| 1 | ->''"You fucking donkey!"'' |
| 2 | -->-- '''Gordon Ramsay''' |
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| 4 | ''Series/HellsKitchen'' has a lot of small-to-medium screw-ups each episode, but some [[DarthWiki/WhatAnIdiot moments of idiocy]] stand out: |
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| 8 | [[folder: General Idiocy]] |
| 9 | * Every season starts with the Signature Dish Challenge, designed to give Gordon an idea of how you cook.\ |
| 10 | '''You'd Expect:''' The chefs would only use fresh ingredients since they're trying to make a good first impression on Gordon, who is well-known for disliking food made with non-fresh ingredients.\ |
| 11 | '''Instead:''' Some chefs will use frozen, canned, or prepackaged food in their dish.\ |
| 12 | '''Inevitably:''' This pisses off Gordon and usually paints the chef in a negative light. |
| 13 | * Another from the Signature Dish challenge.\ |
| 14 | '''You'd Expect:''' The chefs would take advantage of the 45 minutes they've been given as much as they can. After all, this is supposed to be "[them] on a plate."\ |
| 15 | '''Instead:''' Some chefs have presented dishes that would take less than ''ten minutes'' to make.\ |
| 16 | '''As A Result:''' Said chefs earn Gordon's ire, and they are considered TheDitz. |
| 17 | * Gordon will often criticize chefs for something either during the challenges or service, often in his [[DrillSergeantNasty signature style]].\ |
| 18 | '''You'd Expect:''' The chefs would simply nod and say "Yes chef!", even if they don't care for taking the advice. They're talking to their potential future boss, so they don't want to make him mad (or at least madder than he already is).\ |
| 19 | '''Instead:''' The chefs attempt [[CallingTheOldManOut to call him out for it]], thinking they're in the right. Considering that they're attempting a ReasonYouSuckSpeech against someone who's been cooking longer than some of them have been alive, possessing decades worth of culinary wisdom, and is regarded by many as the best chef in the world, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome this goes about as well as you'd expect]].\ |
| 20 | '''As A Result:''' [[DiggingYourselfDeeper Gordon gets even more pissed at them than if they just sucked it up]], and their reputation almost always gets irreversibly tainted by the fact they CantTakeCriticism; which in turn results in either the team not trusting the chef who clapped back for most of the season or straight-up being among the first to be eliminated. |
| 21 | * On a related note...\ |
| 22 | '''You'd Expect:''' The chefs would avoid arguing with the Sous Chefs as well. The only person in the kitchen that outranks them is Gordon himself, and he picked them to be his Sous Chefs for a reason.\ |
| 23 | '''Instead:''' Some chefs argue with them, probably thinking they can get away with it since it isn't Gordon Ramsay. Guess who's going to inevitably learn about these moments? |
| 24 | * Every episode, about half the chefs have to do a punishment, while the others (usually) go on a reward.\ |
| 25 | '''You'd Expect:''' That the chefs doing the punishment would just get it over with. If they don't want to do one part of the punishment, they could at least keep busy with another part of it (unless they don't have a choice).\ |
| 26 | '''Instead:''' Some of the chefs will attempt to sit out of the punishment entirely, even while the other chefs are working their butts off.\ |
| 27 | '''As A Result:''' Even if Gordon doesn't do anything about this, their team will inevitably begin to hate them for it and try to get them eliminated. |
| 28 | * Sometimes a chef will cook too much of a dish on order (usually Risotto), meaning the unused portions will go to waste.\ |
| 29 | '''You'd Expect:''' The chef would throw it out. As Christina noted during her run in Season 10, Gordon's standards are too high to reuse that food.\ |
| 30 | '''Instead:''' Some chefs decide to use those old portions and often try to pass them off as new portions. Bonus points if the old portion was rejected for being improperly cooked, since that means the chef [[MortonsFork either reused an old portion or screwed up the same dish in the same way as before]]. |
| 31 | * Family services have been an annual occurrence at Hell's Kitchen since the fourth season, and Gordon's family is always in attendance for these services. Cooking for them is a big deal.\ |
| 32 | '''You'd Expect:''' The chef cooking for Gordon's family would make sure to get it right, and watch out for sabotages from other people ([[ExecutiveMeddling such as the producers]]) who want to get them into trouble for this critical order.\ |
| 33 | '''Instead:''' Sometimes, the chef will proceed to send up something unacceptable, such as a cold cheeseburger or undercooked chicken.\ |
| 34 | '''Inevitably:''' This provokes a PapaWolf attack on them from Ramsay. |
| 35 | * In some challenges, for one reason or another, one of the teams has to remove one of their prepared dishes.\ |
| 36 | '''You'd Expect:''' The team in question to eliminate the dish only based on how it tastes.\ |
| 37 | '''Instead:''' In a startlingly high amount of cases, the dish is eliminated due to either personal bias or the presentation looking sloppy.\ |
| 38 | '''As A Result:''' Almost every time this happens, the "bad" dish ends up being better than the dish(es) sent in its stead, and the quality of the other dishes cause the team in question to lose the challenge. |
| 39 | * One recurring challenge involves Ramsay summoning one member from each team to his office, having them listen to a special guest's dish recommendations, and then relay instructions to their team based off of that.\ |
| 40 | '''You'd Expect:''' For the chefs to listen attentively to the guests' often very simple suggestions and easily work with their team to prepare a fitting menu.\ |
| 41 | '''Instead:''' One of the chefs chosen will ignore the guests' suggestions in favor of [[ItsAllAboutMe what they themselves are familiar with.]]\ |
| 42 | '''As A Result:''' The opposing team always wins the challenge, and the chef's team gets angry at them for not listening to the guests. |
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| 45 | [[folder: Season 1]] |
| 46 | * In Episode 2, Dewberry was getting flustered on the meat station and admitted that he didn't know what to do.\ |
| 47 | '''You'd Expect:''' Dewberry to ask for a bit of help. Sure, it wouldn't look good on him, but at this point they had already lost a previous service, and Dewberry actually did well on the appetizers section, so he theoretically had a shot at surviving.\ |
| 48 | '''Instead:''' Dewberry, after being called useless by Ramsay, nearly walks out on his team, only coming back because he realized Ramsay was testing him.\ |
| 49 | '''As A Result:''' Ramsay gets even more pissed at Dewberry for nearly deserting his team, and he winds up getting eliminated that night over Jeff (who ironically enough, went through with deserting his team). |
| 50 | * In Episode 3, Wendy is on the appetizers station, and is trying to cook spaghetti.\ |
| 51 | '''You'd Expect:''' Her to remember the basics in cooking spaghetti, put hot water in a pot, and raise it to a boil.\ |
| 52 | '''Instead:''' Wendy instead puts ''cold'' water in the pot, and when she's called out on it, she admits that she thought cold water boiled faster..\ |
| 53 | '''As A Result:''' This, along with Wendy being terrible in general, contributes to her elimination later that night. |
| 54 | * In Episode 6, the Blue Team was punished by having a keycode lock on their storeroom, which had to be used in order to get their ingredients.\ |
| 55 | '''You'd Expect:''' With the keycode in hand, they had at least one person on hand remember the code.\ |
| 56 | '''Instead:''' Andrew decides to use tape to cheat his way out of it.\ |
| 57 | '''As A Result:''' Sous Chef Scott catches him in the act and reams him out. |
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| 60 | [[folder: Season 2]] |
| 61 | * In the third episode, Giacomo was struggling as his oven was not heated up properly.\ |
| 62 | '''You'd Expect:''' Giacomo to check to see if the gas was on.\ |
| 63 | '''Instead:''' He doesn't check at all, and calls over Sous Chef Scott to tell him that there's a problem. It takes Scott less than five seconds to realize that Giacomo never turned the gas on, and chews him out for it. That, alongside Giacomo's problems that service, result in his elimination. |
| 64 | * During a punishment, the red team walk by and taunt the blue team for losing, and Garrett in particular takes it very hard.\ |
| 65 | '''You'd Expect:''' Garrett to just get on with the punishment and ignore them. He could focus on getting payback later that night in service by perhaps having a good service.\ |
| 66 | '''Instead:''' Garrett makes the decision to flip off the red team, while unbeknownst to him, ''Chef Ramsay'' is in the car with them.\ |
| 67 | '''As A Result:''' After the red team return from their reward and both teams are downstairs, Ramsay takes the opportunity to call him out on it, and threatens him with elimination. |
| 68 | * In Episode 6, the Red Team was struggling with their own menu items, and after taking the lamb off the menu because Sara couldn't cook it, Ramsay suggests that they take one of their salmon entrees and turn it into a simpler dish.\ |
| 69 | '''You'd Expect:''' Sara to do what Ramsay suggests. She's on thin enough ice as it is after the lamb debacle, and if anything goes wrong with the salmon, Sara will be able to blame Maribel, who is on the fish station, for not being able to cook the dish as originally designed.\ |
| 70 | '''Instead:''' She snarks that changing the dish would be inconsistent, even though they haven't managed to send a single one out yet.[[note]]The ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn-Hvy-Zt20 Hell's Kitchen Served Raw]]'' edit of the episode reveals that her actions were actually even ''more'' monumentally ill-advised than they appeared in the transmitted episode, which makes it look as if Sara's snarking at Ramsay caused him to give up on the Red Team and bring in the Blue Team to salvage the service. In actual fact, the Blue Team had already been brought in by this point, making Sara's comment even more tone-deaf than it already appeared.[[/note]]\ |
