Season 2 Episode 3

The third episode of Season 2 of Hell’s Kitchen aired on Fox, on June 19, 2006. On that episode, one contestant dared talking back to Ramsay, and gets Ramsayed for it, and another one forgot the basics to cook properly.

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

Intro

After Gabe’s unexpected elimination, Garrett jokingly compared his nominations of Tom and Giacomo to a kick in the nuts. Keith was upset, saying that Tom should have been eliminated over Gabe because he lacked more knowledge than him. Tom said he was relieved and felt Ramsay would love to see him win as he is the oldest.

On the red team, the women were as shocked as the other team. Rachel acknowledged that there is nobody who is really safe at elimination. Maribel and Virginia thought it would have been “fat fuck” eliminated, referring to Tom.

Team challenge

The next morning, Heather revealed her injured hand which healed very quickly, as she already taken the bandage off. After that, Tom answered the phone, and Ramsay told him to get everybody in the dining room immediately, in their uniforms. Everybody came down within minutes, expect Sara, who was still in the shower. She came down five minutes after everybody else. Ramsay schooled her when she laughed about it.

Ramsay introduced the next challenge by saying both teams had communication problems during the two previous services. For the Relay Challenge, both teams would cook three dishes from the existing menu in 20 minutes, one chef would be in the kitchen for 5 minutes at a time, and they had 15 seconds to communicate to the next one. Heather volunteered to sit out for her team because of her injury, prompting Sara to be very unsympathetic and calling her a princess. The first to go were Tom and Virginia. Ramsay told them the dishes are the chicken, tortellini, and salmon. Tom used pre-made tortellinis, where Ramsay told him he would not accept it, and Virginia started a new batch. During the relay, both of them successfully communicated to Giacomo and Rachel. In the blue kitchen, Giacomo continued Tom’s batch of fresh tortellinis, while in the red kitchen, Rachel started the sauce for the salmon. When it got to Maribel and Keith, communication was poor on both sides, as Keith started a new batch of tortellinis despite being told they were already done by Giacomo, and Maribel was never told by Rachel that the tortellinis was the third dish. Maribel only worked on the chicken and salmon dishes. She tried to find out what was the third dish herself, but never succeeded. While she was waiting for her turn, Sara was annoyed by Heather’s way of giving her tips. She responded disrespectfully by flipping the birds to her. During the final relay, Garrett misunderstood Keith and started a new batch of tortellinis, and Maribel never told Sara anything, so Sara had no clue that the tortellini was one of the dishes. Garrett brought all three dishes to the pass, but Sara only brought two of them, missing the tortellini. Seeing this, Tom was confident and thought his team had it in the bag.

During the judging, the women’s tortellini was missing, and the men’s was missing the sauce. When Ramsay acknowledged that, Tom said he wants to speak, but Ramsay told him to stand up straight as Tom was almost lying on the counter. Ramsay schooled him on his behavior, but Tom talked back saying nobody would want to get in a street fight with him, and that he was lucky he signed a contract stating he would never touch anybody on the show. The men won the tortellini round for at least serving something, while the women won the chicken challenge as they did not forget the sauce, which the men did. On the salmon round, the men were missing the bacon, which made the women win 2-1.

Reward

The women were awarded a day on the “Just Dreamin” yacht with Ramsay, and sunbathing. When Ramsay left, Virginia started flirting with him by saying “Miss me!”, and declaring she would like him to rub sun lotion on her.

Punishment

The men had to participate in Laundry Day, by washing and ironing all the tablecloths. During the punishment, Tom made a sexist comment, despite him saying he does not want to be sexist. He said that women do laundry better than men.

Before service

When the women came back from their reward, Garrett made a comment about how they should go back home to cook them lunch. This statement infuriated Heather as she considered it disrespectful. Both of them later had a talk where both explained to the other that the lack of respect is what pisses them off. Before getting to sleep, Garrett talked about how he was sick of that “men vs women” thing, and said he came in the competition to prove something to the entire world. In the next room, the women were listening to him and Heather mocked him.

During prep, Maribel was feeling very homesick as she was missing her daughter and husband. She cried and Heather tried to comfort her. In the blue kitchen, Giacomo was determined to get a good service because his team needed to break its losing streak. Sara was annoyed by Heather’s leadership. When both teams were lined up, Ramsay declared that the goal is still to serve a fully-booked dining room.

Dinner service

Keith, on the appetizers, tasted the food with his spoon and put it on the plate, and also grabbed rice with his bare hand. Customers saw him do it, and Ramsay told him to not do that in front of customers. He was also told to pull his pants up, because the view of his ass was not appealing for the customers. Garrett on garnish, was caught whistling, and Ramsay told him to stop. In the red kitchen, Sara was annoyed by Heather’s way of telling her what to do, and when Ramsay asked for a time, both of them answered. Ramsay said to Heather that the appetizers station was Sara’s, and that she had to run it. This made Sara smile.

