Season 1 Episode 2

The second episode of Season 1 of Hell’s Kitchen aired on Fox on June 6, 2005. On that episode there was the first challenge, a fun reward, a sweaty punishment, an unusual delivery and physical assault during dinner service.

Please watch the full episode before you read (below) to avoid spoilers about this episode.

Intro

After surviving elimination, Dewberry was seeking a moment for himself in the bathroom but did not know that Elsie was in the bathroom too. After staring at each other in the eyes through the bathroom’s mirror, they hugged each other with Dewberry acknowledging that it was hard for her to make her decision.

Team challenge

At 5:55 AM, Sous chef Scott and Mary-Ann went in the dorms with cookware and banged them together to wake up everybody. The contestants were told to get in the dining room immediately. Chris was the only one who did not rush, taking his time to put a shirt on and brush his teeth. He came down seven minutes after everybody else. Ramsay schooled him by calling him a lazy fucker and telling him that from that moment on, he had to be with his team all the time.

Ramsay explained the next challenge, which was the cleaning squid challenge, designed to test the attention to details. After Michael was forced to sit out to make the teams even at 5 members each, Ramsay made a demonstration to the contestants about how to correctly clean a squid. Each contestant had 10 minutes to clean as many squids as possible. Even though he sat out, Michael was still allowed to give tips to his teammates.

For the red team, Jeff, Jimmy, Elsie and Chris scored one each while Dewberry scored two, despite the fact that he hated seafood. For the blue team, Ralph and Mary Ellen scored two, Jessica scored one and Wendy and Andrew scored zero with Wendy even blaming the fish and Andrew questioning Ramsay’s judgement. The red team won 6-5.

Reward

The red team was rewarded with a dinner with and prepared by Ramsay. During the dinner, Ramsay talked about his experience and personal life and everybody in the red team was having a great time.

Punishment

The blue team was punished by cleaning all the squids for the following night’s dinner service, as the first part of their punishment.

The second part was going through dinner service without any air conditioning. Ramsay explained that in his first restaurant, five minutes after the first table came in, the air conditioning stopped working but managed to get through dinner service to feed the customers.

Before service

The night before dinner service, Jeff was suffering of a kidney stone and was lying in the hallway in pain. When Jessica approached him to ask if he was okay, she touched him on the back and he fall further on the ground. She did not feel any sign of worry as she felt he was kind of a hypochondriac.

During prep, Dewberry gave an acceptable plate of spaghetti to Ramsay, who told him he had to do all of his dishes like that. Wendy was lost when she was trying to get organised on her station. Finally, Ramsay told the staff to take down the fans of the blue kitchen.

Dinner service

During dinner service in the blue kitchen, Mary Ellen got her team to a good start with her Caesar salads. In the red kitchen, Dewberry got the same success for his team with his appetisers which pleased the customers. When Wendy brought her first risotto to the hot plate, Ramsay told her the rice was undercooked and she had to start over with the help of Ralph. The latter managed to send out good risottos to Ramsay and customers’ relief.

An hour into service the red kitchen has sent out all of their appetisers and were beginning their main courses but Jeff who was suffering from a kidney stone the pervious night had trouble to stay focused and failed to send the vegetables to the pass at the same time as the fish and meat. So Ramsay got in his way trying to motivate him but all Jeff did was lament about his abdominal pain because of this, he slowed down him team.

Thirty minutes later in the blue kitchen when Sous chef Scott told the team that it was 140 degrees, Michael made a comment about how hot it was and Ramsay told him he was not looking for a drama queen and if he had won the challenge, his team would be fine like the red team. In the red kitchen, Chris took the role of leader by explaining to Elsie how to properly cook salmon on the grill. That was the first time where Chris showed great teamwork instead of contempt towards his teammates. In the blue kitchen, Andrew and Mary Ellen showed another type of teamwork. When she brought undercooked Wellingtons to the pass, he argued with her and tried to tell her what to do next time but she was more annoyed by his attitude than anything else. When Dewberry brought lamb and Wellingtons to the pass, the lamb was cooked perfectly but not the Wellingtons so he was asked to start again. After some encouragement from Chris and a fire started in a pan, Dewberry went to Ramsay to tell him that he was confused and did not know what he was doing.