| 71 | '''As A Result:''' Ramsay ''really'' lays into her for this blatant act of disrespect, and the only reason she doesn't get eliminated in that episode is because Maribel had been so consistently weak throughout the season. |
| 72 | * In the season finale, Virginia picks a team consisting of Keith, Giacomo, and Tom, the latter two of whom were the earliest-eliminated out of the six cooks brought back for the final brigades, and who were both eliminated for incredibly bad mistakes (Giacomo forgot to turn the oven on, and Tom tried to cook with a pan that had caught fire).\ |
| 73 | '''You'd Expect:''' Virginia to motivate Tom and Giacomo by telling them that while they might be thought of as weaker contestants on account of having been eliminated so early, she believes they have potential and that she's going to help them put in good performances.\ |
| 74 | '''Instead:''' She decides that BrutalHonesty is the best policy, and says that she wanted to pick weaker cooks and see what she could do with them. And then when Keith asks if she thinks ''he's'' weak, she essentially tells him that he's there to pick up the slack if Giacomo and Tom screw up, leaving her team demotivated from the get-go. |
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| 77 | [[folder: Season 3]] |
| 78 | * In Episode 3, about a PrisonersDilemma-esque situation arises when both Joanna and Jen are up for nomination for both poor performances and improper use of food (Joanna was caught trying to serve rotten crab, while Jen almost served pasta she threw into the trash by accident, which was caught by Julia rather than Ramsay himself).\ |
| 79 | '''You'd Expect:''' Both of them would admit to their mistakes. If they refuse to apologize, then not only will that put them on thin ice with Ramsay, but if one of them ''does'' admit to their mistakes while the other one doesn’t, then the one who didn’t admit their mistakes will cement themself for elimination.\ |
| 80 | '''Instead:''' Jen does apologize, but Joanna doesn't and instead [[AppealToWorseProblems tries to paint the former in a bad light for the trashed pasta incident]].\ |
| 81 | '''As A Result:''' Ramsay, not being an idiot, calls Joanna out for the rotten crab incident along with [[NeverMyFault her refusal to take responsibility for her actions]] and eliminates her. |
| 82 | * In Episode 8, the first Black Jacket service took place, but Ramsay caught Josh cooking several servings of risotto, which wasn't on order yet.\ |
| 83 | '''You'd Expect:''' Josh wouldn't do that again. This is the part of the competition where the contestants are judged more, and they have never cooked food that has not been ordered before in the past. Plus, he'd already had a poor performance throughout the season, so this was ''not'' the night to blatantly screw up.\ |
| 84 | '''Instead:''' He continues to cook food that's not on order (this time involving spaghetti, twice) frustrating Ramsay even more.\ |
| 85 | '''As A Result:''' When an undercooked risotto gets sent back, Ramsay finally reaches his RageBreakingPoint and eliminates Josh ''during'' the service.\ |
| 86 | '''Worse Still:''' Because of Josh's abysmal performance and being the first chef to be eliminated mid-service, Gordon would end up making a rule stipulating that if a chef fails to improve themselves and/or makes too many mistakes on the dishes, he can, ''and will'', instantly eliminate them. From a [=HK=] historian's point of view, this means that this move from Josh was [[TooDumbToLive so suicidally moronic]] that it ended up creating a cautionary tale that forced future contestants to now have to worry about not overly pissing off Ramsay ''on top'' of keeping the kitchen afloat. |
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| 89 | [[folder: Season 4]] |
| 90 | * Episode 2 saw Corey named the Best of the Worst, which means she gets to nominate two of her teammates to be put up for elimination.\ |
| 91 | '''You'd Expect:''' Corey to have Sharon as one of her nominees, considering the latter's [[EpicFail disastrous performance on the meat station]]. For the second nominee, she has a choice between Roseann (who was disorganized and slow in her role as the service's assistant maître d) and Christina (who Ramsay said had "given up" before shutting down the service).\ |
| 92 | '''Instead:''' Corey nominates Christina, but for being "condescending" rather than the fact that Ramsay felt she didn't give it her all. Her second nominee? ''Jen'', because Corey finds Jen to be annoying and wants her out.\ |
| 93 | '''As A Result:''' Ramsay ends up ignoring the nominations altogether and eliminates Sharon, and the next episode has Jen and Christina angry over Corey being strategic and personal with the nominations. Even the Blue Team, who had some amusement over the resulting drama, felt Corey was playing a dangerous game, with [[NiceGuy Petrozza]] thinking that she was acting on "evil tendencies". |
| 94 | * In Episode 4, Ben saw that the Blue Team had reached a good 6 tickets left to go in the Family Night service.\ |
| 95 | '''You'd Expect:''' Ben to keep his mouth shut and get back to work.\ |
| 96 | '''Instead:''' He does a high-five and congratulates his team on their work, which Ramsay overhears. Cue MoodWhiplash when Ramsay tells him the Red Team has only '''two''' tickets to their [[DontCelebrateJustYet six]]. In fact, the ladies had to be brought in to help.\ |
| 97 | '''As A Result:''' Ben never left Ramsay's crosshairs for the remainder of his time on the show, got extra individual punishments when the Blue Team lost challenges, and got eliminated by the chef three episodes later. |
| 98 | * Also in Episode 4, after the Red Team are sent into the Blue Kitchen to help finish their service, Craig still has a few pasta dishes to serve. Shayna goes over to help him.\ |
| 99 | '''You'd Expect:''' Craig would accept Shayna's help in getting his remaining dishes out, seeing how the Blue Team has clearly lost the service. Additionally, he needs to give Ramsay as little reason as possible to eliminate him, especially seeing how he barely avoided nomination the previous week due to Jason crashing and burning on the dessert station.\ |
| 100 | '''Instead:''' Not only does Craig refuse to accept any help from Shayna (even when his own team-mates are telling him that he should), but when Ramsay asks how much time is remaining for his final order of pasta, Craig yells and swears at Ramsay before throwing an empty pan to the side in a moment of anger.\ |
| 101 | '''As A Result:''' This, along with Craig’s [[TheDitz less-than-stellar elimination plea]], gets him eliminated over Ben (who was nominated for the reasons described in the above entry) and Matt (who served raw chicken and overcooked hamburgers, and was the main reason for the Blue Team's loss). |
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| 104 | [[folder: Season 5]] |
| 105 | * Episode 3 had a double steakhouse dinner service. The Blue Team won an earlier challenge and got the choice of cooking first or second; they cooked first. As the service began, Ramsay told Ben "Desserts, pick up".\ |
| 106 | '''You'd Expect:''' Ben would interpret that this means keep the station manned, and remember that the desserts come much later (if the blue team can get to them). If confused, then ask what Ramsay means--he may get yelled at, but it's better than completely misinterpreting him.\ |
| 107 | '''Instead:''' Ben interprets this as "give Ramsay the desserts", and made a few and brought them up to the pass right away before any of the appetizers were completed.\ |
| 108 | '''As A Result:''' Ramsay was very unimpressed with him doing this and harshly made fun of him for his mistake, and even Seth, the resident ButtMonkey and weakest chef that season, stated that Ben's maneuver was embarrassing. For extra points, the Blue Team never even ''reached'' desserts due to having a disaster on the grill, and they went on to lose the night. |
| 109 | * As part of the aforementioned grill disaster, a combination of Giovanni's screwing up several orders and then Lacey forgetting to hand in a ticket until late in the service causes them to run out of prepared filet mignon. Ramsay orders Seth to prepare some more filets, but Seth is forced to solicit Charlie's advice due to never having done this before.\ |
| 110 | '''You'd Expect:''' Seth to do exactly what Charlie shows him to - namely, cut all the bits of fat off the tenderloin while keeping as much meat as possible, considering it's the most expensive cut of beef out there.\ |
| 111 | '''Instead:''' He cuts nearly half of the meat off the tenderloin, going ''far'' beyond what could be chalked down to poor knife skills.\ |
| 112 | '''As A Result:''' When Ramsay finds out, he's furious and throws the wasted chunks right at Seth for good measure; as the icing on the cake, Seth proves he DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm when Ramsay sarcastically congratulates him on "butchering" the tenderloin, and he takes it as a compliment. Only Charlie's poor performance as both a cook and a waiter in the second half of the service saves Seth from elimination that week. |
| 113 | * In Episode 9, Carol's gratin dauphinoise potatoes were very raw and hard due to her not cooking them fully before service began (which in and of itself was a stupid mistake), and said that it could take another ten minutes to get them cooked properly.\ |
| 114 | '''You'd Expect:''' Carol to drop the potato dish and make another one on the fly.\ |
| 115 | '''Instead:''' She tries pouring cream on them in a vain attempt to save them, only for Ramsay to catch her in the act and dump them in the trash. She then freezes up completely when Ramsay asks what she intends to do to salvage the situation, forcing Giovanni to come up with a replacement side to get the Red Team unstuck.\ |
| 116 | '''As A Result:''' Although the Red Team won service, Carol gets the dishonor of being the first person to be eliminated from a winning team, as Ramsay felt that she had given up. |
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| 119 | [[folder: Season 6]] |
| 120 | * In Episode 1, Ramsay comments that Melinda's capellini looked undercooked, which prompts her to throw the whole batch in the trash instead of just cooking it for a bit longer. This is an idiotic moment in and of itself, but then Ramsay decides to leaf through the trash and ends up finding a huge amount of capellini that was wasted over the course of the night.\ |
