The eighth episode of Season 4 of Hell’s Kitchen aired on Fox, on May 20, 2008. On that episode, one red chef became a blue chef, there is bullying on one team, but that team managed to bounce back at dinner service.

Intro

Back in the dorms, both teams were talking about who from the red team would join the blue team. On the blue side, Louross stated he did not have any problems with the women and would gleefully welcome another team member. But, he also reminded his teammates that despite that, they would have to stand their grounds. On the red side, Corey tried to convince Jen that it would be a good thing for her to be transferred, but in reality, she just wanted to get rid of her so she could have her voice back in the red kitchen. Rosann agreed with Corey, but Jen called Corey a manipulative ass bitch, thinking she considered her as stupid. However, Jen did not say no, only that she would sleep on that.

Team Switch

The next morning, when the teams were lined up in the dining room, Ramsay asked the red team if any of them was volunteering to go to the blue team, but they were slow to answer. Finally, Jen expressed herself, saying the red team was safe and that she would like to stiff out her competition. The blue team felt comfortable with that announcement, with Louross saying he was curious to see how she was working in the kitchen. Ramsay agreed with her choice and gave her a blue jacket, before telling her to stand alongside them. Christina declared she was happy to see Jen go because her presence were blocking the red team the doorway.

Team Challenge

After that, Ramsay announced the next challenge would test the chefs’ creativity. He also revealed a tray of the same 20 ingredients in both kitchens, and introduced the 20 Ingredients Challenge. Each chef were given 45 minutes to create a dish of their own, but in no circumstances the ingredients must repeat themselves between the team members, and both teams had to use all the 20 ingredients. When the countdown started, in the red kitchen, Corey grabbed a piece of paper and a marker to list the ingredients as it could avoid confusion. Then, they started to cook their dishes and were having a great communication. However, in the blue kitchen, Jen was already getting on her teammates’ nerves as she was picking everything for her dish without asking anybody. The blue team were still dividing their ingredients after 10 minutes. In the red kitchen, they were focused on their own things and had great communication, but Matt cut himself really bad, even stating he took the tip of his thumb off. When Ramsay learned that news, he told him to go see a medic, which he did. In the back store, a medic put a bandage on Matt’s thumb, and in the red kitchen, Christina was worried that being down one person could jeopardize their chance to win the challenge. So, the three remaining women rallied to complete their own dishes before taking care of Matt’s. When Ramsay came back, he asked where was the top of the finger, and the women started looking for it. Then, he jokingly told they were cooking with 21 ingredients, calling his dish a finger pancetta. Despite this, the red team continued rallying with great communication, but in the blue kitchen, all the chefs were silent. This led Sous Chef Scott to tell them they had to communicate to make sure everybody was having different ingredients. Bobby acknowledged his team was quiet and compared it to a pack of dogs. In the red kitchen, Matt made a heroic return, determined to pull it off for his team as he did not want to be the reason of the loss. Ramsay told him to calm down and focus, while reminding him he was still having nine fingers left. In the blue kitchen, Bobby said his veal was not turning out the way he wanted to, so Jen suggested he could do a Surf n Turf. Louross did not appreciate as he was not comfortable doing a Surf n Turf. With a few minutes left, both teams rallied to cook and plates their dishes, with Jen being annoyed by Louross because of his not properly plated veal, and when time was up, Louross acknowledged he forgot an ingredient, infuriating him, and Jen tried to convince him to lie and tell he used five ingredients instead of four. Louross categorically refused to, saying it would haunt him forever.

For the first round, Christina went up against Petrozza. Christina served a fried snapper with crab meat and a Hollandaise sauce, containing 5 ingredients. It was praised for the clever idea of using the Hollandaise for the eggs. Petrozza presented a warm crab salad with an onion soufflé, containing 5 ingredients as well. Ramsay congratulated him for being brave to make a soufflé and that it turned out perfect. Both of them scored for their respective teams. For the second round, Matt and Jen faced off, and Jen presented a pancetta wrapped and roasted quail, containing 4 ingredients. Ramsay said it was tasting nice. After that, Matt served a pan-roasted quail, containing 6 ingredients. Ramsay found it weird because the liver was tainting the flavor of the quail. Jen gave the lead to the blue team 2-1. For the third round, Corey made a Colombian sour lemon chicken with braised artichokes, containing 3 ingredients. Ramsay appreciated the taste, but because she only used 3 ingredients, he was expecting more of her. Bobby prepared a walnut crusted mozzarella chicken with a balsamic glaze, containing 6 ingredients. Ramsay disliked the glaze, which he said was too much, and gave a point to Corey, tying the score at 2 each. For the last round, Rosann went up against Louross, who was more concerned about the amount of ingredients he used. Rosann served a pan-seared veal with a cream sauce and onion, watercress, and roasted potatoes, containing 6 ingredients. Ramsay deemed it really clumsy and compared it to a dog’s dinner because of the giant bone inside it. Louross made a red snapper with an oyster-mushroom sauce. Ramsay liked the dish for the taste of the quail and the overall presentation, but when Louross announced he only used 4 ingredients, Ramsay became furious as that made the total of the blue team at only 19 ingredients. When Ramsay asked Louross where was the veal, Jen answered that he had the idea of making a Surf n Turf but did not put it at the last minute. Ramsay berated the blue team, saying they failed miserably, and the red team automatically won the challenge. Petrozza declared he was blown away because the veal was two inches away from Louross.

Reward

The red team was rewarded with a photo shoot and interview for InTouch Weekly Magazine, with Ramsay. When they were getting ready, Christina felt like a diva and wondered how Jen was feeling as she just transferred team and missed that incredible reward. Arrived at the photo shoot, Ramsay introduced the red team to the photographer, and they began the makeup session while drinking champagne. During the shooting, all the women were wearing red dresses while Matt was wearing a black suit and standing behind a car door. Ramsay joked that Matt should have his tummy behind the door, and Rosann said her daughter would be proud of her when she would see her in InTouch Magazine and that it was such a wonderful feeling.

Punishment

The blue team was punished by taking part of Laundry Day, washing all the tablecloths, dishcloths, aprons, jackets, and serviettes by hand. Louross felt extremely guilty for that loss and apologized to Petrozza. Then, he went in the hallway to think about the loss, being very emotional and saying he was such an idiot. Jen started to rub salt in the wound by saying the veal was all cooked right and ready to be plated, adding that Louross was stupid. After, Jean-Philippe gave them the laundry to do, while asking Jen to put a smile on her face. Later, Jean-Philippe tried to entertain Jen by bringing a crab to her and saying he was as grumpy as she was. But, Jen was still unresponsive, saying she was still mad at Louross for being the cause of the loss. Petrozza compared Jen’s attitude to a volcano, saying it could erupt and negatively influence the rest of the team. Jean-Philippe asked Jen to put a smile on her face, but she said she would not, and when he asked her if she would be bitchy the whole day, she answered she would. She also added her dish was flawless and that she did not blame anybody but Louross, calling him a stupid-ass. But, Louross did not care what she was saying and that he was not scared.

Before Service

When the red team came back from their reward and the blue team almost finished their punishment, Matt noted that Jen was not looking happy, which the team was happy about. Jen did not want to talk or look at anybody and was just thinking about herself. Bobby acknowledged Jen was out casting herself from everybody else and added it could be a dangerous game she was playing. After that, everybody went to bed.

The next morning, both teams began prep for that night’s service. In the blue kitchen, Jen and Louross were constantly picking at each other, with Jen telling Louross what to do. Petrozza was annoyed by it, saying that dumbass bickering could not happen during service or they would be in trouble. When he asked them to stop, Jen sarcastically said there was love in the air, with Petrozza understanding the joke and continuing it by saying it was incredible how much love was there. In the red kitchen, morale was at its best, with all the chefs being confident, especially Matt who said he was really happy. Christina declared the red team was glad that Jen, the big bully, was gone as it was now their chance to get along and win by working together.

After, Ramsay made both teams lined up and asked them how they were feeling, with both teams answering they were feeling great, despite Jen and Louross not getting along. When Ramsay asked the red team how it was like not having Jen, Christina answered it was great, and then, Jen aggressively looked at Christina. When Ramsay asked the blue team if they were working together or against each other, Jen answered that they bonded as a team that day and that they were working together as a team, with all of her teammates knowing she was lying. After that, Ramsay announced that during that service, two of the United States’ finest food critics would eat in the dining room, and that their comments would decide the winning team. He also added that he did not know at which table they would be eating, so the chefs had to consider that every table was a critic. After, each chef got on their respective station, with Jen still bitter about Christina saying the red team was happy to get rid of her, thinking she was victim of a backstab, but one thing positive was that it boosted her confidence and determination to win the service. Her teammates got in that mood as well, and in the red kitchen, they were as confident, saying they should rock the service out. Then, Ramsay asked Jean-Philippe to open Hell’s Kitchen.

Dinner Service

Sophie Gayot, from Gayot Guides, and Merril Schindler, from Los Angeles Zagat, were the two food critics that attended this service. They entered the restaurant at the same time as the other customers. When the first ticket got called in the red kitchen, Corey was working on her first risotto and communicating with Christina, who said her first scallops were ready. Corey was determined to have a good service now that Jen was gone and that it was her time to shine and find her voice as a leader. The first appetizers that Corey and Christina sent to the pass were accepted and went to the critics’ table. Both critics enjoyed their appetizers. In the blue kitchen, Jen and Louross worked on their first appetizers, with Louross acknowledging that, because he messed up the previous challenge, if he would perform badly, he would be the one sent home. Jen sent her first risotto, but Louross was thirty seconds behind. Despite that, he managed to send his first scallops just in time and Ramsay deemed them beautiful. Ramsay also urged Louross to keep all of his scallops that way, makingLouross extremely proud of himself. The critics also enjoyed their appetizers from the blue kitchen.

45 minutes into service, more than half of the red customers received their appetizers. When the red team moved on to entrées, Matt was berated by Ramsay for having three tenderloin filets that were different sizes. During his outburst, Ramsay compared the three cuts to a family, with the daddy, the mommy and the baby. Matt acknowledged the tenderloin would shrink during cooking and that he was such an idiot because he knew better than that. Ramsay told Matt to wake up, and Matt told his team to wake up, especially himself. In the blue kitchen, they were eager to keep their good momentum, but Petrozza sliced a beef tenderloin three minutes ahead, despite Jen telling him not to do it. Ramsay schooled Petrozza for that mistake, and asked him if he would serve his cloth containing all the flavor from the meat, which Petrozza answered he would not. Petrozza responded that he could not contain himself from checking if the meat was cooked right, and acknowledged he should have never done it, but hoped it would not affect the team. Because of Petrozza’s mistake, Louross had to go faster on his order of salmon, needing one more minute, while Ramsay reminded Petrozza he was deserving to lose.

10 minutes later, all the customers have finished their appetizers and were waiting for their entrées. In the blue kitchen, because of Petrozza’s mistake, Louross went faster to cook his salmon, but Bobby told the team to stop panicking. Louross sent his salmon to the pass, along with Petrozza’s already sliced steak, and Ramsay accepted and served it. When Petrozza asked Ramsay to call back the next ticket, Ramsay called him an idiot while saying it was the next table. Louross tried to motivate Petrozza, while Jen was praised by Ramsay for her communication on her risotto. In the red kitchen, Corey took vocal control of her team, but when Christina sent her salmon to the pass, it was beautifully cooked on one side and overcooked on the other. She refired her order of salmon, but needed seven minutes. Corey said it was not that long cooking a salmon, and when Ramsay asked Christina if she could do two things at once, she said she was on an order of salmon and another of scallops. That led Ramsay to state that if she was not able to multitask, she should not be there. Then, he told her to shut up and asked her for a time on her salmon. Christina acknowledged her timing was wrong, but managed to redeem herself by sending an acceptable second attempt, with Ramsay calling her a fucking lazy cow and telling her that it was not her night. When Christina’s salmon arrived at the critics table, it received mixed reviews. In the blue kitchen, Louross sent his order of salmon to be tasted by the critics, who enjoyed it more than Christina’s.

More than two hours into service, the blue team served nearly all their entrées and impressed the critics. However, the red customers did not receive any of their entrées. Despite Corey’s leadership, Rosann was behind on garnish, and a minor fire erupted in one of her pans, causing her food to burn. Corey declared Rosann was not organized and that she was screwing up the rest of the team. Ramsay told Rosann she was not trustworthy during service, and then, Rosann declared she was short of gnocchi, which discouraged Ramsay. She apologized to him, but he was unresponsive, asking for the carrot purée. Everybody asked for the carrot purée, but Rosann declared it was not ready yet. That caused to be the breaking point of Ramsay, who started smashing his head several times against the glass wall. Meanwhile, the blue team rallied to get their final entrées out, with Bobby vocally leading, and Petrozza and Louross communicating on the Wellingtons and salmon. Petrozza brought his Wellingtons to the pass, and Ramsay said they were beautifully cooked and urged the team to keep the momentum up. Petrozza said they were remarkable and could be called “Super Blue”. In the red kitchen, Ramsay berated Matt for having raw beef that he could see from the hot plate. Matt became furious at himself, Christina asked him to bounce back, and Ramsay told him to get his beef back in the oven, which he did. When he sent it, Ramsay was discouraged as it was overcooked and looking like a pile of shit. Ramsay asked Matt to serve it, which Matt refused to, and then, he called the whole red team to ask them if they would serve it. After, Ramsay kicked the whole red team out of the kitchen, which embarrassed Matt who said it was the worst thing. Back in the dorms, Matt was crying, ashamed about his performance, and Corey was also crying because she was tired of looking like an idiot despite trying her best. Back in the kitchen, Ramsay sent the whole blue team over to the red kitchen so they would finish service for the red team. Jen was ecstatic about coming over to the red kitchen and save the day, calling the red team bitches in the process. The blue team successfully completed dinner service for the red team, sending the desserts out, and Ramsay told them to switch everything off.

Post-Mortem

When the teams were lined up, Ramsay said the blue team was much more better than the red team, which he called embarrassing. While reading the critics comment cards, Ramsay said the blue team’s food was well-arranged, and congratulated them for that. The red team’s food was sloppy, lacking passion and flavor. Therefore, Ramsay named them losers, and Corey was named “Best of the Worst” for her good performance on the appetizers. Then, Ramsay asked her to nominate two of her teammates for elimination.

During deliberation, Corey was annoyed because all her teammates were throwing everybody else under the bus, with Rosann commenting on Matt’s performance, Christina saying that Rosann fucked up more than she did, and Matt saying he, at least, did not give up. Corey even stated that if she could, she would put all three of them up for elimination.

Elimination

Corey named Matt as her first nominee because of his poor performance on meat, and Rosann as her second because of her desire to never want to work with her ever again during service. In the end, Ramsay also nominated Christina for her poor performance as well. All three of them were called down, and after listening to all of their pleas, Ramsay sent Rosann back in line, but eliminated her anyway a few moments later. After Rosann left, Ramsay warned Christina that she had to bounce back, and told Matt he was on borrowed time. Christina acknowledged she had to make a great comeback if she would like to stay as she thought her days were numbered, and Matt said that despite all the insults that Ramsay was giving him, he would never give up. While dismissing the chefs, Ramsay congratulated the blue team.

