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
Time for the tasting! Ramsay and Jennifer will score each dish out of fifty. Jon's up first, with a duck confit and pan-seared breast. He nails the seasoning, and earns a 92 total (45 from Jennifer, 47 from Ramsay). Ja'Nel brings up her basil-marinated grilled prawns, finished with black garlic vinaigrette. Jennifer pronounces it delicious, but she gets a total of 89.
Anthony has pan-seared halibut, crusted with coriander and pink peppercorn. It sounds delicious, but it gets an assessment of "good, not great," and he gets 82 points. Cyndi, meanwhile, gets 90 points for her fennel-crusted sea bass with honey sherry vinaigrette. So the women have a five-point lead going into the final round. Zach's steak (roasted red pepper coulis with garlic and shallots) gets 83 points, meaning the women need only 79 points -- lower than any dish has received so far -- to win the challenge. Mary brings up her grilled flank steak, lightly dusted with wasabi and lemongrass. I want it in my mouth RIGHT NOW, but Jennifer says it just misses the mark "with the way that the meat is cooked" but it still tasted wonderful. Her score -- after the commercial break --- is 45. No wonder they left both scores after the cliffhanger. That means Ramsay would have to give it only 34 or better, and he matches Jennifer's 45, meaning the women have won their eighth out of nine challenges. But there's a tie between Mary's steak and Cyndi's bass, and the People magazine lady picks Mary, and she's all "Yay!"
Jon's pissed because he had the best dish of both teams, but his team sucks and so instead of being in People they'll be cleaning the dorms. Ramsay informs Red that in addition to Mary's honor, they'll all be photographed for "Star Watch," whatever that is. Or maybe he said "Style Watch" -- that's a People thing, right? -- and his accent sounded like "Star Watch"? At any rate, the women all seem to know what it is, and react with enthusiasm. Plus there's a surprise waiting for them in the dorms. They get all screechy as they get back to the dorms and find their fancy new blenders from Vitamix. Big deal! I won a nice Cuisinart from a week-long radio-station contest and I didn't lose my shit like this! They do look nice, though...
The women change and head out to their limos, while the men get to work cleaning, with the subtext being that the cheftestants are fucking pigs, leaving Q-tips on the floor and eating cookies in bed.
The women head to makeup and hair for their photo shoot, and then Blue gets a phone call to let them know that Zach and Jon need to deliver some champagne to Red. Zach wonders how much more humiliating it can be, and then he and Zach discover that their delivery vehicles are tricycles. Jon seems a little more adept at operating his than Zach is. Jon is commendably restrained; given his top dish, he wants to complain, but Red team earned their victory.