Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT It's Raw, Dog!
By Monty Ashley | Season 6 | Episode 2
On the blue side, entrees are leaving the kitchen. Gasp! But after Andy slices some chicken, he discovers that it's raw. He tries cooking the pieces, but he's caught at it and called a donkey. Joseph interviews that the reason the chefs have meat thermometers on their arms is so they can check the chicken before cutting it. He makes a valid point.
Red side. Chicken is late and not ready. Sabrina and Suzanne are shouting at each other over who gets to announce when the chicken is ready. Robert's standing between them and trying his best to ignore both of them. Sabrina brings up the chicken over Suzanne's protests that it's raw. And it is, indeed, raw.
On the blue side, Tony is harassed into providing some halibut promptly and is caught not seasoning it. His excuse? "I always season it. I didn't season it, though." Nice job. Kevin leans over Tony's shoulder and seasons the fish for him. Chef Ramsay asks who's cooking the fish, and Kevin announces that he's taken this dish over.
Lovely has some sea bass that Chef Ramsay describes as "raw, translucent, and pink." She interviews that it wasn't raw, but I don't think she quite understands that to Chef Ramsay, "raw" covers any state of cooking short of perfect. Anything past perfect is "burnt". Her refired sea bass is, indeed, burnt.
On the blue side, Kevin's fish is raw. Now everyone wants to cook the fish to prove how great they are. Joseph starts shouting at everyone, but it's not like he's being productive either. The red team has a burnt chicken. Gordon claims he's "going to do something I've never done before in Hell's Kitchen." He assigns everyone to just make shrimp cocktails, since at least they don't require cooking. The customers get yummy shrimp! Yay! And then both the kitchens get shut down.
Postmortem. Chef Ramsay acts shocked that the second night was worse than the first one. "One team better than the other? Piss off!" Each team is instructed to come up with two names for elimination.
Tennille tells her team that she did a fantastic job and that she doesn't feel comfortable nominating anyone since she wasn't in the kitchen. On the blue side, Tony admits that he should be one of the nominees. Lovely claims that there was nothing wrong with the fish that Ramsay rejected. The entire red team fixates on Tennille serving a "raw shrimp" to a pregnant lady. So, for example, Lovely claims that nothing she did could have been all that bad because Tennille was trying to poison an unborn baby. Or something. Suzanne tells Sabrina that she warned her about the raw chicken, which Sabrina thinks is "being a know-it-all". Meanwhile, Van is enraged at Jim's suggestion that he should be nominated for almost punching JP in the face. His answer? "I'll punch you in the face! Suck my [bleep] [bleep]! Stop [bleep] lookin' at me like that! You're about to get [bleep] up, bro!"