| 121 | '''You'd Expect:''' Melinda to admit fault for throwing away the undercooked capellini, but point out that she had to ditch most of the other capellini was because Tek kept ruining the scallops, which required the entire dish to be recooked. Alternatively, she could point out that she wasn't the person who wasted most of the pasta - that was Lovely, who had left the kitchen five minutes beforehand as she was feeling dehydrated.\ |
| 122 | '''Instead:''' She spends the next five minutes with a deer-in-the-headlights expression on her face and acts as if she's unaware of the fact that Ramsay is trying to extract an explanation from her.\ |
| 123 | '''As A Result:''' This proves to be fatal for her, because in spite of Amanda and Lovely making far worse mistakes in the service (with the former having at least at admitted fault for accidentally freezing the salmon entrees), Ramsay eliminates Melinda that night for her spaced-outness and the amount of spaghetti she (supposedly) wasted. Ramsay's parting shot: "Melinda was completely lost in space, so I sent her back to whatever planet she came from." |
| 124 | * In Episode 2, Ramsay asked Joseph who the Blue Team's nominees were.\ |
| 125 | '''You'd Expect:''' He, like every other chef before and after him, would call out the nominees properly.\ |
| 126 | '''Instead:''' ''Hoo boy''. First, he decides to say that the two nominees (Tony and Andy) could speak for themselves, which leads to Ramsay calling him a smartass. Then, he calls out Tony and Andy's names, but without explaining ''why'', making Ramsay even more frustrated. Next, he calls out Tony but ''still'' doesn't explain why. At this point, Ramsay walks up to Joseph and demands he just tell him ''who'' the first nominee is and ''why'' he's nominated. After a shouting match between Jospeh and Ramsay, the other chefs tell him to calm down - which he refuses to do, and instead threatens to ''beat up'' Ramsay, prompting security to get between the two.\ |
| 127 | '''As A Result:''' Ramsay has enough of his poor attitude and orders him to leave, instead of the people he nominated. As he walks out, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWEWzdrByxA#t=05m35s Ramsay even comments, "What an idiot."]]\ |
| 128 | '''Bonus Points:''' During his EliminationStatement, Joseph said that anyone would be proud to hire him... immediately after he blew up on national television, displayed a horrendous temper and inability to follow instructions, and threatened to beat up his boss.\ |
| 129 | '''Extra Bonus Points:''' Right after, Ramsay asks Kevin to tell him the nominees, and Kevin ''actually does it properly''. This meant that, had Ramsay picked anyone other than Joseph to tell him the nominees, this wouldn't have happened. |
| 130 | * In Episode 4, the red team lost the service, and Ramsay directly told them that they got bogged down on garnish thanks to Lovely.\ |
| 131 | '''You'd Expect:''' They understand that was why they lost and leave it at that.\ |
| 132 | '''Instead:''' For some reason, Suzanne does not understand and asks Ramsay for a play by play during the post-mortem.\ |
| 133 | '''As A Result:''' Not only does Ramsay not give Suzanne a play by play, but he takes the time to berate her for questioning his judgment and once again telling her that her team lost. All this does is make Suzanne look like a fool for questioning Ramsay, which the blue team mocks her for back at the dorms. |
| 134 | * In Episode 5, the challenge was to create a tasting menu for an upcoming Welcome Home Party, and Robert and Suzanne are chosen to listen in on the wife's suggestions on the menu.\ |
| 135 | '''You'd Expect:''' They actually listen to and incorporate the wife's suggestions, as this menu is for her husband's likes, not their own.\ |
| 136 | '''Instead:''' While Robert does listen to the wife, Suzanne instead treats the challenge as [[ItsAllAboutMe an opportunity to show off to Ramsay.]] Thus, she mostly ignores the wife's advice and forces her team to make dishes she knows, to the point of ignoring Tennille's suggestion on a jambalaya sauce.\ |
| 137 | '''As A Result:''' The Red Team misses ''all of the wife's suggestions'' (such as soul food and grilled lobster) and loses the challenge 1-2. |
| 138 | * In the service that night, Tek is on the grill station.\ |
| 139 | '''You'd Expect:''' She would know that the grill only adds sear marks, and she would still have to put the meat in the oven to cook. If she didn't know that, then she could at least listen to the other chefs when they tell her that the grill doesn't work that way.\ |
| 140 | '''Instead:''' She treats it like a grill back home, believing it would cook the meat, causing her meat to be both [[EpicFail blue raw and burnt to a crisp at the same time]].\ |
| 141 | '''Even worse:''' Tennille and Ariel both told Tek how the grill really works, but she ignored both of them.\ |
| 142 | '''As A Result:''' She ends up getting eliminated that night. |
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| 145 | [[folder: Season 7]] |
| 146 | * The Episode 2 challenge involves the chefs being split into pairs and then cooking eggs in four different ways. Due to the Red Team being a member down after Stacey's elimination in the first service, Ramsay orders Siobhan to work by herself. As soon as they enter the kitchen, however, Autumn tells Siobhan to ignore Ramsay's instructions and work as a trio with her and Fran.\ |
| 147 | '''You'd Expect:''' Siobhan would reject Autumn's suggestion and work alone. Even in just the first service, the cooks have all seen first-hand how angry Ramsay gets when someone ''accidentally'' screws up, so deliberately ignoring his orders likely isn't going to end well.\ |
| 148 | '''Instead:''' She goes along the suggestion, and she, Autumn, and Fran cook eight eggs between them.\ |
| 149 | '''As A Result:''' When Ramsay finds out about this, he disqualifies almost all of their eggs, causing all three of them to lose the challenge. Autumn's unapologetic attitude about this incident, combined with her screwing up the start of the next service by over-salting the pasta-boiling water, firmly cements her as TheFriendNobodyLikes among the Red Team. |
| 150 | * In the second dinner service, Andrew, who is on the Blue Team's garnish station, serves up some mashed potatoes that sous chef Scott describes as "potato soup" due to how thin and runny they are, leading to Ramsay rejecting them.\ |
| 151 | '''You'd Expect:''' Andrew to just whip up another batch seeing how (as Ed had noted in a prior ConfessionCam statement) he had been doing very well on the station until that point, and this is the first real mistake he's made in the service.\ |
| 152 | '''Instead:''' He takes another batch of potatoes and mixes it in, ruining that batch as well. Ramsay angrily calls him out on this, and Andrew actually insists that he did the right thing, leading to an argument.\ |
| 153 | '''As a Result:''' Ramsay eventually kicks Andrew out into the dining room. Andrew, taking this as a sign that he will not be accepted back anyway, walks out the front door, and despite Jean-Philippe catching up with him and trying giving him a RousingSpeech about how this is a SecretTestOfCharacter and many chefs would love to be in Andrew's shoes right now, he [[LiteralMetaphor kicks off his shoes]] and leaves the competition altogether. |
| 154 | * In Episode 5, the teams have a challenge involving cooking pork dishes with a certain side. Due to their poor performance in the first half of the challenge, the Red Team ends up with a slightly awkward selection of ingredients: pork tenderloin, ham hock, blood sausage, apples, sweet potato, and prunes. While the Red Team quickly agrees on pairing the tenderloin and apples, they don't know how to pair the other four.\ |
| 155 | '''You'd Expect:''' Ideally, the ham hock and prunes would be paired together due to their similar natural sweetness, and the blood sausage would be with the sweet potatoes, which will take the edge off the sausage's taste. If they don't go with that, then the Red Team could at least produce something that doesn't blatantly break the rules of the challenge.\ |
| 156 | '''Instead:''' Scott forces the rest of the Red Team to make a blood sausage and prune purée dish, along with a sweet potato soup garnished with some ham hock. The former dish tastes so bad that it nearly makes Ramsay throw up, and the latter violates the challenge rules since the ''sweet potato'' is meant to garnish the ham hock, not vice-versa.\ |
| 157 | '''Inevitably:''' The Red Team loses. |
| 158 | * Later that episode, the Red Team ends up losing the service, and Fran is given the task of picking the two chefs up for elimination that week. While it looks as if she'll have an easy choice to pick Maria and Scott (who screwed up badly in this and previous services), Scott corners her in the dorms and tells her that Ramsay will eliminate both him and Maria if they're nominated, which will leave the Red Team down two members.\ |
| 159 | '''You'd Expect:''' Fran to ignore Scott upon realizing A) that Ramsay can and will ignore the nominations and eliminate whoever he feels deserves it[[note]]and she can't claim GenreBlindness towards this, since she saw Mikey get eliminated three episodes prior despite his name not being on the chopping block[[/note]], so not nominating Scott won't guarantee his safety, B) that Ramsay had never eliminated two chefs on the same night after nomination before, and C) that a double elimination would actually ''benefit'' the Red Team, as Ramsay would have to even up the sides by giving them a member of the far superior Blue Team. Additionally, if Fran ''was'' worried about Scott being involved in a double-elimination, she could have nominated Siobhan instead of him, as she had screwed up badly enough to justify being nominated.\ |
| 160 | '''Instead:''' Fran nominates Maria and... ''Nilka'', who had been the Red Team's best performer in most of the prior services.\ |
