Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Ain’t No Cure For Love (But There Is A Cure For Salmonella)
By Daniel | Season 9 | Episode 9 | Aired on 08.15.2011
In fact, her silence extends to pointedly refusing to answer Carrie's questions on how long her dishes are taking. "I just can't work well with Carrie, and I've tried," says Elise. Maybe at some point we'll get to see an example of Elise trying, but it ain't happened yet. Ramsay angrily asks if the service is going to be affected by their personal relationships, and they say it won't, but Elise goes right back to giving Carrie the silent treatment.
Meanwhile, Tommy screws up scallops, and then screws them up again.
Despite the Elise-Carrie cold war, appetizers are flying out of the Red Kitchen, at least until Ramsay finds a hair in some beans delivered by Jamie, who at first tries to duck responsibility for it. Ramsay accuses her of giving up, a viewpoint endorsed by Elise, who says she's never seen Jamie just knock it out. Not like Elise does, according to Elise.
Blue Kitchen: Tommy starts cooking an entrée for a table before they've received an entrée, prompting Ramsay to kick him out to get some fresh air to clear his head, and amusingly calls him back just to tell him to fuck off again. "I just don't see where there's any room for improvement at this point," says Natalie. "Romantic dinner. More like a [bleep] dinner," says Ramsay. I would REALLY love to know what that bleep is hiding. Probably "Fuckup" or "cockup" or some such. Anyway, instead of fucking off, Tommy apparently decides to go flirt with women in the dining room. They are A) on dates and B) older than 19, so I'm not sure what his plan is here.
The Red Team is already pushing out the entrees, though, but then Carrie burns some fish and tries to hide it on the underside. Ramsay angrily kicks her out. She pleads to be allowed to stay. She may think she's trying to show how she's willing to fight, but she comes off as whiny, and it would be safer to head up to Alaska to poke some grizzlies. Eventually, she stomps out -- Ramsay gives her the burnt fish so she can enjoy her romantic dinner on her own, but she dumps it -- and goes on an apron-hurling rampage. In her defense, I'm not sure how a burnt piece of fish warrants expulsion over a hair in the food, but that's assuming everything else is equal, and Carrie's kitchen transgressions occupy a bigger column than Jamie's.
Anyway, Tommy explains that he was going to go outside, but then the pull of the hottest women he's ever seen compelled him to stay and flirt, at least until he remembered that he has a girlfriend who may watch this episode, maybe not during the week when it's on past her bedtime, but on the weekend on the DVR, and he heads back into the kitchen and gets back to work. The break seems to have done him good, and the appetizers start heading out of Blue.