Ramsay’s comment: “If the size of one’s mouth corresponded to the size of one’s talent, then Rosann would have been a world-class master chef. Unfortunately, she just has a big mouth.”

My Opinion

The blue team was the better team than the red team at service. I think that Jen is getting too cocky for herself. Corey was the only good chef in the red team. Rosanna to go for me.

My comment: Rosanna has be die to go before tonight service but tonight she went.

The seventh episode of Season 4 of Hell’s Kitchen aired on Fox, on May 13, 2008. On that episode, the annual Blind Taste Test occurred, one chef made an unlikely comeback, and one of the early favorites was shown the door.

Intro

Back in the dorms, Matt threw a huge tantrum at Ben for hiding behind Bobby and declaring himself he was the best. He also added that he was not afraid of anyone, and that now that he was not on the blue team anymore, anything that could happen to them were not concerning him. Ben laughed at his outburst and even provoked him by saying the strong were staying with the strong, referring to Bobby. Matt left in the middle of the argument, calling Ben an asshole, and Ben said that the women were not having an inclining of what Matt was all about.

Jen guaranteed that Matt did not know what he was going to get himself into. In his bedroom, Matt tried to convince himself that he did not do anything wrong during the previous service and that he, at least, was not hiding behind anybody. Back on the patio, Corey questioned his desire to be on the red team. She also stated that it was not fair to get rid of one of their weakest cooks, referring to Shayna, and get him afterwards. She concluded by saying that Matt’s days with the red team are numbered, and that he would be the next one voted off.

Team Challenge

The next morning, the chefs lined up in the red kitchen, with Matt still having his blue jacket on. Ramsay asked Matt how it felt to be on the red team, but he did not know what to answer as he did not have any challenges or services yet with them. Then, Ramsay asked Ben if he was missing Matt, which he answered he was not at all, even saying the blue team was glad he was gone as they were tired of looking at his face.

After, Ramsay had the contestants taste some dishes he prepared, saying that morning’s test would be about taste. But, what he did not told to the chefs was that the dishes were missing the meat. His chicken parmesan was actually soy protein, the beef stew was actually a soy-based substitute, and the sausage ravioli was actually meatless ground. During the tasting, Ben claimed he had the best palate in the world, saying he tasted a lot of food in his days. When Petrozza tasted the beef stew, he came the closest to identify the non-existing meat, telling the texture was odd, and he really enjoyed the ravioli saying it was wonderful. After tasting the dishes, Ramsay revealed the truth, much to the amazement of the chefs, and recalled Petrozza almost identifying the wrong thing about the beef stew, but added it was not enough. Then, he introduced the annual Blind Taste Test and, before the challenge occurred, gave Matt a red jacket, saying he was looking terrible in blue.

Both teams were lined up in the dining room, and Ramsay made Jen sit out to even the teams at 4 members each. That news broke her heart as she always hated when she was put on the side when her team was doing something. Each chef had to taste three different foods and identify as most of them as possible. For the first round, Rosann and Petrozza went against each other. Corey declared she was not confident at all in Rosann because she never tasted food from around the world. On the first try, Rosann missed chicken, but Petrozza got it right. Then, Rosann got sweet potato and Petrozza missed it, tying the score. For the last food, Rosann redeemed herself by correctly identifying nectarine, and Petrozza missed it. After one round, the score was 2-1 for the red team, and Ben called Petrozza an idiot.

For the second round, Corey and Louross, being best friends, faced off. Both of them missed the first two ingredients, but Corey correctly identified turnips, while Louross missed it, giving the red team a 2 point lead. For the third round, Christina went against Bobby. Both of them missed shrimp, but Christina correctly identified radish despite second-guessing herself, while Bobby missed it. On the final ingredient, which was chopped truffles, Christina immediately recognized it and even asked for some more, while Bobby guessed mushroom. Jen could not believe that Bobby missed that last ingredient, saying truffles could be smelled miles away.

Before the final round, with the score being 5-1 for the red team, Ramsay recalled some great rivalries in the past, including “Yankees VS Red Sox”, which Matt inclined for the Yankees, and “Tyson VS Holyfield”, and then announced another great rivalry, Matt against Ben. Both of them stepped forward, but blindfolds on but not the headphones. For this final round, Ramsay announced he made a dish consisting of ten ingredients and that each of them would score a point if they would correctly guess one of them. After taking a bite each, Ben guessed lamb, which was accepted, and Matt guessed potatoes, which was accepted as well. For a third ingredient, Ben guessed cream and got it right, and Matt got thyme correct. With the score at 7-3 for the red team and six ingredients left, Ben guessed celery and scored, while Matt correctly guessed onion. With four ingredients left, everybody in the room was feeling nervous, Ben guessed fresh parsley, and after a nervous wait, Ramsay announced he scored one more point, reducing the red team’s lead at 8-5. For his final guess, Matt said he tasted carrots, and clinched the victory for the red team 9-5. After both of them took their blindfolds off, Ramsay revealed the dish was a basic clam chowder, and the red team celebrated by congratulating and hugging Matt. While celebrating, Matt said it was a great introduction to his new team, and reminded Ben he wanted him off the blue team, with Ramsay also congratulating him. On his side, Ben was jealous of Matt’s 15 minutes of fame and did not want to talk about him.

Reward

The red team was rewarded with a day of pampering, relaxation and spa treatments on the patio. Arrived there, they were greeted by two women offering them some champagne. Corey really enjoyed that reward saying it was time for her to finally let loose, relax and have a great day. When Matt announced his team he was getting a truffle mask, Jen jokingly told him to not eat it. Then, he jokingly said he was getting a metro sexual treatment, and Corey reminded he wanted to switch teams and that it was the perfect timing. When Matt reminded he helped the women win the challenge, Jen acknowledged he was happy to be on the red team. Finally, he told Jen that someone’s trash was somebody else’s treasure, referring to the blue team cleaning the dorms at that same time. Arrived on the patio, Ben saw Matt having a great time, but told he did not care because only getting rid of him was a reward of its own. While serving iced tea and Corey and Jen asking some extras in theirs, Ben told Matt how of an idiot he was looking like with his beauty mask and cucumbers on his face, only for Matt to tell him that despite that, it was feeling good. After Ben left, Matt declared to the red team he would love to see Ben be eliminated before he would, and was determined to kick ass during that night’s service.

Punishment

The blue team was punished by cleaning up the dorms, from returning the beds to washing the toilet bowls. During the punishment, Ben was furious as he was cleaning the stove despite not having cook anything on it since his arrival, Bobby was envious as he would have also enjoyed a little therapy session, and Petrozza noticed how Ramsay was not joking when he said the dorms needed to be cleaned. He found women’s hair in the bathroom, saying it was disgusting. Later, the phone rang and Ben picked it up. Sous Chef Scott dedicated him to serve iced tea to the red team, which he did. After he left the patio, Ben came back to the dorms and told Bobby he was mad the latter did not see what was happening.

Before Service

Later that day, both teams began prep for dinner service, with the blue team feeling confident. Petrozza declared he wanted to win service because if they would not and the red team would, they would look like assholes. On the red side, Matt was extremely happy to be in a new team as he saw it as a perfect opportunity of redemption. However, Corey was not feeling the same way and was more annoyed by his company, saying he would be the next to go. Matt concluded by saying he was seeing a capital V for the red team that night.

When both teams were lined up, Ramsay reminded the blue team to come back during that service as they performed poorly during the Blind Taste Test. He also reminded that service would go back to a fine-dining menu, without any special events. Then, everybody got on their station, and Ramsay asked Jean-Philippe to open Hell’s Kitchen.

Dinner Service

Before tickets came in, both teams were seen very confident, with Louross even pumping up his team himself. In the red kitchen, Matt guaranteed his female teammates they would win, and Ramsay told a confident Rosann to get on her station. When Ramsay called the first ticket in the blue kitchen, Ben did not responded and Ramsay lectured him on his laid-back behavior, saying he was more laid-back than an ironing board. After that, Ben responded and Ramsay thanked him for it, calling him “Chef Ben”. In the red kitchen, Rosann sent her first scallop appetizer to the pass, but they were boiled on one side and not cooked at all on the other. Ramsay felt disappointed and asked her to start over. She started to get frazzled, but Matt tried to comfort her and tell her she could do it, while Corey noticed Rosann was not prepared on her station and was worried she could turn the service into a disaster.

45 minutes into service, the red team served their appetizers to the customers. In the blue kitchen, Louross and Bobby were working on their first scallop appetizer, but while Bobby was ready with his scallops, Louross said he needed five minutes for the quail eggs to be ready. That infuriated Ramsay, who told Bobby he had to communicate and not going out for himself. Bobby talked back to Ramsay, telling Louross said it was coming from his part, and seeing that, Ramsay was disbelieved and told Louross to hurry up. In the red kitchen, they moved on to entrées, but when Jen told Rosann to not fire her order yet, Ramsay schooled her, saying she would not start to pull the team down. It was at that moment that Jen started to reveal her ugly side when she said that Ramsay liked vocal and loud people, and that she was trying to be a vocal leader, which she thought she was, but it was not good. After that, Ramsay came to Jen and made it clear that he was calling out the orders while she was cooking. After that, Christina knew that Jen would start to undo herself, and she asked her a time, Jen was completely unresponsive and clamed up, feeling angry at Ramsay about her incident with him. In the blue kitchen, Louross sent an impressive Caesar salad and received a compliment from Ramsay, who said every of his portions had to be like that one. Louross that compliment and a moment of pride to himself. In the red kitchen, Rosann sent raw langoustines, which infuriated Ramsay who schooled her on her mistake. Then, he pulled the whole team over to touch the langoustine, and when he did, he accused Jen of giving up. When she was about to talk back, Ramsay told he has had enough, and Jen was confused as she did not know what he wanted between being vocal or silent. After the team touched the langoustine, Ramsay angrily tossed it and it hit Matt. When Ramsay asked Matt if it hurt, he answered it did not, but Ramsay invited Matt to fucking sue him. Ramsay continued his outburst by schooling the team on their response, Rosann for her mistake, and told Jen to take her garnishes back.

In the blue kitchen, Ben sent undercooked chicken to the pass, so Ramsay schooled him about his mistake and told the team to start communicating. After Ben gave the excuse that he was not used to the brigade system, a disbelieved Ramsay schooled him on his laid-back behavior one more time, with Matt really enjoying what he was seeing from the red kitchen. After that, Christina asked Matt if he could bring her beef entrées to the pass, which he accepted. Ramsay complimented Christina, saying the beef was perfectly cooked. She felt good inside herself as she was getting more confident, but when she thanked Ramsay for it, he replied to not thank him as there were still 20 tickets to go before they could celebrate and pee their knickers. With that, the red customers were enjoying their entrées, while the blue diners were still waiting, with one female customer being embarrassed for the restaurant because she was eating a snack. Moments later, Ramsay schooled Petrozza about the disorganization of his station, stating there was a lot of crap on top of each other. Petrozza acknowledged he could have been more organized as the garnish station was a mess. Meanwhile, in the red kitchen, Ramsay made Matt taste his risotto, only to tell him it was perfect. Matt enjoyed his success, even attempting to convince Christina to taste it, before giving a speech to thank his family, friends and the Sous Chefs for making him the person he was at the moment.

Back in the blue kitchen, Ramsay asked Ben for a time on two Wellingtons to be ready, but Ben only answered that he had two Wellingtons. When Ramsay asked him one more time which of them was ready, Ben declared that none of them were ready, much to Ramsay’s dismay. So, Ben asked for six minutes, which made Ramsay confused, but told him once again that was the time he needed. When he was struggling, Ben started giving excuses and even blaming Ramsay himself. When he asked Petrozza where the meat supply was because he was three lamb short, Ramsay heard that and became furious. Ramsay asked him to come to the pass and make him realize the order came in an hour and a half ago, before learning they ran out of lamb. Ben tried to reassure Ramsay that he had it, but Ramsay was still upset, even calling him a “weirdo on Dr.Phil”. Seeing this from the red kitchen, Matt was amused and saw that as a revenge from Ben considering him as a scapegoat, and now that he was not there anymore, he got nobody to blame. While Ben restart on his Wellingtons, in the red kitchen, Rosann sent a raw salmon to the pass, which proved to be the final straw for Ramsay. He schooled Rosann on her mistake, and she acknowledged she had a poor performance and that she let herself down. When Ramsay asked Jen if she had her garnishes ready, she answered she did not, while not looking at him in the eyes. When she tried to talk back to him, he schooled her on her cocky attitude, which infuriated her, and after, Ramsay took the tray of the table and angrily threw it on the garnish station. Jen said she was tired of getting disrespected like that, and Ramsay schooled her for not being able to tell her anything as she was always clamming up after taking criticism. He finished by reminding Rosann of her poor performance and left the kitchen by the back store. Rosann became extremely emotional as she knew she let everybody down.

Two and a half hours into service, no food was leaving either kitchen, and customers started to feel angry. When a Wellington order was sent back for being undercooked, Ramsay has had enough and schooled Ben for his mistake, calling him a schmock and a jerk. Ben continued to give excuses, saying he had a lot of pride in what he was doing and that he would keep trying to get the food out. However, Ramsay threw another outburst at him, much to Matt’s pleasure who said that karma was biting in the ass, where he told Ben he was not taking the competition seriously and that he would end his misery by shutting down the kitchen. When Ben said he was determined to continue his station, Ramsay ordered him to shut it down and called him a dick.

Post-Mortem

When both teams were lined up, Ramsay told the chefs they were overconfident, lazy, slow, and somewhat pathetic. However, he praised Matt’s strong performance on appetizers, saying it was the best risotto that ever went out in Hell’s Kitchen. When Ramsay asked Matt why he waited so long to emerge, Matt declared it was because the women were listening and showing respect to him. After that, Ramsay declared the blue team losers, and asked each member of the team to come up with one name for elimination.

While being dismissed, Matt enjoyed his success saying he had his ass kicked since day one and that it was finally time for him to shine. Back in the dorms, Petrozza and Christina congratulated Matt for Ramsay’s great compliment to him. On the blue side, Ben acknowledged it was his worst performance yet, but tried to get strategic by convincing everybody he would nominate himself. Bobby told he would do that also, but Louross categorically refused to nominate himself.

In their bedroom, Ben tried to convince Bobby to nominate Louross because he did not man up to his actions, and later tried to convince Petrozza to do the same. However, Petrozza declared he could not nominate Louross and that he still had not made his decision. So, Bobby tried to make an agreement that both of them would nominate each other.

Elimination

When Ramsay asked the blue team if their decision was difficult, only Petrozza answered it was. First, Louross announced Ben as his nominee, and after a long relieving speech, Ramsay said Louross he said enough and that he just grown two more inches. Second, Ben nominated Louross, and after that, Bobby nominated Petrozza for lacking the heart of becoming a head chef in a fine-dining restaurant. Finally, after Petrozza said it was a tough decision, he shocked everybody by nominating himself. He declared he could not pick any of his teammates saying they busted their asses. Ramsay praised his outstanding level of maturity and said that he was the most gracious man on the blue team. In the end, Ramsay eliminated Ben for being the worst performer of the night, his laid-back behavior and not admitting his mistakes.

