Episode Report Card Daniel: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT There’s No 'Nedra' In 'Team'
By Daniel | Season 11 | Episode 12 | Aired on 05.23.2013
When we come back, even Nedra -- that noted adherent to perfect pronunciation of the Queen's English -- is making fun of Zach for that. It only gets worse as he calls it "soo-ey sauce" and admits he doesn't know what the herb is on top and that he doesn't know anything about Japanese cooking. Bowen judiciously notes it looks very "homestyle." See? Everyone mispronounces things! Right then, she mispronounced "like shit" as "homestyle." Ramsay notes that you don't see a lot of chicken on Japanese menus, and the best Zach can offer is that when you eat the chicken with the noodles, "it all comes together."
Actually, it's a little dry, says Bowen. And Ramsay says it's really more Chinese than Japanese, so it's a "no-brainer," and Red gets the point and the victory. Jon mutters that they got a new member and still can't win.
Red's prize: shopping at the world-famous -- did Ramsay say "Kitten" store? He digs around in his pockets for some spending money for them, and comes up with $2,000 for them to spend. (Nedra whines about how they're still in a recession, and she apparently can't afford bras. Well, I suppose, the amount of material needed, even at wholesale prices...) Then Red will be having lunch at Mr. Chow, with the floor to themselves, and they've also each won a new set of All-Clad Cookware. When the shrieking and high-fiving subsides, Ramsay tells Blue they have to receive the wine shipment, clean the stemware, cut limes and lemons and then prep both kitchens.
Nedra yells at us that she's prepared to tell her teammates that they're the reason they lost. While I agree with her that, yes, it is probably the team's fault that the team lost, one of the people she plans to chew out actually scored a point for Blue, which is one more point than Nedra earned.
Then of course she doesn't actually tell her teammates she's not going to lift anything, but just does that "I'm pretending like sliding the boxes a little bit in the truck is just as helpful" thing.
Oh, the store is "Kitson"! Never heard of it, but that doesn't mean anything. Red shop, Susan a particularly annoying stereotypical women-love-shopping! woman about it, and then they head off for lunch.
Back at Hell's Kitchen, Nedra is haranguing her new teammates about how much they suck -- Zach compares her to Charlie Brown's teacher. Over at Mr. Chow, the women feel great about not having gone to the Blue team. And now Nedra is worried about "Tweedledee and Tweedledum" (aka Anthony and Zach) prepping her station, because "They stupid as hell." Then she reorganizes her whole station, largely ignoring Ramsay's entreaties to hurry up. She's not endearing herself to her teammates, that's certain.