| 161 | '''As A Result:''' All this move does is make her look like a gullible idiot, lead to Ramsay rejecting her nominations (calling up Scott and Maria anyway, the latter of whom got the boot), and completely shatters the Red Team's morale, leading to an even more lopsided defeat the following episode. Oh, and Scott still gets eliminated in the very next episode for his egotistical nature being nowhere near his inept cooking level, which he doesn't take well. |
| 162 | * In the second black jackets service, Ramsay leaves momentarily and leaves Sous Chef Scott in charge of running the kitchen for a while.\ |
| 163 | '''You'd Expect:''' The final five do not treat the change like a big deal, especially as Sous Chef Scott has been trained by Ramsay, so they know he can run the kitchen even for a little bit.\ |
| 164 | '''Instead:''' Benjamin thought it would be a good idea to showcase his leadership skills and tries to call out orders.\ |
| 165 | '''As A Result:''' Sous Chef Scott puts Benjamin in his place and yells at the latter for trying to lead when he had no right to do so. |
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| 168 | [[folder: Season 8]] |
| 169 | * For the Signature Dish Challenge, Antonia cooks a Mardi Gras gumbo, a dish that she claims always gets a good reception whenever she serves it to family and friends.\ |
| 170 | '''You'd Expect:''' Antonia to taste the dish as often as possible while cooking it. Not only does she want to make as good of an impression as possible on Chef Ramsay, but this is the first challenge of the season, so any dish can make the difference between winning or losing.\ |
| 171 | '''Instead:''' She never once tastes it.\ |
| 172 | '''As A Result:''' She becomes the ''second'' contestant in the show's history (the first being Matt from Season 4) to serve up a signature dish so bad that it makes Ramsay vomit.\ |
| 173 | '''Even Worse:''' She responds to Ramsey's exclamation of its inedible nature with "okay, then throw it out!" Ramsey refuses, instead having everyone else eat the gumbo first. To add insult to injury, the challenge ends in a tie, and Ramsay decides to use the weakest dish as the tie-breaker -- Antonia's dish naturally causes the Red Team to lose, with it being strongly implied that Curtis' dish would otherwise have caused the Blue Team to lose. |
| 174 | * In Episode 2, Vinny serves as an assistant maître d', while [[TheLoad Raj]] is in charge of sides. Vinny does not have faith in Raj being able to handle his station.\ |
| 175 | '''You'd Expect:''' Vinny to just get on with his job. It's not like Gordon will yell at ''him'' if Raj screws up, and even then, Ramsay has eliminated chefs for doing particularly bad as a waiter.\ |
| 176 | '''Instead:''' He ''preempts'' Raj by advising the customers to not order sides. One of the tables informs Maître d' James of this advice, which leads James to drag Vinny with him to the pass.\ |
| 177 | '''Naturally:''' When Gordon finds out about the suggestion, he's so furious that he removes Vinny from the service completely. Raj, meanwhile, takes Vinny's actions as a massive insult towards him, further exacerbating his inability to get on with the rest of the Blue Team. As the icing on the cake, Ramsay nominates Vinny for elimination after the Blue Team loses the service, with Vinny only avoiding going home due to Curtis' abysmal performance on the sushi station. |
| 178 | * The following episode, Raj[[note]]Who had already been yelled at for boiling salmon in stock rather than grilling it, trying to argue with Ramsay that a clearly-undercooked piece of fish was cooked correctly, and then ''eating'' the fish he had cooked after Boris's screwing up on the meat forced the entire table to be redone[[/note]] manages to use up the Blue Team's entire supply of Dover sole just serving the first few tables. Ramsay is understandably pissed off about this, and orders Raj to go out to the dining room to apologize to the affected diners and get substitute orders.\ |
| 179 | '''You'd Expect:''' That Raj, who has admitted that he doesn't cope well in a hot kitchen, would take the opportunity to have a quick breather in the cooler dining room. If nothing else, he'd at least do what Ramsay tells him to, considering how annoyed the latter already is.\ |
| 180 | '''Instead:''' Raj protests that he doesn't want to go into the dining room because [[SkewedPriorities his clothes are dirty]]. Ramsay bluntly says that he doesn't care what Raj is wearing if he wants the guy in the dining room, and tells him to get out of the kitchen again.\ |
| 181 | '''Even Worse:''' Raj then decides to protest his case to [[DrillSergeantNasty Sous Chef Scott]], who angrily (and loudly) sends Raj packing into the dining room.\ |
| 182 | '''As A Result:''' Despite being on the winning team, Raj is eliminated, and ''the rest of the team '''thanks''' Ramsey for it''. |
| 183 | * Despite Raj's misadventures on fish, the Blue Team managed to win the third service, leaving the Red Team with the task of selecting two nominees for elimination.\ |
| 184 | '''You'd Expect:''' The Red Team to nominate Emily, as she's completely tanked in every service and challenge (apart from the Signature Dish Challenge) so far, along with Melissa, who kept overcooking the Dover sole and did poorly enough on garnishes to get kicked out of the previous episode's service.\ |
| 185 | '''Instead:''' Nona, in an attempt to shield Melissa from elimination, persuades the other women to nominate one person based on service, and the other person based on the prep work before the service. This leads to them nominating Emily and... ''Sabrina'', who had been making cocktails the entire time. Despite Jillian pointing out that Ramsay isn't going to eliminate someone based on their performance in prep, the other women stick by their choice, leading to a baffled Ramsay asking why they would nominate Sabrina when she hadn't even set foot in the kitchen.\ |
| 186 | '''As A Result:''' While nobody on the Red Team got ejected thanks to Raj screwing up so badly that he got eliminated from the winning team, Sabrina's nomination over Melissa makes the former's existing inability to get along with the other women even worse. |
| 187 | * In Episode 7, Hell's Kitchen decides to have a Family Night, with members of Gordon's family in attendance. Their order includes a risotto, which Vinny's in charge of preparing.\ |
| 188 | '''You'd Expect:''' That, given how angry Gordon gets whenever the chefs try to serve substandard food to people ''not'' related to him, Vinny would make sure not to screw this order up in an embarrassingly amateur way.\ |
| 189 | '''Instead:''' He tries to serve a risotto that was prepared a few minutes earlier.\ |
| 190 | '''Inevitably:''' Cue Gordon going PapaWolf on him. |
| 191 | * The next episode, apparently learning nothing from Vinny getting chewed out for serving an old risotto, Nona gets the idea to try the ''exact same thing'' with this episode's risotto... though she does at least have the foresight to ask about it beforehand.\ |
| 192 | '''You'd Expect:''' Nona to ask someone who doesn't have any reason to get her eliminated, like Sous Chef Andi. Sure, they might get annoyed at Nona for suggesting such an obvious shortcut, but it'd still be far milder than how Ramsay would react.\ |
| 193 | '''Instead:''' She asks Gail because she's Nona's closest ally in the competition, ignoring the fact that Gail's also a ''fellow competitor''. Gail tells her to go ahead and do it.\ |
| 194 | '''As A Result:''' Nona gets a (predictable) verbal savaging at the hands of Ramsay when he finds out, and she even tries to blame Gail rather than take any responsibility. Fortunately, this doesn't have any disastrous consequences, as she actually has the best performance by any chef in that service. |
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| 196 | |
| 197 | [[folder: Season 9]] |
| 198 | * Episode 2 is a prime example of why you should ''never'' lie to Ramsay. During dinner service, Brendan decided to send up a sea bass he cooked ten minutes ago, but a suspicious Ramsay asked him if it was an old portion.\ |
| 199 | '''You'd Expect:''' Brendan to admit it was an old portion. While he would be berated for being lazy, he would be at least honest.\ |
| 200 | '''Instead:''' He lies to Ramsay, claiming that he sent that portion to the trash, but was forced to admit his lie after Ramsay made him prove it by pulling the "old" sea bass from the trash and threatened to shut the entire kitchen down.\ |
| 201 | '''As A Result:''' When the Blue Team loses, Brendan is eliminated for lying to Ramsay's face. |
| 202 | * Episode 5's challenge has each chef cooking one of six proteins by either braising, steaming, or boiling. On the Red Team, Krupa and Gina argue about who gets to work with the guinea hen, eventually resulting in Krupa backing down and deciding to cook veal.\ |
| 203 | '''You'd Expect:''' That Krupa would recognize what veal looks like -- it's typically lighter in color than other cuts of beef, and often served on the bone, just like the very obvious side of veal that's been left out on the tray.\ |
| 204 | '''Instead:''' She grabs two leftover filet mignons that Jennifer, who took that protein, left on the tray. Even when Elizabeth voices concern that no one's using the veal, Krupa insists that the filet she's working on ''is'' veal.\ |
| 205 | '''As A Result:''' When Krupa goes into the final round of the challenge, her "veal" dish is deemed to be easily better than that of her Blue Team rival... before Ramsay informs Krupa of her screw-up, causing the Red Team to automatically lose for not using all six proteins. |
| 206 | * In Episode 6, Hell's Kitchen hosted a High School reunion, and Ramsay called Paul and Elizabeth to his office to hear the party committee's wants for the menu.\ |
| 207 | '''You'd Expect:''' The two chefs would listen very carefully to the committee's preferences with the main theme.\ |
| 208 | '''Instead:''' While Paul does that and tells the Blue Team what to do, Elizabeth completely ignores the committee's preferences of Hawaiian dishes and only seafood as their meat (since one of the committee members is a pescatarian), with her telling the Red Team to do Asian-inspired dishes and ''bacon-wrapped scallops''.\ |
| 209 | '''Naturally:''' The Blue Team crushes the Red Team 3-0, and the Red Team ends up pissed at Elizabeth. |
| 210 | [[/folder]] |
| 211 | |
| 212 | [[folder: Season 10]] |
| 213 | * In Episode 6, the chefs are preparing to serve for a fashion show. Ramsay tells them to wait for the first part of the show to finish before cooking anything.\ |
