Hell’s Kitchen“Day Four”
Original Air Date: Feb 26, 2009
Kara – Sr Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com
This week, the teams have to cook breakfast for youth football players and cheerleaders. Sounds relatively easy, right? Wrong. Colleen, who admits she used to be a cheerleader, leads cheers with the kids instead of cooking with her team. It’s okay. It’s Colleen. They’re probably better off with her not cooking anyway. On the men’s side, Seth claims he has Gordon’s recipe for scrambled eggs and that it will impress him to use it. All that ends up happening is that Seth is so slow on cooking eggs that the women finish first and win. Seth doesn’t know what he’s talking about? Big surprise.
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This week, the teams have to cook breakfast for youth football players and cheerleaders. Sounds relatively easy, right? Wrong. Colleen, who admits she used to be a cheerleader, leads cheers with the kids instead of cooking with her team. It’s okay. It’s Colleen. They’re probably better off with her not cooking anyway. On the men’s side, Seth claims he has Gordon’s recipe for scrambled eggs and that it will impress him to use it. All that ends up happening is that Seth is so slow on cooking eggs that the women finish first and win. Seth doesn’t know what he’s talking about? Big surprise.
ReplyDeleteAs punishment, the men have to clean the dining room and the kitchen, which is a mess of epic proportions. They also have to do prep for service, while the women get to lounge poolside at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Danny and Ben get into it about who is a better cook and the men don’t even finish prep. All they had to do was clean and prep, which is a hell of a lot easier than having to break down a whole cow and eat random cow bits like the women had to last week.
Service is a disaster so let’s get right to it.
Standouts on the Side of Good:
Danny – He makes a sauce well. Normally, this wouldn’t make you stand out but this week had some royal screw ups.
Lacey – I know! She didn’t completely suck this week. How shocking is that?
Standouts on the Side of Bad:
Giovanni – The man didn’t have water ready and boiling for the pasta. We all know you’re not supposed to cook the pasta in advance but you definitely should have the water boiling.
Coi – She makes the classic mistake Giovanni didn’t do and cooks spaghetti before it was ordered. Also, she messes it up and tries to serve lobster spaghetti without very much lobster. Good thing everything else was failing all around her.
Seth – Now, it’s common to serve scallops raw or burned in Hell’s Kitchen but to achieve a totally rubber scallop, well that’s an accomplishment. He also doesn’t know what orders Gordon had called out when he is interrogated on his lack of listening skills. Captaining the ship of grossness for this week, he wipes his face and a pan with the same cloth. Eww.
Ben – He doesn’t have the butter sauce ready, which completely sabotages Andrea. He complains about how much they had to do for prep but once again, I point you to breaking down a whole cow. Quit complaining. He doesn’t taste the sauce before sending it, which is another stupid move and also attempts to send out uber thin lamb that is completely butchered to bits. Gordon gets the best line of the night, of course, when he says “God, what a muppet” about Ben.
J – Oh, boy. Apparently, worse than raw meat, bad risotto and undercooked scallops is sending out a giant lettuce stub in a salad. Sure it’s common sense not to do that but I’d rather find that in my salad than be served raw meat. The lettuce butt is far more easily removed than having to send raw meat back.
Colleen – She’s inept. We know this. She spends this night’s service following L.A. around, tugging on her sleeve and constantly asking her questions. She also gives Gordon four beef wellingtons, instead of the three he asked for. He comes down hard on her for that but I think he should be happy he got a good product out of her, albeit more than he wanted.
Who Wins, Who is Nominated and Who Goes Home:
No one wins. Gordon shuts it down and instructs both teams to come up with two nominees. Coi puts herself up and Giovanni nominates Ben, who doesn’t think he deserves it. He must have been in a different kitchen, on a different planet.
The women nominate Colleen and Lacey and the men put up Seth and Ben. Gordon is still offended by J’s butt of lettuce but sends Seth home, stating later that Seth “has all the passion in the world but bottom line is he’s a crap cook.” Agreed. The big shocker is that Gordon sends Lacey over to the men’s team, stunning everyone.
So, what did you think? I’m glad Seth is gone and I’m more than curious to see how Lacey does on the men’s team. I have to say that I still don’t see any standouts on either team as far as who could win this whole thing. There are a few that mess up less than others but none that really strike me as a winner just yet. Do you have a feeling about one of the contestants? Let me know your TwoCents in the comments!