The only person I’ve consistently hated this entire season is Heather - and she lived up to the hate. Man, she is one unstable biddy. So your dish was the least favorite (hell, why not slap some buffalo sauce on those chicken sarnies?) - no reason to cry as if your firstborn’s been murdered. Did she realize that she had a one in four chance of being best… or worst? What the fuck, woman? Get a grip!
Keith just looks dumber and greasier by the minute. Good to see that he’s not walking on water anymore.
Victoria… I dunno. She is who she is. She uses what she has - sexuality - and it’s served her well. She has no illusions about her skill as a cook on the line, but she can get it done without the pressure. Wonder how she’d do without three conniving bastards purposely making life difficult for her in the kitchen?
Sara… the hate was strong initially but I actually give her props for standing up to Ramsay. She wasn’t an ass about it but she made it clear she wouldn’t be shit on. It is kind of karmic though how she went out - remember how she initially screwed Victoria over?
I couldn’t see the twist coming until the absolute end… nicely done HK editors!
I think Virginia was still ready to take herself out of the game until Sara just had to open her mouth one more time. Ramsay shut her down, but there’s no doubt she was going to say something bitchy. I think Ramsay really, really wanted to fire Sara and was all but begging Virginia to give him the chance.
What was with the sore losing? Crybabies much? Heather was literally crying because the construction workers didn’t like her crappy lunch. Grow up and grow a pair for God’s sake.
Speaking of Heather, I think I hate her even more than Sara. I’m sick of the fish faces and she came off as really smug during the service, loudly calling attention to Virginia’s problems just so Ramsay could hear it. Now I hope Virginia wins just because she’s the only one I don’t totally hate.
I have to agree that Heather was a complete bitch during the service.
Keith played it pretty cool tonight, making sure not to do anything too stupid, but not doing anything great.
If it had been anyone other than Sarah up for elimination with Virginia tonight, I think Virginia may have left, but Sarah was the one person she hated enough to want to send home.
Next week should be interesting to see if any of them have learned anything about running a kitchen. Plus it will be the most “shocking” elimination ever! (I thought that was supposed to be this week.)
I was giggling with glee when Virginia finally stood up for herself and said she wanted to stay. The looks on the others’ faces was priceless, especially Sara. I do not like Sara at all, and I’ve been hoping for weeks for her to get sent home. She definitely deserved to get kicked out like this, considering her sabotage of Virginia in an earlier episode.
I was also laughing my ass off when Virginia gave Sara that cow creamer gift! Sara did not look amused, though I don’t think Sara meant it as an insult. Good for Virginia for not being a doormat by spending a lot of her money on more expensive gifts for those assholes. Take your oven mitt, Heather, and eat it if you can’t say thank you with a little sincerity.
Virginia is the only nice person there, but I agree with her self-assessment that she is not cut out to run her own restaurant. Out of the other two… Heather is a bitch, and I can’t stand wanna-be’s like “K-Grease.” I say, Ramsey should shut it down now and start over from scratch.
We had a bit of a family emergency right in the middle of the episode. :mad:
Can anyone tell me what dishes the four chefs made were? (From comments and later bits I know Virginia won and Heather lost, but I missed the actual cooking part.)
Ginny: Turkey & Feta Sandwich (with a side of tits)
Sarah: Quail, Salad, and Berries
Greasy Fuck: Poached Lobster & Greens
Ape Face: Grilled Chicken Sandwich & Fries (replete with her wig out on the confession cam: “WHO DOESN’T LIKE A GRILLED CHICKEN SANDWICH!1!!1LOL!!1111” Shit, this is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Thanks SBS, I’ve watched that clip six times since I started typing this!
Ginny won because she had good grub, but she also flirted a bit with the construction guys. It was hardly outrageous, just “where have you been all of my life,” inocuous stuff. The haters made it sound as if she stripped and shook her ample jugs in their faces (not that she wouldn’t have, I just think it was hard to unbutton the chef’s get-up).
Does Ape Face care at all about how she looks on TV? Because if it were left to her cooking, she’d look pretty good. Hysterical shrieking and sobbing uncontrollably makes you look like a complete tool with mental issues. For some reason it doesn’t bother me with Virginia… I think because she’s pretty humble, actually, for all of her lust for Gordo and ass shaking. She talks too much, yes, and doesn’t seem to have an edit button (remember her long assed explanation to Ramsay about Sara’s treachery?). But I am actually beginning to appreciate her.
Think about it. Cleans up nicely, great rack, good come-from-behind story… if celebrity brings you to a restaurant she’s a lot more compelling that Zippy The Pinhead and the red-faced baboon ready to burst into tears or an manic episode over a chicken sandwich.
That’s right, I’m calling it - Ginny is going to win HK with a remarkable last two weeks after searching her soul for the Right Stuff and finding it!
