Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Day 3
By Monty Ashley | Season 4 | Episode 3 | Aired on 04.15.2008
So once Jason's in the hot tub, the women ply him with chicken and beer (temptresses!) and get him to tell them what's going on with his team. So now they know that people aren't happy with Craig, but I still don't see how that's going to translate into a win, you know? It seems like they'd be better off practicing their risotto, although I can see how that would make for less compelling television.
The next day, Ben is furious with Jason for spilling the beans, and it now seems like people aren't happy with Jason, so the Craig thing is old news. Ben also wants Jason to work "like a [bleep] Comanche". And I'm not sure how that would work. Judging from Wikipedia, the tradition Comanche diet doesn't really seem suited to a modern kitchen. You'd need an open fire, for one thing.
Pre-service pep talk: Chef Ramsay would like a full service. As would the guests! Tonight, there's a special dish: escalope of chicken with peppers, capers, and crème fraîche. The blue team will continue to be punished for losing the challenge because Bobby will be cooking table-side for his team, while the women get Jean-Phillipe. I suspect that Chef Ramsay is purposely taking Bobby out of the way so he can keep an eye on the chefs he thinks are worse, but that's just guesswork.
Jason is on desserts, and that means it's time for someone on the men's team to be put on the spot. Jason, name the desserts! He gets three or four before he dries up completely. He's sent upstairs to cram, but (since it'll be a couple hours before desserts are needed) Chef Ramsay goes ahead and tells Jean-Phillipe to open Hell's Kitchen now.
First table is the women's, and Christina (on "hot appetizers", which means "risotto" sound pretty confident that they'll have food at the window in five and a half minutes. On the men's side, Craig is on hot appetizers, and he's too stressed out to even answer his team when they ask how long it will be.
The women's first dish has something wrong with the salad. I am distracted from my task of finding out what by Chef Ramsay insisting that Rosann ("cold appetizers", i.e. "salad") is from "the back streets." Is she?
The men's side has a bacon-related catastrophe, which is Craig's fault. Chef Ramsay sends out half the table, which leads to this ominous voiceover: "An hour and a half into dinner service, only half of one blue table has received any appetizers." Really? Surely that counts some amount of people sitting around before they order, right? On the red side, things are going better.