Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Things Fall Apart
By Daniel | Season 10 | Episode 8 | Aired on 06.26.2012
Turkey breast. Roshni submits a herb-stuffed roulotte with a celeriac and carrot slaw. The turkey's dry, and she gets only three stars. Kimmie's Cajun turkey-breast pasta is underseasoned, and she gets just three stars as well.
Veal chop. Dana's got a lemon-herb veal chop, and gets six points. Brian's "ethnic fusion veal chop" -- he says "good morning" in Italian and Spanish, which embarrasses the hell out of his team for some reason I'm not clear on -- impresses the judges, and he gets six stars.
Pork tenderloin. Ramsay asks Robyn if there were any ingredients she didn't want, and Robyn opts for honesty over common sense and says she hates beets. Ramsay points out that it's not a genius move to serve something to esteemed judges and tell them you hate what you had to cook with, so she makes it worse by saying, "I could have made more love to the beets." The judges give her a collective "meh" and award her three stars. So Patrick can give his team the lead by being slightly-better-than-worst-possible with his spice-rubbed pork tenderloin. He also brightly says he loved all the ingredients he had to work with. The judges like it, and he earns six stars, meaning Blue's got a big three-star lead going into the final dish.
That would be the lobster: Royce poached his whole in saffron and thyme. And a long hair. Oh, that wasn't supposed to be there! Blue team starts to groan. "It's not curly, so I'm pretty happy about that," says Keane. Ramsay quietly asks Royce what the fuck a hair was doing in there, and it's not like there's any good answer to that question. "Look at the size of that thing. It's bigger than Roshni," Ramsay says.
It gets worse, points out Cimarusti, because Royce also didn't remove the lobster's shit sac. So he gets three stars, but that's really because the judges had to each give him at least one.
So Red still has a chance, but Christina's still got to earn six stars to tie. She's got steamed lobster tail with heirloom tomatoes and a buerre blanc. All the judges love it, and because it's the last dish the marks are drawn out a little more. The men each give her two, and Lo pulls out the first three-star ranking of the morning.
So Red wins, earning themselves a day trip to the spa, while Blue has to clean and prep both kitchens for tonight's service, but before they do that, they've got to clean up the dorms. Robyn and Barbie can't help but start taunting them and reminding them to clean the bathrooms, which apparently stink like urine. This gets on Blue's nerves, and even Roshni is all, "Thanks, we know what we have to clean." In addition, each Red member is getting a set of Meyer cookware, causing squeals all around.