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
Ramsay shows up to the photo shoot, and the women act like it's a big deal to see Chef Ramsay of all people. The women all look great, and Anthony tells them so when they return, and then Ramsay calls the dorms to summon everyone to his office.
He announces that Hell's Kitchen is closed to the public tonight, but he's opening it to "distinguished members of the U.S. Army" who have returned home. Ray in particular is honored because he spent several years in the marines or something.
The women change. Nedra is nervous because she's got "the B.G.s -- the bubble guts." Blue preps, with Zach appearing to drag his ass, although he tells us that he loves the armed forces or whatever.
Ramsay tells the teams that he wants to serve each table (of twelve) at the same time because he loves the military too. Some of the guests are introduced -- and thankfully we forgo the ridiculous "national security is at stake!" breathlessness from last week's promos.
The teams get to cooking, with Ja'Nel and Jon cooking the first course, butter-poached spot prawns. Jon seems to be doing OK, while Ray is "his usual [bleep] bumbling self," according to Jon. Still, Blue's prawn dishes are fine, and then -- after a moment -- Red is likewise fine.
It's on to the lobster linguine, and Cyndi is pissed at Nedra's rookie mistake of pouring cool water into the pasta pot. Ray seems to be useless in Blue as well, so Nedra's got a little slack here. But her pasta pot is simmering, not boiling, and the linguine is in jeopardy. Ramsay has to show them how to boil water for pasta, which is obviously embarrassing. Meanwhile, Ray is plating the linguine for Blue by himself because he doesn't trust anyone else to do it. When his team does muscle in, Zach can't portion properly. And Red gets their linguine out ahead of Blue (who isn't that far behind, really). But one of the officers sends his pasta back to Blue for being undercooked.
Then there is a whole deal where Ramsay insinuates that Susan is stupid because she is blonde (Susan defends herself by pointing out she's a bottle blonde, which really only implies she's stupid all on her own). After all that, the risotto course is served by both kitchens simultaneously. But the lobster linguine that needs to be redone is undercooked again, with Zach really appearing to not give half a shit about it.
The loup de mer course goes off without incident, and then finally Ray's lobster linguine gets out, two courses late, as Anthony points out.