Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dan the Caucasian Asian
By Daniel | Season 11 | Episode 6 | Aired on 04.16.2013
Dan and Ray get their jackets back from Ramsay, and Blue team's reward is a surprise; Ramsay tells them to head upstairs to get changed. As for Red, they've got to prep for tonight's dinner service, including beef potstickers and steamed dumplings.
While Red is cleaning up the kitchens, Blue come sauntering through, clapping their hands. "What goes around comes around, bitches! Take that, skanks!" Dan tells us. Good GOD he's odious.
The reward is paintball, which allows the men to act like even bigger jackasses than normal, and apparently the point of the game was just to shoot at Dan, which I think we can all get behind.
Let's check in with Red, shall we? Apparently the prep work is very tedious. What's even more tedious? Listening to them moan about the tedious prep work. Anyway, their gross snack break is a balut egg, which is apparently the fertilized embryo boiled and eaten in the shell, which almost had me heaving up my guts right there, given that I think REGULAR EGGS are disgusting. And they apparently HAVE to eat these things? As Nedra says, going to commercial break, "This is nasty."
Looks like most of the retching was done off camera, thank god. The women are back to work, when the men come trotting back in, still wearing the camouflage from their paintball game.
Pre-dinner pep talk! Ramsay they're launching the chef's tables tonight; in Blue's will be Rex Lee, who was Ari's assistant on entourage. Anthony calls him the "crème de la crème" and they have to get this right. Red will be cooking for Adam Shankman. Aww, who doesn't love Adam Shankman?!
Jean-Phillipe opens the dining room. Ja'Nel and Ray are wheeling around a "tableside" dim sum cart (as opposed to dim sum buffet? COME ON, Hell's Kitchen!). Nedra nails some risotto and gets her jacket back. In Blue, Jon and Anthony are praised by Ramsay for how well their appetizers are doing. But Ray is slow with the dim sum, and he's complaining that his team are "killing" him by doing too good a job on their appetizers, I guess. "Oh, fuck off, Ray," groans Ramsay, when Ray requests another one to replace the one that went cold because of his slowness.
The chef's table guests arrive. And now Mary nails some risotto and gets her jacket back, so no one was eliminated from last week's episode (since Jeremy really was the elimination from the show before).
And now Susan is ... I don't know, terrible on chicken? I can't keep track anymore. I'm glad Zach is serving the chef's table. "HOW IS EVERYTHING REX LEE CAN I GET YOU ANYTHING." Then Barret serves up some raw shrimp for the VIP table, and gets yelled at by Ramsay. Susan thinks Ramsay must be confident in her since he put her on meat by herself. Or perhaps he's hoping to have to screw up royally so he can yell at you for the benefit of the show. Related: Susan makes some raw lamb, and then blames the oven for not cooking the lamb any faster. It's probably also the oven's fault when she dumps the lamb on the floor, and Hell's Kitchen doesn't follow the five-second rule philosophy, I see. At the chef's table, Shankman deadpans, "I'm highly aware that they screwed up our order." He's the fucking best.