Jan 30 2009
Hell’s Kitchen Season Opener
Last night’s show was the start in my opinion of a great season to come. The show started off with the 16 contestants making their signature dishes and surprisingly Chef Ramsey liked quite a few of them mostly the women’s. They then were told they would be split into 2 teams, the men versus the woman.
After spending the night studying Chef Ramsey’s menu the teams prepare for the first opening of the restaurant. Right off the bat, Lacey from the woman’s team gets so frustrated because she had no experience in line cooking and didn’t know what she was doing so decided she was going to quit. After going back to the room and thinking things through she returned to the kitchen.
When it came time to open the restaurant Gordon announced that 1 person from each team will be serving. He chose Carol the sous chef from TN and Giovanni the executive chef from FL. As the orders starting coming in and making there way to the line for Chef Ramsey to approve, mistake after mistake was found. Colleen the cooking school instructor from NE couldn’t recognize the difference between sugar and salt and added sugar to one of the recipes, the guys didn’t know how to cook spaghetti and Danny the executive chef from FL decided to talk back to Chef Ramsey (big mistake). Needless to say that no dishes made it to the dinning room, to make matters even worse all the electric went out in the restaurant. After about 20 minutes they came back on and since no entrees were good enough to serve Chef Ramsey shuts down the kitchen.
Chef Ramsey has to decide a winning team and because Carol had better customer service then Giovanni he picked the red team as the winners. The men’s team had to choose 2 people up for elimination and decided on Wil (who is gay) the quality control chef from IL and Seth a private party chef from NY. After hearing their final plea’s Chef Ramsey decides to send Wil home.
I really enjoyed last night’s show which was filled with lots of gagging on dishes and bleeping from Gordon as usual. I am excited about this season and looking forward to next week’s show.
