I sometimes think the producers have different prizes for the challenges depending on which group wins.
Something like this: The first time the girls win, they’ll get A. The second time, they get B. And so on. With the guys, the first time they win, they’ll get X. The second, Y and so on.
Probably adjusted for how late into the season it is. No photoshoots for the beginning group, but later on once they’re down to the people who have genuine shots at winning the whole thing.
I’ve assumed this as well. Flying fighter jets seems overwhelmingly like a guy thing, and a spa day and facial is for the ladies. Later into the show, once the teams get lopsided and Ramsay shuffles people around, the rewards get more unisex - a bay cruise and lunch aboard a yacht, for example.
I was surprised they let Robert do the fighter jet thing.
Okay! It’s Tuesday again, so another “Reminder” bump.
(Hey, everyone has a role to play in the universe. I guess this is mine.)
Looks like ol’ Tennille’s mouth is going to write a check her ass can’t cash…
I don’t know. I seem to recall that last season the guys’ team won a spa outing.
We can only hope.
Don’t forget, Hell’s Kitchen on in one hour. 
Anyone? Anyone at all?
Judging by how much they showed him during service, I think Van is going to make it very deep into the competition. Everyone else did something that had Ramsay screaming at them, except Van. I believe.
As for the ladies, Amanda and Sabrina are still lookin’ good.
I don’t recall Ariel getting real grief either.
The elimination didn’t really surprise me – Ramsey just can’t abide laziness/disinterest in any cook, but for someone like that to be ‘in charge’? Never.
Yeah you’re right, Ariel was pretty under the radar as well.
These two obviously have some decent cooking chops. It would take several bad services in a row for them to get sent home. The others need to have a few damn good services or else they’re going home.
EDIT: The elimination didn’t surprise me either. We’ve obviously been watching this way too much.
Has anyone noticed how they keep hyping that the prize is to be “head chef” at Araxi when in reality that can’t be true? Araxi has a head chef already and I somehow doubt he’s going to just step aside because some lucky sous chef from nowhere managed to burn the fewest scallops over a twelve week period. In actual fact, the winners of Hell’s Kitchen get a huge salary and thus get to be some resentful head chef’s overpaid kitchen monkey for a year. But Ramsay keeps yelling at them “Is that how you’re going to run things at Araxi?!?!”
These days chefs are getting almost as many vanity titles as movie producers. Lately, often the Head chef works under the Executive chef, and sometimes there is also even a Chef de Cuisine stuck in the command structure somewhere too.
I could see that Jim’s lackadaisical attitude was going to sink him. He reminds me of one of the women (“oopsie-doopsie. Burn the halibut.”, “Maybe the chicken flew away”). Lying about the chicken was stupid - Ramsey was even looking in the trash, so it was obvious that she just didn’t make it and figured no one would check when she said it was missing.
It was almost criminal to put Robert on that bike, knowing he had the heart condition. They should’ve left him in the kitchen on prep.
StG
I sincerely hope Robert reads the writing on the wall about his health and adopts a new attitude about it.
“I’m a guy who loves cooking with butter and fat!” Yeah, no shit, Sherlock. They’ll put that on your tombstone.
If you read back a page or so, I linked to some stuff about how he’s lost quite a few pounds and is still alive, so at least that octo-bike ordeal didn’t kill him. Don’t know yet whether he’ll be back in the kitchen next week, though.
At least Chef was good enough not to summarily eliminate him when he was nominated in absentia.
I can just imagine how it went down at the production office afterward with some attorney ranting about how they put a person with a known heart issue through an obviously and excessively strenuous physical activity.
Jim? NOOOooooooooooo!
My poor laid-back, baby-food-eatin’ man. So misunderstood.
Bah, I knew he wouldn’t win anyway.
When they showed that weird-assed bike my first thought was, “They’re going to make a man with a known heart condition EXERCISE?!” Then when they were showing the hill it became, “Doesn’t matter if he wins or not, the settlement Robert’s going to get after this causes a heart attack will have him sitting pretty.”
Also, I couldn’t help but notice Ariel’s cleavage is real, and it’s spectacular.
I know squat about the guy’s condition, but I don’t think that ride looked much more strenuous than walking up a length of stadium stairs.
Ha! I’ve never seen the show before, but I caught this episode. Holy shit, I thought his team should’ve had him walk or push - anything but sit on that bike, as he clearly wasn’t going to be able to put out enough power to carry his own weight.
When Van talked back to JP and started a fight and JP got in trouble for it, I knew he was one of Ramsay’s faves and would be staying for a while.