Hell’s Kitchen Recap: Tasteless

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By BlueCanary | Wednesday, July 18, 2012 | 1:00 pm | 18 Comments
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Once all the crap is inside, Andi gives the Red team some busy work. They have to grind a ton of peppercorns using a mortar and pestle, drain and refill the fryers, and peel potatoes. They get to that and Dana gets pepper in her eye. The Blue team returns, all tanned and happy, and just get some death glares. They don’t care, though.

At the end of the day, when they’re all exhausted and finally ready to relax, Gordon has one more delivery for them. Turns out to be a small box, addressed to everyone. They all get super worked up, and it turns out to be a video message from Gordon informing them that the dinner service tomorrow will be a Red vs. Blue original menu. They have an hour to plan a menu with three appetizers, three entrees, and three desserts. Oh no, not desserts! Not a single fucking chef I’ve ever seen on any of these cooking show challenges knows how to make dessert, for some reason. It’s always the most dreaded, intimidating challenge.

They start planning, and of course the Red team is physically incapable of having a conversation without someone getting bitchy, intimidated, or butthurt. In this case, Kimmie once again feels like no one listens to her. They’re all talking over her, she says, and the menu doesn’t reflect her opinions. Christina says they have to stay away from fried food, which means yeah, Kimmie’s opinions are for shit.

On the Blue team, Robyn’s ideas are also getting shot down left and right. Justin says she doesn’t have any real sense of fine dining, which makes Justin one of the more perceptive people on the show.

What do you mean? Green bean casserole with Ritz cracker topping is high class!

Justin and Brian are in sync with the menu planning, and kind of leave Clemenza and Robyn out of things. Granted, Robyn’s idea of making a seafood-based molded salad sounds horrible, and Justin says it’s right out of the 80s. I can see his point, BUT! BUT! No one sporting a RATTAIL needs to be saying a single damn whispered word about anyone else being stuck in the 80s. Do I make myself clear, JUSTIN?!?

Exhibit R. R for rattail.

Anyway, semantics are causing more problems on the Red team when the girls want to use Kimmie’s barbecue sauce but change the name to something more sophisticated and befitting the fine dining experience. I guess that doesn’t wash with Kimmie, because she’s still all disgruntled. She gets to make the sauce according to her own exact recipe. They’ll call it by another name, but it’ll be the same stuff and taste just as good as she wants to make it. Jesus, can we work together for a second or two? Shakespeare covered this conundrum centuries ago, Kimmie.

Not that you’re familiar with Shakespeare.

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18 Comments

  1. 1
    timgunnssister timgunnssister
    Posted July 18, 2012 at 1:15 pm

    Kimmie, Kimmie, Kimme. Geez, girl, grow a pair. How is it that she can get all in your face confrontational, yet she’s scared of challenges? She keeps offering to sit out then stands on the sidelines muttering about how she could have done better. Then stop sitting out!

    I love how nothing fazes Barbie. Call her names,get in her face, and she just keeps on rolling. The drama never seems to affect her food, which is the mark of a solid chef.

    And Tiffany is just nasty. Please let me NEVER eat anywhere she’s worked. Or eaten. Or been anywhere near.

  2. 2
    crankyguy crankyguy
    Posted July 18, 2012 at 1:48 pm

    Fun fact: my local Walmart sells sunchokes. Raw, they make as passable substitute for water chestnuts.

  3. 3
    crankyguy crankyguy
    Posted July 18, 2012 at 2:22 pm

    When is competitive eating going to be an Olympic sport? Joey Chestnut represents everything that is wrong with America according to the protesters who gathered when he came to my town to compete against frat boys in a hamburger-eating contest at a local university sponsored by a regional fast food chain headquartered in the area. He stood for the wastefulness of capitalism and the social injustice against the struggle of starving masses in exploited, underdeveloped nations. I decided right then that he is my most favorite athlete in the whole world, and it pisses me off that he was not shown the same level of respect and adoration in Hell’s Kitchen that was lavished on David Beckham.

  4. 4
    timgunnssister timgunnssister
    Posted July 18, 2012 at 2:32 pm

    But, but, but….it was David (cue rainbows and unicorns) Beckham! Even lesbians think he’s hot!

  5. 5
    michkabibbles
    Posted July 18, 2012 at 2:48 pm

    @crankyguy-i don’t really understand the reasoning that eating competitions are an american mark of overconsumption-wasn’t there a while when all the champions were skinny japanese guys?

    i have to say i love the faces that barbie makes. she’s so expressive of her complete derision of every other person there.

  6. 6
    crankyguy crankyguy
    Posted July 18, 2012 at 2:57 pm

    @ michkabibbles, pound for pound, that skinny Japanese dude is a greater champion than even my beloved Joey Chestnut. I was just relating what the protesters said, but I never claimed that they made any sense. They may have been associated with some radical vegetarian group, and possibly it was the hamburgers that set them off.

