Hell’s Kitchen“Day Ten”
Original Air Date: April 9, 2009
Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com
This week, Gordon gets right down to business and starts by asking the chefs to pick who is the weakest. Paula picks Andrea and Danny chooses Ben. They have to defend why they should stay in Hell’s Kitchen and after, Gordon makes them both take off their jackets. They think they’re going straight home, do not collect a restaurant and $250,000 but Gordon hands them new jackets. And now, we’ve entered into the individual challenge part of the competition.
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Original Air Date: April 9, 2009
Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com
This week, Gordon gets right down to business and starts by asking the chefs to pick who is the weakest. Paula picks Andrea and Danny chooses Ben. They have to defend why they should stay in Hell’s Kitchen and after, Gordon makes them both take off their jackets. They think they’re going straight home, do not collect a restaurant and $250,000 but Gordon hands them new jackets. And now, we’ve entered into the individual challenge part of the competition.
The chefs have to each make one dish using all of the fourteen ingredients and the winner gets a day trip to San Francisco.
Gordon likes all of their dishes but hates the presentation of Andreas and Robert’s suffers from the chicken being sliced too soon. Ben serves up a painfully long explanation of how he prepared his opus and even on time lapse, it’s still too long. Despite the unnecessary speech, Ben wins and Danny comes in a close second. Gordon says he can choose someone to go with him and Ben picks Robert. Danny isn’t happy about it.
The remaining chefs have to deal with delivery day, which means they have to drop what they’re doing and run outside whenever a truck honks its horn. Gio is terrible at this and drops boxes of bottled water, shattering the glass bottles. After that, he gives up and won’t run or help, instead choosing to eat food out of the walk-in. Suddenly, there’s a crisis and Gio has to run to catch the delivery guy because they’re short two lobsters. Literally all of the camera on planet earth capture Gio racing after the truck. I hate this staged stuff so much. Oh and it turns out they weren’t short the lobsters after all.
Standouts on the Side of Good:
Paula – Gordon compliments her on her good Caesar salad.
Standouts on the Side of Bad:
Robert – He overcooks scallops and cooks John Dory in a bacon pan. He’s not terrible but it’s definitely not his best night ever.
Andrea – She’s so unable to communicate that not only does she not shout back the orders, she can’t remember them! The other chefs repeat it for her and she still says she has no idea. Gordon kicks her out through the front of the restaurant and J.P. goes after her. Now here’s a great moment. J.P. gives her a mega pep talk that feels real to me. He tells her to come back, fight, be strong and give it her best shot.
Giovanni – Oh, dear.
He starts off by messing up Ben’s chicken dish so badly, it’s actually bloody. When he messes it up a second time, Gordon calls him a name and instead of taking it, Giovanni slightly talks back. This makes Gordon go ballistic and he gets right in Giovanni’s face and shouts at him. Gio struggles to recover and manages to burn Robert’s hand badly with a pan he put in the refrigerator. Robert ends up with second degree burns and no one can understand why Gio would put it in the fridge. He says he wanted to cool it off but that’s not good enough for Gordon.
Who Wins, Who is Nominated and Who Goes Home:
Gordon is disappointed with his group but instructs Paula to pick two nominees. She chooses Giovanni and Andrea. Gordon eliminates Giovanni “for all the right reasons,” which is a bit of a shame. Yeah, he royally screwed up this week but he had been doing well. Even the montage was of all the great moments he had.
Andrea walks back in line and she gets ripped into by Gordon who thinks she shouldn’t take it for granted as he didn’t say she was safe. The chefs go back to the dorms and sleep for a little bit, in their kitchen clothes. Yeah, staged moment alert. Gordon calls them back to the kitchen and tells them he’s shutting down Hell’s Kitchen. They all freak out as if it won’t reopen. Please. Of course it will. It looks like next week they have to prove they belong there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, what did you think? Any picks for favorites? I’m still leaning with Robert but Paula seems to be doing well at not massively screwing up. How do you feel about Gio going home? Share your TwoCents with me in the comments!
I finally caught up on this again today. So happy for Hulu. :)
ReplyDeleteIt really is sort of a shame about Gio. He had been one of the strongest contestants, as far as I was concerned. Based on overall performance, Andrea should have been the one to go. Gio just had a REALLY bad service. Well, and the crap attitude checking things in, the talking back, and the burns probably didn't help. He was totally off the entire day. Must have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed. :P
Andrea and Ben need to go home next. Robert isn't bad, but I don't really think Robert's got it in him to be a top chef, so I think Paula and Danny are my favorites.
What's great is that Fox.com seems to have the episodes up the next day too.
ReplyDeleteOh, Andrea. She's just not doing well consistently. Gio, like you said, was off that day and I bet he did get up on the wrong side. Something happened, that's for sure.
Paula and Danny haven't really ever majorly screwed up, which is impressive. I think they're the frontrunners and it'll be interesting if they are the final two to see what they can do. They usually get overshadowed by Ben or Andrea messing up.