Service was rocky on both sides; Steve got the blue team off to a bad start when he served a bland, soupy risotto, while Frank served up raw steak and severely overcooked chicken on the first table of entrées. On entrées, Sterling overcooked pork, prompting La Tasha to jump in and help him, while in the blue kitchen, Steve did well on the meat station, though he annoyed Santos by constantly calling out to the latter on garnish without saying anything. The 5/7/16 Edition Part 2, Santa Brings Love With a Little Help From His Friends. Elimination: After some deliberation, Bryant revealed the nominees as Aaron and JP. The blue team ignored Sade's dish in favor of Fernando or Bryant's, while the red team quickly and decisively decided on La Tasha. Roe and Kalen scored the winning point for the women after Aaron and Steve had one rejected for being 2 grams too small that would have won for the men. Other guests included ex-Eagles band member Don Felder, and Gena Lee Nolin from Baywatch. The sixteenth season of the American competitive reality television series Hell's Kitchen premiered on September 23, 2016 on Fox. MasterChef 2016 - Season 7, episode 3-Puck and Potatoes; Finally, a winner for Food Network's "Worst Cooks in America"-Season 10. Reward/punishment: The men were sent to a vineyard in Santa Barbara where they enjoyed a meal, before Marino joined them and demonstrated wine-tasting techniques. Before service, Aaron, Steve and Santos met and reflected on the previous service. La Tasha beat Aaron 7 to 5 on lamb, but Sade beat Sterling (who somehow got stuck with both lentils and chickpeas) 7 to 3 on chicken to put the blue team ahead 12-10. Chef Ramsay declared the blue team clear losers, owing to the numerous mistakes on the fish station and communication problems, and asked them to come up with two nominees for elimination based on everything they had seen. Ramsay was generally impressed with the service from both sides, despite the mistakes, and named the blue team the winners for finishing first by seconds, while asking the red team for two nominees for elimination. The women began studying the cooking manuals, while the men quickly fell asleep. 'Hell's Kitchen' chef Aaron Lhamon quits the show before seemingly getting fired by Gordon Ramsay. During the recap of the previous episode, Katie's jacket was hung and her photo was burned. © 2016 FOX Broadcasting Co.-SECOND PLACE 2/2/17! With the men having served no entrees, they were deemed the clear losers and told to nominate two chefs for elimination. Reward/punishment: Bryant was rewarded with a glamping trip in Los Angeles for a night and got to choose someone to join him. We Meet Frank Shade, Candidate for 3rd Sussex county councilmatic district. Bryant tried to help him, but only caused confusion on the station by serving up raw scallops and cold lobster tail and passing the blame on Aaron when confronted. To spotlight another famous aspect of Italian culture, opera, an ensemble of opera singers, revealed from behind the map, gave the chefs a brief performance. The red team eventually forged a 23-all tie when Roe beat Bryant 5 to 4 on cod and Jennifer beat Fernando on pork 8 to 7. Later, Gordon Ramsay chooses a winner. There would be one 12-top table for each team and each chef would be assigned to lead a course, with the stipulation that all 24 dishes from a course had to be served by both teams at the same time. Despite the blue team finishing service with no ejections, their performance was not deemed worthy of winning due to major mistakes being made on every station. Unfortunately, her pork chop was too sweet and had the wrong garnish, scoring just 4 stars, giving the men a 28-25 victory. Service: The night's dinner service included VIP service to Stewart Copeland of The Police for the blue kitchen and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith for the red kitchen. Both kitchens start strong on the appetizers with Sade and Santos serving in a good pace in the blue kitchen and Roe and Sterling right behind them in the red kitchen. In the Season 13 finale, the two remaining contestants must create five unique dishes, which will be judged by a group of esteemed Los Angeles chefs. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Ramsay eliminated JR for failing to show any growth or assertiveness in any of the four services, with Ramsay feeling he had no fight left in him and cooked as if he had given up. America’s Got Talent Season 12 continues on with dancing cops and former great singing groups. Robinson's story, "Wednesday Final Ratings: 'Hell's Kitchen' & 'Extant' Adjusted Up; 'Taxi Brooklyn', 'America's Got Talent' & 'Under the Lights' Adjusted Down", "Wednesday Final Ratings: 'America's Got Talent' Adjusted Up; 'The Mysteries of Laura', 'Extant' & 'Penn & Teller: Fool Us' Adjusted Down", "Wednesday Final Ratings: 'The Middle', 'The Goldbergs', 'Modern Family', 'Law and Order: SVU', & 'Red Band Society' Adjusted Up", "Wednesday Final Ratings: 'Modern Family', 'The Middle', 'The Goldbergs', 'black-ish', 'The Mysteries of Laura', & 'Nashville' Adjusted Up; 'Chicago P.D.' The scores were tied again as Jennifer's pan roasted duck breast got 2 points and Steve's rack of lamb got 3 points. Denine beat JR on burgers, but Bryant beat Kalen on lobster spring rolls and Jennifer and Sterling both scored on lettuce wraps, tying the score at 4 with two rounds to go. Fernando took the