Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Southern Discomfort
By Monty Ashley | Season 10 | Episode 14 | Aired on 07.23.2012
Sous Chef Scott directs the blue team to some stools and butter churns. This reminds me of a Dana Gould routine. The photo shoot is in the dining room, which is weird. Although I guess it has all the lights already set up. The red team gets their hair and makeup done, which prompts Kimmie to complain that she has natural beauty and doesn't need "this [BLEEP] glob of [BLEEP] on my face." I would be remiss in my job if I did not tell you that during this speech, there was a shot of her with her ass crack blurred out. The team puts their chef jackets on over their fancy Beverly Hills Lunch outfits and poses for some pictures. Then they're off.
The blue team continues to churn. Clemenza is already extremely sweaty, even for him. The red team has some food on the Four Seasons, and they appear to enjoy it. Barbie continues to dislike Barbie.
Once all the butter is churned, the blue team has to make a bunch of one-ounce balls. Clemenza eats some.
The red team comes down and, if you ask me, does most of their own prep. Chef Ramsay calls everyone together for some more repetitions of the word "amazing." He would like Kimmie to do well, because she's from the south. She tells us that she's freaking out a little. That's perfectly understandable.
The dining room opens. The menu has things like a crab cake appetizer, a catfish entree, and fried chicken. Dana's on appetizers for the red team and her first crab cakes are acceptable. Things look fine on that front. Justin's got appetizers for the blue team and Brian claims he's going to show the oysters that he's "Big Daddy" on the fish station. Nope. He overcooks his first thing. Brian calls himself an idiot. Then he gets some good ones up. He vows to whip ass all day all the time.
The red team moves to entrees. Kimmie's on fish and Christina is on meat. For the first table, they have one of the most productive, to-the-point conversations I've ever seen on this show:
Chef Ramsay: How long?
Kimmie: How long you need?
Christina: I need four minutes.
Kimmie: Four minutes is good for me.
See that? They communicated well and tightly. Barbie has the garnish at exactly the time for the dishes and things are beautiful. Unfortunately, Kimmie's catfish is burnt. Oh no! Barbie says Kimmie can't cook, but she says it in an interview instead of to Kimmie's face.
The blue team also has some entrees. Robyn's on meat and Brian's still on fish. Clemenza's on garnish, but the problem is with the catfish, which is burnt on one side. Brian is forced to eat some and gets called a [BLEEP]wit. When Chef Ramsay asks him how it tastes, Brian says, "It tastes like fish, chef." Oh, does Gordon Ramsay like people who talk back to him in the kitchen? No, it appears he does not. Brian is thrown out amid a storm of bleeps. This is not mock-angry Gordon Ramsay; this is the real thing. I can tell because he's not shouting. He just immediately threw Brian out and then bleeped a lot. My advice to future contestants is to not be flippant at Chef Ramsay. Especially don't do anything he could perceive as a joke while he's yelling at you.