Hell's Kitchen June 17

When Is It Bad To Be Good?

ARTicle by chairo

The best laid plans of the group failed last week. Everyone wanted Jen gone and put Bobby up with her as a pawn. As so often happens the pawn went home and the evil Jen remained. Christina was sure Jen would be more vicious than ever.

For her part, the living in a world of her own making, Jen, KNOWS that everyone wants her gone because they are afraid of her. She finally has a moment of introspective when she tells herself maybe she should have tried to make friends. She goes so far as to tell Christina she understands why she put her up and will “still” be there for her. (Okay .. am I missing something here? When has Jen been there for anyone?)

Corey says she doesn’t believe Jen (for once Corey and I are in total agreement) and she has to go. She doesn’t trust her at all.

The next morning Ramsay gives his pep talk. They are the final four and one of the them will become executive chef of his new restaurant London West Hollywood … a position worth a quarter of a million dollars. Of course Jen, Corey, Petrozza and Christina are adequately impressed.

Ramsay then tells them they are about to face the ‘mother’ of all challenges. For lunch they will have 1 hour to prepare a dish of their choosing to serve to 80 mystery guests. They each need to make 80 portions in one hour of their chosen dish.

Christina chose to make an Island turkey sandwich. Corey went with a grilled salmon BLT. Petrozza a Monte Cristo sandwich and Jen Calypso grouper. During their preparations Christina was happy and singing, Corey was lost and way behind everyone else, Petrozza for once organized and Jen bragging about how great her dish was compared to the others.

Ramsay told them to dish up their chosen items and take them to their stations. Corey continued to run behind and barely got 20 dished up. Ramsay told them the winner of this competition will be decided by the guests who will be voting after tasting all the food. Each served on a color coded plate.

The doors were opened to 80 very pregnant women. Corey groaned when she saw the ‘guests’ and Jen had been hoping for celebrities. Corey couldn’t keep up with the service and made some of the women wait while she went back to prepare more salmon BLTs.

When the votes were tallied Corey was in 4th place, an incredulous Jen in 3rd place, Petrozza in 2nd losing by only two votes to Christina. Her win won her a $1000 shopping spree in Beverly Hills with Ramsay. The losers had to clean the dining room, polish the silver and start prep for the evening service.

Jen was angry because she felt she deserved to win because she prepared the most complicated dish and because Christina has no shopping sense and didn’t deserve the prize. She felt she had much better fashion sense and could have done a better job shopping than Christina could do.

Corey also felt Christina has no fashion sense and would have loved the shopping spree. Petrozza was bummed he lost by only two votes. During the clean up Jen disgusted me once again by eating leftovers off the pregnant women’s plates. How gross!

During the ride to Beverly Hills Christina admitted to Ramsay she doesn’t know fashion. All of her clothes are black and white because she knows that they match. Ramsay took her to Lisa Kline’s who was there to outfit Christina herself. She got some beautiful clothes and said she’d love to be able to do this all the time. Ramsay was suggesting ways to do her hair and Christina felt he was flirting with her …. so do I … a little.

When Christina arrived back at Hell’s Kitchen Corey wanted to see what she got. The first top she pulled out, Jen turned her nose up; Corey didn’t treat her much better.

When she returned to the kitchen and asked what she could do to help at LEAST three time nobody would answer her. This had Christina wondering if winning the last two competitions had been a mistake. Finally Petrozza convinced himself the earlier competition was over and it was time to work as a team so he talked to her and then Corey did too.

During the service Jen refused to help anyone but herself until Ramsay told her to help Corey. Corey served undercooked fish that came back. Petrozza’s station was a pig sty and twice Christina set pans with hot handles in front of Ramsay and he burned his hand. (I was a little confused by this because for the most part Ramsay always used something to pick up the pans except these two times)

Things finally came together, service was completed and Ramsay congratulated them on the best service ever in Hell’s Kitchen. They he sent them upstairs to decide on two people for nomination.

No one wanted to be nominated so it was decided each person would write down two names and they couldn’t be the SAME two. However when Corey counted the votes it because obvious Jen had voted for Christina twice.

When they faced Ramsay, he asked Christina who the nominations were. First up was Jen because she is not a team player and is the weakest link. As to the second nomination she paused before saying Corey and the reason was because they’d like to see her do more during service.

After thinking it over Ramsay said, “The person going home tonight is ….. Corey (Christina had a stunned look on her face) …. say good-bye to Jen. Jen take off your jacket.”

Finally Jen was sent packing. Ramsay said being a good cook isn’t enough … you also need a good personality and he never knew which Jen he’d be talking to.

Previews show us that next week the final three will get their turns at calling out the orders and they will also be going for the jugular.

For those who might be interested Kitchen Nightmares returns in the fall. Gordon Ramsay is going to try to mellow out and be ……… nicer! I bet.

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