To me, Gordon seemed angrier than usual in the first episode. I couldn’t believe how many people he kicked out of the kitchen the first night, but it looked like it paid off, with the rest of them actually FINISHING a service.
I half expected him to just say “fuck it” and kick off everyone he’d sent out of the kitchen instead of just one person like normal. But then they’d run out of episodes too soon, huh? :smack:
And is anyone sick of the teams always starting out “boys vs girls”? Why not mix them up a bit to start? That’d be a nice change.
I thought he’d kick out Fran. Stacy screwed up cooking the scallops, but Fran failed at cooking potatoes and THEN didn’t know the difference between crab and lobster.
I’ve got a bad feeling about Autumn. Seems way too princessy.
Is it just me or does it seem like they cast this show specifically with people they know are going to piss Gordon off? It’s not like Top Chef where the contestants are cast with actual cooking skills and restaurant experience considered first; Hell’s Kitchen tends to select a few high-level cooks and then a bunch of scrubs(high school cooking teacher, culinary store manager, food court chef, that one girl who worked at IHOP, etc.) with marginal skills and often times no actual line cooking experience at all. I realize this show is on FOX and it’s for primarily entertainment purposes, but really, does anyone think that the pizzeria chef is somehow NOT going to fuck up and get yelled at?
Think of it as an apprenticeship. It’s about future great chefs, they have to come from somewhere and no one can say where that will be. This season he spells it out, he does not care where you came from. He is giving somewhat higher than average cooks a chance to become really good.
I was in the industry for 15 years, and this show reminds me of what it was like working on a fast paced line with a chef that really cares about the product being put out.
By the way, I started out as a dishwasher and ended my career as a head chef, all without ever going to a formal cooking school.
I didn’t see that ad, but I was watching via DVR so I skipped through the commercials.
Technically, wouldn’t that be a fourth show, though? He had that special where he was showing celebs how to cook or something a few months back. I don’t remember much, I found it boring and shut it off partway through.
Anyone watch tonight? I got a laugh when Jean Phillipe told Andrew that people would kill to walk in his shoes and then he literally took off his shoes and walked out.
The TiVo was busy updating tonight (the cable company decided to “improve” our lineup’s organization, yay) so I had to record this on a VCR. Hopefully, there was a decent tape in there.
Does anyone here get BBC America? There’s supposed to be a new episode of Kitchen Nightmares on Thursday.
I was surprised that there was an elimination after Andrew walked.
Editing for next week’s promo makes it look like someone else ankles during service as well.
And once again, it amazes me that the production company managed to round up 16 or so would-be chefs that have never tried to make risotto at home, just to see what it’s all about.
I only saw bits and pieces. This is yet another of those shows that I tune in for, then spend the whole time asking myself why I watch. I was amused to see they’re still doing the old trick where the challenge comes down to the very. Last. Dish. Also the old trick where it doesn’t matter who is nominated, Ramsey sends someone else home. Bah! At least he got rid of the guy with the dolphin on his head.
I’ve seen it a few times, always in hard-boiled detective tales. It seems to mean nothing more than “walk” so in this case it means another contestant chooses to walk away from the show, aka quit.
When Andrew (?haven’t learned all the names yet) quit I was thinking about how ‘getting so mad you quit’ is probably always a face-saving maneuver. You’re in a show like that, realize that you aren’t anywhere near the best at whatever and are sure to be eliminated soon enough AND you’ll likely be humiliated multiple times on the way. So at the first opportunity you deliberately ‘lose control’ of your temper and storm out in a ‘I’m too good to put up with this crap’ way.
At least, that’s what Andrew’s exit looked like to me.
