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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Hell’s Kitchen - Season 4 Premier

Chef Gordon Ramsay Unleashes His Kitchen Rage, Again
FOX Tuesday 9/8c

“Shut It Down!”

This is probably my favorite phrase of the entire show. At least it is one of the few quotes that I can print and not get banned.

English Chef Gordon Ramsay chose to ride in with the contestants this season to open the show. He was in costume as one of the contestants, and watched as they did impressions him. Chef Gordon then unmasked himself and the season started.

The contestants compete to run a restaraunt in Los Angeles (London LA) for Chef Ramsay. The hopeful chefs were sent immediately to the kitchen to prepare their “best” dishes.

The results were not always pretty. At one point Chef Ramsay vomited during the tasting, and made quite the production of it. The others did not fair much better.

It always boggles my mind at how the contestants don’t see that Chef Ramsay can smell confidence a mile away. It is then Chef Ramsay’s aim to break that person down, no matter what it takes. There is only room for one Chef in the kitchen. For right now, that is Gordon Ramsay.

Teams were men versus women, and captains were picked for the first dining service. This will undoubtedly be the worst service any of them have or will live through.

The men didn’t know the menu, and Jason (on appetizers) went out for a smoke after opening. Jason should have stayed outside, as he quickly proved that he can’t cook (at least not in front of people).

Sharon, on the women’s Appetizer station, was faring no better. The women had way too many cooks on the station trying to help, so of course another outburst came from Chef Ramsay. Gordon is being very good so far at only referring to the new recruits as “donkeys”.

After an hour, no appetizers had been served.

Chef Ramsay replaced the Captain on the women’s team and things started to look up. Then on the men’s side, the Captain refused to “get involved in the rest of the teams chaos”.

Chef Ramsay called the guy with the Mohawk a toilet brush, you gotta love him. Then Gordon made Louross (Mohawk boy) the team Captain and things started moving.

By the time the food started being served, customers were already leaving. It was three hours into service and no entrees had come out of either kitchen.

The men lost (so did the women, Chef Ramsay usually gives a tie to the women), so Louross had to choose two contestants for elimination. Louross chose Bobby (who referred to himself as “The General”, then got knocked down from team Captain), and Dominic (the stay-at-home dad that through away 30 scallops).

Chef Ramsay had a tough decision, who was really the worst? Dominic was chosen to leave the show, and Bobby got a “cut the B---S----” speech from Chef Ramsay.

So for this week… Shut It Down!

Contestants:
Petrova
Shayna
Ben
Craig
Rosann
Corey
Dominic - eliminated
Jen
Christina
Jason
Matt
Louross
Bobby
Sharon

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