Jen says that she hopes her students' boobies don't get in the way because they are ridiculously huge and Jen has never seen anything like them, ever.
One of the housewives admits that she's never made pasta in her life, although she "has heard about it." Pasta, one of the great legendary folklore myths. It should join the ranks of Sasquatch, Abominable Snowman and Lock Ness Monster -- things you've heard about but will never actually see.
They actually do have to make pasta from scratch though, which, I guess, isn't as easy as just microwaving some Easy Mac. They also cut all the veggies and everything. So maybe I should give them a break. Christina's student keeps trying to cut the veggies in her hand, and Xtina is terrified that she's going to cut her hand off. I don't think Christina should intervene. Seeing a trophy wife chop off her hand actually might be something that I'd kind of want to see. It'd give the show a little splash of "Grey's Anatomy."
Petrozza hasn't even started. He's too busy finding any reason that he can to touch his student. He ties her apron around her and even pulls her hair back for her! I don't know that I'd want that PigPen touching my hair. I'd probably find bacon bits in it later.
The General's student is freaking out because she doesn't want to kill her lobster. She tells him that she never kills anything -- not even moths or spiders. Yeah, I get a little squeamish over the screaming boiled alive lobster too. I can sympathize. The General says that he's not running a daycare and makes her do it. She gets so jumpy that she can barely calm down. I think it'd be funny if they then made her boil her own little dog after this. Hasta luego, Zeusy poo!
Corey's student, Sandra (the only name I caught), is actually doing a pretty good job. She's tossing the pasta in her pan and everything. Looks like a real pro. And Jen is cheating. When Ramsay isn't looking, she cuts up the veggies for her student! Luckily, Ram catches her and tells her that if she doesn't stop, then she'll be disqualified. Jen sucks.
Time's up, and the students have to bring their spaghetti out to the dining room. Chef asks them if they had fun and if they learned anything. The ladies said that they learned how to hold a knife for the first time. Who raised these people? I was wielding a machete and chopping away weeds by the time I could walk. Okay, maybe not. But I could at least use a butter knife to spread my PB by kindergarten. But the housewives think that their ignorance is hilarious and they giggle away.
First up is Petrozza. It's seasoned perfectly and the lobster is well cooked. But the pasta is overcooked and too thin. Petrozza said that he was distracted because his student was so hot. Christina is next and everything is perfect -- the seasoning, the lobster and the pasta. And it doesn't contain a finger tip! Nicely done.
The General is next. For some reason, his is all chopped up into little bits and looks like dog food. And it tastes like dog food too. Grody.
Corey's dish is perfect too. So now we're up to Jen. America's favorite cheater. Not so good. Gordon says that he can tell from her dish that her student's never cooked in her life. It's bland; there's no pasta sauce. And the pasta is congealed into one big brain-like mass. Jen definitely has a trend with forgetting the sauce. I wonder if that's something that is in need of a diagnosis.
So it's down to Christina and Corey for the win. But the best teacher is Christina. I agree with this decision. Corey's student seemed a little more advanced than Christina's finger-chopping dingbat, so Christina had a tougher person to teach.
The losers will be spending all day inside cleaning Hell's Kitchen. Emptying the friers, scrubbing the floors and cleaning the ovens. As the winner, Christina will have a really nice lunch with the Ram Jam. Two of L.A.'s premier restauranteurs will be joining them who will cook for them personally and show them some of their signature dishes. Yum!
As for the students, they will be receiving expensive, stainless steel cookware that they will probably never use except to collect dust in.
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Comments (9)
Loves the recap as usual :)
You really do need to get over your shellfish thing, it's quite tasty. And by the way, that "poor little lobster" is a carnivore and would eat you should your body end up on a seabed somewhere.
Oh, and Jen eating out of the garbage isn't so weird. People at my dining hall used to do it all the time, mostly because we get that the food in there has just been moved from a pan into the trash and it's not like the trash fairy has magically made it moldy and gross as soon as it hit the can.
And did you notice how Corey totally went schizo about Christina? They were chatting away about Jen being so annoying and then when Corey loses she goes apeshit on Christina talking about how she pisses her off and stuff. Weird editing or is Corey kinda crazy?
