TV Talk-Hell's Kitchen

I don't know if anyone watches this but I got into it a few seasons ago when my friend Larry suggested it and now I can't miss it. Its a few weeks in but tonight is shapping up to be entertaining!!

First up is a quick challenge and the challenge was to create a gourmet pizza. The girl who got burned on her hand last week, Vanessa, was a bit weepy with the whole "I wanted them to pick my pizza b/c I did it without my hand, yada yada and I was so upset they didn't pick mine" Whatever. The girl they did pick, Jen, has not been one of my faves but has grown on me lately. During the challenge the woman team worked really well together as a team to try them all and then choice one. The men on the other hand didn't communicate at all, and only two of the guys actually seemed to make the decision on which to decide on.

Chef Ramsey liked them both, did tell the men they didn't completely clean the mushrooms they used on the pizza and he could feel/taste the grit. Ultimately, the women won the challenge and got to go on a helicopter flight with Chef Ramsey to some fancy restaurant, "Square One", with $90 kobe beef hamburgers. One of the girls is shown in a "confessional" saying that her "dream has always been to ride a helicopter". MY reaction, "seriously? Come on-get a better dream!"

As the losers, the men had to prep for dinner and they got burgers too but they were like mcdonalds thin burgers-too funny.

For evening service where the bulk of the competion is, the woman's pizza was a special on the menu. The girl who burned her hand is having some difficulty in the kitchen and went up to talk to Chef and see what he could say. He told her she could still win this but the choice was hers whether to stay or go. She decided to go because she "couldn't be here 100%, I don't want to be here." Oh well but I think with the burn like she got on her hand, she is smart to go and take care of things, not worth taking a chance on getting hurt more or potentially hurting someone else because she is limited.

The "twist" of the evening part is that Hell's Kitchen is also offering Pizza delivery of the special pizza and because the men lost, they will also be the ones delivering which can also affect how their service goes. But ultimately, they don't communicate at all so it should be interesting!!

Dinner service....
Girls have a good start getting their appitizers out quickly. First orders for delivery comes in too!! The woman's first entree did not go out well and their second was better but they were nothaving a good evening either. Both teams struggle through the service. As "mean" as Chef Ramsey gets, I think he really does run the kitchen in such a way that you can truly see if someone can handle the pressures in the kitchen and therefore be able to handle the pressures of running a kitchen as well.

The girls desserts were not going so well, Christina was having a meltdown and said Jen was suppossed to help but didn't. They show Jen in a "confession" basicallysaying she was not the other girls mother. Her attitude is still not good and she is not a team player unless they are all pulling for her and while she might know her stuff, she is not impressive.

Amazingly, both teams completed a service which is not a common envent. Often times things are so chaotic or going wrong that Chef closes the kitchen and people go unfed.

After the dinner service, Chef had to pick a winner and then someone from the other team will be sent home. Tonight, Chef decided there was no losing team but each team has to nominate one person from their team. Then Chef tells them all to "piss off". He cracks me up! Its such an odd dynamic when they have to pick someone.

A lot of times Chef appoints someone to pick but tonight it was a team decision. Chef is not happy with the woman's choice of Christine and the men choose louross. Chef didn't like Jen's statement when he asked her about Christine and then also called out Rosanne who was pretty bad tonight. Chef asks both the nominees who they think is the weakest if its not them....Louross says Matt is weaker and Christine says Roseanne. Chef decides to give them a "present" for completing a service tonight and says that the chef leaving tonight already left, which was Vanessa. But I LOVE how he screws with them and let them go through the picking which pulls out the vicious in them all. Its diabolic-and I love it. And I know Larry would too:)

Til next week....