HK – make your own darn eggs!
Finally got a chance to watch Hell’s Kitchen for this week, as we go from a final four hopefuls, down to the final three. Were almost there – who will stand the heat and make it to the final two?
Jen decides hey – making friends might help, and seems surprised when the other three look at her like she’s grown another head. Them bridges is way burnt, baby. The first challenge is to create a dish for 80 very special guests who are picky and demanding. Christina makes a turkey sandwich with curry and avocado, while scared that the guests might be kids and she would have gone in the wrong direction, Jen whips together a grouper dish, Petrozza works on a Monte Cristo sandwich and Jen almost makes me like her again with her snarky “It looks like a heart attack dipped in a stroke with a side of cardiac arrest.” Then she opens her mouth again and I am back to my dislike. Heh. And Cory is making a salmon BLT – except that she’s working extremely slowly, and is the only chef without enough servings on the table when the guests arrive and pisses them off by having to go put together more – while Christina sneaks in and gives her plates to the waiting guests to ‘save time’.
Oh – who are these picky snarly guests? 80 pregnant women! All of whom Chef Ramsey thanks for not going into labor during the challenge. The votes are tallied, and Christina bests Petrozza by just 2 votes. Cue bitchy Jen and Corey, because Christina wins a personalized shopping spree with Chef Ramsey. As Christina has admitted to being fashionably hopeless, so both Jen and Corey are certain they a – deserved the win and b – would have made much better choices and gained better outfits if it had been THEM. Instead, they’re stuck cleaning and prepping and bitching while Petrozza wisely keeps his mouth shut.
It doesn’t get better when Christina returns to show off her stuff, and then join in the prep and gets the silent treatment, until Petrozza takes pity on her and tells her where to pitch in to help – and it’s time for dinner service. Jen and Corey do a good job on the appetizers and things are looking good – which means it’s about to take a dive. Jen starts plating mushy rise, and when she finally gets her act together again, Christina puts a pot next to Ramsey that’s been over the flame and he burns himself on the handle. Then she does it again. Yikes. Nothing like Risotto with a side of singed flesh!
Corey and Christina need some help with some quail eggs and ask Jen to drop them, but she’s too busy stirring one pan of risotto. She finally does, but not until she’s been asked several times, and the other girls give up and say they’ll do it – THEN she decides hey, maybe I can do more then one thing at a time… too little too late. Corey tries to pass off an undercooked john dory, which gets past ramsey, but not the customer and it comes back. Petrozza, who’s station is as messy as ever, is serving up excellent filet mignon and pretty much guarantees he’s not going home tonight.
Ramsey surprises them all by declaring the service the best ever, they finished in record time with a surprisingly few mistakes. He tells them to piss off and decide which two are up for elimination as a group. Suddenly Jen goes all lovey dovy and says it’s hard because she as a heart, and the other three just stare at her. She doesn’t think she deserves to go up, but everyone knows she’s gonna. She tries to get by with naming Christina twice when they do a ballot, but they all know it was her.
In the end, Jen and Corey are nominated and Ramsey finally decided that Jen’s attitude has got to go, much to the delight of the other three. Next week – the final three get their shot at running the kitchen – who’s going to crash and burn this time?!