point on saltimbocca due to Ashley incorrectly using basil as the main herb rather than sage. Ramsay's team did a strong job. This was the first Hell's Kitchen season to be filmed in high definition. I would consider season 10 and 11 the dork age of Hell's Kitchen. Given the uneven numbers between the red and blue teams, Frank rolled twice, selecting complicated ingredients both times which frustrated his teammates (especially Jennifer). Service: A delegation from the Italian Consulate was in attendance in addition to Kelis and Louis Lombardi. Celestino Drago, the owner-chef of Drago Central was brought in as a guest judge for this challenge. However, Denine served raw salmon, which caused Ramsay to throw the whole team out. Bryant was last to run the pass and, in anticipation of Andi's sabotage, mistook the two halibut for two sea bass – causing a brief argument between him and Ramsay. Ramsay called Sterling, Jennifer, Roe and La Tasha forward to ask them to "say goodbye... to Frank." After each roll, the contestant has ten seconds to choose an ingredient starting with the corresponding letter. A tableside appetizer of coffee-crusted filet mignon was served by Fernando and Roe. Gordon Ramsay returned as head chef and Andi van Willigan and James Avery returned as sous chefs. The women, however, were stalled from early on by Katie and Kalen serving overcooked capellini. Ramsay then asked both teams to come up with one nominee for elimination. Episode Ten [13.10] Gordon: I found it quite strange that Aaron didn't even have the will to succeed. Roe was only able to identify one ingredient (resulting in La Tasha getting dunked once), while Santos was not able to identify any, resulting in two dunks for Bryant and leaving the red team leading 1–0. Aaron may refer to a staff member and the following contestants in the Hell's Kitchen tv series: Aaron Mitrano, a sous chef for the blue team in seasons 15-16. La Tasha beat Santos on enchiladas despite misidentifying her dish as meat pie, Katie and Steve both scored on frittata, and Aaron beat Ashley on shepherd's pie, tying the score at 2. Both teams flew through appetizers without any trouble thanks to vocal leadership from JR and Sade (though Katie was getting annoyed with her whilst she did well on appetizers), only to get stalled immediately on the entrees. Service: South Park co-creator Trey Parker was a guest in addition to the members of the Dine LA Board of Directors, including Yuta Tsunoda, Jimmy Shaw, Aiden Demarest, David Lefevre, Sang Yoon and John Sedlar. After that, the team eventually pulled together and completed service. It turns out that the winner of Hell’s Kitchen, Season 15 is looking for a new opportunity, she reported to Somewhere Luxurious. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. The prize was a head chef position at Gordon Ramsay's Pub & Grill at Caesars Atlantic City. Elimination: Right after the end of the service, Frank apologized his teammates as well as Chef Ramsay for his awful dinner service performance. The first service as one team started off well, but they soon hit a couple of speed bumps as Jennifer is scolded for not asking Roe, who has nothing to do, to help her on the fish station. The women, meanwhile, were unable to repeat their performance of the previous episode; Janai got the team off to a disastrous start by constantly serving up bland, overcooked risottos and refusing to give accurate times, which caused Denine to serve undercooked scallops and lobster. RELATED: 5 Reasons Hell's Kitchen Is Gordon Ramsay's … On the last ticket, a miscommunication caused Jennifer to cook her halibut while Sade's wellingtons were 8 minutes away. Jason went on to open four successful Boston-area restaurants and is returning to Hell’s Kitchen as the Blue Team’s sous chef on season 19. The women had to bring in pizza ingredients for that night's family service, hand-grate the cheese and then drink protein shakes made up of boiled chicken, sardines, scallops and eggs. After the ingredients had been selected, Chef Ramsay gave the teams the traditional 45 minutes to prepare the dishes. Sade is frustrated by constantly being on a losing team, causing her teammates to lose patience with her complaints. She seemed like she was too qualified for the show. After hearing from both chefs, Ramsay eliminates Roe as he felt that while she started off strong, her rocky performances had become too much for Ramsay to handle but acknowledged her hard work. The men retrieved 12 to the women's 10, after which Ramsay told the men that while they hadn't won anything yet, they would have more to work with in the next part, which involved creating a geoduck sashimi dish. Service: For the opening night, several celebrities were in attendance including Greg Grunberg, Scott Grimes, Paul Feig, Bob Guiney and Eva La Rue. Then Chef Ramsay announced that today's theme would be Indian cuisine. In the end, Chef Ramsay's team finished five tables ahead of the black jackets, whom Ramsay criticized for their lack of coordination, especially Santos for running around doing nothing. Elimination: Aaron started by nominating himself due to his bad night on fish, even admitting that he is the one on the blue team that has had the most ups and downs. Frank's departure marks the second time in the history of Hell's Kitchen that a chef was eliminated during the post-service meeting (the first being Tennille Middleton from