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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Christina Wins Hell's Kitchen Season 4

Christina Takes the Cake and Prize Job
On Hell's Kitchen Season 4 Finale
FOX Tuesday 9/8c 7/08/08

While Petrozza seemed to be the shoe in for the finale prize of Executive Chef for Gordon Ramsay's new L.A. restaurant, Christina showed him up in the end. After all she had won 9 individual Reward Challenges in a row to get to the finale.

Petrozza is, without a doubt, the nicest and hardest working contestant to be part of Hell's Kitchen since Season 1 (the winner, I think his name is Michael, in particular). Working hard, and getting people to work hard for you, are two entirely different things. I don't think Christina will actually be put in charge as the Executive Chef (maybe on a relief position), but she will win the money and get an extraordinary position as a sous chef under some of the best in the world.

Christina appeared to be a hard worker as well, and she has the...um...language skills to be a great chef.

The teams for the final service were:
Red Team:
Christina - Corey, LouRoss, and... Matt (dum,dum,duuuuuummmm!)

Blue Team:
Petrozza - Bobby, Ben, and... Jen (eek!)

This was not a great service for either team and Gordon Ramsay had to be thinking, "What the f--k have I done!" But they somehow managed to finish the dinner (I think because they had to).

Both finalist let the kitchens run them, of course both were dealing with attitudes. Welcome to the kitchen of any restaurant. Matt proved that he is emotionally underdeveloped, and Jen is just a bitch. Both pouted and stomped their way through a sloppy service doing only enough to make things...interesting! Matt kept telling Chef Ramsay to shut up, knowing he could no longer be fired, that was pretty funny.

In the end Gordon Ramsay made the only decision he could, take a piece of clay and mold it into a great chef. Petrozza simply didn't offer this option. While Petrozza is a great chef, I don't see him running a Five Star restaurant kitchen (he doesn't even seem comfortable).

Christina may have a lot of learning to do considering she told he mom that the hard part is over now. She also mentioned several times on the diary camera that this would be her last stressful service (I hope she meant in Hell's Kitchen). Oh man, has she ever worked in a real restaurant, there are usually utensils flying at some point - every night!

Good luck Christina and Petrozza, it was a fun season in Hell's Kitchen.

Chef Gordon Ramsay, we will see you later in the summer on Kitchen Nightmares!


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