After Ben left, Ramsay told the chefs to forget the past and focus on what was waiting for them, and concluded by asking the red team for a volunteer to go to the blue team the next morning, as it was down two chefs. Matt immediately refused to volunteer, saying he would rather be called a woman all day than to go back in the blue team. While dismissing the chefs, Ramsay told Petrozza he was a gentleman, who said it was meaning a lot coming from him. Petrozza became very emotional and declared he already felt like a winner despite still having a long way to go.

Ramsay’s comment: “Ben left a manual labor job, shoveling ditches, to get back into cooking. But all he did in Hell’s Kitchen was dig himself into a hole. A hole too deep to get out of.”

My Opinion

I think both team were rubbish for tonight service. Matt prove that the blue team were not better without him gone. Jen turn into moody Jen. Ben to go in the blue team and Rosanna to go in the red team.

My comment: Ben shouldn’t have quit his day job too early.

The sixth episode of Season 4 of Hell’s Kitchen aired on Fox, on May 6, 2008. On that episode happened the very first Sweet 16 party in Hell’s Kitchen, Jean-Philippe encountered somebody he did not wish to see any longer, and one chef turned the birthday girl into a vegetarian.

Intro

While going back to the dorms, Christina congratulated Louross for having survived elimination, and Louross and Ben were holding each other, with Ben padding Louross on the shoulders. However, Louross said that Ben calling him the weakest link was high school crap. Corey was feeling stressed out because Christina was put on the chopping block one more time, and thought she would continue to be there. Shayna did not feel Christina was condescending, but Corey insisted that she was since day one. After Petrozza noticed that Christina got herself a glass of wine, she said she deserved it as she was put on the chopping block more than anybody else. Then, Christina declared she was a complete package in the way that she was looking great in high heels, she could read a book and she could cook. After, Corey confirmed that Christina would be on the chopping block again.

On the blue side, Ben and Bobby talked about how Matt was lazy, saying that he always focuses on the things he was doing right when there was a zillion other things he was not doing right. On the patio, Matt talked to Louross about how Ben thinks he was the best cook but was hiding behind Bobby, and that both of them would backstab Petrozza after getting rid of himself and Louross. Then, Matt declared he was tired to be on that team as he was tired of losing.

Team Challenge

The next morning, while Bobby acknowledged the morale of the blue team was a little low, the contestants drove over to the Farmers Market, where Ramsay explained the Sweet 16 Planning Challenge. Each team would have 25 minutes and $100 to shop for their ingredients, divided in one appetizer and two entrées. After, they would get back in Hell’s Kitchen and have 45 minutes to cook those dishes to be presented for the birthday girl. During the shopping part, Matt made a suggestion of a sushi pizza on a tortilla, but was denied by his team as they thought it would be disgusting. Bobby hoped that Matt would shut his mouth because if he was having those weird ideas at this point in the competition, something would not be right with his brain. On the red team, the women were having a clear idea about what they would like, with Rosann, who had a 16-year-old daughter at the time, understanding that girls, at this age, could be very picky and would not try something they do not recognize. On the blue team, they continued ignoring Matt’s suggestion, infuriating him, especially when he suggested to go to the little supermarket not far away a lot of times to his teammates. On the red team, Corey made one last suggestion of buying a pomegranate, which the team agreed. At the end, both teams finished their shopping in time, inside their budgets, and drove back to Hell’s Kitchen.

Back in Hell’s Kitchen, the 45 minute delay began and Ben took command of the blue team by dedicating tasks to his teammates. On the red team, it was Corey who took vocal command, and was not afraid to tell Shayna she had to go faster because her ass could be put on the chopping block. In the blue team, Ben told Matt how to properly slice an asparagus, but Matt totally lost confidence in what his team was making, and said he would no longer suggest anything as he was tired to waste his breath. With 10 minutes to go, both teams became vocal, and on the blue team, Matt was tired of everybody telling him what to do, and even considered quitting the competition. Everybody plated their dishes and placed them underneath the domes in time.

Before the judging, Ramsay asked both teams if they used the time wisely and if they thought about the plating also, which they answered they did. When he asked if anybody celebrated a Sweet 16 birthday party recently, Matt raised his hands, and when Ramsay asked him if he had any inputs on his team’s menu, he answered he did not. Ramsay was stunned, and his teammates were as well, wondering what he was talking about. After that, the teams lined up in the dining room, and Ramsay introduced Melissa, the birthday girl, and her mother. When he saw that, Petrozza started to be worried as it was not a professional’s opinion anymore. When Ramsay asked Melissa what she did not like, her mother said she had simple tastes. After that, Ramsay called the appetizers down, and Shayna described her team’s Tuscan shrimp scampi appetizer, and Bobby presented his team’s stuffed chicken wing appetizer. During the tasting, Melissa revealed she never tasted shrimp before, which shocked Rosann and Jen. Rosann declared she could not believe a California girl would not taste shrimp by the time they were 16-year-old. Melissa found the shrimps crunchy, disappointing Rosann. After tasting both dishes, Melissa gave a point to the blue team’s chicken wings, giving them the lead 1-0. For the first round of entrées, Jen served a Caribbean halibut with a mango and avocado salsa, and Ben presented a sweet potato mash with sautéed asparagus and shrimps. After tasting both dishes, where the mother said the fish was dry and the rice undercooked for the women and Melissa saying she did not like asparagus at all for the men, Melissa gave a point to the red team, tying the score at 1 each. The tiebreaker round of entrées featured Petrozza against Corey. For the red team, Corey served a grilled steak with homemade French fries and pomegranate sauce, and for the blue team, Petrozza served a “Sassy Surf n Turf”, which was a grilled filet mignon. After tasting both dishes and after a very tense deliberation, Melissa finally chose the blue team’s entrée, giving them the challenge win 2-1. While the men were celebrating by hugging and giving high-fives to each other, Jen remarked that Melissa would go for the red team but her mom negatively influenced her decision, which the rest of the red team agreed. Jen stated her mother was so annoying as she never let her daughter answer by herself.

Reward

Ramsay did not announce the reward straight away, only saying the blue team would feel like teenagers again, and asked them to get changed. Arrived at Malibu Speed Zone for a go-kart activity, all the men were enjoying their race, with Petrozza saying he took some good bumps, and in the end, Bobby won the race. Later, they went to Kerry Simon’s restaurant to taste some homemade candies, with a fine-dining touch on them. Matt and Louross really enjoyed that moment as it was special.

Punishment

The red team was punished by decorating the dining room ahead of the Sweet 16 party, along with Francisco the Party Planner and Melissa’s mother. When Francisco entered the room, Jen noted his bright orange suit and knew he would get under her skin at one point. When he started giving instructions, Christina started mimicking him, and everybody else was laughing at his bizarre metaphors. Christina was already disliking him. Later, Melissa’s mother arrived and said she was not liking what they already made, making comments about everything, going from the plates to the napkins. Jen called her the Wicked Witch of the West Coast, and Shayna made a suggestion on how to fold the napkins, which annoyed Corey, who said she was acting as the Party Planner’s assistant and that she should go back to party planning. The mother agreed on Shayna’s suggestion, but Corey said it looked stupid.

Before Service

When the blue team came back from their reward, Louross and Corey started flirting with each other, with both of them saying they loved the other. When Corey stripped to jump in the hot tub, Louross followed her, and she thought he was attracted to him, and that it was just what she wanted as she would do anything to win the competition. However, no romance was building up as Louross was not interested and Corey said she was much more taller than him, and that she already had a boyfriend.

The next morning, both teams got in their respective kitchens, ready to prep. On the menu, there was the three challenge-winning dishes, including the stuffed chicken wings and beef tenderloin from the blue team, and the halibut with mango salsa from the red team. In the blue kitchen, Ben deemed the mango salsa to be elementary and easy to do, and declared he was doing this when he was 17-years-old. Shayna came in the blue kitchen to tell Ben how to properly cook the salsa, but both of them got more on each other’s nerves than anything else. Ben started mimicking her, and Shayna called him a “fucker”. When she came back in the red kitchen to prep her own salsa, Shayna took all her time to do it, annoying Corey, who said it takes 5 minutes to make a salsa, and Jen, who said they have much more things to do.

A few minutes before the doors would open, Ramsay made both teams lining up, and reminded the contestants that even though they were hosting a Sweet 16 birthday party, the standards were the same. He also reminded that Melissa would turn 16 only once. After that, Ramsay asked Jean-Philippe to let the teenagers in.

Dinner Service

After Jean-Philippe opened the doors, guests started to come in, taking pictures, and Jean-Philippe joked with Francisco about his non-matching blue sky outfit and being “sparklelicious”. Melissa’s mother commented on how her daughter was on fire and that she was loving it, gifts were handed and the first orders were taken. In the blue kitchen, the men were confident, with Bobby and Louross giving each other a triple low-five, and in the red kitchen, the women, especially Corey, were worried about Shayna. Meanwhile, Francisco announced the birthday girl, and Melissa came down the stairs, wearing a shiny red dress. Everybody in the room applauded, with Ramsay jokingly saying to not trip down the stairs, and saying to Melissa that she was looking great.

The first order came in the red kitchen, and Ramsay declared it was Melissa’s table. Christina sent her first risotto to the pass, but the mushrooms were missing. Ramsay asked her to put the pan on the stove and add more mushrooms in it. In the blue kitchen, the first chickens wings sent to the pass were dry and missing the sauce. Ben scrambled to look for the sauce, while Bobby wanted to take charge, saying he did not want to lose another service, even if he had to cook all the food by himself. Ben brought the sauce, and the chicken wings were sent to the customers, who were satisfied. When he saw that, Ben had a little celebration with Louross. In the red kitchen, Christina’s second attempt at Melissa’s risotto had a lot of mushrooms, but was missing the parmesan and chives. Although Christina said it was really frustrating, she managed to bounce back, and her second attempt was accepted. In the dining room, Melissa was satisfied with her risotto.

45 minutes into service, almost every customer received their appetizers. When the red team moved on to entrées, Rosann, who recalled her own daughter being 16 in a couple of years, wanted to give Melissa the best birthday party as possible, and sent Melissa’s order of beef, which was accepted. In the blue kitchen, everybody was ready to send the mother’s entrée to the pass, but Matt said the fish was still in the oven. That infuriated Bobby, who said to Matt that he had to be quicker. Ramsay told Matt to speed up, and Ben asked Matt for a time, leading Petrozza to say that Matt was hanging by a thread. Finally, Matt sent the halibut for the mother, which was accepted. However, on another hand, Melissa stopped eating because her beef was not cooked right. She asked for a refire, but when Jean-Philippe told Ramsay that it was Melissa’s dish herself, he became disappointed and asked Rosann to refire another one quickly by putting it in the oven. Rosann declared she was feeling terrible because of that mistake, but when the mother’s fish came back, Ramsay was furious and schooled Matt for it. Hearing Ramsay in the dining room, Francisco told everybody to keep on having fun and said to Melissa that she was looking gorgeous. Matt acknowledged that because it was one of the hosts’ food it was embarrassing, but said that even if it was not one of the hosts, it would still be embarrassing. After that, Ramsay told Matt to wake up, which he answered he was. When Ramsay came back in the red kitchen, he asked if Melissa’s beef was on, and Rosann answered it was not, which discouraged him, at the point that he pushed her aside and cooked the beef himself. Rosann was embarrassed of messing up like that, and Melissa, because of Ramsay himself, finally received her properly cooked steak, which satisfied her. In the blue kitchen, Matt’s second attempt at the mother’s fish was raw, which infuriated Bobby, to the point that he pushed Matt from his station, acknowledging it was going down in flames, and cooked the halibut himself, which infuriated Matt, who kept trying to come back without success, saying Bobby was a control freak. Finally, Bobby sent the mother’s halibut to the pass, and it was accepted by Ramsay, who gave his apologies while sending the order.

Back in the red kitchen, Ramsay asked for Shayna’s garnishes, which she answered it was coming. Ramsay told her how slow she was, and Corey said she was slow during prep and during service. Sous Chef Gloria told Shayna she had three orders of beef to cover, and Ramsay told Shayna that he was not slowing down for her. In the blue kitchen, Bobby took Matt’s station over, much to Ramsay dismay, who told Matt there was a difference between teamwork and running the section. He schooled Matt and told him to lead his station by himself. Matt became furious and threw Bobby under the bus.

More than an hour and a half into service, entrées were coming out of both kitchens, and Melissa and some of her guests were enjoying the chocolate fountain in the middle of the dining room. When Jean-Philippe noticed that Francisco was also enjoying that fountain, he pulled him to the side, asked him to focus on his job and stop doing it, otherwise he would be kicked out of the restaurant. When Jean-Philippe left, Francisco came back to the fountain to eat one more piece of banana secretly.

Two hours into service, both teams were sending out desserts. While they were eager to finish their tickets, in the blue kitchen, there was a power struggle as the team was constantly telling to Matt how to properly plate his desserts. Despite that, both teams finished their tickets, celebrated, and when Melissa and her mom came to the hot plate, Ramsay announced Melissa there was another surprise waiting for her outside. Jean-Philippe led her outside and introduced The Pink Spiders, Melissa’s favorite band, where they performed “Seventeen Candles”.

Post-Mortem

When both teams were lined up, Ramsay announced he would refer to the customer comment cards, written by all the 16-year-old girls in the dining room that night, to decide the winning team. The blue team got a 98% come back rating from the customers, which they were really proud about, and the red team got a 99% come back rating. The red team celebrated but Ramsay announced he could not pick a losing on a difference of 1%, and named both teams joint-winners. Matt thanked him for his generosity, but Ramsay brought him down to earth hilariously, and asked for one nominee from each team for elimination.

While being dismissed, Matt already gave up, knowing he would be the one chosen from his team, and was already packing his bags. While he was going back to his room to pack his bags, the blue team mocked him and laughed at him, with Bobby saying his face seemed like he was crapping his pants while standing there. So, because of that, the blue team quickly agreed on Matt. In the red team, Shayna, because she was too slow, and Rosann, for being the worst performer, were considered.

Elimination

Ben announced Matt as the blue team’s nominee, a decision which Ramsay agreed immediately considering he served overcooked fish to the birthday girl’s mother. Ramsay also stated that something worse than that would be serving undercooked meat to the birthday girl herself, directly referring to Rosann, expecting she would be nominated, but Christina announced that Shayna was the red team’s nominee. After Ramsay asked Christina who she would nominate personally, she answered Rosann, which Ramsay said it was making sense. Ramsay called Matt, Shayna, and Rosann down, and when Matt pleaded his case, he angrily threw Ben, for hiding behind Bobby, and Bobby, for taking his station over during service, under the bus, but Ramsay recalled his own stature, saying that he was weighing 250 pounds and that Louross’ balls were bigger than his. After that, Matt requested to be transferred to the red team as he did not have a voice in the blue kitchen any longer, saying he had no shame of working with women in a kitchen. After hearing that, Ramsay sent him back in line, and eliminated Shayna for being too slow, but praised her big heart and being a solid cook.

Team Switch

After Shayna left, Ramsay told Rosann she turned a 16-year-old girl into a vegetarian, sent her back in line, before announcing that for the next service, they would go back to fine-dining. Ramsay concluded by accepting Matt’s request and transferring him to the red team, much to their dismay and the blue team’s relief.

