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As the fifth season of Hell’s Kitchen began, we saw a hilarious montage of past seasons’ mishaps, Ramsay tirades and crazed contestants. I loved it. It was the perfect beginning.
Chef Ramsay immediately divided the chefs into two teams, men vs. women, then told them each to prepare their signature dish for him. This is always classic…
He actually liked the dishes prepared by Carol, Wil, Ji, Andrea, Coi, Paula & Ben. But he wasn’t as impressed with the dishes prepared by Robert, Lacey, Danny, J, LA, Giovanni, Seth & Colleen.
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Some of my favorite comments were these:
Chef Ramsay: The idea for that came from where?
Danny: I pulled it out of my ass.
Chef Ramsay: Put it back in there, ’cause it sucks.
And this one is wonderful:
Chef Ramsay: What do you do for a living?
Colleen: I am a culinary instructor, I own a recreational cooking school.
Chef Ramsay: And were you a trained chef before you set up the cooking school?
Colleen: No. I am not a trained chef.
Chef Ramsay: You’re not a trained chef, yet you teach chefs.
Colleen: That is correct.
Chef Ramsay: How much do you charge?
Colleen: $30 per 3-4 hours.
[Chef tried a bite, then spit it out.]
Chef Ramsay: You seriously charge $300 to teach people how to make that crap?
Colleen: Yes, Chef.
Chef Ramsay: I feel like I need some plastic wrap on my ass.
Colleen: I teach manners too, Chef. [LOL!!]
Chef Ramsay: Miss Manners please go ***** off back in line.
When the teams started to prep for dinner service, Lacey got frustrated because she had no line service experience and said that she quit and left the kitchen.
On the men’s team, Seth had never worked in a restaurant before either. He took a half an hour to peel baby carrots. They men were not patient with him.
Chef asked for two volunteers to wait tables instead of cooking. It was Giovanni & Carol. Chef told Charlie to go upstairs and cut his beard so that no one would get a long hair in their food.
Lacey was back in the kitchen, but was worthless and argued with everyone. The women weren’t happy with her.
When the doors opened, Giovanni and Carol were struggling. In the kitchen, things were not going smoothly and the power went off.
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Colleen started a new dish in a dirty pan…Chef Ramsay nearly had a cow. Danny & Chef Ramsay got into a shouting match. The lights finally came back on, but it was over 2 hours into dinner service. Chef Ramsay kept calling Seth “Forrest” as in Forrest Gump. LOL!
Colleen added sugar to the risotto (are you reading this Albert?) thinking it was salt. Chef Ramsay told Wil that he was on “Planet Cuckoo.”
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Three hours into dinner service, the customers started to get up and leave. Chef Ramsay shut the kitchen down.
He told them that both teams were equally bad and that he was going to let the dining room service decide which team won.
Since Carol had kept pouring wine for everyone when the lights went out, 88% of her diners said she was above average.
Giovanni, on the other hand, had 90% of his diners that rated him below average. So the women won. Chef told the men to decide on two men to nominate for elimination. Wil volunteered himself for nomination since he had a tough evening. So, they nominated Wil & Seth.
When they stood in front of Chef Ramsay and tried to explain that to him, Robert told him that it was Seth that should go home, so Chef asked if Robert would volunteer to take Wil’s place and he said he would. (Is he nuts?)
Surprisingly, Chef Ramsay eliminated Wil. I expected him to let go of Seth. I liked Wil. It’s a shame.
What do you think of the new crop of chefs? Who do you like and who do you dislike? Leave a comment to let us know!