Before the losing chefs start cleaning, they go back to trash talk about Little Miss Perfect Christina. Jen says that she talks a whole lot but can't cook. And the General says that she's slow. She doesn't necessarily seem slow to me. Maybe just easily flustered and slightly pompous.
Christina meets Mark Peel of Campanile and Ben Ford of Ford's Filling Station. She pretends like she knows who they are and gets really excited.
As they clean, Corey tells us that Christina winning is not good for her ego because she keeps getting more and more cocky. And Corey doesn't have an ego at all. But every man there probably wants her body. Hey, does anyone want to come sit in the hot tub with her so she can seduce you?
Party-crasher Jen comes in to "clean" the part of the kitchen where Christina is enjoying her winning prize and totally eavesdrops to learn a few things for herself. She's such a freaky little weasel.
Christina and Gordon taste the chefs yummy food and then the General is called to clean off the plates. Now here's the part that I had to rewind and watch again because I couldn't believe my eyes: Jen actually PICKS SOME OF THE FOOD OUT OF THE GARBAGE AND EATS IT. Jen ate garbage, everybody! She says that she's doing it to get ahead, but the General agrees with me and says it's totally weird. Maybe by eating trash, it will improve her superior trash-talking abilities. I totally want to barf.
The chefs prep for the dinner service, and Christina already starts imparting her new found wisdom. "Mark Peel said this. Mark Peel said that. Blah blah blah I'm awesome!" Yeah that's pretty annoying. She has a suggestion for every tiny thing that everyone is doing. I almost just want Corey to bitchslap her.
Gordon meets with the crew before dinner service begins and warns them that there will be a 12-top. So it's going to be pretty busy. And with that, the restaurant is open. Things start off a little weird because Jen is so slow. Gordo tells her that she can be a little flatfooted sometimes, which is a good way of putting it. She is a total sloth in the kitchen.
And then. The. Funniest. THING EVER HAPPENS!!! Poor little Jean-Philippe completely walks into the glass door like a confused bird! Apparently the losers were a little too good at cleaning the glass! You know, I've totally done that before too. One time when I was little, I completely ran into the sliding glass door to the balcony of our hotel room. I almost broke my nose. Luckily, I have a really hard skull and survived unscathed. Gordon, completely dumbfounded, says "Would you mind not head-butting my door?"
Gordon asks for a sign to be put on the door to keep our JP safe in the future. He tells JP "to watch your eyes, you little Belgian bleep!" Okay, finally. JP is Belgian. Mystery solved. I never really knew what he was except for part cartoon and part cliche. Lucky for us, they replay the whole incident, and it is just as funny as it was the first time.
Christina is excited because she works the special station with the lobster spaghetti, and she messed up right off the bat and missed an entire order. Corey loves it. But Christina turns it around and gets her act together.
The General starts off rough by not cutting the meat correctly. He tells us that once he did that, he knew the Chef would be on him for the rest of the night. Then he incorrectly cuts the Wellington. He needs to wake up.
Jen criticizes the General, saying that he should know how to do all this stuff. And then she serves up raw fish. Nice. JP overhears that Jen can't cook and tells the servers to push the meat and steer people away from ordering the John Dory. Now Jen overcooks the fish and turns it into rubber. Awesome.
The General overcooks the Wellington, and it looks so nasty. Wait, I mean, SO NASTY. So JP tells the servers to push the chicken. Gordon competely freaks out on the Gen. The kitchen stalls and the diners, munching on crackers and water, start getting antsy.
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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