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apskip:
HK9, Ep.13

An individual challenge started with making visually unappealing food appealing as the theme. There were 5 comfort food dishes to be selected and Elise knocked everyone down to reach the Eggplant Parmesan. Those dishes were:
Elise-Eggplant Parmesan
Tommy-Chicken and Dumplings
Paul-tuna casserole
Jennifer-Lasagna
Will-Meatloaf

The chefs had 50 minutes to increase the eye appeal and taste by cooking a new recipe. Ramsay brought in a panel of outside experts to judge this on a 1 to 10 points basis for both Appearance and Taste:

Los Angeles magazine dining editor - Lesley Bargar Suter
cookbook author -  Susie Heller
food stylist - Valerie Aikman-Smith
food photographer - Deborah Jones
owner of Foundry-on-Melrose restaurant – Eric Greenspan 
                                                                                                              Appearance Taste Total     
The results were:
Tommy                                                                                                                44         30      74
Paul                                                                                                                     33         27      60
Elise                                                                                                                      42         44      86
Jennifer                                                                                                               28         24      52
Will                                                                                                                       33         49      87

So Will as the winner of the individual challenge got to pick a teammate to take along for the reward, which started with a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce limo trip to Spago to be greeted by Wolfgang Puck and have food prepared by executive chef Lee Hefter. From there they went on to Foundry-on-Melrose for another meal personally prepared by Eric Greenspan. Will chose Elise to get to know her better and to hopefully be able to defuse the problems he expected to face with her in the kitchen.

The other chefs had to do Laundry Day with “traditional methods” using washboards instead of a washing machine.

Ramsay then threw a curveball for dinner service. To compete against the new Black team he brought back of team of HK veterans:

Tennille, HK6 4th place finisher
Ben, HK7 4th place finisher
Trev, HK8 4th place finisher
Jillian, HK8 3rd place finisher
Van, HK6, 6th place finisher

The first thing both teams had to do was develop a menu in one hour. There was World War III on the Black team with Elise unable to agree to suggestions from anyone else (she spun it differently but that was the essence of it).  Will reacted strongly to this drama queen b.s. by Elise and stormed out just before the menus were finalized.  Both teams then prepped and cooked.

Tommy, with the guidance of Will, did “a great job on appetizers” per Ramsay. With Paul’s help Elise got a fish dish out, with Ramsay responding “perfect.” Then Elise became very disruptive in the Black team kitchen. She attempted to take over Paul’s fish station when he made a relatively minor error, too hot lobster. Ramsay told Paul he was in charge of fish and should continue to be so. Will reacted strongly to this b.s. by Elise and stormed out of the kitchen just before it closed.

Tennille had raw tuna. Van had problems on meat, but then received a “nice” from Ramsay when he fixed them. Jennifer had a garnish that was badly botched. Overall, it was an excellent dinner service for both teams and Ramsay recognized that.

The outcome of dinner service hinged on customer comment cards, with the question of “would you return to this restaurant?” Ramsay kept everyone in suspense as along as possible, but finally he revealed that it was 80% positive for the veterans and 96% positive for the Black team. That showed a resounding success on the quality of the dishes.

Ramsay still asked the Black team to nominate 2 for potential elimination. Before that happened, Jennifer went to Paul and revealed a secret crush on him. The two nominees were Jennifer and Elise. Ramsay went through the charade of considering firing them, but neither had really done anything to deserve that. He let them off the hook. However, the next episode will have to have 2 members of the Black team eliminated. Who will they be? I am looking for one to be Elise. The other could be Tommy (who has shown improvement but still seems an airhead) or Jennifer. 

franxaverian:
As expected from Apskip, a perfect recap....

some corrections:
Ben, HK7 HK 5 4th place finisher

With Paul’s help Elise got a fish meat dish out

Other than that, always a perfect recap of everything... :tup:

apskip:
franxaverian:

You are correct. I mixed up Ben from HK5 the executive sous chef (who was in this episode) with HK7 4th place finisher Ben the culinary instructor), who was not.

SuperTux:
Elsie (S1) and Elise (S9) -- two disparate guys. :lol:

SuperTux:
Rumor has it that Elise is actually an actress hired by producers to incite the ratings.

Source: http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1203399345

A Chinese fan noticed her on Star Gate and CSI.

Maybe we need to verify it?

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