They were taken to a construction site and each chef was given a kitchen-trailer to cook in. They fed the workers and some of the workers tried a sample of each chef’s meal and picked their favorite and least favorite. Heather made grilled chicken sandwiches with fries, Keith made something with lobster, I can’t remember what Sara made, and Virginia made some kind of turkey sandwiches. It was implied by the editing and the comments of the losers that Virginia won because she flirted with the construction guys. Oh, and Heather not only didn’t win, she was picked as ‘least favorite’ by the most workers.
Well, I’ll be…the shocking episode really was shocking. I actually changed my mind about everyone. Well, everyone except Heather. I think HH has her pegged.
Keith fell in my estimation for saying “bitches” and “K-grease” far too many times. Also, his ingratitude for his gift from Virginia: “Six dollars out of a thousand?”
Sarah’s been a favorite of mine despite her complete and undeniable evilness, but by the twist, we were actually laughing and clapping as she left.
Virginia was treated so shabbily by everyone, including Chef Ramsay, that I now want her to win. Good for her for using whatever she had to use to win those construction workers over. Although her repeated attempts to throw herself at Ramsay were pathetic, she didn’t deserve the way everyone ganged up against her. And then to have Chef pull the rug out from under her during the service, and then to have Chef force her to make the decision at the end…poor girl.
As for Ramsay, I definitely lost some respect for him. During the commercials, the SO and I amused ourselves by imitating Garrett from last week: “Chef lied! Chef lied!”
Heather reminds of one of those little rubber squeeze dolls you see in novelty stores – the ones where you squeeze them and their heads bulge out. That’s what her facial expressions look like. She’d be great to play poker with. Whenever you saw the dinner plates, you’d know she had the cards.
Some women have flirting so hardwired as part of their strategy for intereacting with men that it becomes almost subconscious. I think Virginia is like that. I bet if she really had a nine-to-five working a lunch truck at a construction site, she’d be exactly the same way with the men. I don’t even see it as cynical or manipulative, it’s just how she is. She isn’t mean or egotistical about it. If she was in a chick flick, she’d be the Drew Barrymore character – cute, a little scatter-brained, flirtatious, probably makes bad decisions with men. but ultimately kind of sweet and kind, the one who’s there for the others when they find out their perfect husbands are cheating on them.
She’s been edited to look like a kiss-ass with GR, but the others kiss ass too, just in different ways, witness Heather’s behavior during the service last night. You also have to like any player who can admit that she sucked and be willing to consider the fact that maybe she’s in over her head. Most of the rest have too much ego to be self-critical.
Unless Heather and Keith slip up in major fashion next week (and either of them easily could), Virginia is going home next week. She simply can’t cut it.
Which leaves the other two. Lord help us.
Keith is so full of himself that he thinks experienced chefs will not notice whether their spaghetti is cooked through.
Heather is overly emotional to the point of mental imbalance. Which has worked just great so far for Ramsay. Heather for the win.
I was very happy to see that Sara had nothing left to hide her essential incompetence. Taking life easy and slow is a lovely philosophy, but not when you are serving me my damn dinner.
She has not been adequate at all in the line of fire and that is what this is about. How many weeks has she been clueless and bumbling about the kitchen now? She can’t even do vegetables! It doesn’t matter that she has won a few challenges and that she is personable - she isn’t cutting it where it counts.
Personally, I like her just fine and like that she sent Sara home, but she can’t handle the kitchen and she can’t lead - and that’s what this competition is about.
Keith could win, but I don’t want him to.
He’s even less professional than Heather - at least Heather saves her crying and weirdness for camera confession - Keith lets his out in public. ‘K Grease’ and his horrible outfits when he’s allowed to dress himself make me shudder. It’s just not professinal enough - though if he shows he can lead in the next few weeks I’ll change my mind.
Heather should win.
People say she was bitchy in the kitchen? But…isn’t that what a head chef is supposed to do? That’s what Ramsey has been doing since day one, and the few times we’ve had kitchen people in these threads haven’t they said that as well? shrugs
Her camera confessions and crying are annoying though, but then again, she isn’t doing that in the kitchen…
I just don’t get why the other contestants can’t grow up when somebody else wins a chalenge. yes the punishment sucks, but why the vitrio toward the winner. What were they supposed to do, lay down while the others compete for it.
I understand Keith’s diappointment a bit, I mean he did take Virginia to Vegas. But it wasn’t really any reason to get all pouty.
I was also struck by the pettiness of the three losers in the competition. This show, granted, is weird in the respect that “winning” is quite subjective, “losing” involves some horrific punishment, and ultimately you’re going to have to get over it and work together.
