Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Shouting of the Chefs
By Monty Ashley | Season 6 | Episode 8 | Aired on 09.01.2009
Andy defends his performance in relation to his team, which I think is fair. Each of the guys identified one out of four dishes. Except Andy only got three to work from, so his percentage was better. Anyway, the men's punishment is to clean some glasses and make some sorbet. Oh, and they also get to load boxes of fruit in from a truck. As the women go out to their limo, they are, as usual, extraordinarily poor sports about winning. People on this show are jerks.
Van appears to be in charge of deseeding the pomegranates, and I like his method. He's sliced the pomegranates in two, then he just holds the halves with the cut side downward and whacks the back of the pom with the flat side of a knife. Just thought I'd mention the fleeting glimpse of a cooking technique on this cooking show.
Gordon welcomes the women to a restaurant where they will be dining in the dark. Oh! I get to tell a story! See, I was in Berlin last year, and I ate at a place just like this. We were led into a pitch-black dining room by our waitress, who was blind. Then we fumbled around and enjoyed a lovely meal in complete darkness. At the place I went to, the menu was in kind of a code, so we knew whether we'd ordered beef or fish, but not exactly what was going to show up. That made the dining experience even more of an adventure, since we had to feel around to see if each course was meant to be eating with a spoon or a knife or what.
Anyway, you're here to hear about the show. They have night-vision cameras (like on that one episode of CSI) and we can see people being led in a line to their table. Ariel interviews (still in the dark, possibly from the kitchen) that it was extremely dark. It really is!
Back at the men's punishment, sous chef Scott dumps some fancy food in a blender and tries to make the guys drink their lunch. Some of them refuse on the grounds that "you're not supposed to drink duck", but Van seems into it.
The women are still in the dark. Suzanne asks Gordon a question that includes the phrase "the new Nouveau" and promptly gets mocked in an interview by Sabrina. She feels that Suzanne is being both a kiss-ass and a know-it-all. She seems in a better mood as the women return to the kitchen to mock the guys, who are cleaning glasses for the sorbet.
Full moon.
The chefs do prep. The women all hate Suzanne, especially Sabrina. Here's a tip for people planning on being on a reality show at some point (which the way things are going, will be like 65% of the population): if you spend most of your one-on-one interview confessional time talking about how much you hate someone, you're just going to come off as a huge jerk. Suzanne does not acquit herself very well either, interviewing about how "girls are so [bleep]ing catty." On the other hand, the four non-Suzanne women are all clustered together muttering "proximity warning!" when they see Suzanne coming toward them. Shut up, all of you.