Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You Come at the Queen, You Best Not Miss
By Daniel | Season 9 | Episode 4 | Aired on 07.26.2011
So the first dishes brought to the judges are the fried ones, but Ramsay's probably not going to knowingly attempt to poison anyone, not even journalists, so he tells Gina to tell the writers what happened. "I was on a team with Carrie..." Gina begins, which is hilarious, because it's almost like she expects the guests to be sympathetic. "Oh, with Carrie? I heard about that bitch!" Ramsay makes her bring the dish back to the kitchen, and Carrie whines to us about being thrown under the bus. "I don't like girls," Carrie tells us, and it's not terribly surprising to find out Carrie is one of those "I don't like girls" girls.
Meanwhile, the judges like Paul's dish of fried chicken with roasted corn and rosemary grit and basic gravy. "It's not easy to eat, but it's worth it once you get the taste," says the EW writer, whatever that's supposed to mean. Ramsay gets one more dig in when he points out that whatever it is, it has to be better than raw chicken, so Blue Team gets a point.
Battle of the sauté! Jennifer and Gina's chicken cacciatore (looks awful, tastes great, apparently) versus Jonathon and Will's lemon-herb sautéed chicken, which is also highly praised. The People woman says she could easily see this on a page in their magazine, fighting for space with a real think piece on whoever Hugh Hefner happens to having sex with this year.
Jamie's grilled chicken salad versus Tommy and Monterray's half-breast. People says the flavors in the grilled chicken salad threw her off, but it's cooked really well, and EW agrees that it's cooked perfectly. And since Tommy and Monterray could only come up with half a portion, Red Team gets a point, tying it at two. Admirably, Tommy admirably doesn't publicly blame Monterray, but Monterray does take the fall with his own teammates.
So it's down to the roast chicken: Elise and Elizabeth come up with roasted chicken with butternut squash puree as well as swiss chard sautéed with sweated onions and garlic. The guests love it, and Ramsay asks whose idea it was. Elise says it was hers, prompting a whispered, "That's bullshit," from Elizabeth to her teammates in the kitchen. "You don't like sharing, do you?" Ramsay asks Elise, who answers affirmatively.
Natalie and Chino have a roasted chicken curry coconut soup, and the judges praise it too, so they need to have a discussion to decide who wins. "We have to win this one," says Elise, because she's sick of punishments.