Actually he only makes fun of people who use the term “executive chef” when it’s obvious you havenm’t had to run a kitched with a staff. I his Nightmare series, he’s come across a few people who call themselves “Eexcecutive chef” and they have 1 other cook in the kitchen and a dishwasher and they cook nothing but deep fried crap.
If a chef runs a real kitchen with a real staff and designs the menu, THAT’s an executive chef.
Yes, we get it already. The show’s name is a pun. Hell’s Kitchen, haha. So enough with the pitchfork in the bumpers. Please stop beating the audience over the head with the pun, thankew.
[Does it make sense to make this a permanent HK thread, or should we have a new one each week?]
Jessum Crow, this is the most hateful reality TV cast since The Real World: Austin. I hate the men, I hate the women, and I hate them individually. Especially fuckin’ Heather. Brownnosing jackass. She looked like she was going to cry when Ramsey called her out for micromanaging Sara. And what was with the bowing up to the guy who made the dumbass “cook dinner for us” comment? You can’t be all “yay girls boo boys” one minute and get all pissy when it gets thrown back at you. She is annoying as all fuck but I suspect she’ll be around for a while.
That dude Keith - is he for fuckin’ real? He wears his drawers high and his pants low because “that’s how he rolls?” Are you kidding me? What an immense loser. He should be kicked in the groin repeatedly for this stunning display of tooliness.
“Tough Guy” Tom also worked my last nerve in this ep, looking like a poor man’s Little Steven and talking a whole lot of shit and doing fuck all to back it up. He seems to be intent on proving how “street” he is but I’ve seen him at the verge of tears the entire episode! Furthermore, it’s pretty clear what Ramsey thinks of his tough guy act - not very much.
I am enjoying Heather vs. Sara. I’m backing Sara because, well, she ain’t Heather. But Sara’s an annoying little whiner too.
Definitely looks like the quiet ones are the front runners - they’ve avoided pissing off Ramsey. Rachel and Garrett (despite his dumb comment earlier) seem to fit the role. The sooner wasters like Tom, Keith, Maribel, and Sara get of the show, the better!
Gee, I was going to post some stuff, but **Hippy Hollow ** has pretty much said what I was going to say!
Does Keith remind anyone else of Zippy the Pinhead? I think his comment about the low pants was, “That’s how I rock 'em.” Just thinking about it nearly makes the skin crawl off my back.
So, what’s the name of the girl with the huge gazongas? And what’s up with her little comments about getting to know Chef “on a different level” and “If Chef were here, he could rub lotion on us?” It seems like there are other reality shows which would put her “talents” to better use.
I’m sad to see Giacomo leave. He was the only one left on the blue team who wasn’t a raging asshole.
The boys vs. girls thing is really getting irritating, IMO. In the end, there’s only one winner, right? Fuck that stupid “girls rule!” shit.
How is Gordon Ramsay not in jail? Seriously. In the promos I’ve seen him throw stuff at people and even give someone a shove.
I guarantee you that if my boss laid a hand on me at work, she would be escorted out of the building by Security immediately if not sooner. I’m not such a big pussy that I’d press charges or sue or anything, but surely US labor law provides punishment for physically assaulting one of your employees.
That was a good unintentionally funny moment, right along with “That struck a chord with me,” from heather (I no longer like her) who obviously doesn’t know what that phrase means.
Sara was good, but annoying, at least one of the women very obviously (and annoyingly) wants to get into the chef’s pants. And I liked the scene where the guys were going over the recipes (though they were all jerks about the laundry). Pity it didn’t work for them.
I’m assuming that he’s not in jail for the same reason Vince MacMahon isn’t in jail for giving someone a piledriver - it’s part of the show, and the contestants have signed a million waivers giving consent for all in good fun violence.
I think that his other show, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares gives a better picture of his real personality – foul-mouthed and abrasive, but not physically violent, and capable of using praise and appeals to reason as needed.
I got to say though – I got a kick out of the fat, sweaty stockbroker saying that Ramsay wouldn’t want to take him on in a street fight. Observing the two of them, I’ve got an idea of who I’d bet on if things came to some of the old ultraviolence.
Gosh, I missed it last night. Hopefully the dvr got it, I’ll have to check it later tonight!
I now know who got kicked off because I went to the website to check up on names and bam, noticed Giacomo was now crossed off. He was the ONLY guy I was rooting for.
The other guys just seem so arrogant and, most irritating of all, sweaty…
At first I detested the woman for being so needy, but now I’m thinking their our only hope!
My impression from the first show was that Heather at least knew what she was doing from the female team. Some of the others women are rather…clueless.
For the men, again, arrogant and sweaty. I wouldn’t want Keith or Tom touching my food.
As an added strike against Keith he yelled at the clueless dark haired woman last week looking for lamb sauce. (Sarah?) Yes, they are in a competition. Yes, it’s guys vs girls. BUT, when there are customers waiting for food, imho, it’s more important to focus on their needs, not petty rivalries. But, again, I’m ignoring the fact that it’s a competition with my complaint…
You have to remember that this is not a realistic view of how a restaurant kitchen operates. (For example, take the relay cooking thing they did last night. What restaurant works like that?) So the whole thing, including his behavior, is meant as entertainment. My guess is that they asked him to emulate Simon Cowell.
I would recommend viewing his Kitchen Nightmares show to see him behave differently. I really don’t like that most American reality shows are done as competitions while that seems much less common with the UK shows. (For example, compare CBS’s Survivor vs. the BBC’s Castaway.)
Oh yes, that bugs me too…everyone in the kitchen is dripping sweat, no one has their hair properly restrained, they taste things and put the spoon back in, touch their faces, etc. Ick!
I noticed this last night - finally watched the show! (The spoon thing)
And the diners said the exact thing I would: “I hope my food isn’t being made by that guy!”
Good show, but we’re running out of likable characters fast!
We started with zero. How much lower could it go?
I agree, there’s no one likeable. Giacomo was but he really deserved to go for his mistake. I’m not a professional chef but at least 99.999% of the time when I cook something I remember to turn on the oven. What makes it doubly dumb is that in a previous episode, Tom or somebody else, didn’t have the stove on. Don’t just learn from your mistakes, learn from the other guys.
Heather seems to be the most experienced and kitchen savvy, but yeah, she’s a bit bossy and full of herself - which probably makes her perfect for the job of executive chef. I hope Tom and Keith go next. I hate sweaty Tom and Keith should forget cooking and be an actor. He could specialize in creepy serial killer roles. I could picture him saying, “It puts the lotion on it’s skin!”
Rachel and her boobs and Ramsay lust are getting annoying, too.
The relay challenge may not have been realistic but it was to prove a point about commmunication. He really shouldn’t have had any winners for that challenge because both sides screwed up, so what if one tasted better.