Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Cow Cow Boogie
By Monty Ashley | Season 5 | Episode 3 | Aired on 02.19.2009
Seth brags a bit about how meat is "one of my fortes" and how he could get six or seven of the eight correct without even looking. In fact, he has seven wrong. Out of eight. Incidentally, these are not obscure cuts of meat. These are things like "rib-eye" and "brisket." And "short ribs." The fact that Andrea and Ben couldn't even identify the cuts while looking at them is a little worrying. I'm no chef, but I know what a filet mignon looks like. Lacey has a chance to win after Seth's impressively terrible performance, but first we go to commercials on a specialized bumper that shows the Hell's Kitchen logo being branded onto a cow.
In this AT&T Wireless ad with the rollover minutes and the garage sale, I think the mother is crazy. If they need to save money, wouldn't it make sense to sell off the unused minutes the way the son is doing?
So we're back. Lacey looks worried, and Robert has time to get his changes in. There are still six wrong for the men. Seriously? You guys don't know where the flank steak comes from? Lacey finally rings her bell, and now they have six wrong. Chef Ramsay thinks they should at least be able to figure out where the "bottom round" is. Ben roars in and finally fixes the men's cow, so they win. Charlie claims they're a force to be reckoned with, but that was a really awful performance. Slightly better than the women, though.
The reward (in which Gordon uses the phrase "most amazing" twice) will involve wine-tasting and a steakhouse. And a private jet. Seth believes that he will go "big pimpin'." Robert shows off his wedding shoes to the women, who awwww! all over them. Robert interviews that his wedding was supposed to be the next night, but that they put it off for him to be on Hell's Kitchen.
Okay, so about this private jet. Unusually for a "jet," it appears to have propellers. As opposed to the more common "jet engines." Would you like to know what I think? I think this is not a "jet" at all. This does not stop them from using the phrase "private jet" one hundred million times. Also, I think someone called it "crispy," which is a whole different thing.
Meanwhile, the women are in charge of taking sides of beef from the truck to the kitchen. LA and Andrea in particular seem shocked and astonished (yes, both at once!) that they have to deal with big hunks of meat like this. It does look pretty heavy, and they get it to the kitchen. Lacey doesn't do a great job, but she hangs in there, although she's grabbing her back. By the way, who designed this restaurant? They're carrying the meat in through the front door and straight down the middle of the dining room. Isn't there usually a back door? You know, for deliveries?