Petrozza delivers Jen's fish to the window too early, and Chef yells at Jen. She tells us that she decides to hold her tongue. And then it cuts to her screaming, "I didn't bring the John Dory up there! He brought it up with the garnish!"
Gordon tells her to stop whining and just do it. Then he scolds her for her attitude. He tells her that when he asks her to have energy, instead she clumps around and mopes. She claims that it's not her attitude, and that it's just all some magical kitchen mirage. But Gordon knows better. Petrozza says that she has a problem with authority and following directions.
The General tries to improve his game and tells us that it's like a war. Luckily he's a four-star general, right? So war, of course, comes naturally. Things start coming together in the kitchen, but now it's time for the arrival of the 12-top. One look at these ladies, and I can tell the men are in for some major distraction. It is a herd of Hawaiian Tropics models.
JP goes over to greet them, and have you ever noticed the dopey music that plays every time he's on? He's obviously meant to be the comic relief, and it's just so scripted and silly.
The orders for the 12-top come in and Corey is ordered to help with the appetizers. Christina and Corey rock out the appetizers and get all twelve out to the table at the exact same time. Nicely done, ladies. Then, together, they move on to the desserts.
The General, Petrozza and Jen move on to the entrees for the 12-top. And Jen, again, serves up raw John Dory. Geez. This girl does not know how to cook. And she continues to slowly loaf around. Gordo gets so impatient with her slowness that he kicks her off and takes over her station. It's looking more and more like Jen will be leaving tonight, right? I was totally crossing my fingers at this point.
And now it's time for the Fire of the Week Award! This week's fire was started by The General! We should start taking weekly bets on who's going to start the fire. It just never fails to happen! And Ramsay's had enough.
Jen starts to kick it into gear and actually works hard and attempts to communicate. It's like she's cramming for the final exam or something. Amazingly, the models get their food. Also amazing, models actually eat.
Dinner service is over, and it's time to meet Gordon in the kitchen. Even though they completed the service, he is none too pleased. They didn't unite as a team, and it shouldn't be this painful this late in the season. He really expected more from the final five. He says that the only individual who stood out was Christina. Her lobster spaghetti was a big hit. She'll be nominating two teammates for elimination.
Christina talks to Petrozza first, and he says that he wasn't happy with his performance. She says that he's dirty and focuses more on himself than the team. Christina tells Corey that the General deserves another chance, but he seems really mediocre. Corey agrees, saying that he's been cooking for 15 years but has never really pushed himself. He's just ridden safely his whole life.
Jen says that the General and Petrozza deserve to go, but she thinks she'll be on the chopping block because Christina doesn't like her. Yeah, and you're is a sucky cook, Jen! Super slow and a complete asshole. We should start calling her Cleopatra: Queen of Denial because no one is further from reality than her. She never admits her mistakes or takes responsibility for her rubbery fish, peeing souffles or missing sauces!
Corey says that they've all admitted that Jen is good in the kitchen but she's missing the team spirit. Corey is really making sense to me this week. Maybe I need a CAT scan or something. Anyway, both our blondies hope that Jen goes home.
It's time for elimination. Christina's first nominee is Jen because she shuts down when things don't go her way and brings the whole team down with her. The second nominee is the General because of his poor performance that evening.
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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