Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | 1 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Lobster? Hardly Know ‘Er!
By Daniel | Season 11 | Episode 2 | Aired on 03.19.2013
Or wait, are we? Anthony decides to cook on one leg, and hobbles into the kitchen, with some help from his teammates. Ramsay admires his dedication. Anyway, down to the challenge: They've got to clean the lobsters and get the meat out, with a point for each one they successfully clean and present. I'm from Cape Breton Island, where lobsters were so plentiful when my dad was growing up that -- as he always reminds me -- lobsters were for poor people. Ray is also from the East Coast -- Boston, in his case -- so he's cocky about how easy this going to be for him.
But the women jump out to a two-zip lead, with the chefs all working in pairs. The men eventually start putting them out, but Jon and Jeremy are useless at this challenge. Eventually the score on the screen stops being updated, which likely means it's not close anymore, and when the time is up, the women have won 11-8. Their reward is a day on an eighty-five-foot luxury yacht (not one of those budget yachts, then?) with sushi from a master and massages to boot. Zach: "I need a massage! My back hurts!" As for the men: It's fish delivery day. That means loading, gutting, scaling, the whole deal.
On the yacht, Ramsay asks the women what was going through their minds when the army woke them up, and is utterly baffled when Nedra explains that her "hoo-hahs" were all over the place. To be honest, I'm not sure he was any more clear after the other women explain Nedra's talking about her breasts.
Back at the kitchen, the men are sitting down to a lunch of fish-head soup, and doing their best not to vomit. Because what's better television than watching a bunch of schlubs retching?
No dinner service that night, and both teams get to work prepping in the kitchen the next day. Danielle is butchering the lamb, and is now going to be fulfill the Gina role as far as Nedra is concerned. Nedra's coaching skills are a little confusing for Danielle, clearly. I wouldn't have the foggiest what Nedra means if she told me to "make love" to the meat either.
Over in Blue, Jeremy is wandering around like he just got smacked upside the head with two-by-four and gets called out by the new sous chef, James. Jeremy's obviously willing to take that a little more willingly than he is from his own teammate, Michael, who gives him a lot of grief. Ray tells the two of them to can it, and to his credit, Jeremy seems a lot more interested in proving to his team that he can hack it than proving he's a tough guy with Michael. Or maybe it's Dan? I don't have all the names right yet.