Quick Take: Hell's Kitchen, "6 Chefs Compete"
Making it look good enough to eat.
Review: Hell's Kitchen, "6 Chefs Compete"
(S0711) The challenge for the chefs is to create a dish that looks phenomenal in 30 minutes. After a photo shoot, they are judged by a group of culinary students while the chefs then to go back and make it again to be tasted. Starting in last place the chefs rank Holli, Jay (who was certain he'd be in the top), Jason, and Autumn. Benjamin and Ed move onto the taste-test round with Benjamin winning. His prize is a photo shoot of himself, after a minor makeover, and a dish featured on Epicurious.com. Also, the dish goes on the menu for the next serving. The others complain about the number of components in it as they learn how to make it during prep.
The losers get to clean the restaurant. Jay and Holli flirt and Jay comes out in his interview and says he wants to sleep with her. She is definitely attractive but since she's the competition, it seems like his head is not in the game at all.
During the dinner service, Ed struggles mightily on the fish station. He can't seem to cook anything properly. Scallops are burned, which he looks shocked by though he had just brought them up. At the other extreme, the halibut and John Dory are raw. This causes Jay to fall behind on the garnish station because the halibut comes with seven of them and when Ed screws up to at the same time, Jay has to recook 14 garnishes. The team finally jumps in to help Ed.
Benjamin goes quiet again when it gets difficult on the meat station. He ignores offers for help and curses at people to get out of his way. Might be a bit of karma served up when he later falls on the floor and drops a chicken. He struggles with cooking beef and Ramsay calls him out for going quiet again. He later brings up a wrong order.
Ramsay reaches his breaking point and kicks both out of the kitchen. The remaining four come together and finish the service.
In a cameo that didn't add much to the episode Whoopi Goldberg gets seated at the Chef's table in the kitchen.
Ramsay tells Ben he is certain he can't lead. He sends the chefs to pick two nominees with instructions to take into account overall performance so far. A few of them say Autumn is the weakest and doesn't do much work. She is joined by Ed. After each make their case, Ramsay doesn't see things the way the other chefs do. He feels Autumn is getting better while Ed is disintegrating and asks for Ed's jacket.
