Episode Report Card Daniel: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Ramsay Arranges a Meeting With the Five Families
By Daniel | Season 11 | Episode 16 | Aired on 06.20.2013
Cyndi brings up her pork roast with acorn squash puree and fig compote. Silverton says the flavors all work, but she's put off with the color and Suter agrees. Ramsay agrees the presentation suffers. He gives three stars, while the other two give two stars apiece. Cyndi is devastated, particularly because Susan got nine stars.
Ja'Nel is next with her goat ribs and crispy okra and rustic smashed sweet potato. "It's better than great," says Silverton. Again, Suter agrees and Ramsay thinks it's great. Suter awards four stars, with the other two giving five apiece for a total of fourteen and a very tough act to follow for Mary.
Her beef bourguignon is served up with fresh pasta, which the judges praise as ambitious and brave. The judges love it and after a commercial break, we find out that Mary gets five stars from each judge. She almost starts to cry, knowing what she's won, and Ramsay tells her she and her family will dine at WP24. Ja'Nel is "horrendously disappointed" in herself.
Mary hustles off for the limo ride and Ramsay says the rest of them are in for some dirty work: "I volunteered all four of your services as the maintenance crew for TreePeople. You'll be digging in hillsides, slashing brush, shoveling mulch and giving back to the community," he explains.
But that's not all: Today is recycling day, so they'll be hopping in the Dumpsters, separating the trash from the recyclables. They all put on jumpsuits and Susan yaps about how she's so much sexier in her jumpsuit than the rest of them are.
Meanwhile, Mary meets up with her mother and brother for dinner. It's been over a year since she's seen her brother, she tells us, and at the restaurant they toast to family.
Elsewhere, the losers meet up with the TreePeople dude, who stars barking orders at them and they get to work. This is great, because obviously people who watch a cooking competition want to watch several long minutes of people shoveling mulch.
Mary shows her family to work with chopsticks, and explains her family is a "Velveeta and Wonder Bread" family, like way to sell them out on national television. Remember, this is part one of three! We have so much time to fill!
Ugh, and now Susan is freaked out by a bug or some fucking thing, and the TreePeople guy dismisses them, happy that they at least got some of the work done. They head back for the recycling chore, where chef Andi explains the separation of organic and non-organic waste. Ja'Nel curiously pins the disgust factor at a very specific 572,000 times the most disgusting thing you've ever smelled. Then she shrieks upon discovering maggots on the meat. There are several minutes of maggot-related shenanigans, before we go to commercial with a pitchfork made of maggots. Maggots! #maggots