Season 6. Their only problem was James falling behind on orders and needlessly attempting to plate, but they managed to quickly recover. Roe and Aaron were selected by their teams to rearrange their puzzles to produce a desired list of ingredients for each main protein. During the cooking, La Tasha got stressed out, did not talk to the glampers, fell behind the other contestants and was the last to finish. As a final punishment, they had to unload the women's luggage upon their arrival. The episode was originally scheduled to air on November 5, 2014, but having been preempted on the previous episode schedule of October 29. Then there’s Jason Santos, season 7’s runner up. On the entrées, Jennifer forgets the clam garnish for the halibut. MasterChef 2016 - Season 7, episode 3-Puck and Potatoes, Worst Cooks in America Season 10 Contender Overview. Aaron is currently at Ledger Restaurant in Salem. Chef returned to Hells Kitchen again on Season 18, Chef was eliminated in the kitchen, during the post-mortem, Chef sustained an injury and was not allowed to continue, The episode was originally scheduled to air on October 29, 2014, but. Flawless Victory: Managed to win Hell's Kitchen without being nominated once, as the narration states of her (and Heather) in the finale. The teams completed this without much difficulty, despite Steve accidentally catching a goat rather than a sheep. The men received a barrage of punishments including being forced to clean up all the sand outside Hell's Kitchen, then eating a meal of salted cod with a gefilte fish sauce, followed by cleaning and preparing the geoduck special for that night's service and finally setting up both kitchens. He then reminded both teams that they needed to start giving him their best and he would not accept anything less than that. The team started getting the entrees out after Steve took over the fish, but Frank was also thrown out for bringing up chicken garnish not only unseasoned but also three minutes early. Sterling angrily attacked Steve for persuading the other men to gang up on him, but Ramsay eliminated Katie for her lack of confidence and feeling she did not have the strength to compete in Hell's Kitchen, but praised her cooking ability. In addition to the finalists' families, Margaret Cho, Aisha Tyler, Tory Belleci, Sharon Lawrence and Traci Bingham also appeared as guests. Ramsay gave Santos a warning in the pantry for bringing up a tray of burnt scallops for Phillips' table, and Jennifer also got a little overwhelmed by the amount of meat on order, forcing Ramsay to flip a ticket, but both teams finish with no one thrown out. La Tasha took the point for her spaghetti carbonara, as Santos's was deemed bland. La Tasha made a roasted duck with heirloom tomatoes cover and side potatoes seared in duck fat, while Bryant's dish was a sea bass over a cauliflower puree, with tomatoes seasoned in olive oil and salt and pepper. When the contestants were out on the patio, La Tasha was annoyed at Bryant running his egotism. Next up is Santos with his fennel-crusted Ahi tuna and artichoke heart with dragonfruit infused with pomegranate juice. The judges also preferred Jennifer's pork chop over Roe's. He also notes that Sade's dish, which the blue team refused to even taste, was better than Bryant's dish. After JR and Frank served raw lamb for Bosh's table, Ramsay threw out both of them as well as Santos and Fernando on the fish station. For the women, Kalen kept undercooking lamb, in large part because she constantly opened the oven door to check on it, which sous chef Andi rebuked her for. He refused to declare a winning team since there were too many mistakes in both kitchens, especially at this stage in the game, and asked each team to come up with two nominees for elimination. Service: Ramsay stressed the importance of timing for this service, as the dog show was going to run in three acts. Ramsay was puzzled that Steve was nominated despite not getting thrown out, so he added Frank, for seemingly taking a backseat in the service. Reward/punishment: Thanks to Roe, the red team enjoys a relaxing day at the Santa Monica Pier and lunch at "The Lobster". Service: Tonight's dinner service was the 200th dinner service. Sadly, six former contestants have tragically passed away. Winner: Ramsay congratulated the chefs for a complete service and told them that it would be a "virtually impossible decision" to determine a winner. Related: Hell’s Kitchen: What Happened to Dana Cohen After Seasons 10 & 17 This gave the men a 6-4 win. Team change: Continuing from the previous episode's cliffhanger, Ramsay announced that he had decided to make further changes, so he sent Frank to the red team and Sade to the blue team. Ramsay was disappointed by the final five's performance, as he felt he had a group of amateurs in the kitchen, and asked them to come up with two for elimination based on everything that had happened throughout the season. While Jennifer did not identify a single ingredient, dunking Sterling twice, Sade got the first point for the blue team, with just one dunk for Fernando. Reward/punishment: The red team gets a spa day and Vitamix blenders, while the blue team prepares for dinner service and cleaned the front entrance of the restaurant. However after some time Sterling serves up a portion of scallops seared on only one side. He overcooks the next portion of scallops, and is forced take over for