| 214 | '''You'd Expect:''' They would wait for the signal before cooking anything. Failing that, they would at least wait for the first ticket to be called since they only cook food to order.\ |
| 215 | '''Instead:''' Clemenza, for some reason, decided to cook scallops ''before they were even open'' (meaning they didn't have any patrons or tickets yet) wasting four portions.\ |
| 216 | '''Inevitably:''' He gets chewed out for that. |
| 217 | * In Episodes 12 and 13, Ramsay decided to put both teams' menus to the test. While prepping for service, Tiffany had Christina and Dana taste her potato gratin, but both said it was crunchy.\ |
| 218 | '''You'd Expect:''' Tiffany to take the hint and cook them a little longer. Gratins take two hours to cook, and this was not a night to have things sent back.\ |
| 219 | '''Instead:''' She ignores them and claims that they're okay.\ |
| 220 | '''Even Worse:''' When an order of potato gratins predictably comes back raw during the dinner service, Tiffany gets pissy and sulks, leading to Sous Chef Andi calling her out on being the sloppiest cook she has ever seen in her life. Tiffany falsely apologizes.\ |
| 221 | '''As A Result:''' Sous Chef Andi ejects her from service, and Ramsay eliminates her for having no care in the kitchen. All because she didn't want to cook her potato gratin a little longer. |
| 222 | [[/folder]] |
| 223 | |
| 224 | [[folder: Season 11]] |
| 225 | * The first service provides a marathon of these: |
| 226 | ** Sebastian, after messing up two risottos, started trying to lighten the mood by saying people's names funny. The first one (Mikey Wikey) went undetected, but the second one (Zacky Wacky) [[BerserkButton got Ramsay's attention.]] Ramsay laid into him, then ejected him from the service.\ |
| 227 | '''You'd Expect:''' Sebastian to head straight upstairs, and sit and wait for elimination since events in the kitchen were now out of his control for that service.\ |
| 228 | '''Instead:''' After leaving the kitchen, he turns around and goes right back into the kitchen, even shushing one of his teammates who notice him. Ramsay yells at him to get out a second time.\ |
| 229 | '''Even Worse:''' After Michael and Barrett mess up their meat, Sebastian later returns ''again'' and asks to be allowed back in, making Gordon angrier. After he ejects Michael and Barrett, Ramsay tells Sebastian that, if he reenters the kitchen one more time, he'll kick him out of the competition and eject him through the front door.\ |
| 230 | '''As A Result:''' Sebastian ''finally'' gets the hint and stays upstairs until the after-service meeting, but he was eliminated for this anyway, with Ramsay feeling he wasn't taking the competition seriously. |
| 231 | ** Later, Danielle, on the meat, is told by Chef Ramsay what's on order.\ |
| 232 | '''You'd Expect:''' She'd say "Yes chef" and cook it. If she doesn't remember it, then she'd ask a teammate. An annoyed confessional from them will certainly be better than how Chef Ramsay would react.\ |
| 233 | '''Instead''': She doesn't even bother hiding her confusion, asking Ramsay (already on an ejecting spree) if she needs a refire with the original ticket or not.\ |
| 234 | '''As A Result:''' Chef Ramsay gets pissed and kicks her out of the kitchen. |
| 235 | ** Shortly after that, Jeremy forgets a ticket. Chef Ramsay angrily reminds him what's on the order.\ |
| 236 | '''You'd Expect:''' He'd remember it and be able to repeat it.\ |
| 237 | '''Instead:''' He continues to fumble and stutter everywhere on remembering the order.\ |
| 238 | '''As A Result:''' Chef Ramsay gets pissed and [[RunningGag kicks him out of the kitchen]]. |
| 239 | ** After Dan and Jon get kicked out for garnish problems, Ray is asked by Chef Ramsay to taste Jon's rejected risotto.\ |
| 240 | '''You'd Expect:''' He'd use a spoon to taste.\ |
| 241 | '''Instead:''' He uses his fingers to taste.\ |
| 242 | '''Inevitably:''' A pissed off Chef Ramsay [[OverlyLongGag kicks him out of the kitchen]]. |
| 243 | * In Episode 5, ''Hell's Kitchen'' hosted a breakfast service with scrambled eggs, but this service is also an elimination challenge. Prior to the service, the teams are shown [[ChekhovsGun sample dishes that Gordon cooked beforehand to study]].[[note]]It should be noted that until this point, the audience has never been shown the sample dishes; it coming up now hints at what happens next.[[/note]]\ |
| 244 | '''You'd Expect:''' For the chefs to leave them alone once they've got the idea down, and if they need a mid-service refresher, not to confuse the now-cold samples with the ones they're cooking.\ |
| 245 | '''Instead:''' In the Blue Team, Jeremy took one of these samples to the back, and inadvertently served it to the pass without noticing it was the older dish from earlier.\ |
| 246 | '''As A Result:''' As soon as Ramsay notices, he calls the entire Blue Team up, rips into Jeremy and Dan for attempting to serve one of the samples he cooked an hour ago [[LethalChef and potentially killing a customer]], and forces the Blue Team to redo that specific order. Despite this, the Blue Team was able to win anyway, and Ramsay rewards them... by ejecting Jeremy from their team. |
| 247 | * Barret can clearly see that a piece of lamb he has been cooking is raw, and can be heard saying so.\ |
| 248 | '''You'd Expect:''' He'd cook it a bit longer. Ramsay might yell at him for being slow, but it's still better than ''serving raw meat''.\ |
| 249 | '''Instead:''' He sends it up to the pass anyway.\ |
| 250 | '''As A Result:''' Ramsay immediately sends it back and calls him out on his stupidity. |
| 251 | * Later on, Hell's Kitchen hosted a quinceañera, and the birthday girl specifically said she didn't like overly spicy food.\ |
| 252 | '''You'd expect:''' The chefs would listen to her and cook something with at most a ''tiny'' bit of spice.\ |
| 253 | '''Instead:''' Barret ignored her with the reasoning of "Hispanic people like spice!" and made something which tasted ''only'' of hot sauce.\ |
| 254 | '''As A Result:''' Cyndi from the Red Team easily scores a point against him, and when Michael’s steak turned out to be raw, the Blue Team loses another challenge. |
| 255 | [[/folder]] |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[folder: Season 12]] |
| 258 | * In the Signature Dish Challenge, Mike reveals he used packaged tortellini and canned tomatoes, causing an angry Chef Ramsay to throw it away without eating any, and he fails to earn a point. As mentioned in the General Idiocy tab, this already counts as a move worthy of being listed, but then...\ |
| 259 | '''You'd Expect:''' Mike to accept that he made a mistake and move on.\ |
| 260 | '''Instead:''' He says, "Fuck it; that's bullshit bro." ''Out in the open''.\ |
| 261 | '''As A Result:''' Everyone, Chef Ramsay included, hears him, and he gets called out for this. |
| 262 | * In that same episode, the Blue Team loses the Signature Dish Challenge and is tasked with carrying tables into the dining room as part of their punishment.\ |
| 263 | '''You'd Expect:''' That Mike would carry tables with everyone else.\ |
| 264 | '''Instead:''' He ''vacuums'' instead, which causes a lot of his teammates to try and get him to carry tables with them, only for him to go to the dorms and start eating an orange.\ |
| 265 | '''As A Result:''' This, combined with the above entry, firmly cements Mike as TheFriendNobodyLikes. |
| 266 | * In the ''same episode'', during service, Gaurav is preparing another risotto while Chef Ramsay accuses his ''[[BystanderSyndrome nine]]'' teammates of "standing there, playing with themselves" when Gaurav tastes his risotto.\ |
| 267 | '''You'd Expect:''' He'd use a spoon to taste.\ |
| 268 | '''Instead:''' He uses his fingers, ''licks'' his fingers, and ''sticks them back into the food''.\ |
| 269 | '''As A Result:''' Chef Ramsay directs his anger to Gaurav before making him start again. Gaurav immediately makes a confessional voicing his nonchalance about it, continues doing so when the Blue Team discusses nominees after service, and even when he's eliminated, he ''[[DefiantToTheEnd still]]'' sees nothing wrong with what he did. |
| 270 | * During the potato challenge in Episode 4, Mike argues for his Yukon boulangère dish to be put in the top five dishes to be served to Chef Ramsay.\ |
| 271 | '''You'd Expect:''' The Blue Team to taste Mike's dish as he has proven to be one of the weakest chefs on the Blue Team so far and choosing his dish would mean the more consistent Chris and Anton's dishes are excluded.\ |
| 272 | '''Instead:''' The Blue Team choose to go with Mike's Dish, which ends up scoring only one point as Ramsay felt the dish was macerated in the herb and asked the men if they even tasted Mike's dish before putting it in the top five.\ |
| 273 | '''As A Result:''' The Blue Team end up losing the challenge due to Mike's low score. |
| 274 | * A rather big and shocking moment occurred in Episode 18. During the second Black Jacket service, Joy made the rare mistake of walking fish up before Jason and Rochelle were ready on their garnish and meat respectively. When it happened again, Ramsay pulled her aside to try and explain that he wanted garnish first before fish.\ |
| 275 | '''You'd Expect:''' Joy to listen to Ramsay. After all, she's been consistent for a good majority of the season, and this is only a minor mistake.\ |
| 276 | '''Instead:''' She doesn't, instead she gives Ramsay attitude by talking back and walking back to her station mid-conversation.\ |
| 277 | '''As A Result:''' Ramsay tells her not to take her poor attitude out on the food, leading to Joy ''[[RageQuit Rage Quiting]]'' the competition. When she finally calms down, Joy is remorseful of her actions but feels it's too late for her to make amends to Ramsay. |
| 278 | [[/folder]] |
| 279 | |
| 280 | [[folder: Season 13]] |
| 281 | * In the second service, Janai is one of the nominees for struggling all night.\ |
| 282 | '''You'd Expect:''' She'd give it her all when explaining to Chef Ramsay. She was one of the worst performers that night, so she needs to prove why Chef Ramsay should spare her.\ |
| 283 | '''Instead:''' After admitting to overcooking a risotto, she says, "That's all it was." Except no, it was actually ''two'' risottos she overcooked, plus a third that was too soupy.\ |
