Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | 3 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT 20 Chefs Compete
By Daniel | Season 11 | Episode 1/2 | Aired on 03.12.2013
Her teammates are prepping, Nedra deciding they'll pull it together. Gina, back in the dorm, pours herself some tea and... does her makeup?
In Blue kitchen, Jeremy's inexperience is shining through, according to Ray. The lack of Gina doesn't seem to be a hindrance in Red, and then Gina eventually makes her way back in. She asks Jacqueline what she missed. "What'd you miss? You missed everything!" is the response. Can't argue with that.
Ramsay assembles the troops for his pep talk: "I'm not looking for perfection," he says. Inspiring. However, Ramsay is guaranteeing a complete service tonight. Then there is a staged kerfuffle with the returning Jean-Philippe, trying to sneak in through the restaurant behind Ramsay, who pretends to be pissed off at J.P., who pretends to be arriving a day later than he promised. But whatever's going on here, it doesn't resolve itself just yet, and Ramsay opens Hell's Kitchen. He's adding an appetizer of ale-steamed mussels, to be served by Amanda in Red and Christian in Blue, and the J.P. sketch continues with Ramsay chewing J.P. out for being late with the order tickets. I'm not sure what they're leading up to with this, but we won't find out tonight.
Anyway, Gina, still completely out of it, gets to work fucking up the scallops, according to her team, meaning that when an angry-sounding Ramsay demands to know who cooked them, it turns out they're perfect. Meanwhile, the Blue team doesn't even realize that when Ramsay shouts out an order, they're supposed to shout "Yes, chef." And for all his bluster on the bus, Sebastian can't cook risotto. Zach, however, is killing it on the scallops. Out on the floor, Christian is tired of waiting for his teammates and decides to just serve up the mussels willy-nilly. It's total anarchy!
Gina serves up cold, overcooked scallops but refuses to step off scallops and blames Nedra's risotto preparation. But her next attempt is no better, and Ramsay boots her out of the kitchen. She heads back to the dorm where she puts on or takes off more makeup and adopts the "this is everybody's fault but mine" attitude. "Those little bitches, they better watch out. There's going to be war," says Gina. Tough talk from someone who came down with a severe case of fuckinglazyitis this morning. Seriously, it takes a lot of nerve to stay up all night bugging your studying teammates with your terrible puppet routine, then blow off morning prep, and STILL think you didn't deserve to get the boot.