Episode Report Card Daniel: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Burn After Feeding
By Daniel | Season 11 | Episode 10 | Aired on 05.13.2013
The New York steak is the final course, and Zach and Susan are leading those dishes in their respective kitchens. Susan's not ready to go, and she's holding up the Blue team. "Bitch, you better get it together. You better cook these steaks right," says ... oh, you know who said that.
Since they don't show her fucking up before the commercial break, you know hers are going to be fine. Meanwhile, Blue's not got their steaks seasoned and sliced properly, but this seems a little ginned up to make it seem like more of a Blue screw-up than it actually turned out to be.
The diners are served, the stoves are turned off, and when the dining room is closed, Ramsay tells him that he thinks the chefs did the military an injustice, and they're both losers, so they both have to nominate people for elimination, but they only have to nominate one person per team.
In the dorms, Zach announces that if they put him up for elimination, it's because he's a good chef, not a bad one. Ray also doesn't think he deserves to be eliminated, mainly because of his own time in the marines, it appears.
Meanwhile, Red is leaning toward Susan and Nedra. You'll find this hard to believe, but neither of them thinks she deserves to be eliminated. And at some point, the closed captioning on my screen reads "[crickets chirping]".
The teams file back into the dining room, and eventually we find out that Red went with Nedra. Ramsay asks Susan if she's a better chef than Nedra. Susan is, according to Susan because Nedra doesn't have that "oomph." Man, Nedra is nothing but oomph! Blue nominates Ray, but it was close between him and Zach. Ramsay asks Ray if he's better than Zach, and Ray suggests Zach screwed up a lobster tail on purpose.
Ramsay makes Nedra, Ray and Zach step forward. Zach rates his own performance as a seven, much to Ramsay's incredulity, while Ray and Nedra offer the usual bullshit defenses.
Ramsay fakes out Nedra, ordering her to give him the service or her life next time, and then intimates he can send both Ray and Zach home before demanding Ray's jacket. "I respect you," Ramsay tells him, allowing Ray to feel like he's leaving with his pride.
"Ray's age wasn't the issue. It was his cooking. And I wasn't getting any younger waiting for him to improve," Ramsay tells us, which is a little at odds with his "I respect you" comment to Ray. Well, no more grandpa jokes, at least.