Ramsay’s comment: “Shayna has a big heart, but at times I felt her heart wasn’t here, it was back home, with her new born baby. She made far too many simple mistakes, and that’s why she’s going back to something she’s good at: changing diapers.”

My Opinion

Both team were rubbish at tonight service with both team mess up on an important night. With the red team mess up the mam dinner and the blue team mess up the daughter dinner. I agree with the blue team nominee but not the red team. I thought that Rosann was going to go.

My comment: Shayna was too slow at service so I hurry her up to leave hell kitchen.

The fifth episode of Season 4 of Hell’s Kitchen aired on Fox, on April 29, 2008. On that episode happened the very first pizza delivery, an emotional withdrawal and an unusual strategy to get the food out.

Intro

Back in the dorms, Ben was still in shock about his nomination, everybody wondering what he fucked up during the previous service, and him saying that he did not fuck up anything, and despite that, Ramsay nominated him. He added Ramsay never gave an explanation on his nomination. After that, Bobby asked Vanessa if she was all right and what was going on, which she answered she had to see a plastic surgeon, worried that it might take her chances of winning the competition away.

After that, Ben and Bobby went to bed, and Ben told Bobby that the competition was harder than boot camp. Then, Petrozza came in the bedroom and offered some cookies.

The next morning, all the chefs were getting ready for the next challenge, but Vanessa, because of her injury, could not do anything on her own, frustrating her. So, Shayna helped her combing her hair, understanding her frustration as she did not want to let the team down. Vanessa said she was feeling like a jackass.

Team Challenge

When both teams were lined up in the dining room, Ramsay asked Vanessa how she was feeling about her burn, which she answered she was fine. Then, he asked Louross what was on his mind that morning, which he answered it was game time. After that, he told the contestants that a great chef could turn something simple to something extraordinary, and introduced his white truffle pizza to them, stating it was costing $200 in his restaurant Maze, in London. Shayna was flabbergasted by that news, saying she did not even have a $200 pair of shoes. Following this, he introduced the Fine Dining Pizza Challenge, where each contestant had 45 minutes to create a stunning fine-dining pizza.

Jen was excited about that challenge as it was the perfect opportunity to be creative. Everybody was talking a look at all the available ingredients, which Bobby described as a “sea of… merchins”, saying it with a lot of difficulty. On the red team, communication was not an issue as everybody were answering everybody’s questions. Vanessa declared that as long as she was in the kitchen, she would try to do something, while Corey was writing down what she wanted to do, and Christina was really excited to create something of her own. On the blue team, Matt was asking questions to his team, but nobody answered as they were focused on their own things, which infuriated him declaring that was the reason why the team was not winning. Petrozza has had enough and told Matt to shut the fuck up and focus on his thing. After that, each chef focused on their own pizzas and cooked it in time. When they were finished, they had 15 minutes to decide which pizza from each team would be judged by Ramsay. So, everybody tasted everybody’s pizza, and on the red team, the women quickly agreed with Jen’s pizza, disappointing Vanessa who became emotional. With their decision made, they worked fast to perfect Jen’s pizza. On the blue team, Matt’s pizza was tasted by Ben and Bobby, and Ben described it as different, but not more, worried he would upset Matt. But, Matt was upset anyway, became furious, stating that his pizza was phenomenal. Then, the men tasted Bobby’s pizza, Louross’, and Ben’s, with finally making their choice on the latter. When they made their decision, Petrozza was upset as he was still putting his pizza together and nobody got the chance to taste it. With 10 seconds left, both teams rallied to place their chosen pizza under the domes.

For the judging, Jen and Bobby brought their respective domes to Ramsay. Jen described her pizza as a little bit of Italy and a little bit of France, with a herb crust, some sliced prosciutto, sundry tomatoes and basil. Ben described his pizza which was made with duck confit, chanterelle mushrooms, caramelized onion, and cream sauce to go on the bottom. During the judging, Christina said she was very nervous and that her hands were sweating. After the contestants waited very nervously for Ramsay’s decision, Ramsay asked to the blue team who washed the mushrooms, which Ben answered he did. Ramsay told him they were not washed properly as he still had some grit down the throat. That infuriated Matt who questioned Ben’s cooking abilities, and after that, Ramsay declared the red team winners, saying that despite Ben’s pizza had a great taste, it was spoiled by the dirt on the mushrooms. When Ben apologized for letting Ramsay down, Ramsay reminded he let his team down instead.

Reward

The red team was rewarded with a lunch at the restaurant Square One, home to the $90 burger, in Santa Barbara, with Ramsay, and were transported there by a helicopter. Rosann was very excited as it was one of her dreams to ride in a helicopter. Also, Jen’s pizza would be on the menu for that night’s service, making her very proud. Shayna was excited about the helicopter ride and could not wait to see the Pacific coast, while Vanessa told the view was amazing. Arrived at the restaurant, Ramsay and the red team made a toast to Jen’s pizza, and ate the restaurant’s signature slider, which Jen really enjoyed. Christina declared the best part of the reward was getting out and having lunch with Ramsay. When they came back from their reward during the night, Rosann almost slipped in the stairs, being a little inebriated, and hold on to Shayna when she was about to.

Punishment

The blue team was forced to prep all the pizzas for the next dinner service. When they learned their punishment, Petrozza put his hand on Louross’ shoulder, but Louross aggressively pushed him back, telling he was pissed. In the kitchen, Ramsay gave a little pep talk to the team, saying even if they do not appreciate each other, they have to bond as a team, and that the difference would be surprising. While he was speaking, Louross put a white towel on his head and walked around, being very emotional. Ramsay asked him what was the matter, but he answered he was fine. Ben said they did not need a whiny ass little punk bitch walking around, referring to Louross. After Ramsay left, Matt declared he wanted to win the next service and wanted to taste the red team’s blood. After that, he tried to communicate with his team, wanting to succeed, but they were very little responsive, which infuriated him saying they would lose again and that they had to enjoy it. Petrozza stated that even though Matt was a nice guy and meant well, he was driving him nuts. During the punishment, Louross and Ben got into an argument, where Ben called Louross a bitch, and both of them told the other one they were breaking down. For lunch, they were served a simple plain burger, without condiments.

Vanessa’s Exit

The next morning, both teams were finishing prep in their respective kitchens, but Vanessa was struggling because of her injury. So, because she was feeling useless, she decided to go to Ramsay’s office and talk about the situation with him. She told him her injury was painful, and that the fact she was not able to work in the kitchen the way she was used to was killing her. Ramsay reminded her that she still had every chance to win the competition as they allowed burns in the pass. This led him to give her the choice of whether to stay in the competition or leave, and after some deliberation, where she said she was not a quitter or weak, she decided to withdraw from the competition, saying she did not want to be there if she was not able to be at 100%. Ramsay said it was a shame, but respected her decision, before asking her to pack her stuff and leave Hell’s Kitchen, and finishing by wishing her good luck. Back in the kitchen, Vanessa announced her departure to her teammates and hugged them, before getting to the dorms, packing her stuff, and leaving by the front door with her bags. During that process, Shayna questioned her decision, thinking she was a little tougher than that.

Ramsay’s and my comment: “It’s unfortunate that Vanessa’s burn took her out of the competition. We’ll never, ever know if she really had what it takes to win Hell’s Kitchen.”

Before Service

After Vanessa’s departure, the Sous Chefs brought all the contestants outside, where Ramsay announced that for the first time ever, Hell’s Kitchen would be offering pizza delivery. Then, a plane came across the sky announcing a banner saying “Pizza delivery tonight!”. Jen was honored as it was her pizza that would be delivered, saying it was huge. Ramsay also announced that because the blue team lost the challenge, they would be in charge of the deliveries, inside the Hell’s Kitchen three-wheeled delivery cart, which was driven by Jean-Philippe. He bumped into a step, almost losing balance in the process, which made everybody laugh in disbelief. Then, he parked the cart, got out, and thanked Ramsay when the latter said it was fantastic. After that, Ramsay ordered the chefs to get back in the kitchen as they were having a busy night ahead.

In the red kitchen, the loss of Vanessa made the team more bonded, at the point where Corey was glad she was gone as the team was getting stronger. But, in the blue kitchen, the men were still divided, making Louross ask God for a miracle. After that, Ramsay asked Jean-Philippe to open Hell’s Kitchen.

Dinner Service

Before the first ticket got called out in the red kitchen, Corey motivated her team saying they had to say “Yes Chef” when he would be calling it out. When Ramsay called the first ticket, the red team did exactly what Corey told to do. Jen was determined to get a good service being on the hot appetizers, and her first attempt at the risotto was successful, sending it out in a record time. After that, the first calls for pizza deliveries were taken in by the Sous Chefs, and Ramsay dedicated Ben to do them. Meanwhile, Matt was ready with his first entrée of scallops and quail eggs, but they were rubbery, and Ramsay compared them to Pamela Anderson’s breast implants. Ramsay made Matt eat his eggs, which he enjoyed as he liked quail eggs, and asked him to start over. On his second attempt at the eggs, Matt broke the yolk, and Bobby, annoyed by this mistake, decided to take over the cooking of the eggs, acknowledging it was his time to become a leader. When he asked for the eggs, Louross said they should give him the eggs, and Petrozza gave him the tray. With Bobby taking control of the quail eggs, the blue team sent two tables of appetizers, and the red team sent four, in 20 minutes.

When the red team moved on to entrées, Shayna sent her first beefs and Wellingtons to the pass, but they came out raw. Ramsay schooled her on that mistake, she slapped herself in the face, and was asked to communicate with Corey, on the fish station. After Ramsay asked the red team to start the table again, Corey asked a question to him, but he told her she should ask it to Shayna and that she should work with her. In the blue kitchen, Ben put a new hat and apron on, beginning his pizza deliveries. He went to the three-wheeled delivery cart, started driving it, but could not find his way as he never went to Los Angeles before in his life. When he arrived, he had trouble parking the cart, but successfully found the correct addresses finally. Back in Hell’s Kitchen, Shayna succeeded on her second attempt at the Wellingtons, but Rosann sent runny mashed potatoes, which infuriated Ramsay. He told her to wake up, and started mimicking her actions by taping on the pan with the spoon, and when she got confused, he pushed her away by doing her job himself, but her other attempt at the mashed potatoes was not salty enough. So, Ramsay sent the entrées without the garnish, and when Rosann was ready to bring her other attempt at the potatoes and carrots, he told her to fuck off as the entrées were already gone. Ramsay became disappointed, got in the back of the red kitchen in disbelief, and told Rosann it was not good enough.

An hour and a half into service, nearly all the customers received their appetizers, but Rosann’s problems on garnish was stalling the red kitchen. This led Ramsay to ask Jen if she could take Rosann’s station over, which she did. Because of Jen, the red kitchen was finally sending out entrées. In the blue kitchen, Louross’ steaks were undercooked, and Ramsay asked him to get them back in the pan. When Ramsay asked Louross if he could cook a steak, and Louross answering he could, Ramsay asked him why he was not doing it then. When he brought his second attempt, Sous Chef Scott told him they were overcooked, and schooled Louross, telling him he fucked it up and tried to get it passed him. So, Louross was looking for some beautifully cooked steaks, along with Petrozza. When he could not find any, Petrozza got an idea and brought back the steaks that were deemed overcooked, and secretly sliced off the burnt sides of the steaks, not convincing Louross it would work. But, when Petrozza sent the steaks to the pass, Sous Chef Scott accepted them, saying it was much better, and impressing Louross, who said it was the “ghettoest” thing it could ever happen in a kitchen. After that, Louross was feeling relieved.

Two hours into service, more than three quarters of the diners have received their entrées. When the red kitchen got ready to move on to desserts, Christina was struggling on that station as she burnt four soufflés, and told she was 20 minutes behind. When she acknowledged Jen was supposed to be with her on desserts and was asking for help, Jen told she was having a meltdown on desserts, but that she was nobody’s mother and that she should show some initiative. When he saw Christina struggling on desserts, Ramsay asked Corey to help her, which she reluctantly did, saying she should spoil herself and that she did not want to help her. With Corey’s help, desserts finally came out, and in the blue kitchen, Bobby led the dessert station, where he was helped by Ben and Petrozza, and desserts came out of the blue kitchen as well. After that, both teams were sending their last ticket out, and when they did, Ramsay made both teams lining up in the red kitchen, and congratulated them on finally completing a service.

Post-Mortem

After customers left the restaurant and both teams were lined up, Ramsay told the service was not brilliant, but they managed to complete it. Then, he said that one chef was a big surprise, and revealed it was Louross, and added he was surprising because his performance was crap, deplorable, uninteresting, and shocking. He concluded by saying to Louross it was a disappointment because before that service, he was good. After that, Ramsay said to Rosann that on the last few tables, he had to send the entrées separately from the vegetables as he did not want the tables to wait any longer. Before dismissing the contestants, Ramsay announced both teams winners, and asked them to nominate one person each for elimination.

While going upstairs, Matt knew he was safe that night. Back in the dorms, Bobby said he already had his idea, which was Matt because of his personality, but while discussing with Ben and Petrozza, Ben also considered Louross for being the worst performer. On the red side, they quickly agreed on Rosann based on that service, but Rosann said she did not want to go home. When Matt joined a conversation between his teammates, he declared he would nominate Louross, which was not there, and Ben told if it was not Louross, it would be Matt, who immediately disagreed. Then, Louross came over and admitted he fucked up and disappointed everybody, including himself. On the red side, Jen and Rosann plotted to get Christina out because of her annoyance, and they quickly convinced Corey and Shayna with that decision. When she learned that news, Christina became angry as she was victim of a backstab, and acknowledged that herself was the only person she could trust anymore.

Elimination

Ben announced Louross as the blue team’s nominee because of his lack of culinary skills, and Christina announced that herself was the red team’s nominee. When he learned that, Ramsay could not believe it, and asked Jen for an explanation. Jen explained that Christina was talking the talk, but that she could not run a brigade properly. Ramsay responded he was not believing that explanation, and asked Jen if she was threatened by Christina’s intelligence. Jen answered she was not, and added that she was deciding her fate in Hell’s Kitchen, which Ramsay immediately responded that it was his job. After that, Ramsay asked Rosann if she felt she was a better cook than Christina, which she answered that she did, but Ramsay reminded her that she completely screwed her team during that service.

Then, Christina and Louross stepped forward, and when Ramsay asked Louross who was the weakest chef on the blue team, he answered Matt, who became confused. When Ramsay asked the same question to Christina, she answered that Rosann was. After listening their pleas, Ramsay announced that the only person who would leave Hell’s Kitchen that night was Vanessa, who already left. Ramsay announced that as a gift to both teams for completing dinner service. He also added that they should not take that for granted as he was expecting a complete service every single night. While dismissing the chefs, Ramsay reminded that the competition would get tougher. Louross said that because he was a small Filipino man, he would get criticized and underestimated not matter what, while Christina acknowledged that not everybody was out for the team, and that those people would be taken out soon. Finally, Vanessa received the coat hanging and burning picture sequence.

My Opinion

I agree with the service was good but could be better. I agree with the blue team nominee but not with the red team. I agree with Ramsay that none should have went.

