The Taste Test in Hell’s Kitchen
26 June 2007This episode defines the reason that I like Hell’s Kitchen so much. I tell you more about that in a minute.
Tonight was the infamous Taste Test episode. Each chef is blindfolded and given headphones, then asked to identify three basic foods based on taste alone. Although the girls were suspected of cheating, they came out as the victors yet again. At this point, the guys have yet to win a single challenge.
There wasn’t a whole lot of unusual HK drama this time, just more of the usual. People over/undercooked various foods and got plates shoved/thrown back at them to do over. And, as a rule of Hell’s Kitchen, if a single dish doesn’t get Chef Ramsay’s approval when it is about to be sent to the table, all of the food for that table is scrapped and the chefs must start over again. This make for a serious amount of wasted food, and one really pissed off Head Chef.
Tonight was the night that the customers decided which team was the losing team. Each table had score cards where the customers could write down and rate the teams on individual categories such as whether or not they were satisfied with the length of time it took to get their food. This, of course, would be the biggest problem for the chefs, as it always takes forever to get food out in Hell’s Kitchen.
In the end, Chef Ramsay decided that both teams were losers, and made each team pick one person for elimination. Rock got to choose for the Blue team, and Jen got to pick for the Red team.
Now this is what it’s all about. This is the reason that I like Hell’s Kitchen so much more than other “reality” shows. Rock and Jen, instead of choosing the worst performer on their team, each chose a person (Melissa and Josh, respectively) that they considered to be the greatest threat to them. It’s kind of like the crap you see on Survivor where the team members vote off the BEST people so that they have less competition down the road. Well, Chef Ramsay won’t go for that. If someone is nominated that the chef feels doesn’t deserve to be, he will override the nominations. And in this case he did. If fact, he overrode both nominations and told the nominators that they were idiots for not choosing the worst performers on the team. So Chef Ramsay chose the two he thought should go: Bonnie and Vinnie.
After a lot of tongue-lashing, Chef Ramsay decided who should go: Vinnie.
Donkey count: 7
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