It would seem that everyone on this show loves themselves so much. Melissa is the glue that holds the red team together, so she says and Rock believes that neither Brad nor Josh can win unless he falls on his face.
Poor poor Bonnie, the dummy who gives blonds a bad name continues to lament the fact she might not belong in Hell’s Kitchen. She also says she feels like an elephant in the room but nobody can see her. There was no team support for her. Poor baby, screws up and then wants a pat on the back. She is right, she doesn’t belong here.
The teams start the day in a grocery store. Their challenge is to create a menu including one meat, one fish and one appetizer for Hell’s Kitchen’s first ever wedding reception. They are given 30 minutes and $100.00 to buy what they need.
Melissa the terrible took the lead because she said her team put her there. Though I have watched every episode very closely I have not once heard anyone on her team ask her to take charge of anything. And what is with her hair today. She looks like she has mange or something. I sure wouldn’t want someone with that hair flying all around cooking my food.
At the end of the 30 minutes the women came in under budget and the men $37.00 over so they had to put things back. They felt it was going to hurt them not having all the ingredients they felt they needed.
Back at Hell’s Kitchen they are given 1 hour to prepare their dishes. Things appear to be going fine in the men’s kitchen but due to the dictator in the red kitchen not much is going well at all. Bonnie and Julia were talking and Melissa kept telling them if they had questions to ask her. She told Julia NOT to ask Bonnie just her if she had questions. Then she kept making a big deal of anyone needing anything to be sure and ask her. Julia was cooking the duck and when it was finished she took it out of the oven. Melissa came over and put it back in. She told Julia it needed to be in the oven to stay warm.. The men could hear all of the fighting going on in the Red kitchen and kept calling the women Hell’s bitches. They felt they would destroy themselves. (the women)
The men were working well together but there seemed to be a lot of waste which they couldn’t afford since they were not able to buy all the things they needed. In the women’s kitchen when the duck was taken out of the oven Melissa went ballistic and blamed Julia for it being over cooked. I have one question, was Melissa stoned tonight or just having a nervous breakdown? She took being a crazy dictator to a new level.
Chef Ramsay made a surprise announcement. The bride and groom would be judging the food instead of him. He told them the menu was crucial. As one the women said they hadn’t worked well together. He asked who was in charge and Melissa said she was. He called her puffed up and told her HE did NOT put her in charge, this was a team effort.
When the bride and groom arrived Melissa said they shouldn’t serve them their food. Ramsay was incredulous. He told Melissa this was an important occasion and she was not going to spoil it. She kept fighting not to serve their food. Chef Ramsay told her they WERE going to serve it.
The first dish was the appetizers. The men served a crab dish and they women a puffed pastry. The bride liked the crab dish but the groom felt the pastry was too much like a dessert at which Melissa rolled her eyes. (That appetizer was her idea by the way). Now the men lead 1 to nothing.
The fish was served next. The women served sea bass with collards and bacon. The men served sea bass that herb crusted. The bride chose the women’s fish dish. The teams are now tied.
When it came time to serve the mean Melissa said no. She kept trying to keep anyone from taking the meat to the table. Ramsay finally told Jen to just bring it over, which she did. When Ramsay took the cover off he was dumbfounded. It really looked like something I can’t describe. It surly didn’t look like duck. Ramsay pulled it away and told the groom not to even try it. The men served aged rib eye with mushroom sauce and the bride loved it. The men win the challenge.
The men were feeling great about the win and were overjoyed to find out they would be pampered like princes at a spa. They were also celebrating that it was now open season on the chicks.
Ramsay was horrified at the food the women served. He called them Hell’s bitches and said he had never been so embarrassed in his life. He told them the four of them were going to work their butts (my interpretation) off and then to get out of his sight.
He told the men “well done” and that they really deserved the win.
All the women were talking in their quarters but Melissa. They all felt she had screwed up. It would appear the men are now together and the women are not.
Melissa joined the other women and the cat fight began. Julia told Melissa she spent too much time talking and not enough cooking. Melissa said she felt disrespected by everyone. Then she told Julia to grow a set of balls. Bonnie kept saying she wanted to strangle Melissa. The fight continued but Jen said absolutely nothing. I am having a bad feeling about Jen. How in the world can she think she can run a restaurant if she doesn’t have the courage to stand up for what is right and to put someone in their place when they need to be put there? Jen doesn’t, at least this week, do anything to make people mad, but that is mainly because she stays out of the way of the avalanche every week. Maybe she thinks she is Switzerland!