  7. 7
    michkabibbles
    Posted July 18, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    @crankyguy-i definitely got the sarcasm in your post! :) i just didn’t understand the general public mentality relating eating contests to american materialism. especially since the japanese can outeat us all. i watched a hot dog eating contest on tv once, and saw a bit on someones training regimen (i hate to keep using the term skinny japanese guy, but i don’t remember his name)-it was kind of intense.
    i don’t eat a lot of beef myself, but i can well understand how the smell could cause a riot.

    the most wings i’ve ever eating in one sitting is 20, which i consider pretty good considering i had carbs for lunch that day.

  8. 8
    Leto
    Posted July 18, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    The mussels thing with barbie would have pissed me of too, BUT it better be no frakking sand inside those, unless she’d like to be burned by Gordon. She was right to do it right rather than fast. The smoke break was a little too much though.

    Kimmie’s lack of self confidence is really worse and worse, that’s too bad for her.

    Christina is definetly my pony right now. And Dana still reminds me of Nellie Oleson. That woman scares me. Tiffany still is digusting, Robyn still is a crazy bitch, Brian still is funny, and Clemenza still is messy. Justin is getting annoying though, I hope he won’t fill the vacant “douchebag” seat Royce just left.

    And I really don’t get the eating competitions. Not against, just don’t get the point of it.^^

  9. 9
    PopePhilly PopePhilly
    Posted July 18, 2012 at 4:24 pm

    If Tiffany keeps making the face she did in the first photo of her, we should make her the mascot of Gordon Ramsay Pork!

  10. 10
    Andyourlittledogtoo
    Posted July 18, 2012 at 8:34 pm

    It was sooooo weird watching Tiffany and Ramsey to that ‘passion play’ at the end there. I paraphrase:

    ‘I’m so PASSIONATE about the food! I am so PASSIONATE about winning this and working for you-u-u!’ sniffle sniffle sob sob

    ‘I know you are but you just aren’t there yet!’ Ramsey responds gently

    When ALL we’ve seen from Tiffany when Gordon isn’t looking (and even sometimes when he is) is ‘I don’t give a shit, whatever’.

    That whole last moment was such a disconnect.

    Side note: Is there some curse upon the name ‘Clemenza’? Because every real or fictional person I’ve ever seen named ‘Clemenza’ has been an enormous mouthbreather. I don’t hate them for that, it’s just a weird observation.

    Great recap.

  11. 11
    annie Annie
    Posted July 18, 2012 at 9:59 pm

    lmfao at that first picture of Tiffany! I can’t even finish reading the rest without making a comment!

    hahah Im cracking up over here

  12. 12
    Pikey
    Posted July 18, 2012 at 10:53 pm

    “Tiffany says the eggplant is green beans, but mentions that it tastes more like soggy diaper.” This is a great line, don’t get me wrong. But I would love to know (well, not really) how Tiffany knows what a soggy diaper tastes like…

    Still on team Barbie and Justin – would love to see Robyn leave next.

    Thanks again for the great recaps!!

  13. 13
    Samantha
    Posted July 19, 2012 at 6:15 am

    I’m actually rooting for Justin/Brian’s bromance. They seriously crack me up! I guess we can call them Brustin.

    I used to be a huge Kimmie fan but she needs to get a backbone and quit the bitching.

    I say the top two will be Justin (who is obviously a serious contender considering these past 2 episodes we actually got to see him talk) and Christina.

    Dana annoys me because she always looks high, and don’t even get me started on Robyn! Seeing her face just makes my stomach turn.

  14. 14
    NateB
    Posted July 19, 2012 at 10:38 am

    Anyone else notice throughout the season that everytime shes in the interview room, Dana is yelling? Whats with that?

  15. 15
    kloewent
    Posted July 19, 2012 at 11:17 am

    why is it on cooking shows that really fat guys are always slobs?? Have seen it repeatedly on here, Top Chef, etc. They always seem covered in crap and their workstations are filthy. ICK!!!

  16. 16
    SuburBint
    Posted July 19, 2012 at 11:42 am

    @ Andyourlittledogtoo — Tiffany totally cares! She cares a great big whopping 9 out of ten.

    Kinda makes you wonder how she handles the things she only cares a 5 or 6 about…. That girl can half-ass doing something half-assed.

  17. 17
    LAC LAC
    Posted July 19, 2012 at 11:46 am

    Ok, I am weird – I find Justin, rat tail included, kind of cute. I guess it is just the wall of fugly that I am being hit with on this show this season.

  18. 18
    Samantha
    Posted July 19, 2012 at 1:37 pm

    @LAC you’re not the only one. I find Justin surprisingly cute. But the rat tail has got to go!

    Brian would be cute if he wasn’t so weird.

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