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apskip:
franxaverian,

I agree that Natalie, Krupa, Will and Jamie all have potential. I don't know whether Carrie does, but she might.  If you go back to HK2 Virginia came from a rough start and Bonnie from one in HK3 to be finalists. Elise is dead meat for sure because she does not have enough talent to offset her mouth. Jennifer and Montserray are my next 2 obvious picks for elimination.

I consider Gina, Tommy, Elizabeth, Paul and Jonathon to be nonentities who may barely make the second half of this competition.

Squall:
have to agree; usually the seemingly quiet ones tend to make it far in this competition.

Squall:
*hates double posting but thought of something worthy of a new comment*

For some reason Tommy looks/acts/talks like a modern day Jack Sparrow

apskip:
HK9, Ep. 5

It’s a new episode, so have the Red team members gotten their revenge on Elise for her verbal diarrhea and attempts at autocracy or will there be more? The teams started in what looked like a high school chemistry lab except that two chefs from Chicago restaurant Moto, Ben Roche and Homaro Cantu, come to show off their molecular gastronomy skills. They make orange sorbet using a special device plus liquid nitrogen in 45 seconds.  They will judge the Challenge of HK9 chefs after 45 minutes of creating and cooking using only fire and water, boiling, steaming or poaching. The Red team had two individuals cook the same dish and then had to pick the better one to submit. Carrie’s prawn dish lost out to Elizabeth’s prawn dish. As always in the first half of a season it is Red team vs. Blue team with judging based on the better of two competing dishes. Those dishes, based on one of 6 proteins, were:

Jennifer – beef in broth, both good tasting and pretty                                             R 1
Jonathon – beef, potatoes, and vegetable, tasted good but looked bad                     B 0

Elizabeth – prawns with spaghetti overseasoned                                                     R 0
Monterray – prawn Eggs Benedict very hard due to overcooking everything               B 0

Jamie – poached salmon (overcooked) with citrus jasmine rice                                 R 0
Will – salmon done nicely                                                                                      B 1       

Gina – Guinea hen with mushrooms                                                                        R 1
Tommy – poached guinea hen leg with breast                                                          B 0                                 

Elise – lobster poached I a broth but rubbery                                                           R 0         
Paul – lobster with citrus                                                                                        B 1

Krupa – veal in broth that tasted like beef stew turned out to be filet mignon             R 0   
Natalie – veal terrine wrapped in greens, not tasty or visually appealing                     B 0

So, the score is tied 2 to 2, but wait! Ramsay stated that the mistaken use of filet mignon was a huge error that nobody on the Red team caught. Also, he pointed out after sampling it that Carrie’s prawn dish was superior to Elizabeth’s and should have been submitted by the Red team. The net result was that the Blue team won the Challenge. Their reward was pampering at a Beverly Hills spa. The punishment for the Red team was to clean the hot tubs, the fountain in front and prep both kitchens for dinner service which would be that evening.

Dinner service begins with tableside sashimi by Jennifer and Natalie. Krupa made the first appetizer, a risotto which was “soupy”. She got the second one right to Ramsay’s satisfaction. Blue appetizers moved along and were done with 48 minutes gone. Jonathon got in trouble on Garnish, so Paul stepped in to help him out. Ramsay objected, as it looked like Paul was doing it rather than just helping. Krupa’s spaghetti was wrong the first 2 times. There was lack of synchronization and bad communication between Gina and Krupa. Monterray was on Meat and he undercooked his first Beef Wellington. At 1 hour Krupa was given the boot Tommy was on fish cooking cod, but he was not communicating at all and others around him needed him to do so. His lack of communication managed to ruin Monterray’s second attempt at Beef Wellington. Monterray then had 2 more Beef Wellington that he held waiting for Tommy, but it was like waiting for Godot and both ended up overcooked; so did Tommy’s cod. Gina screwed up with a raw sea bass. Gina and Elise were banished for not communicating properly, although it looked to me that this was primarily Gina’s problem. Ramsay decided that, to be fair, he needed to also banish Monterray and Tommy. We appear to have 5 candidates for nominations for the worst performers. Ramsay next shut down both kitchens.

The post-mortem was brief. The teams were each asked to nominate the 2 chefs who would most improve the team by their departure. It did not take long to do so. Blue put up Monterray and Tommy. Red had 3 to choose from and they left Gina out of that nomination, choosing the obvious Krupa and Elise, who despite supbar performance was not as terrible as others. Elise pleaded that case and said that she should not be there and Gina should. Ramsay agreed with her and fired Gina. I thought that was fair. Ramsay’s parting comment was that Gina’s talent matched her small size.

franxaverian:
Hi Apskip, just want to add/edit something

HK5, Ep. 9 HK 9, Ep. 5

We appear to have 5 candidates for nominations for the worst performers. Ramsay next shut down both kitchens after the remaining contestants on both teams finished their service.


I'm getting tired on hearing Elise....hopefully she's the one who's going this time

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