The women’s punishment was to decorate the restaurant for the reception. The wedding planner had a zillion things for them to do. The bickering continued and to go into all the details would just get repetitive. Melissa tried to run the show and finally, at least Julia and Bonnie refused to listen to her. I swear Melissa is drugged or something tonight. Nobody can go so overboard in the matter of one week. Maybe she is just missing Aaron so much she is trying to emulate him … though the women think she is trying to act like Chef Ramsay … and doing a mighty bad job of it I might add.
Finally they begin the meal service. The men have to share their recipes since they were the ones who won the menu items for the reception. Melissa kept bugging Rock about how certain things were done. She wanted to know EXACTLY how he was doing everything. Rock said she was over compensating and she told him she was too smart for him.
Back in her own kitchen Melissa screwed up the potatoes… not once but twice. When Ramsay came down on her she kept trying to blame Rock saying he kept changing the recipe on her. I actually never heard him do that. He gave her answers when she asked. Ramsay told her to shut up and stop being a stubborn bitch and move her butt.
When the bride and groom came in everyone applauded except Melissa who had to be told to do so by Chef Ramsay. He then told Jen to go on the potatoes. She said she was tired of being upset and yelled at all the time and she needed to put Melissa in her place. I don’t know if that happened or not but it was a nice thought.
Once again Josh held up both kitchens by messing up the risotto AGAIN! After 30 minutes the appetizers were being served and for the first time the appetizer service was completed in an hour.
Ramsay walked into the red kitchen and Julia was tasting something. He told her it was the most he had ever seen her taste things. She started to make an excuse but he stopped her and told her it made him happy.
The wedding planner started complaining to Jean Phillpe and he went to Ramsay after saying to the camera he didn’t want a lousy wedding planner messing with him when he was doing a dinner service. Ramsay insulted him (the wedding planner) so he walked away and said “that went well.”
In the red kitchen Melissa was putting them behind. I didn’t hear what she was making but she yelled that it would be four minutes. Then suddenly she said I can get them now. Everyone was wondering how her items could be ready now if she needed 4 minutes a second ago. Ramsay told her she had switched off and was pathetic. She said to the camera she didn’t like being yelled at but she wasn’t the type to cry …. She’s right there, crying requires emotions. But ever the one with visions of grandeur she said that if she goes down her team goes down.
Melissa messed up the sauvignon, and went to the men’s kitchen to try and get some of theirs. They told her they needed all they had and Ramsay came in and accused her of trying to sabotage them. He told her to get out.
Finally, for the first time, all the diners were fed. Ramsay called the bride and groom over and presented them with a honeymoon at the Green Valley Rock Resort. They were then whisked away.
The men won for the night. They finished 3 minutes ahead of the women. They were feeling good about the win because tonight they were not the best of the worse but actually the best.
Chef Ramsay said that Jen had been the best cook in the red kitchen tonight and she was to go back and nominate two for eviction. She talked to Melissa and Melissa told her she doesn’t think she is getting back what she gives. (She should be counting her lucky stars instead of complaining)
When time to give her nominations she named Melissa without hesitation. He reason was because she felt it was important to recognize your mistakes instead of trying to blames someone else. After what seemed like an eternity she named Bonnie was the second nominee. This must have hurt because she had just said she has a special place in her heart for Bonnie. Her reason was past performance, nothing Bonnie had done wrong tonight.
When asked why they should not be sent home Melissa said that she has been doing this for 10 years and feels she has been carrying everyone else. Bonnie said that her potential is just coming to the surface.
Ramsay said the one leaving tonight IS …. Melissa. He told her to take off her jacket …. And move to the men’s team. He told Bonnie to get back in line. She was very relieved because when he didn’t toss Melissa out she was sure she was going.
Ramsay told Melissa this is her last chance. She said she is happy because now she doesn’t have to help or carry anyone. The men were none too happy to hear the dictator was joining them.
In closing Ramsay said he can’t believe anyone went from being a good cook to a disaster so quickly and that is the only reason he is giving her a chance to shine on the men’s team.
I do declare … Chef Ramsay actually has a heart .. or maybe he just didn’t want to admit how wrong he’d been about one of his favorites.
Come back next week to find out if Bonnie burns the restaurant down.
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