Hell’s Kitchen - Final Two
31 July 2007Congrats to Bonnie and Rock for making the final two. There’s some catching up to do, so here goes:
Last week we saw the elimination of two chefs: Josh and Julia. I was really bummed to see Julia go, but I agree with Chef Ramsay’s decision to let her go. She has raw talent, but not a lot of knowledge of fine dining dishes. Josh, on the other hand, was kicked out of the kitchen in mid-service for screwing up too many entrees. And these weren’t little screw-ups either. For some reason, he kept disobeying Chef Ramsay’s orders and made at least two of the dishes — risotto and spaghetti — before they were ordered. This is a big no-no because all of the dishes are supposed to be made to order. And when it finally came time to send the dishes out, they were poorly done. Chef Ramsay reached the end of his rope and threw Josh out on the spot.
Julia was sad to go, and Chef Ramsay was sad to let her go, because of her incredible intuition. But Chef gave her a little surprise: he told her that he will personally send her to culinary school to learn the ins and outs of fine dining. How awesome is that? I’m not a cook in the slightest. Hell, I burn cereal. But even I would jump at the chance to go to some free culinary school. I would probably suck at it, but free is free.
Two weeks ago we saw the loss of Brad. No big deal there. Normal screw-ups for a so-so chef. Out he went. It really wasn’t a blog-worthy episode.
So now we are down to the final two. Bonnie surprised everyone with her assertiveness in the pass, and both chefs caught the sous chef’s intentional quality discrepancies. It would have been a difficult decision to let Jen go, but her confidence just isn’t there yet. She’s just not ready to run her own restaurant.
Next week will bring the separation of the restaurants into two separate restaurants. Interior designers will be brought in, and each finalist will get a chance to design his or her own custom restaurant. Then, all of the contestants will be brought back in, and each of the finalists will pick their team from the eliminated chefs. I hope Julia gets picked first. She’s awesome.
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One Response to “Hell’s Kitchen - Final Two”
July 31st, 2007 at 3:18 pm
I agree that Julia is AWESOME and it was so sad when she left. Chef Ramsey was actually a kind, soft-hearted human being at that elimination. The one thing I’m kinda worried about - in the preview for next week’s episode they showed Julia crying and the announcer said (something like), “…but not everyone is glad to be back.” Poor Julia! I don’t really care who wins now, ’cause I wanted Jen, but - all things considered - I hope Bonnie wins. It would sucks rotten eggs to work for/with Rock.