| 284 | '''As A Result:''' A bewildered Chef Ramsay eliminates her. |
| 285 | -->'''Ramsay:''' Where is your mind?! |
| 286 | * The beginning of Episode 3 saw that Denine was unhappy about being nominated.\ |
| 287 | '''You'd Expect:''' Denine to spend time with the Red Team, at least for encouragement and to discuss how to do better in future services.\ |
| 288 | '''Instead:''' She heads straight upstairs and concentrates more on [[ItsAllAboutMe looking out for herself]].\ |
| 289 | '''As A Result:''' While there aren't any ''immediate'' consequences, the Red Team takes note of this. |
| 290 | * Also from Episode 3, the Red Team loses the challenge, and Denine is annoyed about it.\ |
| 291 | '''You'd Expect:''' Denine to just get the punishment over with.\ |
| 292 | '''Instead:''' Denine spends her time aimlessly wandering around the kitchen, refusing to help because [[NeverMyFault she scored a point in the challenge and thus shouldn't take part because she didn't cause the Red Team to lose]].\ |
| 293 | '''As A Result:''' The Red Team gets annoyed by Denine's lack of participation. This, combined with her aforementioned elimination incident earlier in the episode, is what they use to get her eliminated. |
| 294 | * In Episode 6, Katie sends up a plate of mangled scallops. Chef Ramsay calls the Red Team over.\ |
| 295 | '''You'd Expect:''' Katie would own up to it.\ |
| 296 | '''Instead:''' She tries to tell Ramsay the scallops were fine when she took them out of the oven.\ |
| 297 | '''As A Result:''' This ends up being one of the factors behind her elimination that night, as in addition to her self-nomination in the previous episode, her above move gives Chef Ramsay the impression she has no standards and is not the right person for the job. |
| 298 | -->'''Ramsay:''' You've just confirmed you have no standards. |
| 299 | * On Episode 8, the challenge was to create a sample dish for the guests of a dog show that was being hosted at Hell's Kitchen.\ |
| 300 | '''You'd Expect:''' That the teams would all know that they were cooking for the guests ''watching'' the dog show. If anyone was confused, they'd ask someone on their team - sure, they might get laughed at, but it's better than ''making dog food''. Additionally, if someone on the team ''was'' making dog food, at least one other member would point out their error.\ |
| 301 | '''Instead:''' Sade thought they were cooking for the ''dogs'', and only realized her mistake ''after'' the cooking time was up. Despite that, she lucked out only because the Blue Team had an extra person, and her dish was immediately taken off. On the other hand, ''nobody on the Blue Team'' thought to tell Sade of her mistake and let her continue cooking food for the dogs.\ |
| 302 | [[/folder]] |
| 303 | |
| 304 | [[folder: Season 14]] |
| 305 | * On Episode 1, during the Signature Dish Challenge, it's revealed that Monique's dish contained pre-made sauce, which is one of the worst things you can possibly do in said challenge.\ |
| 306 | '''You'd Expect:''' That she would realize that it was a mistake and apologize for not realizing that it wasn't what Ramsay was looking for.\ |
| 307 | '''Instead:''' She ''argues'' that Ramsay should have said something before cooking her dish.\ |
| 308 | '''As A Result:''' This gives the Red Team a bad impression of her, which follows well into Episode 5, her boot episode. |
| 309 | * In Episode 3, Michael accidentally heats up a pan so much that it's literally ''smoking''.\ |
| 310 | '''You'd Expect:''' Michael to let the Blue Team and Ramsay know that the pan was smoking hot. He might get scolded for it, but Ramsay will at least put it away safely so no one can get hurt.\ |
| 311 | '''Instead:''' Michael tries to put it on top of the colder pans under the fish station, where Bret and Josh were working.\ |
| 312 | '''As A Result:''' Ramsay catches him in the act, and is understandably shocked at how dangerous Michael was for doing what he did (had he not noticed, Bret or Josh could have suffered a serious burn). Michael was eliminated for this mistake. |
| 313 | -->'''Bret:''' Myself and Josh on the fish station could've had to leave Hell's Kitchen because of a third-degree burn. Like "taking skin from your ass to put it on your hand" type shit. |
| 314 | * In Episode 4, the Red Team was kicked out of service for the third time and decided to put up Mieka and Monique (who were on the meat station) for elimination. T realizes that if Mieka goes up, she will likely be eliminated.\ |
| 315 | '''You'd Expect:''' The Red Team to stick with the nominations. If Mieka is eliminated, then at least they have shown good judgment in regards to picking the correct nominees.\ |
| 316 | '''Instead:''' T decides to be strategic with the nominations. They pick Sarah (who at least had a bad service) to go with Monique.\ |
| 317 | '''As A Result:''' While Ramsay starts by saving Sarah, he follows this by eliminating ''Mieka'', and Monique even tells Ramsay that the Red Team did this in order to eliminate her. All this did was further alienate Monique from the group. Adam summed up the moment very well: |
| 318 | ->''"It was a good try, girls. You're never gonna get one past Chef Ramsay. If they want to play around and take their eye off the prize, it'll just make it easier for us to send another one of them home."'' |
| 319 | * In Episode 5, Monique is spared once again at elimination, and Meghan decides to give her a chance with the Red Team by being more open with them so they could function as a team.\ |
| 320 | '''You'd Expect:''' That Monique would be more open with her team, and try to rebuild any respect she lost during the first four episodes.\ |
| 321 | '''Instead:''' She does not, and basically tells her teammates to go fuck themselves.\ |
| 322 | '''As A Result:''' This causes the Red Team to deem her a lost cause and, when they lose the next dinner service, they decide to nominate Monique for the third time. This finally gets Monique eliminated after Ramsay realized the red team did not want her around. |
| 323 | * On Episode 14, [[TheAce Meghan]] of all people gets two of these. Nick and Milly are fresh off of a terrible service. However, Meghan doesn't want to put Milly up for elimination as she enjoys working with him.\ |
| 324 | '''You'd Expect:''' Meghan to remember the incident with Meika (noted above) and put up Milly, if only because he's not safe anyway. Besides, Nick had an arguably worse service, so Milly might be safe.\ |
| 325 | '''Instead:''' She elects to nominate Michelle, and bluntly states that it's a "process of elimination".\ |
| 326 | '''As A Result:''' Michelle and Nick get annoyed with her, with Nick calling her out for not even having the guts to say it to her face. |
| 327 | * Then at elimination, Meghan reveals Michelle as the nominee over Milly, much to Gordon's confusion.\ |
| 328 | '''You'd Expect:''' Meghan to state that Michelle had a mishap on scallops and also bring up how she left a hot pan out while using the bathroom, claiming that she had a tendency to be reckless.\ |
| 329 | '''Instead:''' Her reasoning is that Michelle "didn't communicate well" and doesn't elaborate.\ |
| 330 | '''As A Result:''' Ramsay doesn't accept Michelle as a nominee, [[WhatTheHellHero calls out Meghan for making such a massive blunder on her part]], and calls up Nick and Milly anyways. |
| 331 | [[/folder]] |
| 332 | |
| 333 | [[folder: Season 15]] |
| 334 | * In Episode, the chefs must make their Signature Dishes. Kevin prepares a chicken Caesar piadina.\ |
| 335 | '''You'd Expect:''' Him to have actually made something resembling a piadina (they look like a cross between a flatbread and a soft taco).\ |
| 336 | '''Instead:''' He puts a chicken Caesar salad on top of a pizza. Right away, he's looking at no more than a 2, as Chef Ramsay notes a salad shouldn't be on top of a pizza, and also finds the dough unevenly cooked. He then admits that he used ''prepared'' dough and dressing.\ |
| 337 | '''As A Result:''' Chef Ramsay threatens him with elimination and gives him a 1, presenting him as one of the absolute weakest contestants of the season. |
| 338 | -->'''Manda:''' That should've gotten a zero! |
| 339 | * On Episode 4, the Red Team is prepping up for service and decides to get a prep list started.\ |
| 340 | '''You'd Expect:''' The Red Team to simply leave the list alone and use it only for reference.\ |
| 341 | '''Instead:''' Jackie decided to be funny and rename it to "The Fucking List".\ |
| 342 | '''As A Result:''' None of her teammates were impressed, leaving a bad image for Jackie that stayed until her elimination, and Sous Chef Christina gives her a ''massive'' tongue lashing for the nickname. |
| 343 | * In the fifth service, Alan presents Chef Ramsay a risotto that was too runny. His solution is to put shredded cheese in it.\ |
| 344 | '''You'd Expect:''' He would put a tiny amount at most. Even better, he would just forego the cheese and cook it a little longer.\ |
| 345 | '''Instead:''' He puts in no less than two ''handfuls'' as [[OnlySaneMan Jared]] recites the "You'd Expect" part in a confessional.\ |
| 346 | '''Naturally:''' His risotto is now too gooey, and he is forced to start over completely. This is one of the main reasons behind his elimination that night. |
| 347 | [[/folder]] |
| 348 | |
| 349 | [[folder: Season 16]] |
| 350 | * In Episode 3, the Red Team lost the service and have to nominate two people for elimination. While Gia was an obvious candidate due to her poor performance on meat and lying about a cut, they need a second person up.\ |
| 351 | '''You'd Expect:''' They would debate between either Kimberly or Jessica as the second nominee, due to both of them being the weakest chefs of the Red Team at the time.\ |
| 352 | '''Instead:''' Jessica flat out admits defeat and wants to be nominated despite making only ''one'' mistake that night, while also announcing her intent to pack up just in case she goes home. Not a single person on the Red Team tries to convince her otherwise, and she ends up being the second nominee.\ |
| 353 | '''As A Result:''' After Gia tells Ramsay what happened at the dorms, Jessica is eliminated for giving up over one mistake, and she's left beating herself up during her exit interview for her self-nomination. |
