Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | 3 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT 20 Chefs Compete
By Daniel | Season 11 | Episode 1/2 | Aired on 03.12.2013
Ramsay decides to send the Red entrée out without garnish, hoping it'll catch up before the diner even notices, a strategy that doesn't work when the diner -- THIS isn't staged at all -- comes up to the pass to ask where her garnish is (because when you're in a restaurant, you don't ask your server where your food is -- you march into the kitchen and say "what's up?"). Jacqueline gets thrown out for taking too long to find her water bottle, so she can hydrate.
Who else is getting kicked out? Dan and Jon! There are only four left in Blue. Wait, three: Ray sticks his finger into the risotto to test it, right in front of Ramsay. So it's down to three, no -- two, no one: Zach. Wait, Zach has left the kitchen to go puke. He even throws up in the talking-head portion.
He eventually pulls himself together and gets back into the kitchen, with Ramsay assisting. The booted chefs are complaining about the totally unfair reasons they've been kicked out. Danielle continues to whine about having never worked in a brigade system before, and finds zero sympathy from the others. She amusingly demands a show of hands to see who here has worked in a brigade system before, and almost everyone has. It doesn't seem to be the result she was expecting.
Meanwhile, Team Red and Team Zach are finishing up dinner service. "Chef Zach is the man tonight!" proclaims Chef Zach. That's great, but if this cooking thing doesn't work out, he could probably join TV on the Radio.
At the debriefing, Ramsay tells them it was a difficult service. Can't have been that difficult to choose the winners, which is obviously Red, but he praises Zach's commitment. Blue's got to pick two for elimination. Zach -- not at all letting things go to his head -- pronounces the guilty parties will be "penalized to the utmost." During deliberations, Zach and Jeremy argue with other, Jeremy under the impression that the only reason his name is being bounced around for elimination because he couldn't repeat an order back to Ramsay. Jeremy's all bluster and mouth, that's for sure, and complains that Zach just threw him under a bus. I'd be a little more convinced if Jeremy, you know, KNEW WHAT CUT OF MEAT HE USED FOR HIS SIGNATURE DISH.
And when they reassemble in the dining room, Zach announces Jeremy is the first nominee, because making a mistake is one thing, but arrogance and refusal to listen to corrections are big problems. Jeremy only admits to being frustrated and lashing out, which doesn't placate Ramsay.