The fourth episode of Season 4 of Hell’s Kitchen aired on Fox, on April 22, 2008. On that episode happened the very first Family Night service, a serious injury, and a meltdown by one contestant, leading to a hilarious elimination.

Intro

While dismissing the contestants, Ramsay told he would love to say good night, but could not as it was a shit night. Then, he called Ben’s name, and called him a punk and useless. On her way back to the dorms, Vanessa was still ashamed and feeling the failure, being very emotional, and was comforted by her team. She declared she cannot fail again as that was all she knew what to do. On the blue side, Bobby acknowledged Hell’s Kitchen was a dirty game, and Ben mocked Ramsay’s insult of punk, but he also thought that Ramsay might be testing him and that he would like to see his commitment. Louross said he was now digging into the personal level.

Kitchen Cleaning

A few moments later, Ramsay was talking in the microphone, asking everybody to get downstairs, in their kitchen, to clean them. In the red kitchen, everybody was doing their part, except Corey, who complained that she was too tired at the moment and did not do very much. After a few minutes of hanging around, she went back to the dorms and laid on her bed, which annoyed her teammates. Shayna stated this action was lazy, and Christina said that if she was that tired, she should maybe go home.

Team Challenge

The next morning, both teams got lined up in the dining room in front of Ramsay, who asked Corey how she was feeling that morning. She said that she was ready to lead her team and step up to the plate, but that statement made all her teammates laugh. When Ramsay asked the red team who was their strongest chef, Jen and Corey raised their hands, but the rest of the team agreed on Jen. When Ramsay asked why not Corey, she said it was because they did not like her, but Shayna recalled what she did during the kitchen cleaning the previous night. What Corey understood about this is that her teammates were threatened and intimidated by her, because they were trying to bring her down. When Ramsay asked the blue team who was their strongest chef, Bobby immediately nominated Ben in that position, which Louross agreed, followed by the rest of the team. That statement motivated Ben, who said he wanted to be strong, go for it, and see how far he would get.

After that, Ramsay said that the first three services were a disaster, and told he was changing everything by organizing the very first Family Night special in Hell’s Kitchen. He ordered both teams in the blue kitchen, and introduced the Pasta Making Challenge. During his demonstration on how to properly make pasta, Ramsay used Bobby’s arms to hang the pasta. After that, each team got 20 minutes to make the most acceptable pasta as possible. On the red side, Jen acknowledged that the men were stronger physically, but that did not stop her to be very determined to win the challenge. On the blue side, it was Petrozza who was as determined, who said he would get his teammates pumped up. At one point, Matt was not doing anything, except from standing still, with his arms spread, waiting for the pasta, which annoyed Ben, who said he did not man up. Ramsay told Matt that he might want to rest his arms, which he did, and he continued to verbally motivate his team. After a few minutes, Jen started to put some pasta on Shayna’s arms, and on the blue side, Ben did the same thing on Matt. Near the end, Craig was holding the pasta to go in the machine, but he was doing it wrong, and Louross told him how to do it properly. However, Bobby, who acknowledged Craig was holding the team back during every challenge, pushed him to the side and rolled the pasta himself. This annoyed Craig who told everybody would like to make themselves look good and make other people look like shit, but he stood there, not helping, and Ramsay called him a “lazy little fucker” and told him to move. On the red side, Corey thought that Jen’s way of becoming a leader was not correct. With very few seconds left, Petrozza almost broke his arm rolling the pasta, with Jen and Bobby having the same motivation. When time was up, Matt and Shayna’s arms were fully covered in pasta.

Before the judging, Ramsay congratulated both teams for the effort, declaring he saw more energy during that challenge than the first three services combined. Then, he asked why Corey and Jen were holding Shayna’s hands, and Jen said it was because her arms were tired. After that, he pulled some pasta off Matt’s arm, checked it, and placed it on the balance. The men were at 1.39 lbs of acceptable pasta, which worried Louross. After taking some pasta off Shayna’s arm and weighing it, the women’s total was at 2.66 lbs so far. They started celebrating, but Jen noticed Matt’s arm which still had a lot of pasta on it. Ramsay took the remaining pasta from Matt’s arm off, and after a quick check, the men finished with a score of 5.49 lbs of acceptable pasta. They were looking very nervous, and Ramsay took some pasta off Shayna’s arm. After the women’s total elevated at 4.82 lbs, Ramsay took the remaining pasta from the women, weighed it, and the women’s final total was 6.57 lbs, therefore clinching their win. The women celebrated by hugging each other.

Ben’s spit cups

Before the women left for their reward, Christina became mad at Ben because he was chewing tobacco and leaving his spit cups all over the kitchen. When Ben got up to get it, Rosann schooled him on the fact that he was leaving his dishes in the sink without washing them, and both of them got into an argument, where Rosann said she would throw in the garbage anything she would find laying on the counter, and Ben started mimicking her. They finished their argument with Rosann saying she was watching Ben.

Reward

The red team was rewarded with a day at an amusement park, in Santa Monica Beach, and they were transported there in Hummer limousines. Before leaving, Ramsay praised Jen’s efforts, and she said that the win was making her feel great as she led her team to victory. After Rosann and Ben’s argument, the women were getting ready for going out, with Corey saying that even though her team was talking behind her back, she would still manage to have a good time, enjoying being in California. When they got outside, Vanessa was excited to drive in a Hummer limousine as she never did before, even in a regular limousine. Arrived there, Christina declared it would have been fun to throw Corey off the Ferris wheel, but just to be out and see the outside world was good enough.

Punishment

The men had to prep all the new menu items, all day long, for both kitchens. That loss infuriated Petrozza, saying that challenge was all about muscles and strength, and that he could not believe that his team lost. Back in the dorms, Louross was pointing fingers at Craig for not being a team player, while Craig spent some alone time, away from his team. After Ben and Rosann’s argument, Petrozza picked up the phone, and led his team to prep. After some time of prep, Petrozza became exhausted, saying that his team needed a day of rest. Also, the men joked that they hope the women’s roller coaster would shut down and crash. Later, when Sous Chef Scott asked for a volunteer, Ben proposed himself, and went outside to see the children’s playground for that night’s service. Then, he was tasked to clean the animals’ shit in the pen, which let him question his position as the best chef on his team.

Before Service

When the women arrived from their reward, they saw Ben cleaning the animals’ pen, embarrassing him. With an hour left before service, the women got changed and prepped the remaining items from their kitchen. Outside, children were already having fun in the playground. During prep, Christina declared her team had to work hard to prep a menu they learned half an hour before, and after, she almost burned herself lifting a hot tray with her bare hand. Jen was trying to motivate her team, saying that if they could not do a menu consisting of burgers, pasta and onion rings, they could not do anything. In the men’s kitchen, everybody was trying to rally behind Craig, who was deemed the weakest link at that point, but he gave all of them attitude saying pasta was easy to cook and that they should shut the fuck up.

When the teams were lined up, Ramsay motivated them saying that he was not asking for a perfect service, he was demanding it. He also added that the first team who would complete its tickets first would win the service. After that, he told Jean-Philippe that because it was Family Night, he had to take his tie off, open up his shirt and relax a little bit. Jean-Philippe was reluctant to do so, saying he was feeling more comfortable in his traditional suit. When he almost missed the step on his way down, Ramsay told him to walk straight and called him a doughnut.

Dinner Service

When the first ticket was called out in the red kitchen, Vanessa was determined to have a good service, saying that she does not have to fail again after her disastrous performance during the previous service. So, she quickly took vocal control of the red kitchen. In the blue kitchen, Ben and Matt gave each other a high-five, motivating each other, as Ben was also determined to lead the men to victory. The first chowder Vanessa sent to the pass was deemed beautiful by Ramsay, who told that they had the momentum and that they must not lose it. Ramsay told the men that the women sent their first ticket, and after that, Louross communicated with Matt over the chicken wings. Then, Ramsay told Matt to not serve raw chicken. Ben brought his first onion rings to the pass, but they were not crispy enough, so Ramsay told him to start again. When Ben was caught staring at Ramsay, the latter told him to get to work, and he finally delivered acceptable onion rings.

45 minutes into service, the blue customers were getting their appetizers, and despite the onion rings receiving positive reviews, a chicken wing dish was sent back for being raw. This infuriated Ramsay, who called the whole men’s team out for that mistake, and called Matt a fucking prick. Craig thought it was major and called it nasty if a kid bit into a raw chicken When he asked Matt what he was doing, the latter only responded by saying “Yes Chef, sorry Chef, it will not happen again”. This led Ramsay to remind him his tartar signature dish on the opening episode. Ramsay told him to wake up, and in the red kitchen, Vanessa managed to send half of her appetizers. When the team moved on to entrée, Shayna erupted a fire on the appetizer station, and when Vanessa was about to take it off, some oil dropped on her hand, and she sustained a second-degree burn. She asked Ramsay for some ice, and Rosann yelled, calling for a medic, and declaring that her hand was blazing red, thinking she would break down in tears. Vanessa ran to the back store to see a medic, who applied some heeling cream over her hand, but Vanessa was still in great pain, and finally went to the hospital by SUV. When she was not coming back, Shayna was worried as she did not know what happened to her. Christina asked where Vanessa was, but nobody answered as they did not know either. Then, Ramsay declared she was on her way to the hospital, but that if they were slowing down, they would be in trouble. Despite being one member down, Christina vocally rallied the women, motivating them by saying they would be able to pull it off anyway.

Two hours into dinner service, the women had 12 tickets remaining, while the men had 10. Petrozza sent crab cakes that were deemed very nice by Ramsay, and customers were satisfied. This led to many entrées being served in both sides of the dining room. When Matt served a burger that was too small, Ramsay schooled him on his mistake, and asked him why he was firing burgers so early. He compared the burgers to ice hockey pucks, threw each of them to all the team members, before angrily throwing one towards the back store when he asked if they were a fast-food joint. Then, Ramsay asked Bobby if he could get a grip, which Bobby answered he would, and after that, Bobby was telling Matt how to properly cook his burgers. In the red kitchen, Jen became the vocal leader of the team after Vanessa’s departure, giving instructions to Shayna and Rosann, and asking time. Her leadership helped her team to send out many entrées. In the blue kitchen, it was Bobby who emerged as a leader by sending acceptable entrées to the pass. When he saw food coming out, Ben relaxed a little bit and congratulated Bobby and Matt, but Ramsay did not appreciate, saying the men had six tickets left compared to the women’s two, and that they should wake up instead. Jen and Louross rallied their respective teams to push out their final tickets, and in the red kitchen, Shayna sustained a little burn, which was fortunately not as bad as Vanessa’s. In the blue kitchen, Craig brought a meatball spaghetti to the pass when a spaghetti of clams was on order. Ramsay called the ticket again, and asked for a spaghetti of clams quickly. When Craig sent it, it turned out raw. Ramsay furiously asked him to start again, but when Bobby came over to help, Craig repeatedly said he had it. Ramsay asked for a time, but Craig did not answer, and when his entire team did, he disrespectfully shouted two minutes.

In the red kitchen, the last ticket was called out, and the team rallied to send it, and when they did, Ramsay congratulated them. Jen was so happy she wanted to dance, but Ramsay asked the women to go over in the blue kitchen and help the men. Ramsay asked Jen to go over and help Ben, who Ramsay called “Chef Ben”. He was embarrassed about that situation, and Ramsay schooled him on his laid-back behavior and congratulating his team. Ramsay ridiculed Ben, comparing him as the iceberg of the Titanic. When Shayna came over to help Craig, he refused her help, constantly saying he got it. After Louross gave a little pep talk to everybody, Ramsay called out another ticket, and asked Craig how long for the spaghetti of clams. However, Craig failed to answer, Ramsay became furious, and Matt tried to convince Craig to answer. Then, Ramsay told he was making him nervous, and Craig grabbed a hot pan with his bare hands, burning himself in the process. When everybody, including Ramsay, were asking Craig a time, he lost his patience and disrespectfully told it was coming right now, and that they had to fucking listen. He threw a pan in anger while everybody was staring at him, disbelieving Ramsay. After the last entrée was served, both teams switched off and wrapped up their kitchens.

Post-Mortem

When the teams were lined up, Ramsay announced the women winners for serving all their tickets, and more importantly, for bouncing back after a slow start. He also declared Jen the best cook in both kitchens for emerging as a star. That compliment made her heart melt as she really appreciated it. After that, he told the men that if Family Night was a movie, it would have been a horror movie on their side as it was embarrassing. He asked Craig if it was that difficult to cook pasta, which Craig answered no, and when he turned to Ben, he told him he was surprising him. Ben thanked Ramsay, thinking it was a compliment, but Ramsay added he was surprising in how shit he was, expecting more, and told him he maybe should not have quit his day job this early. Finally, Ramsay named Bobby “Best of the Worst” for making him feel safe in the kitchen, adding that he must not break the trust that was there, and asked him to nominate two of his teammates for elimination, and concluding he was not short of choices.

Back in the dorms, Bobby acknowledged he began the competition roughly, but that the tables were starting to change to his advantage. After Ben said he thought Ramsay was hating him, Vanessa came back from the hospital, and was warmly welcomed by everybody. She told she would see a medical surgeon on the next Monday, and Christina announced her the news that their team won the service. While pleading his case to Bobby, Craig acknowledged his performance was not up to par, but Matt and Ben’s were not as well. Ben asked Bobby for a private talk with him, where Ben said he did not know if he would like to be put up only because Ramsay was hating him. Bobby laughed, and noticed that Ben had some bad services and that he always seem at the wrong place, at the wrong time. Ben acknowledged that even though he was close friend with Bobby, it did not mean anything as they were trying to win a competition. Moments later, Matt joined the conversation, and declared he would nominate Craig for his lack of communication and disrespecting Ramsay. While Matt admitted his poor performance, he said that Craig was a pain in the ass.

Elimination

Bobby nominated Craig as his first nominee, and Matt as his second. Ramsay called both of them down, but also declared he would not want to go any further, stating there was another one who should step forward as well. Ramsay did not called his name, stating he knew who he was, and Ben immediately recognized himself and stepped forward. After all three of them pleaded their cases, Ben told he would give 100% every day, and Matt followed, saying he would give 125%. However, Craig declared he did not know what percentages were, but that he would give just over that. In the end, Ramsay eliminated Craig for failing to keep control of his station and his poor attitude during service. After Craig left, Ramsay told Ben and Matt that they were on their final straw. While dismissing the chefs, Ramsay welcomed Vanessa back, and urged Jen to not stop, a compliment she appreciated.

Ramsay’s comment: “I can teach someone how to cook, but Craig was a bad cook with an even worse attitude. There was no hope for him.”

My opinion

The blue team was the loser tonight. Craig and Ben were shit at service with Matt as well. Matt serve raw chicken, Craig cant cooked pasta and Ben been hopeless. One of the best Ramsay insult was said after tonight service to Ben. I agree with the nominees with craig to go.

My comment: Craig said he didn’t know percentage. He was give 0% at dinner service. He lucky that Jason was shit last episode.

The third episode of Season 4 of Hell’s Kitchen aired on Fox, on April 15, 2008. On that episode happened a scary wakening, a sweaty punishment, and a very satisfying elimination of the most hated chef of the season at that moment.

