Is anyone actually watching "Hell's Kitchen" with any intensity?

I hated both of those women in the premiere who wanted the Waffle House woman to go home when she was the only one who actually seemed concerned about getting the opening night dinner service done.

Also WTF why didn't Rock nominate Aaron? Dude is kind of a nice guy but fuck that, he is ruining it for everyone. And Eddie was so fucking weird, and I don't mean the way he looked.

Obviously they have to keep the New Jersey guy and the tall black woman as long as they can because they are great DRAMA.

re: Aaron - 'producer input' (they spend a lot of time following him with the camera) or because Rock was hoping Josh (despite sucking tonight, he seems competent) going away would eliminate some competition. I feel like a horrible, horrible bigot, but I'm kind of glad Eddie went away.

order of elimination for dudes:
1. Aaron
2. Vinnie
3. Brad
4. Rock
5. Josh

wimmenz:
1. Bonnie
2. Jen
3. Julia
4. Joanna
5. Melissa

I get to watch this AND THEN IMMED. AFTER is Kitchen Nightmares on another channel. Ramzor seems so hammy on HK and so alpha-gay on KN. Anyway, Aaron is like the kind of trainwreck you can work around. Okay, he's going to cry and then go off to the back. Josh, meanwhile, thinks he knows things he doesn't know, and is ergo actually dangerous to the team.

this show is so ridiculously over the top. in a stomach churning way.

but yeah, aaron, wtf?

Julia/"Waffle House"...was anyone else infuriated that like ALL of the women refused to let her fry the fucking eggs, and then overjoyed when she finally got a chance at it and they were superb? I was pretty drunk by this point so I may be misremembering.

I think everyone who saw the show felt that way. Straight bullshit that Ramsay lit into her in the process when she was in the right (and ultimately did well).

I was gettting kinda pissed at the egg-sclusion of Julia. But she came through.

I had idea that restaurants actually fileted sole at your table. Is this to prove it's freshness or something?

Aaron has to still be in it due to outside forces. He has done no cooking as far as I can see.

lol Yell's Kitchen amirite

I agree about Aaron, he's a total plant.

I had NO idea

the way this show is put together makes me not believe any of it

I bet Gordon Ramsey has been waiting since episode 1 season 1 to say "HELL'S BITCHES".

OK so what do you think is the deal with the SHOCKING MOMENT OMG that they kept hyping with the crazy-looking goateed dude, ambulance lights, etc?

Top Chef pwns this show, and it's not even that good.

I was amazed at how badly directed it is, ie first episode the maitre d' starts giving them a speech and then Ramsay barges out yelling, the crowd showing up to eat and then the big production about killing service, etc.. All horribly transparent.

I saw that Top Chef supposedly found better chefs this time so it should be less whining/more food this season.

re:ambulance

this has to be Aarons complete breakdown/heart attack episode

the way this show is put together makes me not believe any of it

otm

The patrons most of all.

Top Chef and also the Next Food Network Star are both really superior, but I don't have cable.

The PBS show Cooking Under Fire from a couple of years ago was the best cooking competition I've ever seen on TV, because it was pretty much strictly food-oriented with a minimum of whiny bitching. Ming Tsai is kind of annoying, though.

Cooking Under Fire! Simply Ming is ok but at least I learned something from that show. Hell's Kitchen explains nothing about cooking or even running a restaurant.

I think my actual favorite thing about Hell's Kitchen is that all the contestants purportedly have foodservice experience, yet they're all of 'em like "wha? fire goes under the skillet?".

And WTF with Beef Wellington? What is this, 1930's Britain?

I think Beef Wellington (which I love) and risotto has appeared in every season. Time for a change.

I've been wondering, re: the bloody riSAUGHToh wtf why are they serving a risotto appetizer and why are they cooking it from scratch each time? No kitchen works like that.

I mean, maybe if you served something that only took 7 minutes to prepare instead of like TWENTY you wouldn't get so backed up.

The workings of the kitchen don't seem to make a damn bit of sense. There appear to be an assload of tables out front, all sitting and many appear to be eating... but apparently they're running 30 minutes in between appetizers and shit? Uh, what?

I think the answer to all these questions has something to do with "fine dining" or TV's approximation of it.

worth noting that Melissa is cuet and all, but I can't deal with the Laverne & Shirley accent.

How do you not kick out the pastry chef who pulled food out of the trash????

That was big of her though to step forward.

I have an idea for a cooking show:

Intimate Kitchen
fabulous couples who cook together. Every week a different "real-life" couple doing what they love to do and loving to do it together. There might be some couples who fight in the kitchen. Like any reality show worth its salt, the brilliance would lie in good casting.

is it RACIST that they nominated the two black girls? and one was the one who saved their ass during the breakfast service BUT she doesn't know what creme fucking brulee is? and that to nominate her they had to let the white girl who pulled food out of the trash off the hook? i mean, fuck. also, please somebody slap that girl with the fake boobs and lohan-red hair, please.

I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO AMERICAN KITCHEN NIGHTMARES. thank you, fox.

I loved the quick cut of rancid crab woman licking the tongs that she was cooking with. Between that and sweaty Brock and pulling pasta out of the trash to reuse and Typhoid Aaron I'm surprised any guests have lived to tell the tale of HELL'S KITCHEN.

sorry, pulling SPAAAghetti out of the BIN

Wow, shit, looks like I missed a great episode.

The spaghetti binner, the one that overcooked all the Beef Wellingtons, should've been nominated. Julia seems to be the only one with any pioneer moxy.

every year i can't believe the morons they pick to be on this show, but then i think about it and it makes sense cuz anyone with serious fine dining experience and/or years of serious training would be able to do all this stuff really easily and then you would have a boring show. any diner fry cook watching last night must have had a laugh at their inability to serve 50 people friggin' eggs and pancakes in under an hour or however long it took them. hell, there are a zillion latino prep dudes in good restaurants who aren't even cooks who could do all this stuff without batting an eye.
they must know beforehand that they have two people who are obvious winners. people like rock. i wonder if they tell them to hold back just to make it look more even until the end.

okay, so I know they're probably just trying to make up for the week when they sent two people home, but WTF HOW DID MELISSA NOT GET SENT HOME

I KNOW!

i wanna cut that bitch!

although... judging by the part where she told the other girl (I forget who it was) to "grow some balls", putting her with the dudes may have been a stroke of genius. at the very least, it will make for DRAMA and totally ruin the good chemistry the guys seemed to have going.

(and I do agree with Ramsay that it is sort of ridiculous that she got SO bad, SO fast)

except for that dude that said he would kill her if she was on his team! was it rock? it might have been? haha funny next week i bet when all the dudes are like 'fuck this bitch'
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haha they are just totally fucking with us now

This show is ridic but I kind of love it.

what the hell is that thing on Melissa's chin?
is that somesort of goateeee?

I keep thinking she has a labret piercing or whatever.

soul patch

that duck the women served for the reception tasting was the highlight of my life

they didn't even want to bring it out. that was great

ramsay to melissa: "you look like a hopped-up little cavewoman!"

(that was by far my favorite episode of the season)

Ditto, just kind of there while I did some admin. G/F reading in front of the TV.
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