Yeah, I figure that’s just a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Also that’s the first time in my life I’ve ever seen a bike like that. It looks like a miniature version of a tilt-a-whirl or some weird-ass carnival ride.
Heh, I was close… It’s really a septobike.
The Conference Bike carries seven people. And like Henry Ford did eons ago with cars, you can have this thing in any color you like, as long as it’s bright red.
I missed it - did we get to find out what happened to the chicken? I want to slap her each time I hear “oopsie-doopsie.”
And yes, putting Robert on that bike was so not a good idea. I half-wondered if it was staged for some reason, because it just didn’t make any sense.
He was probably asked if he wanted to ride it. If he said yes he probably had to sign a bunch of waivers. If he said no, well then, he wouldn’t ride it and they’d have him doing some different form of busy work back at the kitchen.
There had to be an EMS team riding alongside just off camera waiting with charged paddles. Stat.
Those bikes were also featured some years ago in The Amazing Race: Family Edition.
You see them sometimes lumbering their way thru our less congested parks, like Flushing Meadow or Riverside, etc. Entrepreneurs rent them out and then sometimes are the “drivers” as well, taking hardy tourists on tours.
Heh, there’s a guy over at TWOP who lives in the neighborhood where the studio and the store they went to are at, and says that that hill is not between the studio and the store but totally out of the way and he has no idea why they had to go over it. If I were the guys, I would have hopped off and pushed the damn thing while ignoring Scott’s whining on his motorbike, and then gotten back on when they reached level ground. But that’s why I never get on TV.
If you add up the charge on all the annoyance particles (annoyicles?) emitted by the people on this show in its life, Scott is *BY FAR *the winner. He’s always such a prick and he’s been on every season.
Are you serious? He says maybe five sentences over the course of a whole season. There is no way he can be a winner by far compared to a lot of the early contestants.
I love chef Scott, he’s a bad ass. His scratchy voice only adds to the appeal. Chef Gloria was a bad ass too, but now all we have is pussy Heather. I can’t imagine anyone taking orders from her.
Bumpity bumpity, tonight’s the night.
So this isn’t a total waste of space, place your bets: Is Robert coming back to the show?
Not for long.
Is interest in this show going to last until the end of the season? It seems to be waning already, if last week’s responses were any indication of future interest.
I liked how Van told the executive table, “So, what do y’all want?”
BTW, did the blue team chef’s table ever get served?
As much as I hate to admit it, shouty Tennille was dead on about the garlic puree, and I figured she would be when I saw them assembling the dish.
And one of the right people went. The plastic wrap screwups were really bad, but Robert just wasn’t producing, and he had more than enough experience in that kitchen.
Edit: I flipped back through the video, and I’m not sure the blue kitchen’s chef’s table did get served. They had empty plates in front of them at the “kitchen closing” scene, at least.
I knew the girls were going to lose that challenge as soon as they dismissed Ten. Not because I knew she was right, but because I knew her bitching about being right would have been better TV.
Now, I’m not saying Ramsay chose the men specifically so Ten would rant and rave about it. I’m saying, Ramsay chose the men as the winners, and they showed Ten suggesting something. If the girls won, they’d have shown the guys suggesting something that didn’t make it to the final dish, or just something that would have had them bitching and whining.
I think I’ve been watching this show too long. I even quoted Ramsay before he said certain things. When he said “Do me a favor.” I said “Get back in line.” and lo and behold, so did Ramsay.
And yeah, I don’t think the men’s chef’s table got served.
I need to find the British version of Kitchen Nightmares so I can see a Ramsay show that isn’t entirely manufactured. There’s really no way to know nor care about any of what’s going on when likely everything significant that happens isn’t televised and anything insignificant (but that works to the script) is included, the winner is predetermined by the end of the first show, and so on and so forth.
Finding the winner of Hell’s Kitchen would be laughably simple if we had the information we needed:
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Young enough to be get some worth out of taking a fake title so as to be a real chef’s gopher in a nice kitchen and get the connections and experience needed to advance in his/her career. Ramsay isn’t going to give the prize to someone for whom it is just a chunk of change, not a career maker.
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Knowledge of gourmet cooking and ingredients. Tenniel or whoever-the-ass steakhouse chef, wafflehouse chef, whatever isn’t going to get the job. They don’t have the knowledge, so stop pretending otherwise.
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Shuts up and works solidly, but not a complete shrinking violet nor no-heart prep-cook.
That’s all there is to it. Items 1 and 2 tels you who isn’t going to win during the ten minutes of the first episode of the season. Item 3 would be readily apparent after at most 3 or 4 servings if we actually saw everyone during every episode.
Isn’t it part of the fun to try and guess who will be making it to the various stages of the show though?
“Oh s/he won’t be making it past three episodes.” Or “Damn, that guy is going far.”
I predicted Rock to win within the first two episodes. He just had it all. His previous position was something respectable and he didn’t overstate his abilities during the early goings. He simply knew he was good, but not God’s gift to cooking.
The rest of that season I watched to make sure Rock didn’t fuck up and get himself sent home. He came close and gave me a couple of scares if I remember correctly, but it was fun watching my first pick go the distance.
They’ve got it on the BBC America channel if you get that, but I’m 99% sure they broadcast an American (Fox-produced) episode of Kitchen Nightmares on there the other day, so watch out. His show The F Word is excellent; it’s part cooking competition (his team of newbies try to put out good food for the clientele and are measured by how many customers say they’d pay for that dish, as well as by their results vs. previous competitors), part celebrity interview on food, part cooking instructions for the home audience, and part ‘this is how this food item gets to your table.’ I especially like the ones about him trying to raise food animals himself. He was rather stunned on the episode where he went to a slaughterhouse for the first time; it wasn’t a hellhole or anything, it just disturbed him a bit.
And back to the garlic puree - either they’re not tasting the food or all they did was go “yup, garlic” and not think about how it worked with the other items on the plate. Pure garlic like that can be nasty; the only way I would have tried it is to oven-roast the garlic so the cloves get soft and the flavor gets extremely mellow.
Last week he dismissed Jim for not having enough internal fire. I thought for sure that this week he was going to keep Robert and dump Andy for the same reason. Maybe he got worried that Robert really would collapse if he kept going.