Intro

While going back to the dorms, Jen and Rosann hugged each other, and Jen declared Corey was not getting rid of her that easily. She acknowledged that this early in the game, you do not get rid of the strongest people because there was still challenges and services. Christina was crying going upstairs, but was comforted by Jen, who said she would not get rid of her.

On her side, Corey was talking with the blue team, and Ben gave her a high-five. Then, she declared the real reasons she nominated those two people. She nominated Christina because she was threatened by her intelligence and thought she was making her look stupider than she really is, and she nominated Jen because of her general annoyance. Christina acknowledged Corey was threatened by her intelligence, and confronted her in the bedroom, but Corey did not care shit what her team was thinking of her. The blue team said she played that strategy too early in the game, with Petrozza thinking she was having evil tendencies.

Team Challenge

The next morning, the contestants were awakened by chickens, running around in the dorms. Ramsay told them to get up, grab a chicken, and come down to the dining room. While trying to grab a chicken, Bobby declared he never did that before in his entire life. When they came down in the dining room, Ramsay declared he would like all of them to get up close and personal with their products. Then, Sous Chef Gloria brought a live chicken to Ramsay, and Sous Chef Scott handed him a clever, making the contestants believe they would have to kill their live chickens. Ramsay put the clever on his chicken’s head, started his movement, but planted the knife beside its head, declaring “Not these chickens, you doughnuts!”. All the contestants felt relieved that they did not have to kill live chickens. After telling the contestants that they take their products for granted, Ramsay asked them to put their chickens in the pens, get changed, and get in the red kitchen.

In the red kitchen, dead chickens were hanging on racks, and Ramsay introduced the Chicken Cutting Challenge, which the goal was to make the contestants respect their products. After a demonstration on how to properly cut the chicken into eight pieces, Ramsay gave the contestants 5 minutes to cut their chicken. To even the teams, Louross was forced to sit out. When the challenge began, Jason boasted that the blue team would win the challenge because they were men, and that it was not a dust and housekeeping challenge. With 1 minute left, most of the men were already finished, but Craig was still going, and Matt declared he was slow as molasses and making him feel like the million-dollar man. On her side, Shayna was as slow as Craig, and told herself to concentrate and that she could do it.

Jen was the first woman to get her cuts judged by Ramsay. She got a score of 6 out of 8, and Shayna also did. Vanessa, Rosann, Christina, and Corey all finished with perfect scores of 8, making the final score of 44 for the red team. On the blue team, Jason, who declared his team would win because they were men, could not manage a perfect score himself, scoring 6 out of 8. The following two, Petrozza and Ben, managed a perfect score each, making the men’s total at 22. When it was Craig’s turn, he only managed to get 2 pieces accepted, leading Ramsay to question his experience as a chef. With the score of 44-24 for the women and only two men to go for the men, it became impossible for them to catch up, so the women automatically won the challenge.

Reward

The women were rewarded with a lunch at the Saddle Ranch Chop House, on the Sunset Strip, in Los Angeles. When they arrived there, they accidentally jumped into Aaron, a former contestant from Season 3 and a regular at that restaurant, who was riding the rodeo. That encounter surprised everybody, including Ramsay who was in disbelief. Both of them hugged, and Ramsay mimicked his crying on season 3’s opening night, but Aaron said there was nothing to cry about now. After wishing everybody a good day and leaving, Vanessa said it was nice to meet him, as he was a big teddy bear. After that, the women went on to ride the rodeo. During the lunch, Christina revealed her team’s plan to get rid of the men one-by-one, starting with Ben, Craig and Jason.

Punishment

The men were punished by picking peppers on a 100-acre farm, with farmers clothes and hat on, under the hot temperature of the sun. While getting ready, Ben declared he would throw peppers at Craig, who was lying on his bed knowing he was the one to blame, and Matt, two feet away from him, was throwing things in anger in his closet. He also compared watching Craig during the challenge as watching “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. When they saw the Hell’s Kitchen bus, they thought it would be there bus to go to the farm, but a small, dirty, old, blue school bus was revealed behind the previous one, with Louross describing it as “ganky looking”. During the punishment, Jason declared he was chubby because he liked food and that he was not doing labor jobs like that. Ben also threw peppers at Craig, who did not find it funny. Sous Chef Scott was supervising on the roof of the bus.

Before service

When both teams came back to Hell’s Kitchen, Corey and Christina started to put their plan into action when Corey asked Ben to jump in the hot tub with the women. He categorically refused to, saying that Corey was putting a bad taste in his mouth. However, Jason, who was looking at them, fell in their trap, Christina helped him to take off his clothes, and he jumped in the hot tub with the women. They gave him some food and beer, and asked him what was going on with the blue team, which he answered that most of his teammates were pissed off at Craig for fucking up during the challenge. He also declared that he did not like the way Ben was running his mouth. Ben was furious at Jason as he felt he ratted out the team. The next morning, an argument erupted between Ben and Jason, where Ben told him to stay focused on the competition as they were there to win, and that he had to work very hard during the next service, as Ben did not want to lose.

During prep, Christina and Corey were trying to work as a team and putting their differences aside, with little success. Christina declared that she would get rid of Corey the next opportunity she would get as she did not like her. In the blue kitchen, the pressure was shifted to Jason and Craig, as both of them were deemed the weakest links of the team. Bobby was annoyed by Craig’s way of not doing anything and being completely lost. Jen was confident going into service as her team may have their fare share of problems, but the men were worse.

When the teams were lined up, Ramsay announced that the goal was to have a fully-booked dining room. He also revealed a chicken special on the menu, and that because the men lost the challenge, Bobby would be cooking tableside. Jean-Philippe would be cooking for the women. Ramsay also dedicated Jason to the dessert station by jokingly telling him to not eat any. When Ramsay asked him what were the desserts, Jason failed to correctly answer, so Ramsay ejected him to the dorms, and told him to read the menu. After that, Ramsay asked Jean-Philippe to open Hell’s Kitchen.

Dinner Service

Jean-Philippe was slower than usually to bring the first ticket to Ramsay. When Ramsay called the first ticket in the red kitchen, Christina, being on appetizers, to control of her team really fast. In the blue kitchen, Craig had communication problems with Petrozza, and was asked by Ben and Matt how much time it would take him to make his first risotto. Craig told that he said 2 minutes 30 seconds before, and that they had to do the math. When Ramsay asked him how long, he schooled him on his behavior and told him to communicate. Matt and Craig got into a little argument when Craig told Matt to shut the fuck up. Matt did not appreciate this answer, and compared Craig to Edith’s character in “All In The Family”. In the red kitchen, Rosann brought her first Caesar salads to the pass, but they contained crab garnish. Ramsay schooled her for that mistake, telling her she was not stupid, and that she had some balls, so she had to use them. He also compared the women to the return of “the Bitches from Hell”. While Jason was still studying the menu in the dorms, Petrozza brought his first appetizers to the pass, and they were deemed beautiful by Ramsay. Petrozza enjoyed that compliment, and said that it meant as much to him as a win. When Ben asked Craig for the bacon, the latter declared he did not have it yet, which led Ben to call Craig an idiot and that he could not work his station despite working in the industry for 13 years. So, Ramsay made a painful decision, which was sending an incomplete order, where half of the table would eat, and the other would stare.

An hour and a half into service, and a blue table received only half of their appetizers. In the red kitchen, Christina and Rosann sent four tables of appetizers out. Back on the patio, Louross went to get Jason back, but Jason was about to give up as he did not like the way Ramsay was putting him in the spot like that. Although, Louross convinced him to get down anyway, which he did. When Jason entered the kitchen, Ramsay pulled him aside to make him recite the desserts. He struggled a little bit, even wanting to give up, when Ramsay asked all the team to come around him. Ramsay asked Jason if he would want to go home, which Jason answered that he did, and that he was done. However, Ramsay encouraged him, and Jason went on to successfully recite the desserts, before getting on his station. When Craig finally delivered bacon to the pass, Ramsay sent the rest of the table out. In the red kitchen, Vanessa brought her first entrée of meat to the pass, but it turned out raw. So, she became very emotional, ashamed about her performance, and Ramsay told everybody to get on the meat station. In the blue kitchen, they were ready to move on to entrées, as well as Bobby’s tableside chicken special. When Ramsay called 7 minutes to the window, Bobby understood and went to his station, starting to cook his chicken. However, in the kitchen, Matt failed to communicate with Louross, so Ramsay asked them to. After that, Louross told Matt how to properly communicate with him, and when Matt did, Louross thanked him. When Ben brought his salmon to the pass, he was schooled by Sous Chef Scott, who asked him why he would give it if it was burnt. After, Ramsay schooled Ben also, and asked him if he could cook a salmon. Ben said that he could, but started to give excuses, stating he was used to different cooking techniques than the ones he was using at the moment. Knowing that the entrées from his kitchen might not come out, Bobby took matters into his own hands, suggesting to the customers that he could cut the chicken in six pieces and serve them to each of the customers on small plates. The customers agreed with that idea, which Bobby executed, while Jean-Philippe was staring at him, but the customers were satisfied. One of the women’s tables had S.O.S. written on it, using bread.

In the red kitchen, a minor fire erupted on the meat station, with Rosann and Corey trying to blow it off. Ramsay came to the station, told everybody to stand back, and took off the fire while throwing the pan in the sink, saying “same shit, different day”. In the blue kitchen, Jason started to prepare his first desserts, but did not have a clue what he was doing, stating that women can make desserts. Louross helped him by telling that his crème brulées were ready, which Jason did not believe. When he took his soufflés out of the convection oven, Jason declared they were looking like muffins stuck in a cup. When Ramsay asked him what was happening with the desserts, Jason told him about the problem, and suggested to rub some sugar around the rim, mixed with butter and cocoa powder. When he heard that suggestion, Ramsay was so discouraged that he went to the hot plate, and banged his head on the counter a few times. Moments later, Ben brought raw salmon to the hot plate, infuriating Ramsay, who made the entire team taste it. This was the final straw for Ramsay, and told the men to join the women in their kitchen to have a quick talk. Ramsay told that they went backwards, that Vanessa was all over the place, that Jason was hopeless, and that Ben was not caring. When Ramsay asked Ben for the excuse he was giving, which was different techniques, he angrily threw all the remaining tickets towards him. Ramsay declared both teams losers, told Christina that her efforts on appetizers were good, Petrozza that his mind was clear and had good focus on his appetizers, named both of them “Best of the Worst” for their respective teams, and asked them to nominate one teammate for elimination. Before leaving, Bobby waved hands at his customers, and was chewed by Ramsay for it, who angrily told him to get out.

Post-Mortem

During deliberation, Vanessa was very emotional and ashamed of her performance, and Christina tried to comfort her. Vanessa still felt ashamed, saying this was the only she knew how to do, and did not knew if she was knowing how to do it any longer. Christina also considered Corey to exact some revenge on her, which Petrozza would agree with, and Christina declared she was not the last dumb blonde left. On his side, Petrozza considered Craig, but said if Jason was not there, the team would have performed better. Jason felt he would be nominated, but said he would fight for it if it happens instead of “putting his head down like some bitch”. Corey also thought she could be put up because Christina would payback her.

Elimination

Before asking for the nominations, Ramsay asked if anybody was hungry for the competition, or if they should all quit now. After that, Petrozza named Jason as his nominee, despite the rest of the men wanting to get rid of Craig. On her side, Christina nominated Vanessa, despite her team thinking she would have picked Corey to exact some revenge. After listening to both of their pleas, where Vanessa cried in shame, Ramsay told her she would have one more chance, and eliminated Jason for giving up before service and not showing any energy. During his exit interview, Jason made one last sexist comment, thinking that Vanessa’s crying was the reason why she was kept in the competition over him, and stating that because he is a man, he does not cry. Before dismissing the chefs, Ramsay told Vanessa that if that was her life, she should wake up fast as time was not her friend. Christina explained that she did not put Corey up because to win, she had to keep her friends close and enemies closer.

Ramsay’s comment: “I kept waiting for Jason to show me some energy, to wake up, but he never did. And that’s why I’m putting him to sleep.”

My opinion

Both kitchen were both rubbish tonight, so right decision for both team to be loser. Craig or Jason would be my pick to go up same as Vanessa as well. Jason was right to go.

My comment: Jason gives up at the beginning of the dinner service, so I give up on him at the end.

The second episode of Season 4 of Hell’s Kitchen aired on Fox, on April 8, 2008. On that episode happened the first team challenge, and a surprise elimination, that nobody saw coming.

Intro

Back to the dorms, Matt was feeling bad about Dominic’s elimination, and Jason thought that he would have been called down. Bobby, knowing he dodged a bullet, was ready to bounce back, and declared that a new Bobby would come out. Jason made yet again a sexist comment, declaring he would not lose to girls, especially little kids.

On the women, Christina’s level of confidence was high, saying her team killed it, and that the men should cut some dead weight.

Team Challenge

After a night with very little sleep, the next morning, the contestants were woken up by the Sous Chefs holding megaphones and telling them to get outside immediately. Arrived outside, Ramsay declared that with all the amount of food wasted on the previous night, any restaurant would have hit bankruptcy. He then told the contestants to get in the garbage bags and get every wasted food in two cylinders, one for each team. While they were going through garbage, Jen was shown almost puking because she was disgusted. Every contestant found that job nasty. After a few minutes, Ramsay told them to get back in line up the stairs, and declared they should be ashamed as they put thousands of dollars in the trash during the last service. After asking to clean up and change, Ramsay was waiting for the contestants in the red kitchen, where he explained the 6-Ounce Halibut Challenge.

After a quick demo and both Sous Chefs bringing one halibut for their respective teams, each team was given 20 minutes to prepare as many 6 ounces portions of halibut as possible. This challenge was designed to test attention to details and teamwork. In the blue team, Petrozza took control of the filet, and Louross was saying some words of advice, such as making love to the fish, and encouraging his team, while Ben gave some tips to Jason. The men finished with more than 8 minutes left. In the women, Christina was telling Sharon to take her time as they had plenty of it. Sharon was feeling nervous as she did not want to cut herself. Jen was annoyed by Sharon’s lack of skills, saying they have to tell her what to do. On the blue side, Ben called that challenge “redemption”.

During the judging, Jen brought the women’s batch to Ramsay. They eventually managed to get 41 of all their pieces accepted. For the men, Craig brought his team’s batch to Ramsay, and Bobby declared he counted 50 pieces in total. When two pieces of halibut were butchered, Bobby immediately thought it was Jason who did it. Despite that, they managed to get 41 of their pieces accepted as well, and the challenge ended in a tie. To break the tie, Ramsay asked each team to name one member from each team to come forward and select a 6-ounce filet, with the closest one to 6 winning the challenge. Ben and Corey were eventually chosen by their respective teams. After both of them picked their filets, they were put on a balance, and Ben’s halibut weighed 5.9 oz, while Corey’s weighed 4.8 oz. Therefore, the men won the challenge. Corey apologized to her teammates while being emotional, and Jen rubbed salt in the wound saying it is not that hard to pick a 6-ounce filet, and questioned her team’s judgement by picking Corey.