1 of 9 | Posted by Pixiegal262 | Posted on June 16, 2008 12:51 PM
I completely missed this week, thanks for the recap!
Team Anti Shellfish unite!
And I will never grow tired of your peeing souffles imagery. Too funny.
2 of 9 | Posted by its a little pitchy dawg | Posted on June 16, 2008 2:14 PM
So, the big question is did the producers interfere because Jen "makes good tv." I mean, that seems like the only logical explanation. The General really only had this one bad service, and has been pretty consistent throughout. Jen has been awful for the last three or four dinner services.
Anyway, I think it's clear at this point that Christina and Corey have to be the favorites. Smart money has to be on Corey, right?
By the way, the eating out of the garbage can thing totally disgusted me. And I am kinda curious which type of dining hall Pixiegal is referring to where people regularly eat out of the trash can. This has to be freshmen at college, right? Either that or homeless people. (That's meant as a joke, not as a jab at Pixiegal).
3 of 9 | Posted by Alafoss | Posted on June 16, 2008 4:11 PM
Lol, Alafoss- it totally is the freshman who do it ;-)
I had another look at Jen's eating and she was basically eating off the plates before the food went in the garbage...it's odd, certainly, but not particularly gross.
Beside that, who else thinks they waste a ton of food on this show? People burn things, serve them raw, over salted, under-seasoned and all that and presumably throw it all away. And then during the challenges they waste lots of food just to have G-Rams take one bite and then toss it out. I hope they compost all that food.
4 of 9 | Posted by PixieGal262 | Posted on June 16, 2008 6:37 PM
Great Recap!
BTW - did anyone else notice that JP's tie keeps changing color during the "same" dinner service? Maybe it's just me, but I swear his tie went from red to blue and back to red!
And if Jen somehow wins this, I'll be so very sick and sad at Gordon. :(
5 of 9 | Posted by lonebutterfly | Posted on June 16, 2008 7:34 PM
Wasn't there someone last season who ate out of the garbage? Or served food they got out of the garbage?? Something like that.
I'm thinking that Ramsey is going to give the prize to two people (Christina and Corey) and tell them to work together at his new restaurant.
6 of 9 | Posted by LisaMay | Posted on June 17, 2008 6:20 AM
Yeah, last season the girl who came in 3rd took spaghetti outta the trash and actually went to serve it before another girl stopped her. Yet, she made it to the top 3. Yikes.
I wholeheartedly agree with the statement that the General just kinda floated through everything. True, he was far more talented than the walking disaster that is Jen, but he was a little too laid back most of the time. He never wanted to be involved in conflict, didn't want to pitch in when help was needed, never gave off those little direction or leadership vibes RamJam looks for. Hell, he even left acting like it wasn't a big deal. I think the General was sent home because Chef expected more outta him and wasn't getting it.
7 of 9 | Posted by jaded | Posted on June 17, 2008 3:21 PM
Yes, I am ready for Jen and her loud mouth to go, but I've been wanting that slack-jawed loser 'The General' to go since the very beginning, esp when he was the so-called leader (ep 1?) and couldn't delegate or get anyone to get anything done! So NOT chef material.
Then again, none of them is...
I'm sure most of you realise that the winner (I am not sure who) is soon-to-be the *sous* chef at Ram Jam's new (and apparently fairly crappy with mini-mean & exe portions) resto at The London Hotel (formerly the very cool Bel Age Hotel, where once I saw Jimmy Page from Led Zepplin !!!!!! as well as a few other visiting Brit celebs).
NOT 'head chef' *at all*, as trumpeted all season long.
Because they just aren't nearly good enough.
*sigh*
8 of 9 | Posted by Donna Martin Graduates! | Posted on June 22, 2008 6:42 PM
sorry, didn't mean to repeat much of yr comment, jaded.
And yeah, I've plucked the occassional thing outa the bin at home, and then eaten it (within reason), but certainly not served it in a professional resto.
That spaghetti incident from the previous season was jaw-dropping.
9 of 9 | Posted by Donna Martin Graduates! | Posted on June 22, 2008 6:45 PM