Frankly, I don't see how any of these people could be given the top spot at a huge luxury resort.

The men are awful in one way or another; no matter how much, Julia learns, she can't be the top chef creating dishes; Bonnie is just too ditzy to be the boss and Jen picks up stuff out of he garbage.

I just don't like any of them.

Wow, swift recap! We only watched it last night and then - dey it is!

Great stuff with the rock/lava metaphors.

Yeah, the gals won the photo shoot prize -- QUELLE SURPRISE!

The gals did scrub up quite nicely, but I am surprised you didn't include a screencap of the moment when Jen turned to her left and presented us with her profile -- my god, that woman has a schnozz (a huge, honking nose) on her!

Actually I want to give Rock props for keeping his cool when he had to do that humiliating task of collecting the garbage at the photo shoot. He calmly asked, "Is that all you needed me to do?" then departed, (mostly) saving his ire for the confessional.
Very cool.

I think it may be a showdown btw him and Julia, which would be very interesting.

LOVE the gremlin pic! LOL.

Oh yeah, note the massive boobs jutting out as Melissa took her jacket off. Wonder how many times they got her to do that before they settled on the best camera angle?

jmchez - I agree it's a weak line up, but Rock (hissy fit aside) still delivers the goods.

OMG You almost made me choke with the gremlin picture. TOO hilarious!!

I agree though that Rock should've been called out on his piss poor attitude.
I mean I can understand getting upset, but he just went insane with rage.

Wow. I just don't understand these people. The women's team did well, but they still talk crap about Julia behind her back. Shut up Bonnie! You have performed WAY worse than her so far - stupid nanny should shut her trap.

And some of the other things in this episode...geez:

1) Picking recyling out of the trash. Who cares? The pile that they were given was almost ALL recyclables anyway and it's not like they didn't have gloves. If you smell afterwards, who cares? Take a shower.

2) The fire in the pot thing. I learned in grade 7 cooking class that when a pot is on fire you A) smother it B) take it off the heat soure/turn the heat off. How can you become a chef and not learn these things? Cripes.

3) The whole spaghetti thing was ridiculous. I am not a professional chef (although I am a pretty good cook, if I do say so myself) but I know that you don't add pasta until the water is boiling. Isn't that like, one of the basics of cooking? Geez.

None of these people seem competent to run a restaurant. Jen could, but she's too much of a wuss. Bonnie and Josh are idiots, Rock has a pissy attitude and Julia, much as I love her, would need to learn more before she could have her own restaurant. Brad seems to me to be the best candidate, but even he has made some Grade-A idiot mistakes.

Who knows? Who cares? That is the question.

~Georgia~

The gremlin pic totally cracked me up, but you missed the great inadvertant double entendre by Ramsay- "You screw everything you touch!" That's right up there with the blissfully unaware Bonnie saying, "I've always liked to put things in my mouth."

And I have to say, your photo captions are getting funnier and funnier. They're the icing on the cake. Or in Josh's case, the potatoes with the Wellington.

Didn't the girls win the photo shoot challege last year, too? Besides, who would you want to hang out with? I'd cheat for them too.

As for Julia, I agree that she'd need more study before being appointed the head of a fancy restraunt. But I think she could run the hell out of a Roscoe's or something. Too bad Hell's Kitchen doesn't have a fan favorite. That could be the prize.

Didn't the girls win the photo shoot challege last year, too? Besides, who would you want to hang out with? I'd cheat for them too.

As for Julia, I agree that she'd need more study before being appointed the head of a fancy restraunt. But I think she could run the hell out of a Roscoe's or something. Too bad Hell's Kitchen doesn't have a fan favorite. That could be the prize.

lol. "melissa looks for scallops"... the caption and picture made me bust out loud. thank you!

ho wow honeyG... your recaps just keep getting better each week... and so fast.. that is a feather in your cap! (not that taking 5 days like one of my other favorite recappers is bad... but the next day!!! that is unheard of!!)

And onto the Rock heard round the world... it was quiet the over reaction but I think Chef Ramsay must have saw just a bit of himself in that little tantrum and didn't mind.. and the recycling was only seperating recyclables anyway.. there was not rotten food in there, no maggots, no over cooked risoto..... and how freaking long would it take to get that many wine bottles??

and do I think the challenge was set to have the girls win.. yep because a soup beat out poor brad ans his contemporary Bisque? no way.. he just wanted the chicks in the shot.. and Bonnie... does she look like Elizabeth hasselbacks little sister or what..... a ringer if you ask me... and hat is the tat on Julia??? isn't she a bit old for that?

The something drastic Chef will do next week is mix the teams up... bet ya a plate of elk meat risoto!

Yes, I have to agree the Gremlin pic is great!

Honestly, Rock would be the only one I could see winning this thing. Everyone else is pretty much worthless.

Can you imagine any of these hacks on Top Chef? Those are the real cooks.

Personally I think Chef is getting soft in his old age. The Chef Ramsay of the previous seasons would never have given anyone a second chance like he did to Melissa last week and the boys this week.
Anyway great recap! Very funny!

As a life long Philadelphian (Go E-A-G-L-E-S), I can tell you all that Le Bec Fin is and has been for quite a long time considered the finest of the fine dining in the city. For Jen to say she worked there isn’t a small omission. That’s like saying you had a desk job during “the war” and later casually mention you knew everyone on the Manhattan Project. And it wasn’t mentioned in the recap but Jen rattled off a few other fine Philly restaurants that she worked at not the least of which was Morimoto whose owner and head chef you Food Network watchers will remember is… wait for it… an IRON CHEF.

I don’t think G-Ram is getting soft. I think they lost an episode when Aaron left so they made up for it by keeping Mellissa an extra week. That and they knew that she was a complete screw-up and would create some good drama in the Blue Kitchen. The almost elimination of one of the boys - that’s was just a reality show fake-out. We should be used to that kind of trickery by now.

As for Rock’s magma explosion (wow, that sounds dirty) it’s a stressful competition and I think he’s just frustrated with losing all the time. Yeah he probably over reacted but at least when it came time for the dinner service he pulled it together and was a professional. Give the man his due; we’re all entitled to freak-out every now and then.

Great recap. Great screen caps. Keep up the good work. Until next week, SHUT IT DOWN!

^ Very nice analogy, there, Modulus (the war one) unlike most people who compare the oddest things and try to tell you it's the same...

Seems like the best matchup for final two would be Rock and Julia. Who would want to eat at a restaurant run by Jen, the dumpster diver? The other two men are just a couple of lugs. And Bonnie seems like an overprivileged sorority girl who's working as a "nanny" while waiting for her big break in Hollywood.