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Hell's Kitchen 9
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I don't think there is any need for verification, but feel free. Elise is a good chef with a huge ego and need to dominate those around her. It's a common personality type in some industries, but not usually found broadly in the restaurant world. Note that Elise won the blind taste test, which could only be faked by Ramsay feeding her the answers in advance.
I am certain that Elise got into HK9 and stays in as a result of her controversial personality, but I expect that her time will be up next episode with the need to eliminate 2 chefs. Ramsay will want to keep Will and Paul and maybe either Jennifer or Tommy.
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HK9, Ep. 14
It is time for Ramsay's "place a value on a plate of high-end food" challenge. After he mentioned that it will be like a white salmon dropping out of the sky a beautiful huge salmon does drop out of its hiding place in the ceiling. The chefs have to quickly master the proper slicing of salmon to get maximum value for it. Ramsay tells them that with proper technique they can achieve costs of $15 per plate while getting revenues as high as $40 per plate. That would result in a $750 gross profit.
Here come the judge or in this case judges:
Justin Wyborn, General Manager of Nobu-L.A.
Donato Poto, General Manager,
Chris Denton, Maitre D', Mr. Chow's
Each chef brings his dish up for sampling and gets 3 values for his/her dish:
Justin Donato Chris Average
Will $30 $28 $28 $28.67
Elise $24 $22 $27 $24.33
Tommy $26 $23 $25 $26.33
Paul $29 $29 $30 $29.67
Jennifer $27 $29 $29 $28.33
Paul won a private helicopter ride with Ramsay. He considered his options on who to bring and chose Tommy even though he knew Jennifer would kill for the chance to be with him. After a rooftop landing in downtown L.A. at a heliport, they went to the Water Grill restaurant, where the very cute Amanda Baumgarten, 6th place finisher on Top Chef 7, is the new executive chef. Tommy was doing a better job of flirting with her than Paul, so she turned her attention on Tommy. I heard her ask him what he was doing after dinner service that evening.
Will, Elise and Jennifer had to spruce up the bar area and prep for the evening's dinner service as their punishment.
Dinner service opened with Tommy and Jennifer on appetizers and Elise on fish. All of them were unable to either cook or communicate, so things got difficult very quickly. Tommy messed up a capellini. Jennifer decided to copy that performance. Jennifer then got a "good" for her risotto. Elise on fish was messing up every single one that came her way. Tommy tried to help her, but her pride did not allow anyone to come in and do better than her even if she was drowning. As the first hour ended only half the appetizers and half of the first table of entrees had been served. Tommy, Jennifer and Elise were all inconsistent in their cooking. Paul and will were turning out excellent meat dishes, including an entire 6-top of meat orders. Tommy had more capellini that was undercooked. Elise's salmon was sticking to the pan. Then Elise sent raw salmon. That got Ramsay's attention enough to cause him to shut the kitchen. All 5 chefs went upstairs, but Ramsay rapidly realized that he, sous chef Scott and sous chef Andi could not get it done quick enough. He sent for his 2 winners, Paul and Will, to help. The others were jealous, particularly Tommy who confronted Ramsay at the end of dinner service to find out why he had been classified with Elise and Jennifer (Ramsay refused to answer him).
Ramsay's post-mortem stated that "it was not the same 5 individuals who had such good performance the prior evening." He asked the chefs to nominate 2. The obvious choices were Elise and Jennifer. Tommy was bad but not as bad. The only question in my mind was whether both were going or only one. I expected to see both eliminated, but that will wait until next week. Ramsay asked Paul, Will and Tommy who was the worst of the nominated chefs. The answers came back a surprising Jennifer, Jennifer and Elise. I am sure that these had little to do with Ramsay's own decision that it was Jennifer being elminated.
TexasLady:
It's pretty clear now that it will be Will and Paul for the final 2 chefs. Why he kept Elise is beyond me. However, she will NOT be the winner this year of Hell's Kitchen. She cannot be part a team player which means she cannot lead a team either. I did think it was plucky for Tommy to stand up for himself with Ramsay. (Without being thrown into that gas oven.) :lol:
franxaverian:
Oh, that Amanda.......been a long time since I saw her....she didn't shine at all during her stint, actually quite amazed she lasted until top 6.
Back to HK world, Will and Paul are clearly the top 2 this season. Can't imagine if any of Elise or Tommy go to final.
KitKat:
I am shocked Tommy made it this far :ascared
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