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Christina can't find the veggie that she's looking for but keeps tasting the dish and is pretty sure that it contains white beans. She finally finds it high on the top shelf of the fridge. Oh that Rams! So tricky! Christina turns the beans into a white bean puree. Corey chooses a potato parsnip puree. And Petrozza...uh...he doesn't make a puree at all. Maybe he's inherited Jen's missing sauce disease. All three make a red wine sauce for the last piece of the puzzle. Corey is sure that there is something sweet in the sauce, and when she spots some raspberry, she has a gut instinct that that's what she needs.

Time is up and it's time to face the music. Gordon tastes all the dishes and our final three list what they used. Corey's raspberry definitely gets some raised eyebrows. But it turns out that she was correct! And she was the only one who put cream in the cabbage to bind it. Christina should have listened to her mom. Instead, she got docked for the aiolli, and Petrozza is docked for the missing puree. Unfortunately for Corey, even though her sauce was perfect, she chose the wrong meat and is out of the running. The winner is Christina yet again. Dammit! I would have really liked to see Petrozza do it. He's always so close.

Corey and Petrozza will be on bar duty -- polishing the glasses and handcrushing the ice from solid blocks. Oh that is evil. Christina will be dining out with Gordo and taking a site-seeing tour on a double-decker tour bus. Classy. Even better, her parents get to come! When they meet outside to climb on the bus, Gordo is wearing THE tightest little white t-shirt EVER, by the by. LOVE IT! They travel around with a lovely tourguide, seeing Hollywood hotspots and then get dropped off at a restaurant called Grace.

Back in Hell's Kitchen, Corey and Petrozza are chipping away at the ice with chisels. I love how they always have to act like pioneers when they lose challenges. It's so ridiculous. We have machines to do stuff like this nowadays. Even better is that they are wearing goggles and gloves as if they are in chemistry class. Corey comments that she feels like a caveman, and I agree. That is exactly what they look like! And not even the hip, cool kind that try to sell you insurance.

Next comes the glass polishing. Petrozza polishes so hard that his shoulder practically dislocates, but it's not good enough for Jean-Philippe. He inspects the glasses disapprovingly, seeing spots that couldn't have been seen with a microscope and makes Petrozza do them all over again. And, yet again, what is with the goofy tuba music that always accompanies J.P.? Is it just to reaffirm that he's a big boob? I feel like they could have Charlie Chaplin on this show bumbling around, and it'd be more realistic.

Christina says goodbye to her parents and joins the others in the kitchen for prep. Tonight they will all be running the hot plates. They can all cook, but can they run a kitchen? One-by-one, RamJam makes Petrozza, Corey and then Christina role play with him, pretending like the are the unapologetic, commanding force that he is. It's pretty funny. Petrozza tries to break out of his timid, big-hearted shell and yell. Corey approaches the challenge like a little kitten, which is funny to me because she seems realistically like the most bitchy of the group. And Rams tells Christina that she comes across as a cheerleader, which offends her.

Hell's Kitchen is open. A half hour into service, appetizers are out, and our team is already moving onto entrees. Sous Chefs Scott and Gloria are filling in the gaps in the kitchen, AND they are also being used to test the aspiring chefs ferocity by planning different ways to sabotage.

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