| 354 | * In Episode 8, both teams are prepping for a dance competition service, but Shaina asks Johnny if he should be searing the sea bass during prep as the Red Team did before.\ |
| 355 | '''You'd Expect:''' Johnny to listen to Shaina and do so. By this point, the Blue Team had only won two services and was kicked out in all but ''three'' services, so they really need the win.\ |
| 356 | '''Instead:''' He arrogantly disregards Shaina's suggestion and, come dinner service, thanks to Johnny's arrogance and stupidity, the fish ends up being raw due to not being seared during prep. After the Blue Team is shown that they NEEDED to sear the fish, Johnny is frantically trying to sear fish off when entrees come around, leaving the Blue Team 10 tables behind the Red Team and ultimately causing them to lose the service.\ |
| 357 | '''Even worse:''' Johnny ''lies'' about the incident during eliminations, claiming that he was never told by anyone that it was the way to do it.\ |
| 358 | '''As A Result:''' After Shaina points out that she ''did'' ask Johnny about searing the fish prior to service, to which is followed by a video replay of Johnny refusing to sear the bass, Chef Ramsay eliminates Johnny over Paulie and Wendy without even bothering with the "My decision is..." part of the ceremony. |
| 359 | * In Episode 9, the Blue Team gets kicked out of service, and Koop is particularly angry over this.\ |
| 360 | '''You'd Expect:''' He would try to keep himself contained as best as possible. At worst, he would maybe unleash his anger when they discuss elimination.\ |
| 361 | '''Instead:''' He throws a chair, breaking it, all while cussing up a storm.\ |
| 362 | '''As A Result:''' Paulie, the other nominee besides Koop, [[JerkassHasAPoint reports this to Chef Ramsay]], resulting in Koop getting eliminated since Chef Ramsay no longer feels he is the right fit for the job. |
| 363 | [[/folder]] |
| 364 | |
| 365 | [[folder: Season 17 (All Stars)]] |
| 366 | * In the 5th episode, the teams have to cook their proteins over an open fire pit, and Josh was particularly desperate to prove himself a strong link on the Red Team.\ |
| 367 | '''You'd Expect:''' That he would just focus on his dish. He's currently on the outs right now with the team, and can't really afford to make himself look like an idiot.\ |
| 368 | '''Instead:''' Feeling that the coals are not hot enough to cook the team's dishes, he decides to pour cold coals on the fire.\ |
| 369 | '''As A Result:''' The coals suffocate the fire, and while Barbie is able to barely save the fire, the red team lose anyways and Josh ends up even more hated by them. |
| 370 | * Later on, Josh, after a miserable night on garnish, gets kicked out of the Red Kitchen after being caught holding cold garnishes when the cooked protein was on the hot pass.\ |
| 371 | '''You'd Expect:''' That he would wait up at the dorms and pray that the Red Team wins the service (worst case is that he would be eliminated from the winning team, which only happens for ''major'' screw-ups).\ |
| 372 | '''Instead:''' He decides to go back to the kitchen because "his body told him to".\ |
| 373 | '''As A Result:''' Ramsay decides to eliminate Josh mid-service, as he can not deal with him anymore. |
| 374 | * Episode 6 has a huge one during a particularly bad Italian Night service for the Blue Team. Jared gets overwhelmed on garnish and gave inconsistent timings, which is continually messing up the times for the entrees as well.\ |
| 375 | '''You'd Expect:''' That Jared would just calm down and concentrate and make sure to get the garnishes out in a timely manner.\ |
| 376 | '''Instead:''' He decides to take a page out of Gia's book from the previous season and claim that he cut his finger just to get out of service due to his crashing and burning.\ |
| 377 | '''Even Worse:''' When Ramsay called the medic as he dragged the Blue Team out of service to kick them out, the medic told Ramsay that he couldn't find a cut. And despite the truth coming out, Jared continued being deluded about his non-existent cut.\ |
| 378 | '''As A Result:''' Despite Robyn's plea to go back to the Red Team due to poor communication on the Blue Team, to which she also backs up her passionate and ambitious drive and even called out Jared making up his cut just to quit service, Ramsay eliminates Jared, due to his lie about his injury and his worsening performance. |
| 379 | * The finale saw a particularly huge one, where Robyn was continuously screwing up on the meat station to the extent it could put Benjamin's chances of winning in jeopardy.\ |
| 380 | '''You'd Expect:''' That Benjamin would switch Robyn out with someone else. Barbie for example would be a good pick, since she just finished up on the apps station and she was willing to work her ass off for Benjamin since he treated her nicely.\ |
| 381 | '''You'd Also Expect:''' That Benjamin would kick out Robyn. It might be harsh, but doing that without prompting from Ramsay is a good sign that someone can make the hard decisions. It's even considered by fans to be the main reason as to why Scott won back in Season 12.\ |
| 382 | '''Instead:''' He doesn't address the continuous struggling of Robyn, and ''Ramsay'' himself is the one to kick her out.\ |
| 383 | '''Even Worse:''' After pleading with Benjamin, Robyn is let ''back in'' by him.\ |
| 384 | '''As A Result:''' Benjamin goes on to lose in the finals to Michelle. |
| 385 | [[/folder]] |
| 386 | |
| 387 | [[folder: Season 18 (Rookies Vs. Veterans)]] |
| 388 | * In Episode 3, Jen gets called by Ramsay after not cooking enough garnish for the current order.\ |
| 389 | '''You'd Expect:''' That she says "Yes Chef", cooks more garnish, and wait until after service to voice her irritations.\ |
| 390 | '''Instead:''' She argues with Ramsay mid-service and essentially ''accuses him of sabotaging her''.\ |
| 391 | '''As A Result:''' Much to the relief of the Blue Team, she gets eliminated mid-service and is forced to walk out the front door. |
| 392 | [[/folder]] |
| 393 | |
| 394 | [[folder: Season 19 (Las Vegas)]] |
| 395 | * In Episode 1, the chefs must make a dish featuring ingredients they drew beforehand. Kenneth finishes his dish with a good 20 minutes left.\ |
| 396 | '''You'd Expect:''' He would do his dish a second time, or at least do ''anything'' that's even remotely productive.\ |
| 397 | '''Instead:''' He does nothing productive, and the chicken he made is [[EpicFail burnt black almost all over.]]\ |
| 398 | '''As A Result:''' The burnt chicken [[MedalOfDishonor gives him the only 1 out of 5]]. |
| 399 | * Later that same episode, the Red Team loses the challenge and must clean a fountain outside a restaurant. Specifically, the restaurant Sous Chef Christina is head chef at, and she is very angry about it.\ |
| 400 | '''You'd Expect:''' The team would keep their heads down and do the punishment.\ |
| 401 | '''Instead:''' Jordan, Mary Lou, and Fabiola start joking around.\ |
| 402 | '''As A Result:''' Christina calls all three of them out, right in front of a large crowd of people who had come by to see the Red Team clean the fountain. |
| 403 | * In Episode 2, the Blue Team loses, and both Drew and Elliot are nominated, the former for his meat failures and the latter for [[BystanderSyndrome doing nothing]]. Chef Ramsay eventually asks them if they are better than each other, and Drew answers that he is better than Elliot.\ |
| 404 | '''You'd Expect:''' For Elliot to do the same.\ |
| 405 | '''Instead:''' He starts to go off-topic, annoying Chef Ramsay, who demands he answers the question.\ |
| 406 | '''You'd Then Expect:''' For Elliot to say something like, "The answer's yes, Chef, I am the better chef."\ |
| 407 | Instead: He hesitates... and then says [[TooDumbToLive "The answer's 'no', Chef"]].\ |
| 408 | '''As A Result:''' Chef Ramsay immediately eliminates Elliot, saying he made it easy for him. |
| 409 | * In Episode 3, the Red Team loses, and they nominate Lauren for elimination due to her poor performance on meat. However, they need a second nominee.\ |
| 410 | '''You'd Expect:''' They either pick Jordan due to her own problems with meat and being the reason for getting them kicked out of service, or Fabiola due to having a poor performance on appetizers and, earlier that day, had a heat stroke from the reward.\ |
| 411 | '''Instead:''' They nominate Nikki because, despite having a decent performance that night, the team felt her inexperience would hinder them in the long run.\ |
| 412 | '''Naturally:''' Ramsay hated that reasoning, called the Red Team out for making a petty and bullshit reasoning for nominating Nikki, and voided her ''and'' Lauren's nominations while calling down Jordan and Fabiola for the reasons stated above. |
| 413 | * Ramsay asks Peter if he's a good enough chef to be the head chef of Hell's Kitchen.\ |
| 414 | '''You'd Expect:''' For him to say, "[[CatchPhrase Yes, chef!]]" At the very least, he would wait until after service to the elimination ceremony to bring up wanting to quit due heavy mental stress and feeling homesick\ |
| 415 | '''Instead:''' For no other reason other than to get himself in arguably the dumbest way possible, he tells him, "[[WhamLine No,]] [[SubvertedCatchphrase chef]], I don't."\ |
| 416 | '''As A Result:''' Ramsay ejects him out on the spot. |
| 417 | * After being saved from another elimination, Ramsay warns Marc to stop arguing with the Blue Team and take accountability for his mistakes.\ |
| 418 | '''You'd Expect:''' Marc takes Ramsay's warning and does so. After all, he did it before earlier and it worked.\ |
| 419 | '''Instead:''' He ignores the warning and continues to be a pain for the Blue Team.\ |
| 420 | '''As A Result:''' He gets eliminated after a poor night on appetizers, with Ramsay finally realizing he is too far up his own ass to work with the Blue Team. |
| 421 | [[/folder]] |
| 422 | |
| 423 | [[folder: Season 20 (Young Guns)]] |
| 424 | * During service, the Blue Team is unable to communicate on Mike Tyson's ticket, causing Ramsay to send them to the pantry to reorganize themselves.\ |
| 425 | '''You'd Expect:''' The Blue Team to properly discuss how Mike Tyson's ticket will go.\ |
| 426 | '''Instead:''' Antonio merely tells the Blue Team to focus, and the rest of the Blue Team is content with that.\ |
| 427 | '''Even Worse:''' When Ramsay asks them again for a time on Mike Tyson's ticket, they proceed to yell over each other because they still haven't prepared themselves for the ticket.\ |
