Minicap: Hell’s Kitchen

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By BlueCanary | Tuesday, September 20, 2011 | 1:11 pm | 9 Comments
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The two hour season finale of Hell’s Kitchen starts off with the final four getting ambushed by their family members and Tommy making up for lost booty time with his special lady. After teasing them with emotional fulfillment, Gordon kicks out the loved ones and presents them with the Taste It–Now Make It challenge. The winner gets to go to a Dodgers game and meet Tommy Lasorda, while the others unearth half eaten snacks from under the girls’ dorm beds as they dismantle the place.

That night, each of them gets the chance to run the service, trying to keep things together while Gordon, James, and Scott slip them rogue shrimp and incorrect tickets, and substitute purée into their game plans. Two of them are sent packing, and we move on to the final two and the most important challenges ever!

A fake-out restaurant visit turns into a challenge judged by BLT execs, which ends in a tie-breaker decided by the president of BLT. Then the past contestants return so the remaining two can pick teams for the final service. We get a blurred shot of Tommy’s ass, and Carrie and Elise end up stuck on the same team! Ha!

The season rolls on with dong drawing, arguing, and standing around–the usual. Man tears. Expectations from beyond the grave. Inspirational speeches. Elise setting things on fire. Gun jumping. Bunged fish. Rawr meat. Hillbilly tantrums. Stuff sent back! Carrie and Elise annoying each other and all of us, yet somehow not fighting. Pacing. A fateful stack of comment cards. Two doors. And an end result no one saw coming.

Catch up with BlueCanary later this week for the recap of the first half, then finish things off with Medusa as she lays out the second half and announces the winner. Thanks for hanging in there with us!

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9 Comments

  1. 1
    Bioscotto
    Posted September 20, 2011 at 2:41 pm

    A week ago, I would have said the person who won never had a chance…but from the way they built up this person’s emotional story the entire episode, I was fairly certain they would win in the end…and they did! It was a bit ridiculous…

  2. 2
    S-Natch Didi32
    Posted September 20, 2011 at 3:25 pm

    And the Top Chef connection continues – Cliff is Executive Chef at BLT!

  3. 3
    crankyguy crankyguy
    Posted September 20, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    So Cliff, after being kicked off Top Chef, has the prize job that is supposed to result from winning Hell’s Kitchen, but we all know that the winner of Hell’s Kitchen is not really made executive chef anywhere. We know this because Ramsay has stated in interviews that he is not stupid enough to risk million dollar investments at the hands of any Hell’s Kitchen contestards.

  4. 4
    Mary Pearson
    Posted September 21, 2011 at 7:57 am

    So why don’t they just give a cash prize and be done with it? Love me some Gordon & Scott, but the show is getting so predictable.

  5. 5
    Bunhole
    Posted September 21, 2011 at 10:06 am

    I really loved the bits of Chef Ramsay joking around with people after the winner was declared. Especially when he told Elise to stop being such a bitch.

  6. 6
    yeschef
    Posted September 21, 2011 at 5:11 pm

    “So why don’t they just give a cash prize and be done with it?”

    Because the person working for a year not only gives them experience but resume fodder.

    Also Christina if she wasn’t a culinary student and had more experience she would have been the exec chef.

    She had her chef job renewed under Chef Ramsay (the restaurant also got a Michelin while she was there) and now works opening up restaurants for Thomas Keller so obviously she is very qualified. Hell she deserved to win she beat the pants off everyone else. Petrozzea was just doddering around and his only real quality was his likability. He was nowhere near the quality of a chef that Christina was. Christina despite being a student was the top of her class.

  7. 7
    yeschef
    Posted September 21, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    Paul won because of the finale service in which he managed to get everyone working at the proper stations and made use of Elise. Plus Paul made sure that Will’s effort to cause a flame out in the kitchen didn’t happen.

    Will had crappy krupa who screwed him and he didn’t move fast enough to replace him.

    An exec chef has to work the brigade. Paul also had more potential in him then Will who while consistent likely wouldn’t have major growth.

  8. 8
    crankyguy crankyguy
    Posted September 21, 2011 at 6:24 pm

    “So why don’t they just give a cash prize and be done with it?”

    The winner can just take the $250,000 and refuse the job. What I don’t know is if they take a job, if they are paid what that job is worth over and above the prize money. They should, since they get the $250,000 in either case.

  9. 9
    yeschef
    Posted September 21, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    They have to meet certain requirements to get the cash like most contests spell out to the contestants. Holli got the cash since her Visa to work in the UK wasn’t approved. Lots of visas get denied so she got the money as compensation.

    Danni quit after five months and got the 250,000 since it apparently it was pretty hostile for him to work there since he was one of five sous chefs.

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