Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Day 2
By Monty Ashley | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 04.08.2008
Jen complains that walking around in trash with bare feet is unpleasant, which I'm sure it is. She also describes butt cracks, at which point we see Bobby, but the aforementioned crack is blurred out. That seems odd. Don't get me wrong; I appreciate the blurring, but why call it out and then hide it?
Rosann interviews that it's a shame they had to waste all that food, which shows that either she learned her lesson or she thinks she'll get brownie points for saying exactly what Ramsay said a minute ago.
When the cylinders are relatively full, Ramsay orders the chefs back to the stairs (did I mention there are stairs in the parking lot? Well, there are) and berates them some more about how they wasted thousands of dollars worth of food. Then he tells them to go shower and meet him in the kitchen. So I guess this wasn't a challenge after all, but just some arbitrary haranguing? That was productive!
The actual challenge involves a halibut, which appears to be about five feet long. Chef Ramsay fillets it into what we're told are "fifty-three perfect six-ounce portions". They do look fairly accurately cut. So Scott and Gloria bring in one fish for each team, and the teams start dissecting the fish. They have twenty minutes.
On the blue team, Petrozza starts, while Louross instructs him to "make love to that fish." It would be a better pep talk if Louross hadn't called him "Petruzzi".
There is a general frenzy of fish-cutting, and it appears that both teams are doing okay with the problem of dividing up the work. At least, no one's shouting "you're cutting it wrong!" With 8:14 to go, the men finish, while the women mostly circle around Sharon, who is dividing the enormous fillet into approximately six-ounce chunks. Jen is hanging over Sharon's shoulders, while Rosann is hanging over Corey's. It looks like the women end on exactly 0:00, but you can never tell with this sort of thing.
Chef Ramsay goes through the women's cuts and rejects a few for being gashed, but they end up with 41 acceptable portions. Chef Ramsay deems this "not bad".
On the men's side, Chef Ramsay is less happy and demands to know who's butchering the fish. If I might be allowed a slight digression, it seems unfair to call the act of poorly cutting meat "butchering it". When you think about it, butchers are actually very precise with their knives. In fact, isn't this challenge exactly the sort of thing you'd want a butcher for?
Anyway, Chef Ramsay declares some of the men's pieces "beautiful" and some "awful". It ends up with an exact tie, 41 all. Neat! The tiebreaker is that each team selects a representative, and the representative will select one of their portions, thus resulting in two selected portions, one for each team. And the portion that's closest to six ounces will win the challenge. Rosann insists on Corey, and the men choose Ben by acclamation. Actually, when Corey goes up, then women are clapping and saying her name in away that's extremely reminiscent of Family Feud when everyone's shouting "Good answer!"