Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Screw Your Courage to the [BLEEP]ing Post
By Monty Ashley | Season 10 | Episode 13 | Aired on 07.17.2012
The blue team moves to entrees.
Kimmie brings up some replacement duck on the red side, and it's "lovely." She delivers an interview that includes the phrase "on point" several times. But then she has some overcooked ribeye, which results in the usual round of angry Chef Ramsay and smug competition. This is where Ramsay claims that he doesn't care if the whole red team goes home. He also asks Kimmie if she's given up. She denies it. The replacement meat is acceptable, and now everyone's happy again. That seemed like fake drama.
Blue kitchen. Justin's on meat and Clemenza's on fish. I don't know why they told us that, because the real problem comes from Brian, whose garnish is missing the onions. Remember those fried onions that come with the steak? Yeah, he forgot to make those. He hustles them up and they are limp and floppity. Chef Ramsay makes everybody fondle them. Then he tells Brian he clearly doesn't care. Clemenza accurately points out that it's not rocket science. Seriously. If you can't operate a deep-fryer, you're not qualified to work at Burger King, let alone whatever restaurant is this year's fake prize. The next onions are fine and the dishes hit the dining room.
The red kitchen does okay for a bit until some diners spot that their lobster is raw in the center. Dana (on the fish station) sees the dishes come back and is distressed to learn that she messed it up. She tells us that she thought that the lobster claws at her station were already fully cooked and that all she had to do was heat them up in the water.
Okay. Digression. You've seen Kitchen Nightmares, right? Like, at least one or two episodes? What does Gordon Ramsay hate more than anything? The answer is "restaurants that serve precooked food." He's not going to have precooked lobster that all you have to do is reheat it! Come on, Dana. Head in the game.
Blue kitchen. Justin is yelling a lot of things and Clemenza does not answer him. Some of Clemenza's bass is acceptable to Chef Ramsay.
Red kitchen. Chef Ramsay spots Tiffany dumping food out of a pan and putting garnish in it without cleaning it. Chef Ramsay does not like her using a dirty pan. Barbie informs us that there are two million sauté pans in there, so there's no excuse for not grabbing a clean one.
Chef Ramsay calls out two orders to the blue kitchen, and they both include two sea bass. But Clemenza doesn't hear them quite right and (he claims) gets confused by Justin yapping at him and the result is that he thinks the first order has only one sea bass. There's the usual round of confusion, and when Clemenza claims to have the other sea bass, Chef Ramsay calls him a lying bastard. He concludes his tirade with, "I will [BLEEP] nail you to the [BLEEP] post!" Every well-stocked kitchen has a [BLEEP] post.