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
Susan's delay on the lamb and inability to properly tell her teammates when she'll be ready screws up her teammates, too. Dan, meanwhile, is doing well on meat, and has no problem telling anyone within earshot. Finally Shankman and his guests get their food (despite last week's previews making it look like they stomped out angry and hungry), but then Jessica serves up raw halibut.
The men are down to their last set of entrees (perfect Wellingtons by Dan) but they're waiting on halibut from Barret. Ramsay sends out the Wellingtons, and figures the halibut will be along shortly, but after it gets served up, he gathers everyone around to point out some sort of problem that we don't see. Blue team recoils in horror, and we go to commercial.
When we get back, we see that Barret has served up fish with the parchment paper still in it, and there's not much to be done but start over (fortunately, Hell's Kitchen is powered by Ramsay's sneers). Red is also on their last ticket, and both teams complete the service at more or less the same time, from what we're shown (Zach apologizing profusely to the table that nearly got paper fish).
During the debrief, Ramsay slams their ridiculous errors, and declares both team the losers, so each team has to nominate two chefs for elimination. Dan's massive ego means he's no so much worried about the team losing because he did so well.
Over in Red, Susan is tired of Jessica (and everyone) pointing out how terrible she did, and vows not to go down without a fight.
In Blue, Jon suggests Barret, and the second pick seems to be Ray, at least until Anthony says Ramsay always reminds them that they should nominate the weakest links on the team, not just who did terribly during the most recent service. So on that basis, he's nominating Dan. You can imagine how well Dan takes it.
The teams file back into the kitchen, and Red announces Jessica and Susan are the nominees for lack of communication, inconsistent timing, etc. Dan has to announce himself as the first nominee. "I'm the weakest member of the team, chef," he says, facetiously, pointing out how he kicked ass tonight. Jon defends the decision by saying he's constantly "slipping through the cracks." After the commercial break, we find out the second nominee is Ray.
Anyway, Jessica says she has much more to give (Ramsay thinks she threw out more fish than she served tonight). Susan goes for a "See how fierce I am" attitude and declares that he'll be proud of her. Ramsay is in no mood, however. As for Ray, Ramsay's getting mighty sick of seeing him standing up there. Dan, not unreasonably, says he'll let his performance tonight speak for itself. Ramsay asks who should be up there instead, then, and Dan gives up Barret, who says it's not about tonight, but who the weakest link on the team is.