The surveys Ramsay handed out asked for absolutes - it didn’t seem that people were gagging on any dishes. I think they all did reasonably well and I’d expect the votes to be fairly distributed. It couldn’t have been that varied. So Heather, there’s no need to fucking melt down when you’re told your dish was the least favorite, and Virginia, it’s not as if you trounced the competition. I actually understand the the elation but not being crushed. Kind of stupid, if you ask me. Hasn’t Heather been in the business for a while? Has she not ever heard someone express a preference for a dish other than hers? Fucking donkey!
Virginia was a complete ditz on the shopping spree. That being said, why was she expected to get those jackasses anything? They didn’t win. Did previous winners come back to Hell’s Kitchen with doggie bags or gifts for the losers? They should have been happy to receive anything. Maybe Keith had a point, as he took Virginia to Vegas last week, but that was his choice - she didn’t ask him to take her. Heather’s reaction in particular pissed me off. She gave her some kind of oven glove and she acted all high and mighty about it, like “this glove is so beneath me.”
All of these people have some quantity of suck in them. But as executive chef, Virginia would be responsible for menu and stuff like that, not working the line. I think she has to master that in the next weeks to have credibility among her staff. If she does, I can see her winning. Heather really annoys me, and Keith isn’t far behind (here’s a clue, K-Grease: try looking directly at the camera. You actually look like you’re a third-grader busted for lying in the confessionals because you can’t keep still and maintain eye contact. And FUCK YOU for being tacky and not giving Virginia a hand when she asked for your help… that’s real classy).
Finally there is an Og because…drum roll…SARA’S GONE! I can’t think of enough curse words to describe how I honestly feel about her. I loved it when GR called her out on her attempts to sabotage during service
(In case you’re wondering, I’ve had the dubious pleasure of working with Sara-like clones. I’ve always, ALWAYS wanted one of them to be exposed for the hypocritical lying two-faced bitches they were. I got my just deserts! Hee!)
Very good, Virginia. Honestly, I couldn’t see that about-face coming because, between you and Heather, it’s been the War of the Crybabies, except for some reason yours tends to get a tad more on my nerves than Heather’s. I never would’ve pegged you as calculating. And I give you props for at least buying everyone a little somethng from Sur la Table. So what if it wasn’t an $80 chef’s knife? It was something. Would you have done the same, Mr. K-Grease?
I like Heather. She and Rachel have been the only two who have poured their hearts and souls into what this whole HK is about – cooking. I wouldn’t be upset if she won.
Keith, sweetheart? Please stop looking like a dead fish. It’s not becoming. You’ve got the talent…now how about stepping up the consistency?
I’m glad I wasn’t drinking something when I read that. I’ve been subconsciously trying to figure out what Keith reminds me of for weeks. Henceforth he shall be known as The Dead Fish in my household! (It’s better than “K-Grease.”)
Did anyone notice there appeared to be an edit between the time Ramsay told Virginia to choose the loser and the time she answered? He said something like, “Come back and give me your answer.” Then it cuts to Virginia and Sara, still in the same spot, but Virginia’s expression is noticeably different. I’ll bet she had a few minutes to think about it, and in that time she got over her little pity party and decided that sweet revenge on Sara was more important than facing up to her own incompetence. Yes, they are all pretty despicable, aren’t they?
I also think Heather will win. She’s a bitchy little cry-baby, but she controls it when she has to and seems to have real skill. I foresee her triumph over Boobs and The Dead Fish (band name!) in the coming weeks.
Reading over the menus, I had a Goldilocks flashbacl:
“This one (the lobster) is too ritzy (does he think we’re effect metrosexuals???) and this one (grilled chicken/fries) is insultingly downscale (Grilled chicken and fries – does she think we deserve nothing better than fast food??) with the other two (quail and turkey) being JUST RIGHT.” Then Ginny takes it over Sarah because the men are more familiar with turkey (and a lot of people prefer flavors they are familiar with) plus Ginny did more flirting.
Interesting idea.
What struck me was that Ramsey put Virginia on the vegetables both last week and this. And last they made a point of mentioning that Virginia had ten different side dishes to keep track of and have ready on a two minute cue from whoever was doing the meat/fish part of the entree.
In contrast, there seemed to be only a single fish entree, and the meat person had at most three or four dishes.
It seems lopsided to me. I’d much rather be trying to keep just a few things under contrl then TEN.
Keith is a total buttwipe. Yeah, he “took Virginia to Vegas,” but it cost him NOTHING to do so. Meanwhile, an $80 knife would have been a big chunk out of Virginia’s shopping spree prize. And I was pissed at Heather, too. You kind of expect Sara to be a bitch, but you expect a little more from Heather.
About the lunch truck challenge: did it NEVER occur to Heather that part of the reason why she lost was because of the assumption she made that construction workers would want a chicken sandwich with fries instead of something a bit more exciting? The fries in particular made me cringe. Use your imagination, woman!
