Quick Take: Hell's Kitchen, "11 Chefs Compete"
One mother of a service.
Review: Hell's Kitchen, "11 Chefs Compete"
(S0706) After leaving Ramsay, Nilka blows up about being put up and bitches everyone out. Wants no apology from Fran.
The next day, Ramsay has the chefs name the five mother sauces, which they do (Béchamel, Velouté, Espagnole, Hollandaise, and Tomato). The teams get 20 ingredients to create five dishes in 30 minutes, one with each mother sauce and all ingredients have to be used.
It's obvious Blue Team will win as they work together to determine their dishes. On Red Team Nilka causes others to struggle as she grabs things for just herself. Autumn fits in well with guys who work together as opposed to girls and Scott.
To help judge the challenge, Ramsay's wife and mother comes out. Salvatore, the Italian young man, loses the tomato sauce round because his pasta is undercooked. Siobhan cooks a Cornish Hen but Ramsay points out it's pigeon and pours blood off the plate. Jay should easily score and thinks as much in his interview but his food is bland, the duck is pink and the peas are undercooked. No points awarded. Holli serves halibut that Ramsay points out is sea bass.
The score is tied at the end and Ramsay seems to arbitrarily select what he says was the best dish that would have won going against others, yet it would have gone up against a different sauce. He picks Jason's dish and gives the win to the Blue team. Red team has to deep clean the kitchen while Blue team gets English day at a local pub where they drink and throw darts. All on Blue win cookware.
Scott is pissed that Nilka got all ingredients, but Fran doesn’t want to hear him complain. Siobahn says she's allergic to cleaning supplies, which sounds suspicious until she starts breaking out in hives. She has to see the medic and have her suit cut off.
At the dinner service Ramsay adds a kid's menu. Siobahn is unaware garnish handles spaghetti and then Ramsay has to tell her pasta won't cook until water is boiling. Can't believe she has gotten this far.
Ramsay catches Sal putting extra rice into the risotto because he had a number of orders wrong. Ramsay catches him but he lies about it, which Ramsay says is worse than working with a bad cook and now he can’t trust him. Ramsay tells Benjamin to keep an eye on him, meaning Ramsay trusts Benjamin. Expect to see him in the finals unless he cracks because he is running kitchen well.
In the Red kitchen, Ramsay finds Nilka left out lobster in the risotto and Fran screws up an order of scallops. It's hysterical to hear Siobahn in her interview question Fran not knowing how to cook scallops when she doesn't know how to cook pasta. Scott is short a Wellington and blames the team for not telling him.
Another two bad meat dishes hit the pass and that infuriates Ramsay. He sends them all upstairs and has his sous chefs finish off the service. The other Scott is startled about the condition of kitchen and asks, "They're really bad, huh?" and Andi affirms "Yeah." Can't imagine anyone from Red team close to finals right now. After entrees are done, Ramsay calls back Red team to clean up.
Red Team has to decide together on two nominees. Scott calls out everyone and throws around his fine dining experience but it hasn't shown yet. Ramsay asks Fran for nominees and she says because he's all talk and no action, and then herself. Ramsay asks why her, and she says she's not sure. He asks her opinion and she says Siobahn. He asks Nilka why Fran and not Siobahn. Nilka's reasoning is Siobahn has improved, is a team player and is fast. On the other hand, Fran is slow and needed help with scallops but Fran says it was her first time on that station. It's rather obvious Nilka is in revenge mode which makes her look foolish in the long run.
Ramsay asks who's the best chef on the team. Scott quickly pipes that he is, and Nilka and Fran finally come together and let him know he isn’t. Ramsay calls Scott, Fran, and Siobahn forward. Scott says the team will fail without him but Ramsay sends him home anyway.
Ramsay then calls Benjamin up and sends him over to Red Team because they don't have a leader. Everyone better worry because Benjamin has to be the odds-on favorite currently. But can he survive the Red Team?
