Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT And Please! Make It Extra Poached!
By Monty Ashley | Season 5 | Episode 9 | Aired on 04.02.2009
Carol's now on the meat station and provides some rare steak instead of medium. Robert has a filet that's too small, but it's Ben who cut the meat. Chef Ramsay gets up inside Ben's personal space and accuses him of doing it to sabotage Robert. Ramsay, Robert, and Ben look at some of the meat, which is not all cut in nice little filet mignon-shaped pieces the way you'd like. Robert interviews that he does think Ben was trying to sabotage him. Chef Ramsay accuses Ben of sweating (more than Robert?) and Ben has to run over to towel and wipe his face off. He interviews that it was not sweat but tears.
Suddenly it's two hours into dinner service and both teams are on desserts. Ben is running around and trying to pump up Robert with some general talk about doing things quickly (and "beating these bitches to the window," for you sexism fans!), but Robert is in no mood to have Ben telling him to hurry up. Robert tells Ben to back up off him, and suddenly there's an exchange of words. Robert interviews that he is not here to make friends. Chef Ramsay again accuses Ben of sabotage. Back on the red side, some meat comes back from the dining room for being medium-rare instead of medium. Chef Ramsay shuts down the red kitchen. No, wait! Coming back from commercial, it appears that he shut down both kitchens!
So now the chefs are lined up in the kitchen and it's time to select a winning team. Chef Ramsay tells them they let him down and couldn't even execute their own food. The blue team was rated 39% "Above Average" for their entrees. The red team got 54%, so they win, although Ramsay emphasizes that it was not a glorious victory. Now Danny will go to the dorm and select one teammate for elimination. Ouch!
In the dorms, Carol, Andrea and Giovanni all feel they should have lost. Carol and Andrea each interview that Carol would have gone home, although they have different opinions on whether this would have been a good thing.
The blue team is gathered. Ben sets in making his case to Danny, telling him why he's so much better than Robert. As you might remember, Ben feels that he is awesome and cannot conceive of anyone thinking they're better than him. He also feels that Robert moves slowly. Robert describes himself as "a diamond in the rough", which prompts Ben to make this analogy: "And when you use a term 'diamond in the rough,' it's exactly that. A diamond. But in the rough." Wait, I guess that's not really an analogy. Really, he just said the same thing twice.