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Hell’s Kitchen: Did you think you had this show figured out?

April 3, 2009 /

Last night on Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen,” Gordon Ramsay shook things up in a big, big way. But more on that in a bit…hey, I have to leave you hanging like the show does during commercial breaks, or you can just scroll down if you want to.

Anyway, the bickering between Andrea and Carol was how the show began, and Giovanni and Paula were telling them that they needed to put their differences aside for the good of the team. Then came the initial challenge, the king crab challenge. Man, those things are big! Ramsay asked the teams to have each member create a crab dish in 30 minutes, and then to choose one of their teams’ dishes to represent them for Ramsay to taste. Andrea forced her dish to the front, but Carol wasn’t so sure they shouldn’t have gone with Paula’s dish since Andrea’s looked clumsy. The guys went with Ben, who pretty much forced his way to the front too. Ramsay didn’t really like either one, saying that Andrea’s was bland and disgusting, and Ben’s lacked the flavor he claimed it had. He asked Paula and Danny to bring their dishes forward and liked them both, but declared Danny and the blue team the winners.

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Hell’s Kitchen: ratings rule

March 27, 2009 /

Last night’s episode of “Hell’s Kitchen” began with Giovanni talking to Carol, and telling her she needs to calm down and stop blaming Andrea and everyone else for her own shortcomings, and that she should focus on trying to win. That Giovanni has his head on straight, and he could win this season. Gordon Ramsay started out by making something that would be on the menu that evening, tartare…both steak and scallops. Yuck….raw meat of any kind makes me want to vomit. Anyway, Ramsay threw a curveball…the beef was actually tuna and the scallops were actually sea bass. Surprise!

That led into the challenge which was the palate competition, in which they chefs are blindfolded and asked to guess what Ramsay was spooning into their mouths. Ben did better than Andrea, but Robert and Giovanni guessed zero correctly. Carol beat out Lacey, and it was down to Paula and Danny, but for their part of the challenge, they had to guess the ingredients in some vegetable soup. Paula won, and the red team’s prize was a photo shoot for TV Guide. The blue team, as their punishment, had to wait on the red team during the photo shoot, as well as prep both kitchens for dinner.

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Hell’s Kitchen: get out!!

March 20, 2009 /

Last night on “Hell’s Kitchen,” there was a first. I’m pretty sure it was done for effect, but more on that in a bit. The episode began showing that the red team is divided…Carol and Andrea and L.A. are all not getting along and it’s making it difficult for them to work as a team. So as the teams are uneven now, Gordon Ramsay sends Giovanni over to the red team. If he really wanted to make for some exciting TV, he would have sent Lacey back there, but instead he gave the red team the blue team’s best chef.

The initial challenge started with Ramsay wheeling in some salmon tapas dishes that he created, and the contestants all were oohing and aahing over his cooking. Then he declared that the menu for the day would be a tapas menu, and he asked each team to create a tapas menu with leftover food in the kitchen then and there in 20 minutes. He liked most of the dishes, except for L.A.’s asparagus soup, which he likened to dirty dishwater. Yuck. In the end, Giovanni edged out Ben and the red team won. The blue team had to prep both kitchens and the red team won a day at the horse racing track in Hollywood.

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Hell’s Kitchen: It’s getting catty in here

March 13, 2009 /

Last night on “Hell’s Kitchen,” the red team began bickering more than ever, with Andrea and Carol really going at it. This usually leads to a lack of teamwork, which is exactly what happened. Anyway, the show began with the teams learning that they would face off for a Bar Mitzvah dinner service. Ben kept going off about how he was Jewish and he would help his team win and that these were “his people.” Ugh…easy, dude. Anyway, the kid, Max, was there with his mom and grandma, and the teams had to make fine dining versions of Max’s favorite foods–hamburger, chicken soup and brisket.

The blue team won the soup challenge, thanks to Giovanni; the red team won the brisket challenge thanks to L.A.; and the blue team won the burger part, with Robert using a simple Kobe beef burger over Carol’s blue-cheese infested foo-foo burger. Come on Carol, it’s a 12 year old kid! So the blue team won a day of pampering at a spa, and we saw way too much skin, including the many folds of Lacey and part of Robert’s butt crack…..really now, was that necessary? Meanwhile, the red team had to set the dining room up for the Bar Mitzvah celebration later that day. Also, the party planner, Francisco, showed up and annoyed Jean Phillippe, and the two of them engaged in some incredibly fake reality show acting.

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The Chopping Block debuts Wednesday on NBC

March 9, 2009 /

It seems like cooking/restaurant reality based shows are popping up on every network. You’ve got Gordon Ramsay’s “Hell’s Kitchen” on Fox, and Bravo’s “Top Chef.” Then, of course, there are The Food Network’s “Chopped” and “Ultimate Recipe Showdown,” among others. Now NBC is getting into the action, with their new show, “The Chopping Block,” set to debut this Wednesday at 8pm/7pm central. The premise is that renowned British chef Marco Pierre White will direct two teams of four couples each in taking a restaurant from the ground up, with one couple being eliminated per week and the grand prize winner taking home $250,000.

We must now be so enamored with crass British reality TV talent judges that we now have to build shows around them. Along with Ramsay, “American Idol’s” Simon Cowell also comes immediately to mind. But while White seems to have Ramsay’s values, he has Cowell’s soft-spoken delivery and looks more like Howard Stern. Regardless, we caught a screener of the first two episodes and the show, which takes place in the restaurant hotbed of New York City, is definitely entertaining. The restaurant business is pressure-packed enough, but add TV cameras and celebrity food critics as well as some volatile contestants, and you’ve got some great natural drama. If you like any of the shows mentioned, you’re going to love this one too, provided you have time in your busy reality TV-watching schedule.

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