Good to see you again, SnarkFans! We are glad to be back after a month and a half that provided plenty of SnarkFodder (some of which can be found at my other blog and some will only come out after a couple of beers).
So as we rejoin our special friends in Hell's Kitchen, we see that the rating includes mention of sexual situations and Dave gets excited. The recap reminds us that after drama in the red kitchen and incompetence in the blue kitchen, Gina was sent home. As the episode begins, Ramsay tells the contestants that they're getting a clean slate as they cater a high school reunion. Paul and Elizabeth go to meet with the reunion committee to find out what they want, and Carrie says Elizabeth doesn't listen. Ooh, the blondes are sniping at each other.
Elizabeth asks how the ladies feel about meat and fish on the same plate, "like a surf and turf." Um, no. But Dave points out, "No, no, that's a perfectly reasonable question. It could be typical of Hawaiian cooking all the time. Heck, the bigger Hawaiian plate lunches have some sort of meat (pork) and fish (in banana leaves) together all the time. She's not crazy at all for asking that. Paul might be missing something here." The question is, will Elizabeth suggest a surf and turf anyway or will the red team overrule her and do it anyway? No, she considers Hawaiian equivalent to Asian and just tells the red team "Asian." Then she decides lentils fit into the theme. Might as well give all of the points to the blue team now. To add to the fun, Carrie and Jennifer can't agree on ingredients or plating for their dish.
Yep, the blue team sweeps it and I'm jealous of the tasters for getting to try the blue dishes. It's not just that the women completely blew it, the blue dishes were amazing. Even the one dish that Ramsay thought was too small was so good that the tasters thought it was worth the small portions. The blue team gets a day on a "superyacht"...someone put sunscreen on Natalie, please! We hear, "The Paul is on board." Dave comments that people who refer to themselves as "The _____" make him wonder, especially when the blank is filled with their name instead of a nickname. Natalie gets a bit tipsy and clowns around...luckily for them, the service wasn't that night. Unfortunately for them, they're hungover in the morning.
The red team has to make a three-layer cake for the reunion. My first thought is, I bet they don't know enough to put straws or dowels in to support the top 2 tiers. My second thought is that they completely screwed up covering the layers with fondant, so they're sure to not support it correctly. I'm completely distracted from their bickering for once because I'm too busy critiquing their (lack of) decorating skills. That cake is going to fall over horrifically. Ramsay says, "It's like a big Mexican sombrero gone wrong." Ole! I could do better than that having never made a tiered cake (so far, I'm meaning to try it)...at least I know how to cover a cake with fondant and the theory of supporting tiers!
As dinner service starts, the red team is confused about preparing the menu. Dave comments that this is what prep is for, but during prep they were too busy fucking up a cake! The blue team is on to entrees while the red team can't get apps out...unfortunately, fish proves to trip them up, with a stone cold center. Paul, we expect better from you. Ramsay asks who's going to lead the red kitchen and gets silence in return until Elise steps up, saying in her cutaway interview that she's a natural-born leader. After all, she says she's "got a big mouth but knows how to use it," which leads Dave to ask, "Does your man like how you lead him in the bedroom, then?" (Maybe he's still hung up on the sexual situations he hasn't gotten enough of yet?) The red team gets a set of appetizers out, and Elyse proceeds to crow, "That's right. That means I don't just talk." Dave adds, "Yeah, you can apparently put your hands behind your back too. Great leaders are known for doing that instead of getting involved!" Um, yeah, I know what my Command Sergeant Major father would say to that, and it would not be pretty. The red team does start pushing out entrees, though.
What is wrong with Monterray these last couple of days? He had poor focus in the team challenge, and he's having trouble helping Natalie with garnish. Paul has more raw red snapper, making Ramsay into a red snapper and cusser and yeller. Jonathan and Monterray get pushed onto the fish station to replace him, which quickly becomes Monterray cooking fish while Jonathan stands in the corner basically saying, "Call me if you need me, dude." Monterray screws up the snapper, and Ramsay shuts it down. Jonathan asks if there's anything he can do to help and complains about getting sent upstairs again. Gee, maybe you should have asked what you can do while your kitchen was cooking.
I'm seeing three good candidates for elimination: Monterray, Paul, and Jonathan. I'd like to see Paul stay, and at this point I'd like to see Jonathan go home for passing the buck. Monterray's been weak enough overall that it'll probably be him, though. Nominees are Monterray and Paul, but Ramsay calls Jonathan forward too...good move. Paul shows passion as he fights for his life, and this is the only bad service he's had, so he is told to get back in line. Chef sends Monterray home, and Natalie nods in agreement. Monterray says that if he knew standing back and not cooking was the way to stay safe, he would have done that...thus showing that he doesn't deserve to win. Elise comments on the way out that this is her prize and no one better stand in her way. Dave points out that the main person getting in Elise's way is Elise.
The preview for next week describes it as heartstopping. We're not sending someone else to the ER, are we? Dave wonders if that would make Elise cry like she does in the preview, but I don't think that would make her cry unless it was her. Jonathan survives another day only to be seen storming out of the kitchen in the preview.
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