Two hours into service, the red team only served 8 main courses to their customers. When a customer came to the kitchen to talk with Ramsay about the situation, Ramsay shut him down by calling him a fucking dick and an asshole. After that, Ramsay turned his attention to Dewberry, who told him that it would take 12 minutes for the next order of Wellingtons. When Ramsay questioned him, he said he had no idea of what was going on and after been called useless by Ramsay, Dewberry started to walk out of the kitchen but when he saw Elsie’s face, he could not walk out and got back to his station. Moments later customers went to the kitchen again and they were told to fuck off by Ramsay and after Ramsay went to Dewberry to explain him the problem. In the blue kitchen when Mary Ellen finally sent out acceptable Wellingtons, Andrew was trying to make himself look good in front of Sous chef Scott which really annoyed her.

Three hours into dinner service after tables started to walk out unfed, pizza was delivered to a table of customers and Jean-Philippe had to deal with a very arrogant customer. When that customer tried to make himself look good with his doctorate in music from the University of Southern California, he physically assaulted Jean-Philippe by hitting him in the chest with his index finger before being kicked out of the restaurant by a crew member. After witnessing that, Ramsay shut down both kitchens.

Post-mortem

When the teams were lined up, Ramsay referred to the customer comment cards to pick a winning team. For the blue team, the salads were horrible and even though they managed to get a few main courses out they were not that good. For the red team, their customers enjoyed the appetisers but half of them did not receive a main course. He also relayed the pizza incident to the red team. Eventually, Ramsay named the red team losers but praised Chris for his improvement over the last few days and his great teamwork during service. So Ramsay named him Best of the Worst and Chris had to nominate two of his team for elimination.

Back in the dorms, Jeff told Chris that he was doing fine until his kidney stone problems got in the way of his performance while Jimmy was disappointed in losing service for the second time in a row and pleaded his case to Chris. Dewberry regretted his decision in attempting to quit and knew he would have to work really hard to earn back back his team’s respect if he would survive elimination. Meanwhile, Chris was struggling with his decision on who to nominate but knew he had to cut dead weight from the red team if they wanted to win services.

Elimination

Chris named Dewberry as his first nominee, and Jeff as his second. Ramsay stated he agreed with that decision 110%. Dewberry was eliminated for letting his team down and almost giving up after his mistakes. During his exit interview, Dewberry admitted that he deserved to be eliminated, and knew that it was not justifiable for almost walking out on his team

Ramsay’s comment: “I’m looking for someone who can weather the storm, inspire individuals, stand as a great leader. That, clearly, is not Dewberry.”

My opinion

Into

Dewberry have a right to get payback at every time to Elise. Jeff was a lucky guy to not got booted out of hell kitchen but got a telling off by the blue team but the blue team didn’t do anything right yesterday. Chris arrived lated for Gordon but he a chef.

Challenge

The red team score 6 points for this challenge. Dewberry got 2 points for the team even thought he don’t like sea food. Chris got one point out of 4 squids. Chris want to up he game.

The blue team score 5 point for this challenge. Mary Ellen score 2 points for the team. Which mean Andrew need to score one point to draw with the red team but where was a big hole in the squid but Andrew think it was perfect.

Dinner service

Gordon said for he first time in he first restaurant the air cons went out after 5 minutes since the first customer came in. So he got rid of the air cons for the blue team. A customer went to the hot plate and ask how long it will be. He should know that the food was not coming out if he looked at the kitchen. Dewberry almost went back to the dorm but stop after seen Elise face. A customer went up to JP and talked about he shit education of music and point his finger at JP chest.

Elimination

My elimination would have been Jeff and Dewberry because Jeff lost control of his station and for Dewberry he almost left the kitchen. Chris and Gordon went with the same as me. I would have choose Dewberry to leave hell kitchen.

My comment: Dewberry almost left hell kitchen but after tonight Dewberry did make this come true.

Gordon choose Dewberry to go.