Episode Report Card Daniel: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT I'm Kind of A Big Deal
By Daniel | Season 9 | Episode 15/16 | Aired on 09.19.2011
Paul's brother Chris is here. He's a taller, wider version of Paul, like when you create an avatar on the Wii and you play with the height and weight sliders? It's like someone did in real life with Paul and made his brother.
Will's mother Michelle and wife Tara are there, and he hugs his wife first and we don't see him hug his mom, but he tells us his wife and his mother are always on his mind, except as far as I can tell, this is the first we're hearing about them. Hope Tara enjoys it when she watches Will ogling drunken Natalie.
The chefs all get some family time and Tommy ignores his mom to continue making out with his girlfriend, who seems genuinely excited when Tommy suggests they get married when he gets home. Even Ramsay has to turn the firehouse on Tommy and Kaitlin when they won't stop rutting in the restaurant booth. Elise tells her family about all the highs and lows she's had, Will is sweet with his wife, and Paul talks about how his brother is his best friend.
By and by, Ramsay tells the chefs to say goodbye to their families. Will points to the winning chef's door and tells his wife and mom that he'll be walking through it the next time they see him.
After the families leave, Ramsay introduces Taste It, Now Make It, and puts down a dish of meat-wrapped fish and tells them they have 35 minutes to replicate it. The chef that comes the closest will win and get to spend the rest of the day with his or her family. Tommy's already putting on a condom.
The chefs taste the samples and then get to work, with Elise having a difficult time deciding whether the fish is halibut or cod. She goes with the former, while Tommy and Will are cooking monkfish, and Paul's got it narrowed down to monkfish or cod, so he's searing both.
They also have to figure out the meat. Tommy thinks it's serrano, while the rest are going with prosciutto (Tommy thinks the meat wasn't salty enough for that). All four of them are going with mushroom, kale and cream for the garnish, which appears to be the easy part.
Tommy's up first, and he goes over the ingredients with Ramsay, who tastes it but doesn't reveal whether Tommy's right or not. He does the same with Elise, then Will ("Were you copying Tommy?" asks Ramsay), and then Paul, who eventually went with the cod.
And then Ramsay reveals that it was, in fact, prosciutto and not serrano, which means Tommy's now out of the running and will have to wait a little longer before boning his girlfriend with his mom watching. And it's Paul who was bang-on, which means he'll get to spend the day with his brother at the Dodgers game. As for the rest of them, it's Moving Day (at first I thought he said "movie day" which didn't sound too bad) and he needs everything moved out of Hell's Kitchen. Elise has already started in with the tears, to Ramsay's disgust. It's strange that she cries, considering every punishment that he's involved in she manages to avoid having to do any actual work.