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Eddie was making the same mistake the guy with the raw chicken did last season: making excuses. When you screw up, admit the mistake and correct it. If it’s after the fact, swallow your pride and say it won’t happen again. Twice Eddie blamed the people around him. While it may have been true, GR doesn’t give a shit just as any other boss doesn’t. All it shows is that you are unwilling to admit your mistakes and won’t correct them in the future because you will just blame them on someone/something else.
That still stands out from last season
GR: “This chicken is raw!”
Cook: “I was trying to get it out faster”
Still a good show…I agree with whomever said that Aaron was kept around just because he isn’t any kind of real threat. I would have picked Edie to stay, and the other guy to go, although it looked from the footage that he really couldn’t keep the other guys from interfering in his station.
I think the waffle house girl is really showing that you don’t have to be a ‘gourmet’ chef in order to know how to cook. She got several of the fish right, and was the only one that seemed to be able to cook the eggs last episode. I hope the girls get over their “she worked at a fucking waffle house” mentality and give her a fair shot.
I think this decision was made by the producers. In an episode last year when the leader didn’t put the worst person on the block, Ramsey vetoed her choices. Aaron was the clear choice this week.
Perhaps at this point though they figure anyone they throw out on the men’s team won’t affect the final result. Eddie was as good a choice as any… He was right when he said he wasn’t assertive enough (BTW, not blaming anyone else or criticizing GR on his last video clip? That doesn’t make him a bad chef, it makes him a bad game show contestant – Good Riddance, say the producers!).
To make it through the first half of the episodes, it seems (I’m going to ignore the game-show politics and strategies here, though that plays a huge role), you have to be able to handle the pressure, prepare and season dishes quickly and to GR’s aesthetic standards, and be able to work with your team to get whole meals out.
Later in the show, you’re going to have to be able to show you can run the kitchen, give orders, make decisions on the fly, and hold everyone else to GR’s exacting standards.
It doesn’t bode well for the men that they couldn’t get their food up and done right this week without Aaron in the kitchen. We won’t really know what they’re capable of until Aaron’s gone, of course.
My early prediction: Melissa is one of the finalists.
Next week there’s supposed to be a breakfast service, so she’ll probably embarass the rest of the girls again.
From watching “Kitchen Nightmares”, I get the impression Ramsay himself doesn’t have any prejudice against waffle house cooks. He likes a well-run waffle house way better than some place that serves pretentious crap, and he’s happy to promote some kid in the corner who loves to cook above a “chef” who’s phoning it in.
Poor Eddie. But seriously, how many of us thought he would win? I didn’t. He looked too weak to run a restaurant.