Lustberg
Gina Melcher
Paul Niedermann
Jennifer Normant
Krupa Patel
Steven Paluba
Jonathon Plumley
Tommy Stevens
Elise Wims
Jason Zepaltas
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HK9, Ep. 1
A new batch of contestants have arrived to go for the gold. At the top end of this show, the list of attributes Gordon Ramsay is looking for is listed:
Intelligence
Team Spirit
Diplomacy
Humility
Passion
Drive
Ability to Persevere and Fight Back
Inquisitive Naure
For a similar list, see “Attributes of a HK Winner: Skills, Values, Teamwork, Behavior” on pages 239-241 of “Chef Wars: Hell’s Kitchen” by Arthur E. Perkins Jr. Ludicrous examples of the above attributes are portrayed with three second clips from the HK9 season.
The Signature Dish challenge became a team challenge so it’s Red team (women) vs. Blue team (men) competing to win points. Both individuals who present a dish at the same time can win a point, or neither, or just one, depending on the relative quality of the dishes. Here were the results of this:
Carrie vs. Will – chicken-fried rib-eye, with Yukon Gold mashed potatoes (sugar added??) with truffle cream gravy; sheep’s milk gnudi R 0 B 1
Amanda vs. Brendan - eggplant rollatini with creamy polenta; salmon with a basil cream sauce R 1 B 1
Jennifer vs. Jonathon – pork w/ a special marinade + green beans; “Punch Drunk Chicken” with canned pineapple R 1 B 0
Krupa vs. Paul – stuffed naan; eggplant rollatini w/ crab and mascarpone ricotta R 0 B 1
Jamie vs. Steven – lamb lollipops with red onion confit; seared diver scallops over wild mushroom risotto
Elise vs. Chino – not shown ; not shown R 1 B 0
Natalie vs. Monterray – lamb; sea bass R 1 B 1
Gina vs. Jason - pan-roasted pistachio scallops with pureed parsnip; pork taco R 0 B 1
So Blue won the usual cliffhanger 5 to 4 to get the first reward. It was a trip to LA Market to chat with Nona, winner of HK8. She mouthed a lot of obvious platitudes which the Blue team interpreted as great insights. The Red team had to clean a very dirty kitchen.
The next day prep for the first dinner service started. Both teams were taught the basics of the dishes whey would be cooking, including risotto and Beef Wellington. They were also given a set of Henckel knives.
Dinner service begins with Ramsay expecting that some mistakes will be made as the competitors settle in. However, an omen of things to come happened during the Blue prep. Jason was unable to function and a medic’s evaluation had him sent to a local hospital. Although HK8’s first dinner service was the only one ever to come to a successful conclusion, Ramsay can hope that HK9 will be similar in outcome. There are chef’s tables now in Hell’s Kitchen and instead of sending chefs off to the bar or upstairs or elsewhere, errant chefs will be sent to wait in what is effectively a “penalty box” in full view of their teammates.
This dinner service does not go well. Both teams had trouble with risotto. At the beginning, Blue plowed ahead during the first hour and got appetizers out and were theoretically ready to start on entrees. However, a variety of problems prevented them from ever doing a single one. The biggest problem was that the Garnish station was incapable of timing their output to match that of Meat. Several nicely cooked Beef Wellingtons had to be tossed as a result of that. Then first Steve and later Chino got sent to the penalty box for poor performance on the Fish station.
Red had their problems too, with appetizers consuming them for the first hour. At that point, Krupa’s leadership gave Red the edge of getting out entrees. Blue had 2 of their team sent to the penalty box and Tommy was sent to the Fish station to solve its problems. He did not and so got sent to the penalty box too. Both Red and Blue had some rubbery scallops totally rejected by Ramsay. Jonathon completed a good Beef Wellington but the Garnish station screwed up, forcing it to be done over.
Elise tried to take over Fish from Carrie, but Ramsay intercepted that and asked Elise why she had failed to get the garnishes for a 6-top (table for 6) out. She got sent to the penalty box.
James reported to Ramsay that the mass migration of the customers out the door after 3 hours had started. He was forced to shut Hell’s Kitchen. It was obvious that the Red team had won. Blue was asked to nominate 2 individuals. They did, Steve and Monterray. Ramsay added Chino to the mix. He then sent Chino and Monterray back to their teams. Steve was eliminated. Ramsay’s finishing comment on Steve was “he had as much chance of being head chef at the BLT Steak restaurant as I did of winning a gold medal in figure skating.”
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