It Happened Last Night

'Hell's Kitchen': Wipe your face, wipe a pan

By Andrea Reiher

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February 26, 2009 7:42 PM ET

Seth Previously on Hell's Kitchen... Charlie and Seth were nominated for dismissal after the women won the steakhouse service. Charlie was ultimately sent home. What will the challenge be tonight? And who will get a ticket out of Hell?

Giovanni is mad that Seth targeted him for dismissal and things are strained between them. Back in the HK house, Robert has everybody rolling with his Gordon impression. It's not making me laugh at all. Huh.

In the morning, Carol is asked who the strongest chef on their team is and she says herself or Andrea. Well, girls named Andrea are always awesome. Gordon then asks the entire blue team and Danny is the only one who speaks up. He, of course, says himself. Gordon then sets them at their first task, which is cooking breakfast for 50 little kids per team, who are the Pacific Youth Football and Cheerleading program. The girls are cooking for the cheerleaders and the boys are cooking for the football players. Of course they are. The first team to feed all their kids wins.

On the red team, Colleen is focusing too much on cheering along with the girls and not enough on her cooking. She also talking-heads that she can still fit into her cheerleading uniform from high school. Gross. On the blue team, Gordon yells at Robert about his sloppy plating. The teams are neck-and-neck, with each team having served 40 of their 50 kids. In the end, the red team pulls out the victory and gets a big cheer from their kids. Colleen then tries to "cheer" the word victory and misspells it. Offffff course she does.

As punishment, the men have to clean up the dining area, both kitchens and then prep both kitches for tonight's service. Guh. That sounds awful. The ladies' prize is to go camping... Beverly Hills style. Please let them hang out in a bungalow with Shelley Long, Carla Gugino and Jenny Lewis. Please.

The guys fight amongst themselves, with Danny and Ben really going at it. Danny insists that he is the best chef on the team and then Ben says, "You couldn't cook my BLEEP." Hahaha. I like adding various bodyparts in to complete that sentence. You couldn't cook my eyeballs! You couldn't cook my back-fat! Hahaha. Robert and Danny think Ben's tantrum is their chance to get him out and start working on Giovanni.

The women get the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, which was in Pretty Woman. Nice. They also get a cute pool boy and gourmet food by the pool. When they get back to the kitchen, they are kind of snotty to the men, who are hard at work. I personally would keep my mouth shut but maybe that's just me. It also turns out the men aren't done prepping. They don't have all the stuff made. Now that sucks. But it appears they do pull it out by doors open.

When the customers arrive, Giovanni drops the ball on boiling water to make the pasta. On the flip side, Coi is already cooking spaghetti and Gordon flips out because he hasn't even fired pasta to them yet. Seth then screws up his scallops and has to eat them, which he's happy about because he's hungry. Hahaha.

Andrea comes looking for tomato-butter sauce for the salmon but Ben hasn't finished it yet. Gordon yells at him, then yells at Coi again because her spaghetti appetizer is dry and bland. An hour into dinner, the customers are getting restless because no food has left the kitchen yet.

Ben's sauce ends up disgusting because he didn't taste it before he took it over to the red kitchen. Danny decides to take control of the sauce and makes much better sauce. In the red kitchen, Andrea takes over the appetizers and gets half of them out.

An hour and fifteen minutes into dinner, the men's food is coming out wrong and gross. The caesar salad has a lettuce stem in it and Gordon slams the salad bowl to the floor. J screwed up and feels bad about it, but some of the guys think it's sabotage.

Ben takes over the entrees and makes janky and too-thin lamb shanks. Danny is slow on the garnishes, which I agree with Gordon on: they are easy. C'mon, Danny. Seth then gets reamed for wiping his face with a rag, then wiping a pan with it. Ew. He should get reamed. Gross.

On the women's side, Colleen and LA are fighting over the meat station and Gordon is laying into Colleen about getting confused with her orders. Coi is getting spaghetti brought back to the kitchen. She then drops a pot of spaghetti on the floor and Gordon finally snaps. He yells at everyone, tells both teams to get nominees for dismissal ready and sends them all out.

With the women, Coi puts herself up but no one can seem to agree on a second nominee. Lacey actually did well, but some of the girls still want to nominate her. With the men, I think Danny may be stoned out of his mind. They are split on who to nominated.

When they reconvene with Gordon, he lays into them again about the butt of lettuce mistake and how things like that ruin reputations. Danny tells Gordon that they've nominated Seth and Ben, to which both Ben and Gio look surprised. On the women's side, the nominees are Colleen and Lacey. Huh. Lacey does tell Gordon that she thinks she did better than Coi tonight. Coi agrees.

The nominees step forward. Lacey and Colleen both say they are learning a lot and getting better. Seth says he could still be the overall winner and Ben says that he's strong and motivating. Gordon tells Ben he moves to fast for his own good and runs around like a rhinoceros. Heh heh. Gordon's decision is to send Seth home. He is defrocked and sent on his way. Gordon then informs Lacey that she's now on the men's team. Robert talking-heads about how they lost dead weight in Seth but gained 250 lbs of dead weight in Lacey. That's rich coming from you, Tubbo. The women are pretty happy to be rid of Lacey.

6 Comments

Tonight was intense. I'm glad Seth is out...her really got to me..which says something cuz unlike Top Chef which I find most of the contestants likable..Hell's Kitchen tends to have real meatheads sometimes...I'm glad Ben got another shot..he was off tonight..

I also agree about Robert making that '250 pound' remark about Lacey...lame...even though she sucks


I love the show! I am glad that Seth was sent home. That was really gross that he wiped his face with that towel and then wiped out the pan with it. I watch the show every week; very good show. I think the groups need to grow up and act like grown ups, and realize that they have a good oppertunity. Again big fan of the show.


SO glad that Seth got sent home. The cloth usage made me want to vomit.


AS far as I can tell, they all stink. Not one of them can cook worth a darn, far to many mistakes, excuses, stupidity. But if they were any good, I guess the show wouldn't succeed in ratings. As someone who works in the business, I know that I could cook circles around any of these guys/gals.


I am worried by the number of dysfunctional chefs there are in America, cooking our food, and I am more worried how many of them find there way into HELL's KITCHEN.


go robert now **** off


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