Hell’s Kitchen“Day 8”
Original Air Date: May 20, 2008
Kara – TwoCents Reviewer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com
This week’s Hell’s Kitchen had a lot of really explosive elements, with a fingertip being cut off, food critics showing up and one team member being forced to join the men’s team. There were even quite a few tantrums. The episode starts out with Jen switching to the men’s team, thanks to some manipulative words from Corey. Jen figures if she turns the men’s team around, it’ll prove that she’s a leader and she’s right but can she do it?
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Original Air Date: May 20, 2008
Kara – TwoCents Reviewer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com
This week’s Hell’s Kitchen had a lot of really explosive elements, with a fingertip being cut off, food critics showing up and one team member being forced to join the men’s team. There were even quite a few tantrums. The episode starts out with Jen switching to the men’s team, thanks to some manipulative words from Corey. Jen figures if she turns the men’s team around, it’ll prove that she’s a leader and she’s right but can she do it?
The first challenge proves to be a difficult one. The teams must make four dishes, one dish per team member and they have to use all twenty ingredients provided to them amongst the four dishes. The catch is that they cannot reuse any of the ingredients. The women’s team organize themselves well, communicate smoothly and are quickly at work. The men’s team have trouble with all of those things and it takes them forever to actually get started. Soon after the challenge starts, Matt cuts off the tip of his finger and oh, it’s bad. Like, really bad. It looks like someone took a cigar cutter to it. He gets patched up by a medic and the women and Gordon look for the fingertip which seems forever lost to the pancetta, already on the stove. Ew ew ew. The amazing thing is that Matt actually comes back and continues cooking! That man’s something else. He’s either really strong or really stupid and I don’t know which one.
The challenge nears its end and Louross refuses to put the veal on his plate because the idea of serving a surf and turf makes him crazy. Because the men’s team did not use all twenty ingredients, they lose. Jen is pissed and takes it out all day on everyone, including Jean Phillippe, who comes around cracking jokes. Oh, how I want JP to be a talk show host. I would watch him interview people every day. Anyway, the men’s team, okay fine, the blue team have to do laundry by hand and the red team get to go to an InTouch photo shoot.
Food critics descend on Hell’s Kitchen for service and they must be the mildest critics on the planet. Something was either good and flavorful or it was bad and tasteless. Bring on Anthony Bourdain next time. He never disappoints in the criticizing department.
Screw Ups of the Night:
Petrozza slices the beef three minutes early and the world nearly ends.
Christina burns the salmon on one side and unfortunately, even when she remakes it, the critics don’t like it.
Rosann messes up on the vegetable station, running out of carrots and causing Gordon to bang his head on the glass wall facing the dining room for a few minutes.
Matt screws up the beef, cutting three vastly different sizes and throws a tantrum.
The red team’s screw ups push Gordon over the edge and he kicks them out. He also threw one of their pans on a burner, igniting something but no one said anything. Let it be known that Gordon Ramsay can start fires and no one will confront him about it. Jen has a really funny moment in her interview where she’s beyond ecstatic that the red team got kicked out. I’ve never seen anyone so happy on Hell’s Kitchen, not even any of the winners. Blue finishes out red’s tables and Corey is named best of the worst.
Who Should Be Nominated:
Rosann – every week she messes something up, without fail. If she’d been on the meat station, she would have tried to serve raw meat to the critics, I know it.
Matt – he obviously wants to win this but he can’t keep his cook when things aren’t going his way. Gordon yells but he’s still in control. Matt is not.
Who is Nominated:
Rosann. Corey says she would “never want to work in a kitchen with her ever again during service.”
Matt. No one’s surprised.
Gordon also makes Christina come up to the line for elimination. He then sends Rosann back to the rest of the team, rips into Matt and Christina and after a dramatic pause, sends Rosann home. Perhaps no one will get served raw meat now. Who am I kidding? It wouldn’t be Hell’s Kitchen if a chef wasn’t trying to land someone in the emergency room.
Next week, it looks like Jen and the blue team fall apart and that Louross tries to serve raw meat. Someone also sweats in the food and the announcer promises the most shocking decision ever. Yeah, right.
So what did you think? Did Rosann deserve to go home or should Matt, minus a fingertip, have gone home? Leave your TwoCents about this episode in the comments and your predictions about who will win the entire competition.