Reward

The men spent the day on a 100-foot super yacht, and were transported in Rolls-Royce and Bentleys. While getting ready, Louross entertained his teammates, walking around the dorms with woman’s boots, and boxers underwear. Everybody laughed, and Ben even called him crazy. Arrived at the port, the men were greeted by Ramsay, entered the boat, and were asked to take a seat and enjoy a seafood meal, which Petrozza deemed phenomenal. Moments later, Jean-Philippe brought them some caviar. After that, they enjoyed a champagne glass with Ramsay at the tip of the yacht, and Ben said it was nice speaking to Ramsay outside the kitchen. The team finished by yelling “Whose yacht?” and responding “Blue’s yacht!”, referring to Jen’s antic before they left (see details below).

Punishment

The women were punished by prepping the halibut, making all the fish stock, and maximizing every portion for the next dinner service. When the men got ready to go out, Jen started to smash her clever down with anger, yelling “Whose house?”, and her teammates answering “Our house!”. During the punishment, Jen continued to rub salt in the wound, pointing fingers at Corey and saying she was not deserving to be in the competition anymore. Christina tried to talk some sense out of her saying that it was everybody’s fault, but Jen continued her finger-pointing anyway. Then, Corey declared war to Jen, stating that she does not have to call her out in front of everybody like that.

Before service

The next day, both teams began prep, but in the red kitchen, Sharon showed her lack of knowledge, and Corey had to tell her everything she needed to do, and Christina declaring that the women had a problem with her. In the blue kitchen, Jason showed his high level of confidence because of the team’s high spirit, and made another sexist comment saying he thought that the women, because they did not have a man to lead them, were not knowing what they were doing. Back in the red kitchen, Corey was annoyed by Christina’s way of knowing everything and speaking out loud. After that, Jason continued his sexist comment declaring that a room full of girls was useless, unless they were having a Tupperware party.

When the teams were lined up, Ramsay asked Petrozza what were the five appetizers, but Petrozza struggled to answer correctly. Then, Ramsay kicked him out of the kitchen, and told him to read the menu and not come back until he knows it by heart. After Petrozza left the kitchen, Ramsay reminded that the opening service was horrific, miserable, and told Jean-Philippe never took that much complaints from customers. Therefore, Ramsay assigned Craig and Rosann to be assistant maître d’.

Back to the dorms, Petrozza struggled to study the menu, saying it was 19 years since he was going through a menu other than his. When he came back downstairs, Ramsay got him in the pantry room, and after ejecting Jason from that room, he asked Petrozza to recite the menu, from the desserts up. Petrozza struggled once again to deliver a correct answer, so Ramsay started to lose his patience, and asked him to go back to the dorms and start again. Arrived on the patio, Petrozza lit up a cigarette, and contemplated his fate in the competition, saying he was done. However, moments later, Bobby went to the dorms to comfort him and talk him back in the game. Petrozza suddenly became emotional, and Bobby handed him his apron so he could wipe his eyes. Bobby felt the need to help Petrozza because of his genuine heart. When he came back to the kitchen, Petrozza successfully recited the menu to Ramsay, and when he finished, both of them gave each other a high-five, and Ramsay told him to get to his station, and Jean-Philippe to open the restaurant.

Dinner service

In the dining room, Craig and Rosann were slow to bring their first tickets to Ramsay. When Craig finally hand Ramsay his first ticket, Ramsay mocked him by calling him “Chef Craig”. When Ramsay called the first ticket out, the men were slow to answer, and Ramsay asked them to be louder. Louross quickly became vocal and led his team, who felt motivated. For the women, Rosann was schooled by Ramsay that it has been 37 minutes and she had not gave one ticket yet, and he told her to move her ass. On their first appetizer, the men failed to impress Ramsay with their quail eggs, and Ramsay asked Bobby to start again. Then, Bobby got into an argument with Jason, as both of them were confused as if Bobby told Jason to fire the scallops or not. Ben and Petrozza tried to calm them down. After a few more moments of waiting, Rosann finally brought her first ticket to Ramsay.

45 minutes into service, Bobby’s second attempt at his first appetizer was accepted by Ramsay, and the men sent out many appetizers to the customers, who were satisfied with them. In the red kitchen, only Christina was enjoying the food, and made Shayna taste it, which annoyed Corey. However, it did not stop her to send an acceptable risotto to the pass, impressing Ramsay and herself. In the blue kitchen, they sent all their appetizers and moved on to entrées. However, Jason was schooled by Ramsay, who could tell, from the hot plate, that his halibut was raw. He made Jason, Matt and Sous Chef Scott touch it. After telling Jason he was trying to help him, Petrozza delivered his first beef entrée, but it was way undercooked, infuriating Ramsay, who made almost all of the team to touch it. When Ramsay asked Petrozza what it was requested, Petrozza answered that it was requested medium.

In the dining room, when Craig lift a high-chair to transport it to one end of the room to the other, he hit a female customer behind the head with the chair. Jean-Philippe became furious, and asked Craig to go apologize to her, which he did very timidly. In the red kitchen, Ramsay told Sharon she had cooked meat against raw meat, and that she had to be gentle with her food. Christina became angry at her because if Sharon was screwing up on meat, she would screw up herself on fish. Then, Ramsay told the two of them to communicate as they were looking like Barbie twins. He also compared Sharon as being the female version of Hannibal Lecter when she was sticking her tongue out of her mouth. He told her to stick it back in her mouth and concentrate. In the blue kitchen, Petrozza struggled to cut his Wellingtons, which led Ramsay to do it for him, and when he did, he told Petrozza that it was beautifully cooked. Petrozza really enjoyed that compliment as he was almost 20 years not cooking on the line. Many entrées came out of the blue kitchen.

Two hours into service, Rosann gave Ramsay a ticket that she wrote one hour before. A furious Ramsay became confused on her explanation, and told her that she fucked everything she touched so far. In the blue kitchen, when Petrozza failed to keep up with the correct orders of beef, a furious Ramsay told him to communicate with Jason so they could have the entire ticket together. Bobby told both of them to communicate as well, and Ben gave a pep talk to his team, acknowledging a lot of communication problems were going on. In the red kitchen, Sharon failed to keep up with the orders as well, as she forgot a beef. Ramsay schooled her on her behavior, and told her if she communicated with Christina, which she answered she did not. A minor fire erupted on Matt’s station, and Ramsay told him to not set the place on fire as nobody could win the competition if there is nobody in it. Matt told Ramsay he would not let that happen again. Moments later, Jean-Philippe sent a raw halibut back in the kitchen, and Jason refused to take responsibility for it, saying it was not his. This was the final straw for Ramsay and he shut down the restaurant.

Post-Mortem

When the teams were lined up, Ramsay made a summary of the service with one word, which was meltdown. He declared the women the losers after looking at the customer comment cards. He told the men sent half of their entrées, which was not great, but still better than the women. Ramsay also named Corey “Best of the Worst” for finally waking up and giving a good performance on appetizers, and asked her to nominate two of her teammates for elimination.

Back in the dorms, Corey declared she was enjoying that title, and Jen pointed fingers at Sharon, who she nicknamed Barbie, for being a constant poor performer. Rosann was nervous saying she could be up for elimination, and Christina ruled out Vanessa and Shayna when discussing who could be nominated by Corey. On her side, Corey went speaking with Ben and Bobby, and when Ben asked her if she would take out the best, which she answered that she was the best.

Elimination

Corey named Christina as her first nominee, which she claimed was for strategic reasons, and Jen as her second, which she claimed was for personal reasons. While pleading her case, Christina started crying, which made the men’s team laugh, especially Jason. On her turn, Jen gave a very long speech, and Ramsay had to stop her, telling her to breathe. Before he announced his decision, he declared that the prize was very important, and that he would not let somebody who he does not believe in running it. After declaring there was someone in that room he did not believe in, he revealed that person to be Sharon, and eliminated her, in an epic turn of events, for two consecutive poor performances. During her exit interview, Sharon felt that Ramsay did not like her from the start, but believed he had the wrong image of her and would not give up on her dream.

After Sharon left, Ramsay told Corey that even though he appreciated the strategy, he has a conscience, and that in good conscience, he could not keep Sharon.

Ramsay’s comment: “Sharon clearly showed great attention to details. Unfortunately it wasn’t for her cooking, it was for her makeup.”

My opinion

Both team were shit on Service tonight. Craig and Rosann were waiters tonight and they were shit for example Craig hit one female customer on the back of her head with a chair he was lifting up, Rosanna give a ticket one hour later to Ramsey. Matt started a fire in his pan which made Ramsey shut both kitchen down. My nomination would have been Sharon and Rosann to go up but if the men team lost I would have been Jason and Petrozza to go up.

My Comment: Sharon was too busy with her make up than her cooking in Hell Kitchen. So I went her packing.

The first episode of Season 4 of Hell’s Kitchen aired on Fox, on April 1, 2007. On that episode, the contestants arrived in Hell’s Kitchen with a big surprise, a captain for each team is chosen, and one contestant is given a reality check at elimination.

Intro

The season began with a brief recap of the past three seasons, in which the winners from those seasons were shown, and Ramsay telling that he would push the contestants further than ever.

The contestants met up on the bus going to Hell’s Kitchen. What they did not know was that Ramsay was in the bus with them, incognito. On the bus, Craig was seen, with his chef’s hat on, saying “Fuck you!” to everybody, as it was the way he was playing. Bobby claimed he was the “Black Gordon Ramsay”, which led Ramsay to take his sunglasses down and staring at him. Then, the contestants arrived at Hell’s Kitchen, where they were greeted by Jean-Philippe, who claimed he was good at doing an impression of Ramsay. After he did, Jean-Philippe asked Shayna and Jason to do their impressions themselves. After that, Ramsay revealed himself, which excited every contestant, with Rosann even trying to give him a hug. After that, Ramsay instructed the chefs to create their signature dishes, while reminding Bobby’s “Black Gordon Ramsay” rant.

Signature Dish Challenge

The contestants were given 45 minutes to cook their signature dishes. Craig’s Chilean sea bass was deemed too sweet and a pile of shit by Ramsay. He also told Craig to not come in the kitchen with his ridiculous hat, otherwise he would stick it in his ass sideways. Jen’s Dungeness crab with risotto and lobster tail was spat out by Ramsay, who described the rice was raw. After Ramsay told her that because she was a Garde-Manger chef confirmed that she could not cook. Jen started to give him attitude by saying he did not know what he was talking about. Corey’s salad was deemed simple, plain, blond, and boring by Ramsay, who told her it was saying a lot about her. After that, Ramsay told Jason that his dish would not even pass as something tinned in a can, and Shayna’s dish was burnt. When Matt described his Exotic Tartar dish, which consisted of raw venison, Diver scallops, caviar, and white chocolate, Ramsay asked him if he was smoking weed. Ramsay tasted it and, for the first time ever, became sick, started puking it out. He then described it as one of the worst combinations he ever tasted, in 21 years of cooking. Matt stated he did not understand what Ramsay did not like about his dish.

Dominic’s Chicken cacciatore did not impress, and Ramsay told him he expected something more exiting from the 45 minutes given. Rosann’s spicy mussel soup was the first dish to be praised by Ramsay, who told it was seasoned perfectly. Petrozza’s Hen-in-a-pumpkin deeply confused Ramsay. When he lifted the pumpkin to take a look at the potatoes, Ramsay asked Petrozza how much oil and fat did he use to fry them. Petrozza declared he used some butter, but when Ramsay squeezed the potatoes and they started dripping in grease, Petrozza corrected himself saying he used a lot of butter. Ramsay trashed the potatoes, and looked inside the pumpkin, which shocked him. He asked Petrozza how he was supposed to get in there and eat it, and Petrozza said it was a tableside dish. So, Ramsay told him to serve him a plate himself. After looking at the mess, Ramsay declared he would like to stick Petrozza’s head inside it. When Ramsay tasted it, he described it as dry, with the pumpkin not even seasoned. After getting back in line, Petrozza declared that he thought his dish was memorable.

After that, Ramsay declared that Sharon’s dish was not up to scratch for Hell’s kitchen, Ben’s dish was deemed not bad by him, Christina’s dish was described as a good concept with a terrible execution, and Louross was told that he could have done a lot more. Vanessa’s pan-seared halibut was praised by Ramsay, who described it as the best dish by a mile so far. Finally, Bobby’s Hawaiian butterfish was scolded by Ramsay after he found out the fish had been deep-fried.

Team captains

After the challenge, Ramsay announced that the prize of that season was an Executive Chef position at his brand new restaurant in Los Angeles, the London West Hollywood, with a salary of $250,000. He introduced the contestants to the Sous Chefs, Scott and Gloria, and told them that for the first time, they would be going into service with a team captain. Ramsay instructed the teams to decide amongst themselves who they think should captain their teams.

In the dorms, Vanessa was quickly chosen as the captain for the red team, because of her great signature dish. For the blue team, the men took far longer to decide, as everyone on the team wanted to assume that role. After choosing their captain, the red team sat down and studied the menu. Finally, the men came to an agreement and chose Bobby as captain for the blue team. When they made their decision, they went to sleep immediately, and Petrozza was seen snoring.

Before service

During prep, on the men, Bobby was praised by Matt for his motivation and keeping his team in high spirits. Jason declared he did not want to lose to a team of girls, as he thought the only thing he would lose to a woman would be an ironing contest. On the women, Vanessa was acting quiet, and was questioned by Corey for her ability to be a leader, heading into service. Moments later, Christina fell to the floor while carrying pots.

When the teams were lined up, Ramsay asked Bobby to name the 5 entrées from the menu. When he failed to answer correctly, he asked Matt, and then Petrozza, but got the same result. When he asked Christina, she successfully answered the question, relieving Ramsay. After that, Petrozza and Shayna were assigned to serve amuse-bouche tableside.

Dinner service

When Ramsay called out the first ticket, he noticed that Jason was missing. Jason was seen on the patio, smoking and picking his toes on his right foot. Ramsay went in the back store to scream his name so he would come. Jason finally showed up and got on the appetizer station. Petrozza and Shayna, in the dining room, started to work on their tableside flambé appetizers. Ramsay told Petrozza to not set the place on fire, and called him a donkey. In the red kitchen, Sharon worked on her appetizers, but was pushed around a lot by Jen, who called her Barbie. When both of them gave a different time, Ramsay asked them who was running the station, which Jen answered Sharon, but she was not trusting her that much. Sharon became irritated by Jen’s behavior. When she sent her first risotto, Ramsay told her to taste it and said it had no seasoning. He asked her to start again, and Sharon shifted some of the blame on her teammates. After that, Ramsay told Vanessa to wake up, but she thought she could not do anything at the moment, despite being the captain. Sharon made one more risotto than needed, and discouraged Ramsay. In the blue kitchen, Jason sent his first risotto to the pass, and when Ramsay asked if he tasted it, Jason let a big burp go. Ramsay asked the team to taste it, with Bobby acknowledging it was terrible, leading Jason to start again and Dominic to bin his scallops. Bobby was then asked to assume his leadership duties, but told Ramsay he did not want to dig in, which Ramsay answered by telling him to show some confidence and support. Even Ben acknowledged that even if he did not know what was happening, he had to show some balls at least. In the red kitchen, Ramsay spat out Sharon’s other attempt at her first risotto, but it had too much garlic, leading him to tell her to fuck off and put more makeup on. Jen took the appetizer station over.

