Hell's Kitchen!!!!!! [Summer 2009]

So, where do you think he’d do better? The Amazing Race? Dancing With The Stars? :smiley:

“America’s Next Top ER Patient”. :slight_smile:

Put him in a wig and drop him into More to Love…

We’re still a men v women show. Has Hell’s Kitchen ever gone this far with so few team-changes? We’ve only had 1 if you don’t count Robert’s entrance a team change. (He was brought in on Red, then switched to Blue 1 or 2 weeks later)
If Andy goes next week, then Ramsay’ll move one of the girls over (probably Suzanne since they all hate her)
If that happens, I don’t think the Blue team will have any dead weight since Suzanne has succeeded in the past.

cause I’m bored:
FlightlessBird’s rankings at this point:
BLUE:
Kevin
Van
Dave
Andy

RED:
Ariel
Sabrina
Suzanne
Tenille
Amanda

Sooo right! (Did you cheat?)
Who goes tonight? It’s a woman’s turn, so I nominate either Sabrina or Tennille. Preferably Sabrina, she of the vanishing chicken.

Nah, just seemed like his time.

I would totally suck at that palate challenge. Plus, I’ve never even had some of that stuff.

I hate when Ramsay pulls someone else out of the lineup! If I was the person who had agonized over who to put up on the block, I’d be super pissed. And why, WHY are we still stuck with Suzanne?

I’d be worried. Like it would mean either I had no idea who was actually doing badly – or else I was playing some game to get rid of someone who I knew wasn’t in the bottom two (either out of personal dislike or because I was trying to get rid of a strong competitor) and Ramsay knew I was trying to do it. :eek:

Probably because he didn’t thing she was all that bad, comparatively. I mean, she screwed up this service, but others have screwed up multiple times.

Or else it means he/the producers find the drama of her vs. the rest of the team more interesting a story line than Amanda’s rather hang dog passivity.

On consideration, I’d bet the latter was the reason.

Oh, another thing: is running out of one item, like the mashed potatoes, really all that serious a crime? I mean, you prep ahead of time, guessing that there will be, say, thirty people ordering whatever it goes with. Say the salmon. So if it turns out that 40 people want salmon…

Or is the point that you’re supposed to look ahead? After 20 people order salmon and you still have half your tables to go, you should start peeling more potatoes??

Either way, Dave is really racking up the brownie points.

Yeah, I think this is the first time I’ve seen them running out of something, and then someone actually did something about it! Up till now, I thought they meant there really wasn’t any left on the premises. (I think when that happens in a real restaurant, someone is dispatched to the grocery store).

I’m kind of disappointed the guys didn’t have to eat offal, which has been a punishment for the losers in past taste challenges. Still those shakes did look pretty gross.

To keep the drama and tension levels up. She should’ve been eliminated after that night’s performance, but because Amanda just obviously wasn’t going to win anyway (she just doesn’t have that type-a personality they’re looking for) they cut her instead, so Sperm Eyebrows Suzanne can keep things intense on the red team.

Probably the same reason Robert got cut instead of Andy. Andy had more drama potential left once Robert used up the “I’m dying again” card. (Not that Robert had any excuse to undercook something that badly that far into his second go round, though)

Does Andy have a tongue piercing? Every time he opened his mouth during the blind tasting segment I thought I saw something glistening way back on his tongue. Seems like an odd choice, for a guy.

When Ramsay asked Amanda whether she could really win the competition, the way she answered showed even she didn’t believe she could. Pathetic.

Ol’ One-armed Dave is kicking ass and taking names. Not what I expected from Lowell.

Apparently none of us cares if Andy chops his damn fingers off. :slight_smile:

I am very impressed with Dave! I hate that stupid hat, though.

It’s weird that the contestants don’t seem to pick up on this. It basically doesn’t matter who gets put up, because Ramsey just sends who he wants anyway. In this last episode, there was a scene near the end where they talked about putting the two women up and not Andy. Doing that makes no sense, since Ramsey will probably just send Andy anyway, and everybody just looks like idiots.

Yup, exactly. They should know by now that if he thinks your picks suck, someone else is going.

Dung Beetle: I had to fast forward on the DVR when that happened. Oh, man…

Dolores Reborn: Agreed, Dave is really plugging along impressively. Again, I’m still hoping he’s not permanently screwing up his hand in the process.

At the moment, I’m predicting Dave, Kevin and Whoopi Goldberg, err, Tenille as the final three.

As long as he doesn’t screw something up horribly, my vote is for Dave, the One-Armed Wonder Chef. Can’t rule out the strong but practically invisible Kevin, though. Tenille seems to have found her groove in the kitchen, but she annoys me so…

I am really surprised that he was able to get patched up and back into the kitchen so quickly. I heard someone (either the medic or sous chef Scott) say something about getting him to the clinic - if they’d gone to a regular hospital ER, he wouldn’t have been back for several hours. Dude must have a massive pain threshold - he complained about dexterity problems, but most people would have been howling in pain after slicing their fingertips off.

Teneille seems to be shining, but she and Van are just so repulsive that I just want them to fail miserably. Ariel and Kevin are quietly performing well, and Dave is doing great beyond what one could expect with that broken wrist.

Those crepes were all pretty lousy looking, IMHO. They may have been tasty, but they didn’t look appealing. How hard can it be to make a pretty crepe when you have an electric crepe-maker?

StG

Nah, Dave is a good cook, but he’s not a chef. Same thing with Tenille. They’re just work horses for the team.

Kevin, Ariel, and Van will be the final three. Kevin and Van will be the final two. Kevin will be the winner.

Nope.

Kevin, Ariel, Dave
Kevin, Ariel
Kevin