A half-hour into service, Giacomo, on meat, failed to turn his oven on, and when he talked about it to Sous Chef Scott, he answered by calling him “stupid”, and Ramsay called him “donkey”. After that, Garrett was caught whistling once again, and Ramsay had to tell him one more time to stop doing it. In the red kitchen, Heather, on fish, struggled on her first entrée, and Ramsay refused to send her sub-par dish. When he schooled her, Heather understood she deserved to be yelled at because as a boss, he decides what goes out and what does not. In the blue kitchen, Keith was about to send his last appetizers out. He asked Tom to get him some tomato sauce. Sous Chef Scott then told Keith they did not have time to, prompting Garrett to take a batch of tomato sauce on the garnish station, leading Keith to tell Tom that he does not need him to do it anymore. Despite this, Tom continued stating he already started. When Ramsay asked Tom what he was doing as they already had tomato sauce, he said Keith told him to, and Keith answered by saying he got it. Tom was furious at Keith as he accused him of throwing him under the bus.

More than an hour into service, Sara, Heather, and Virginia successfully helped the women to serve many entrées in the dining room. However, for the men, Giacomo struggled on meat, and lied to Ramsay about duck that was supposed to be resting. When Ramsay asked him why he was lying to him, Giacomo apologized and said he did not mean to lie. Ramsay called him “useless” and got to the breaking point, at the point that he decided to switch everybody’s station. So, Giacomo was now on fish, Keith on meat, Tom on garnish, and Garrett on appetizers. When he grabbed a pan, Tom burned his hand, and acted like if it was torturing him. Keith took a look at his hand, but remained unsympathetic saying he should take it like a man and move on. Tom accused Keith of burying him when he reminded him about the sauce incident, leading Keith to say he can not take it anymore.

Two hours into service, the women served many entrées out, with the lamb Wellingtons being the most popular item. That put more pressure on Maribel. When she declared she only had 6 Wellingtons when 8 were on order, she told Ramsay about the situation but told her to stop panicking. After schooling Sara on her disrespectful behavior, Ramsay told Maribel to get lamb and pastry to make fresh Wellingtons. In the blue kitchen, Tom was still complaining about his burned hand. Ramsay asked him to show it, but saw nothing. He also told Tom he does not need a drama queen. After that, Jean-Philippe came to the kitchen to tell Ramsay that one of the red tables was about to walk out. Maribel declared she needed seven minutes, but when she sent raw Wellingtons, which were supposed to be rare, Ramsay told her to get them in the oven. In the blue kitchen, Tom ran out of mashed potatoes. Ramsay was discouraged, and when he asked Tom what he was doing, Tom looked confused and was accused of giving up by Ramsay. When Tom declared he was trying to make an ass out of himself, Ramsay congratulated him by saying he successfully did. Back in the red kitchen, the lady from the “walking out” table came to the kitchen to speak to Ramsay, and Maribel told them her Wellington was coming in 45 seconds, and the countdown began. Unfortunately, the Wellingtons she brought were undercooked, and because of that, the table walked out. After schooling Maribel on her giving up, and witnessing many frustrations from both sides, Ramsay shut down both kitchens.

Post-mortem

When the teams were lined up, Ramsay praised Sara’s performance, and named her the best on the women by far. He also reminded Maribel that she was the cause of her team not completing their tickets, which she was aware of. From the men, Giacomo and Tom’s performances were deemed the worst. Ramsay declared the men losers, and asked each member of the team to nominate one person for elimination, and named nobody “Best of the Worst”, because nobody deserved it.

During deliberation, Tom was seen talking to himself on the patio table, surrounded by empty chairs.

Elimination

Giacomo and Tom voted for each other, and Garrett and Keith both voted for Tom. After both of them were given 10 seconds to plead their cases, Ramsay eliminated Giacomo, despite the fact Tom received the most votes, for being the worst performer of the night, lacking the knowledge, and lying to Ramsay during service.

Ramsay’s comment: “Before you can even attempt to run a restaurant, the first thing you’ve got to do is make sure you know how to cook. Giacomo? He was lost beyond belief.”

My opinion

Both teams were rubbish in the challenge today because the red team didn’t bring three of the dishes up and the blue team did one of the three dishes time time and lose after begin one nil up. Tom burn his hand he reckon but no one believes him. Giacomo didn’t know that the oven was not on.

My comment: Giacomo was a shit chef but after tonight performance he be a good hair dresser.

Gordon choose Giacomo.