GVR was featured on its own reality show, American Casino, a couple-or-three years ago. I still remember the episode when one the top executives, Michael Tata, died and how much it affected his assistant, Nina. It was a heart-wrenching episode. Haunting. And the place had some fabulous restaurants.
When I see the ads, they are full of the star-dudes yelling at and belittleing the apprentice cooks. He appears to be a giant asshoe of the 1st order so I have studiously avoided the show. Any boss that talked to me like that - I’d quit on the spot, and file suit for harrassment.
[hijack]Lib, my husband and I watched that whole series - haunting is a very good word for it.[/hijack]
Yeah, that’s exactly what I think. The only thing though that is holding her back is her lack of more refined techniques, foods etc. which can be learned.
I’m totally there too, but I’m wondering if the American producers will have him being “meaner” on the new show, because it make for better TV (in their view). I like the BBC version where he’s less of a cartoon.
Looking at the restuarants at the resort I predict if Julia wins she’ll run The Original Pancake House, while if Rock wins he’ll probably run the Grand Cafe. I don’t think any of them are good enought to run Hank’s.
Well, he did a Hell’s Kitchen in Britain too, but I haven’t seen it. Was he “cartoony” on that one, too?
By the way, the one bit when the guys were bitching that Bonnie could hear what Chef Ramsay was saying…I think she was lying in her one-on-one with the camera. She talked crap about the guys and how she couldn’t actually hear Ramsay. When I saw her eyes on the one-on-one with the camera, I was convinced she was lying. She could hear him well enough.
Not that it really matters in the end. She’ll probably go home in the next episode or two.
Did anyone else think Julia’s scallops were overdone?
To my eyes, they did not have a nice brown crust, so there would be no way they could be overdone
Actually, if you’re cooking at too low a temperature, it’s very easy to end up with the insides cooked all the way and the outsides not brown enough. Especially with something like scallops, which seems to go from ‘right’ to ‘way overcooked’ in a split second. 
So why say langostine instead of lobster? I doubt she was thinking “if I say langostine I’ll get credit for being close and people won’t think I heard”. They don’t get credit for being close.
Actually, I have a nagging suspicion she cheated, too. She heard “l–st–.”
It was her eyes in the post-event interview. She brought it up and when she made a flat-out denial - well, I just don’t trust those eyes. I’m not always right, but I’m not often wrong, either.
This is the first season I have caught, but shouldnt they be hitting their stride by now. They seem to continue having problems with the appetizers.
Both teams cant seem to cook a Wellington, and I dont know how Bonnie got the outside of the so brown but raw on the inside, unless she still doesn’t know how to control the burners.
Whoops, on edit - no I haven’t seen the British Hell’s Kitchen.
That said, on the British version of “Kitchen Nightmares,” Ramsay is not as much of a cartoon. He also does brilliant diagnosis of the problems facing restaurants and genuinely seems to care about turning them around. The show is MUCH better than Hell’s Kitchen, and I’m extremely… EXTREMELY… nervous about it coming to Fox. Especially with the yelling, screaming commercial. Ah well, I probably shouldn’t be nervous, since it’s almost a certainty they’re gonna fuck it up and give us the one-dimensional Tasmanian-devil with a British accent and a sailor’s vocabulary.
Anyways - I don’t really see any of these contestants running a kitchen. I’m pulling for Julia - but I highly doubt that, at the end of the day, Ramsay and the producers are gonna hand over a restaurant to her.
You need a high oven, about 400F-450 for around 30- 40 minutes.
My favorite scene from Kitchen Nightmares is when Ramsay took the chef’s horrible thick dark brown gravy and went out to the parking lot to fix pot holes with it.
Did you notice which way she looked. I think when people look to the left it means they’re lying … or is it the right?
I think the women would have had it won anyway and I’m sure if any of those guys were able to hear they would have used it to their advantage, too. Although I don’t know why Ramsay says what the food is as he gives it to them. The teammates don’t really need to know in advance and it would add more to their suspense if they’d have to wait for Ramsay to say whether or not they got it right. The headphones should only be so they don’t hear the other guy’s guess.
I had to think about it and yeah, she looked down and to the left. I haven’t explicitly thought of it that way before. I fully believe she lied but I could very well be wrong. Like you say, the ladies would probably have won the competition in any case.