Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Holy Crocamole!
By Monty Ashley | Season 6 | Episode 9 | Aired on 09.08.2009
Chef Ramsa lines up the team for the usual pregame fooforaw. There are little Eiffel Towers scattered around the dining room to represent the French angle. Andy comes back form the hospital, but he doesn't know the new menu. That sounds like a challenge. Apparently Andy is supposed to be doing the risotto, because Dave is doing it for him and telling him when to bring it up.
On the red side, Sabrina's risotto is deemed tasteless. Chef Ramsay brings Dave's risotto over from the other side and shows it to Sabrina, claiming that "it's black and white". Really, it's dark green and light green. Chef Ramsay tells her that if she had any sense, she'd taste Dave's, then he yanks it away before she can. Anyway, her next risotto is fine. So that was fun.
Back on the blue side, Andy's crepes are not suitable. Kevin thinks this is ridiculous: "It's crepes, man. Fold it, fold it, flip, flip, package it, and you're done!" So Kevin takes over the crepes for Andy.
Timeskip! The red team is moving on to entrees, and they're communicating nicely. Chef Ramsay notices Tennille, Suzanne and Ariel all agreeing that the next ticket (for two salmon, one halibut, one lamb) is three minutes out, and he is pleased. When they're one minute out, everybody's calling it out. But then! Suzanne says she actually needs six more minutes. Nooooo! So everybody backs up and there's still a lot of communication. But then! Suzanne says "Hold on. Let me be real with you." I don't like the sound of that. Now she needs eight minutes. No, wait. It's six. Yeah. Six. Well, five now. It's the oven's fault. Or something.
Blue team. Dave has to make two risotto for Andy while also setting up a lamb and a steak. The music is reminiscent of a circus. Van calls it: "Dave's got one arm, but that fool can cook." We see Dave begging someone to give him tongs, but he can't wait the two seconds and grabs them himself. He appears to get everything done acceptably. Well done!
On the red side, Suzanne slices her lamb a minute and a half before the duck is ready. I have no idea if that's a bad thing, but I'm guessing it is. It's definitely a bad thing that she doesn't cop to it the first time Chef Ramsay asks. Chef Ramsay wails to the heavens about "all the goodness running out of the lamb!" So Suzanne's in trouble. Got that?
Also in trouble: Andy. He's even having trouble making the salads. There's too much dressing or something. Dave describes Andy as dangling off the edge of a cliff by a dandelion, which I think is a Beetle Bailey reference. Then Andy complains about his dexterity, and you know the only reason he knows that word is because he used to play D&D. Of course, the only reason I know he used to play D&D is that I still do.