45 minutes into service, no food whatsoever left either kitchen. Jean-Philippe even suggested to a customer to give him his smile, which the customer found useless. In the blue kitchen, Jason sent a burnt risotto, and Ramsay told him to sit down at the pass and eat it. In the dining room, Petrozza was trying his best to keep the customers from hunger. Jen sent unacceptable quail eggs, and was mocked for it by Christina. After that, Ramsay ordered Vanessa to hand over her captain’s title to Rosann, who quickly became vocal and asking time to her team. Vanessa acknowledged she sucked as a captain, and Jen questioned Ramsay’s decision of not picking her as captain instead of Rosann. At one point, she asked Vanessa if she was mad at her when she corrected her, but Vanessa told she was not. In the blue kitchen, Dominic got schooled by Ramsay about boiling scallops, with Ramsay mimicking his actions. After that, Ramsay asked Bobby to take control of the disgusting and embarrassing mess. He also told that Jason was not caring, Dominic was dreaming, Matt was standing still, pissing in his pants, looking for his tartar crap, and Louross was running around like a toilet brush. When his teammates asked him to jump in, Bobby refused to saying they got it and that he did not want to join the chaos. In the red kitchen, Jen finally sent an acceptable risotto out, and she enjoyed a moment of proudness to herself.

With Jen mastering the risotto and Rosann’s leadership, appetizers started to come out of the red kitchen. However, in the blue kitchen, the men were at a standstill, waiting for Jason’s call. When a disgusting sauce was sent to the pass, Ramsay told the entire team to taste it, and called it “snot” while throwing it back on the stove. Ramsay then kicked the counter and called the men “Useless fucking pieces of shit.” At that point, Louross, disappointed with the fact his team never tasted their food, started to be more vocal, and Ramsay asked Bobby to lend his captain badge to him. Then, Louross gave clear instructions to his team, relieving Ramsay. In the red kitchen, with appetizers going out, the women began serving entrées. However, Corey’s chicken was rubbery and dry. After passing it around, Ramsay threw it towards the back store and schooled Corey on that mistake. After that, Jason finally got his appetizers correct, and felt like a million dollars. However, it was too late as most of the tables walked out of the restaurant. After Ramsay told both teams to take a look at the empty dining room, and shut down the restaurant. Everybody cleared down, embarrassed, with Rosann crying in shame.

Post-Mortem

When the teams were lined up, Ramsay told that no entrées left either kitchen and reminded Bobby that he hid behind his team, performing like a coward. He also told Jason that he sunk his kitchen. After that, he compared Vanessa’s performance like having a mouse on service, and told Corey that her chicken bounced off the wall and nearly left the restaurant. Despite those struggles, Ramsay still declared the men the losers. He also named Louross, who at least tried, “Best of the Worst”, and asked him to choose two of his teammates for elimination.

During deliberation, Jason pleaded his case to Louross, stating he did better than Bobby, who himself acknowledged he had a bad night, but did not want to go over to Louross to kiss his ass, as that was not his type. Dominic also pleaded his case to Louross, saying he did what everybody told him to. Jason also told Bobby that he had a feeling that both of them would be nominated.

Elimination

Louross named Bobby as his first nominee, and Dominic as his second. After both of them pleaded their cases, Ramsay eliminated Dominic for his poor performance on the fish station and lacking the experience of working in a fine-dining restaurant. During his exit interview, Dominic called being the first one eliminated a real heart breaker, and said his dream of working for Ramsay was now dashed.

Ramsay told Bobby to wake up, saying he threw the towel in, and Jason that he dodged a bullet. Before leaving, Jason made one more sexist comment saying he would never lose to girls again.

Ramsay’s comment: “To be a great chef you need passion, creativity and talent. Dominic had passion, but that was it.”

My opinion

Both of the teams were shit tonight but the red team was a bit better than the blue team. Bobby and Vanessa who were the captain for the team were rubbish, Bobby didn’t help his team and Vanessa was like a mouse on service which Ramsay said to her which I agree with. I would have nomination Dominic and Jason up but Bobby would have been my next person to go up. When the Captain badges were switch for both team, they did better than the first half of service.

My comment: Dominic said he cooks at home for his kids but after tonight performance I feel sorry for his kids.

 

Season 4 of Hell’s Kitchen aired on Fox between April 1 and July 8, 2008. Culinary student Christina Machamer, from St. Louis, Missouri, was the winner of that season and became Senior Sous Chef at Gordon Ramsay’s London West Hollywood in Los Angeles, with a salary of $250,000.

Contestants

15 contestants competed during this season. The teams were divided by gender at the beginning, male contestants in the blue team, and female contestants in the red team. Those contestants were (in alphabetical order):

Contestant	Age	Occupation	Hometown
Bobby Anderson	37	Executive Chef	Niagara Falls, NY
Ben Caylor	29	Electrician & Former Chef	Charlotte, NC
Dominic DiFrancesco	43	Stay-at-Home Dad	Catawba, SC
Corey Earling	25	Private Chef	Brooklyn, NY
Louross Edralin	24	Hotel Cook	Las Vegas, NV
Rosann Fama	33	Law Office Receptionist & Former Cook	Staten Island, NY
Jennifer “Jen” Gavin	24	Garde Manger	Chicago, IL
Vanessa Gunnell	31	Line Cook	Bozeman, MT
Christina Machamer	25	Culinary Student	St. Louis, MO
Louis Petrozza	47	Catering Director	Charlotte, NC
Shayna Raichilson-Zadok	28	Catering Company Owner	Buffalo, NY
Craig Schneider	30	Sous Chef	Coram, NY
Matthew “Matt” Sigel	35	Sous Chef	Pine Hill, NJ
Sharon Stewart	31	Room-service Chef	Las Vegas, NV
Jason Underwood	29	Sous Chef	Youngstown, OH

Contestants Progress

1. Christina
2. Petrozza
3. Corey
4. Jen
5. Bobby
6. Matt
7. Louross
8. Rosann
9. Ben
10. Shayna
11. Vanessa
12. Craig
13. Jason
14. Sharon
15. Dominic

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The eleventh episode of Season 3 of Hell’s Kitchen aired on FOX, on August 13, 2007. On that episode, Rock and Bonnie led their teams for one more battle of the sexes, the final dinner service occurred, and one of them is declared the winner of Hell’s Kitchen.

Before service

The episode began where the last one left off, with Ramsay dismissing the chefs back upstairs so Rock and Bonnie could brief their teams on what was happening. With only 10 hours until service began, Bonnie revealed to her team that she picked them because they had always beaten the men, much to their happiness, though Julia was still rooting for Rock to win. Meanwhile, Rock made his team catch up fast on the menu and where he was placing them for service, which was based on their strengths and weaknesses. While Vinnie was willing to be led by Rock, he was a little concerned about the menu as he had not made it before, and Brad knew that they had to cram a lot of stuff in if they were to help Rock succeed. Meanwhile, Bonnie took a more relaxed approach to make her team catch up and surprised Melissa when she admitted that she never cooked most of her menu items before. Bonnie herself was concerned about that, and admitted she was nervous herself.

Eight hours before service began, the construction crew was still working on the restaurants. In the meantime, Rock and Bonnie brought both teams downstairs to begin prep for the final service. In the blue kitchen, Rock got his team motivated and focused, but admitted that his challenge for that night was to get them to listen to him. Meanwhile, Bonnie and Julia got into an argument as the latter thought the former was treating her like an idiot, but Bonnie hoped that Julia would put her problems aside for that night.

Three hours before service, Jon Janavs pulled Bonnie aside to inform her that they ran out of the initial wallpaper for her restaurant and had to use another kind. Bonnie was upset by that news and soon noticed that there were bubbles on the walls, though Jon promised to try and remove them. Meanwhile, Josh sent over a piece of spaghetti to Rock which was too soft for him, and Rock admitted he was going to have to pay close attention to Josh for that night. Rock took Josh aside and gave him a pep talk, where he told him that he could be a good cook but needed to trust himself. In the red kitchen, Melissa sent over the prawns to Bonnie, but they turned out to be overcooked, and Bonnie told her to not brown them too much.

One hour before service, both finalists’ restaurants were behind schedule. However, Rock and Bonnie were ready to show Ramsay some of their featured dishes from their respective menus. For Bonnie’s menu, it featured a herbed breaded goat cheese appetizer, an egg fettuccine with sautéed prawns entrée, and an assortment of chocolate truffles dessert. Ramsay tasted the dishes but noted that the prawns were overcooked, something Bonnie blamed Melissa for, and said that the truffle dish looked too small. For Rock’s menu, it featured a crispy chicken breast with crab cakes over jasmine rice appetizer, one of his a pan-roasted ribeye entrée, and a vanilla bean milkshake with double chocolate chunk cookies dessert. Ramsay noted that the rice had too much garlic in it, and suggested that Rock serve the milkshake in a martini glass. By the end, Ramsay noted that both menus were different, with Bonnie’s being more light and balanced, while Rock’s was more rich and heavy.

30 minutes before opening, Rock’s construction workers were rushing to get his restaurant finished, while Bonnie’s restaurant was finished and ready for Ramsay to tour. Ramsay liked how it did not look intimidating and was relaxing, almost like a neighborhood restaurant. Rock’s restaurant was finally ready for Ramsay to look at, and it was praised for looking elegant and smart. With 5 minutes left, Ramsay called Rock and Bonnie over for one last meeting. He reminded them that their service would test on how well they would run their own restaurant, and after that, he gave them head chef’s jackets. After they got changed, they rallied their respective teams one last time and Ramsay ordered Jean-Philippe to open Hell’s Kitchen.

Dinner service

Bonnie’s “Neighborhood Hideaway” and Rock’s “Homestyle Bistro” would go head to head, as the customers’ feedback would be part of deciding the winner. Rock got the first ticket from Jean-Philippe and called the order out with authority, though he admitted that it felt weird doing it. Bonnie got her first order and called out with authority as well. Both teams got their first appetizers out together and both received positive reviews from the customers. When Bonnie called out the next order, she noticed that none of her team responded and felt that they were not respecting her enough as a leader. She asked Julia for a time on the cauliflower soup, but Julia refused to answer as she just wanted the dinner service to be over. In the blue kitchen, Josh served crab cakes, but they were burnt. Josh stated that he needed one minute to refire them, but argued with Rock’s order to get them up by 30 seconds. In the red kitchen, Bonnie tried to push Jen to get more vocal even though she was already doing so, and ignored Julia’s warning that she did not have the okra ready. When Bonnie was still not listening, Ramsay warned her that she was losing momentum. Despite those problems, Bonnie’s team was able to get their appetizers out, but Rock’s appetizers were at a standstill. Josh was caught cooking six crab cakes not on order, forcing Ramsay to warn Rock about it.

An hour and a half into service, Bonnie has succeeded in getting all her appetizers out, and the team moved onto entrées. However, Melissa told Bonnie that they had only four orders of her fettuccine pasta left, which angered Bonnie as Melissa never told her before service began. Bonnie was forced to tell Jean-Philippe that they would have to change the dish to a normal pasta dish and admitted to Ramsay that she did not know how many portions they started with, causing him to ask how she could be underprepared. In the blue kitchen, Rock noticed that Josh burned another crab cake and reminded him that only one order of appetizers had left the kitchen in the last 30 minutes. Ramsay pulled Rock to the back room and warned him that Josh was sinking his service and ordered him to make a decision. After Josh burned another order of crab cakes, Rock had enough and had Josh and Vinnie switch stations, a decision which Ramsay approved. Vinnie, despite having concern for not knowing how to prepare the fish entrées, managed to get acceptable snapper out and the food was finally leaving Rock’s kitchen. In the red kitchen, despite communication being back up, Bonnie was still pissed off when Melissa warned her that there was only one order of prawns left. Things soon got worse when two of Bonnie’s pasta dishes were sent back for being cold and undercooked. Bonnie revealed that not only were there no prawns left, they had no other seafood ready as a replacement. Fortunately, Jean-Philippe told her that the customers were okay with just the pasta, but Bonnie soon realized her voice was not being heard again, and Julia rudely retorted that she was only doing her job of cooking Bonnie’s food.

Three hours into service, Rock’s team finally found a good rhythm. Rock himself was cooking some of the dishes, and they were almost caught up on their entrées, with Rock’s leadership continuing to be strong. Meanwhile, Bonnie’s team were getting desserts prepared, but Julia ignored Bonnie’s orders to wrap up the goat cheese and told Jen to do it. That angered Bonnie, and it led to an argument between both of them, which led to Bonnie believing Julia was really bitter about the situation as a dismayed Ramsay watched on and reminded her to run her kitchen. Despite that, both teams managed to get their desserts out with no problems.

After service ended, Rock admitted that he now knew how Ramsay felt during almost every service, and was frustrated on how Josh performed terribly. Bonnie and Julia made up, and the finalists congratulated their respective teams for service. Rock’s family came over to the hot plate, and he happily greeted them because of some help from Vinnie.

Post-Mortem

When both teams were lined up, Ramsay noted that final service being tough. He asked Rock what he would do differently, and Rock’s answer was to win the last challenge and his first pick would have been Jen as he thought she was the strongest chef throughout the competition. That answer shocked, but honored Jen while adding on that he would not have had Josh on his team due to his poor performance that night, which pissed Josh off. Bonnie’s answer was to double check on everything as being short on the prawns might have hurt her chances. However, Ramsay praised the final two as it was the strongest he had seen them perform and that they completed the service. Ramsay admitted that his decision would be hard as both of them never gave up, and both of them displayed great leadership qualities. After that, he told the finalists to get back up to the dorms and wait for his decision. Rock and Bonnie said goodbye to their teams before heading back upstairs.

Back in the dorms, Rock and Bonnie hugged each other for a job well done while admitting that they both had a rough night and could have done better. Back in his office, Ramsay reviewed the comment cards from both restaurants and reflected on what he saw from both Rock and Bonnie at the pass. As the two were waiting, Rock admitted that Bonnie probably won.

Winner Announced

Later that night, Rock and Bonnie made their way to Ramsay’s office. Ramsay praised Bonnie as she surprised him the most with her assertiveness, and called Rock “rock solid” for his strength in the kitchen. He told the finalists that he read every comment card, made observations of their performances, and that this was a tough decision. He had both of them stand in front of one door each, and revealed that only the winner’s door would open. After they nervously waited for Ramsay’s countdown, both turned their door handles, but only Rock’s door opened.

Rock became the winner of Hell’s Kitchen, and won his own restaurant at the Green Valley Ranch Resort & Spa, in Las Vegas, therefore making Bonnie the runner-up. Bonnie took her defeat graciously, even telling Rock she was very happy for him and still expressed hope that the right opportunity would come to her eventually.

Ramsay’s comment: “Rock deserved to win Hell’s Kitchen because he’s a very confident cook and he has become a really good leader. He can motivate staff, he can create, all those qualities are not easy to find in one chef. Rock holds all of them.”

My opinion

Rock deserves to win hell kitchen as he was the beater chef tonight and the other weeks in hell kitchen, but Bonnie did deserve second place.