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Wow, I’m shocked. I’d thought Gio was going to the final two and then, boom!
Do you think Robert(?) or whoever was right, that what did Gio in was mouthing back to Chef Ramsay?
Or, do you agree that it was a change in Gio’s attitude that we saw all day, that basically he had lost heart and mentally given up?
So, now I’m leaning towards a Paula/Danny F2, given that the other three combined for a really disastrous night on the entrees.
I couldn’t even tell what he said. Fuckface? Shitface? They bleeped it into incomprehensibility.
I’ve also wondered whether they overapply the bleeps sometimes to make it seem like there’s more swearing… like the Jimmy Kimmel “unnecessary censorship” gag.
I guessed that his age was finally catching up to him, since this isn’t shot on a weekly basis but in a much more compressed schedule. But you also have to wonder if maybe he was able to fly under the radar in that respect with more people to help out in the kitchen previously.
The “hot pan in a cooler without warnings about hot pans” was a really bad move. He also screwed up the chicken dish. I’m not sure he necessarily needed to have talking back as a nail in his coffin, especially since Andrea came back and did (apparently) good work after the pep talk from Jean-Phillippe.
I think he would have gotten tossed for either the talking-back (with a not-so-hot performance behind him, minus the burn), or for the weight of the other screwups plus burning Robert but without talking back. Giovanni pretty much did everything as wrong as he could have, compared to the others. If he hadn’t burned Robert and hadn’t talked back to Ramsay, I’m guessing it would have been a much closer race between him and Andrea; her spacing out about what dishes were coming up would have looked much worse, I suspect.
I’m sure he saw the tape of Gio slacking off with the deliveries. That’s a Grade A Number 1 way to say “I’m not a team player.”
Leaving a hot sizzle-plate where someone could grab it? Just plain stupid and reckless. If it’s too hot, put it into the dish sink. If you slide them into the water just right, they make a wild shrieking noise.
Gio had also screwed up the meat station once before (on steakhouse night?), despite being a steakhouse chef.
I agree that we’re headed to a Paula/Danny final.
It was time for Gio to go. Screwing up the grill on steakhouse night should have been the end of him. Putting a 500 degree skillet into a refrigerator is simply inexcusable. I liked the way he stood up to Ramsey when he called him a “@#$% face” but it probably wasn’t a good career move. Ramsey’s retort that his yelling was professional and not personal had me laughing out loud.
I’ll be shocked if Paula and Danny aren’t in the final two. Of course, in the preview for next week:Ramsey may shut down Hell’s Kitchen and not reopen it so we might never get to the final two. :rolleyes:
I was watching while I was getting ready, so I only half-caught something in the elimination that Ramsay said about Robert - did he say that Robert had nominated himself for elimination because of his burnt hand? (I can see why, if he had, as they pretty much work without a break to record the season’s shows, and that hand would take a while to heal.)
Oh, Giovanni… he started pretty strong, but just fell apart this episode. I can understand snapping at Ramsay, but the hot pan incident was pretty dumb. It looked to me as though he was expecting Robert to give him more clearance when they sort of collided. But or course Robert didn’t, not expecting a hot pan out to come out the cooler. Dumb and dangerous. What if somebody had just grabbed it barehanded?
During the the running after the van debacle, I really felt for Giovanni! First the sous chef (that’s what those two are called, right?) starts snapping at him to run, then when he comes back Paula snaps that he was acting like a maniac. Look, if he hadn’t run immediately, he’d have lost the driver. Better to have caught him and not needed him rather than missed him and needed him, I think.
Andrea’s the weakest left. Danny and Paula are still looking great, with Paula getting a slight edge this episode. Did anybody else notice they showed numerous times Ramsay complimented Paula (two shots in a row at one point during service), but hardly any attention paid to Danny? I wonder if they are setting us up for a fall from Paula or just showing that she is gaining the lead.
No way. Even if he was the bomb at leading a kitchen brigade, he’s still a steakhouse chef. As someone running a place that serves artsy culinary food at exorbitant prices, I’m not going to hire someone who doesn’t know any food beyond steak, mashed potatoes, and mac & cheese, and who is probably too old and high up the ladder to learn.