| 428 | '''As A Result:''' A disgusted Ramsay sacks them from service. |
| 429 | * During the Emoji challenge, the chefs must have their teammates decipher the recipe on the black of their jackets, and follow the recipe ''exactly as intended''.\ |
| 430 | '''You'd Expect:''' Everyone to follow the recipe as intended. These are Gordon's recipes after all, and any attempt of adding onto it could very well be seen as a sign of disrespect.\ |
| 431 | '''Instead:''' Trenton decides to add his own little spin by including paisley and mayonnaise in the tartar sauce. Not only that, but he also revealed he added corn starch into the breading.\ |
| 432 | '''Even Worse:''' Several chefs reveal they had ''also'' taken liberties with their recipes, with Brynn and Josie adding paprika to their dishes, Megan adding sherry vinegar, and Payton adding mushrooms.\ |
| 433 | '''As A Result:''' Everyone who changes the recipe fails to score, and the Red Team win the challenge. |
| 434 | * Throughout the season, Josie had failed to score points in challenges because she refused to taste her dishes if they involved meat, as she's a vegan.\ |
| 435 | '''You'd Expect:''' Josie to suck it up and try her dishes. She can't constantly rely on other people to taste her dishes for her, and not only that, but this is also still a competition. Someone could very well easily sabotage her.\ |
| 436 | '''Instead:''' Josie continues to not taste her dishes.\ |
| 437 | '''To Make Matters Worse:''' Her best friend in Emily is a vegetarian, and yet she pushes it aside for the sake of trying to win, making Josie look even worse.\ |
| 438 | '''As A Result:''' Her team starts to turn on her as they start to see her as a weak link.\ |
| 439 | '''You'd Then Expect:''' Josie, realizing she's on the outs right now, try to work with her team and actually interact with them.\ |
| 440 | '''Instead:''' Josie takes no time to try and mend bridges with the red team, instead preferring to stay around Emily.\ |
| 441 | '''As A Result:''' Her team finally have enough of her, and Josie is soon eliminated after running out of chances. |
| 442 | * In Episode 11, the Red Team is kicked out for four failed attempts at cooking chicken for the last table, and the obvious nominees, Sam and Antonio, agree not to throw each other under the bus at the elimination ceremony. However, Ramsay sends that plan into freefall when he asks Sam for the weakest chef on the Red Team.\ |
| 443 | '''You'd Expect:''' Sam would just answer Ramsay's question. Even if it goes against the plan he and Antonio agreed on, Ramsay is still their superior.\ |
| 444 | '''Instead:''' Sam, in a move similar to Elliot one season earlier, repeatedly dodges the question.\ |
| 445 | '''As A Result:''' Ramsay is predictably pissed off. When Antonio immediately says Sam is the weakest chef after being asked the same question, Sam is eliminated. |
| 446 | [[/folder]] |
| 447 | |
| 448 | [[folder: Season 21 (Battle of the Ages)]] |
| 449 | * After a poor first service, the 40-Somethings team nominated Billy and Charlene, who had an abysmal performance on the meat station. Zeus, who had a bad performance in his own right on hot appetizers, is spared from nomination.\ |
| 450 | '''You'd Expect:''' Zeus would stay quiet and let the elimination ceremony go on as normal.\ |
| 451 | '''Instead:''' Right before Ramsay decides who to eliminate, Zeus suddenly steps forward and announces that he should be nominated as well, despite Billy's attempts to quiet him.\ |
| 452 | '''As A Result:''' Ramsay sends Zeus (and Billy) back in line and eliminates Charlene. After that, he then decides to eliminate Zeus solely because of his SuicideByCop move. |
| 453 | [[/folder]] |
| 454 | |
| 455 | [[folder: Season 22 (The American Dream)]] |
| 456 | * After a challenge loss, the Red Team are assigned to clean up the dining room after a celebration. During the clean-up, Christina makes it very clear that if there's anything left behind, she will take it out on the Red Team, and sure enough, she finds a piece of confetti left behind by Melissa.\ |
| 457 | '''You'd Expect:''' Melissa to admit fault and say she must've missed it.\ |
| 458 | '''Instead:''' Melissa tries to lie about it, saying it was tape.\ |
| 459 | '''Naturally:''' Christina is more annoyed by Melissa's attempt to lie after she confirms that it is confetti, and she forces the Red Team to start over, causing the Red Team to be annoyed by Melissa attempt at lying and Melissa herself to be upset with the Red Team for not backing her up, which continues throughout her entire stay. |
| 460 | * In the fifth episode, the Red Team lost despite Melissa and Leigh having the fastest times out of everyone on their team, and Melissa in particular took things hard.\ |
| 461 | '''You'd Expect:''' Melissa to get over it and focus on service. Despite how much she disliked her team, she was still pretty reliable overall, and they had no reason to hate her as she kept her dislike to herself.\ |
| 462 | '''Instead:''' Melissa's attitude starts to emerge, with her giving attitude to Donya and admitting she was fed up with the Red Team.\ |
| 463 | '''Even Worse:''' During service that night, she allows Sammi to handle the majority of the workload while Melissa only half-asses it, saying that she's at least good in challenges and Ramsay knows that, so she shouldn't have to try in service.\ |
| 464 | '''As A Result:''' After the Red Team lose that night, they nominate Melissa for her poor attitude and pretty much giving up on her team, and despite Sandra being hit or miss in services, Melissa is eliminated for isolating herself from her team. |
| 465 | * In the seventh episode, both Jermaine and Devon have been nominated for crashing on the garnish station and getting the team kicked out for their problems on meat respectively, and Gordon has asked Jermaine who he thought was the weakest chef on the team.\ |
| 466 | '''You'd Expect:''' Jermaine to say it was Devon, since Devon crashed on the meat station.\ |
| 467 | '''You'd Also Expect:''' Jermaine to say it was Jason, since Jason up to that point was extremely hit or miss throughout the season and tended to anger Ramsay with his stupid mistakes and failing to take accountability for them.\ |
| 468 | '''Instead:''' Jermaine doesn't answer, saying he can't choose.\ |
| 469 | '''As A Result:''' Devon is asked the same question, and immediately declares Jermaine as the weakest, and Jermaine is sent home. |
| 470 | * During the Cook For Your Life challenge, Devon states that his biggest issue is trusting himself, and needs to make sure his filet is properly cooked.\ |
| 471 | '''You'd Expect:''' Devon to check and make sure that the filet was cooked properly, such as touching it to make sure.\ |
| 472 | '''Instead:''' With only five minutes left on the clock, Devon decides to put the filet in the convection oven, even as the chefs watching mention it's probably perfectly cooked and it was already close to being overcooked.\ |
| 473 | '''Even Worse:''' After taking it out of the oven, he proceeded to put it ''back'' in the pan, and top it all off by slicing the meat six times, causing the juices to leak out.\ |
| 474 | '''As A Result:''' Devon's filet is both overcooked and bland, and he is eliminated. |
| 475 | * After the Red Team lose another challenge, their punishment was to churn butter, with the only issue being that no one knows how to do it.\ |
| 476 | '''You'd Expect:''' Someone ask Sous Chef Christina how butter is churned. Sure, she may get a bit annoyed, but at least they would know.\ |
| 477 | '''Instead:''' Leigh gets the idea to churn the butter on top of ice, and everyone goes along with it.\ |
| 478 | '''As A Result:''' The Red Team take even longer to churn the butter, and upon Christina seeing the progress made, she finds it downright hilarious before informing them of their mistake. Leigh even wonders if they were that dumb to make Sous Chef Christina ''laugh''. |
| 479 | * Later in the episode, both Sandra and Donya were nominated for their mistakes on meat and fish respectively, and both were asked who was the weakest chef on their team.\ |
| 480 | '''You'd Expect:''' Both of them to admit the other was weaker. They saw what happened with Jermaine being reluctant to call Devon the weakest, so it wouldn't be a good idea to try it again.\ |
| 481 | '''Instead:''' While Donya does admit that Sandra is the weakest (although not without a bit of pushing), Sandra admits that she pushed for herself and Donya to go up.\ |
| 482 | '''As A Result:''' Sandra is eliminated as Ramsay feels she's given up on herself. He also then calls forward Donya for being reluctant to answer his question, and while he doesn't eliminate her, she's shown to be on thin ice. |
| 483 | * Throughout the season, Leigh's shown herself to be one of the stronger chefs of the competition, with the only thing keeping her back was her lack of experience compared to the others.\ |
| 484 | '''You'd Expect:''' Leigh put in some extra effort in order to gain a bit more ground. She's a strong chef, but not to the likes of chefs like Johnathan, Ryan, and Sammi for example, so she can't do anything that'll make it look like her inexperience will be a hinderance.\ |
| 485 | '''Instead:''' Leigh lets this fester for a while, until she's put on the meat station and is forced to slice a wellington, something she admits she's never done before.\ |
| 486 | '''As A Result:''' Leigh predictably poorly slices the wellington, forcing Ramsay to give her a quick demonstration on how to do so, and she winds up being eliminated that night. |
| 487 | * At the start of the Black Jackets, Ramsay made a friendly jab at Johnathan saying he looked like shit after a night of drinking.\ |
| 488 | '''You'd Expect:''' Johnathan to not take it seriously. Ramsay's known for being way more friendly with chefs once they reach the black jackets.\ |
| 489 | '''Instead:''' Johnathan takes it extremely hard, and is pretty angry at the joke at his expense.\ |
| 490 | '''As A Result:''' This bad attitude ends up severely working against him in service as he screws up a lot on garnish, and had it not been for Dahmere and Leigh crashing harder, it's likely he would've been eliminated. |
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