La Tasha on garnish while Roe is switched from hot apps to fish. Hell's Kitchen Sep 10, 2014 Hulu HULU Streaming Service Crackle During the punishment, Sade constantly complained about her dish not making it and the fact it was the fifth time she was serving punishment due to her team's performance, which increased tensions in the blue team. To break the tie, each team chose a member for a sudden-death round, but the good news was that no one would have to sit at the dunk tanks. Team challenge: A group of Bollywood dancers performed for the teams. Ricky Schroder, Hanson, Sydney Leroux and Kelly Hansen were also dining as guests as well. Challenge: The contestants' loved ones show up on a television screen, including Bryant's wife and daughter, La Tasha's mother, Jennifer's fiancé, son and daughter and Sade's mother and aunt. Service: Before service, Chef Ramsay gives Sade a pep talk. Roe also made repeated errors on the appetizers. They turned out to be dogs and their trainers from the American Kennel Club, who were there for a Hell's Kitchen dog show. Chef Ramsay visited Steve and informed him that it was unfortunate, but he'd need to leave for the rest of the season to recover. The dishes that each pair will cook is hidden on the back of each scroll held by each singer, which bears the name of a famous opera. Being my next head chef requires both. Ramsay initially asks the red team to nominate two chefs, but immediately changes his mind as the chefs are heading up to the dorms. After both nominees plead their cases, Ramsay asks both of them to take their jackets off, only to give them both black jackets. Frank and La Tasha were assigned to handle tableside appetizers. Jennifer and Steve were first to face each other, with tortellini dishes, and while both were felt to be good, Jennifer's was deemed to have the edge. Split into two teams over the course of a season, the chefs must defeat their competitors, make exquisite dishes and face Chef Ramsay's brutal criticism. The blue kitchen proceeded without issues to entrées, while the red kitchen had a slower start after Frank's earlier disruption. First, Sade ran the pass; when Sade asked Jennifer how long on chicken, Jennifer was slow to reply, eventually burning the chicken skin. Despite having three chefs ejected, the men were named the winners for finishing their first service. This happens to be the case for “Hell’s Kitchen.” “Hell’s Kitchen” is a show that is headlined by Michelin starred chef and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay. Josh: (interview) Two things are happening right now. He was even threatened with elimination, as he was the only one to have to cook his dish twice; even then, the fish was overcooked and the potatoes were undercooked. Sade in particular was unsympathetic, as this meant she had one fewer person to compete against. He also nominated Bryant due to not owning up to his mistakes in the dinner service and his bad attitude. The women narrowly won their 2nd challenge in a row, as their more meticulous approach paid off over the men's faster but more haphazard style. Episode Twelve [13… Although Santos and Fernando made nearly a dozen incorrect guesses on the final protein of duck (including guessing rabbit twice), they ultimately finished with 34 seconds to spare, giving the men their second challenge win. However, for their second nominee, they were torn between Sterling (for his trouble on the meat station and because La Tasha appeared to just take over rather than help him) and Roe (for messing up the last table's garnish as well as her generally poor performances of late); ultimately, Frank revealed the nominees as himself and Sterling. La Tasha, Bryant and lastly Sade are given black jackets as well. Sterling sat out due this portion to his team having an extra member. [c] La Tasha’s first pick was Sade followed by Roe, Fernando and Ashley, while Bryant picked Jennifer, Sterling, Santos, and was left with Frank. Despite the judges' concerns about the compatibility of cabbage and passion fruit, Sade still earns a solid 9 points, giving her team a 23-16 win and ending her personal streak of seven consecutive punishments. However, this year there was a twist, and two dunk tanks full of water were revealed to the teams. The dinner service ended with both tables satisfied, but Ramsay himself was not. During the recap of the previous episode, Ashley's jacket was hung and her photo was burned. In the latest TV show ratings, Hell's Kitchen put a fork in Season 19 with 2.8 million total viewers and a 0.8 rating, tying ABC's Grey's Anatomy for the Thursday demo win. Elimination: The nominees were Roe for her problems in the kitchen that night and her worse performances earlier in the competition, and Jennifer for problems both on the fish station and with communication. Jennifer failed to notice the missing duxelles in the wellingtons, but rebounded by keeping entrées moving at a consistent pace. Aaron was not allowed to return as he quit the competition and Steve could not take his place as he still had his knee injury. Aaron Song is best known for his appearances on the hit reality TV show, Hell's Kitchen, where he appeared on the 3rd season and finished in 10th place. However, Sade managed to spot Andi putting clams instead of mussels in the capellini and Marino giving her a ticket with a pork chop, which wasn't on the menu. Season 13 of the American competitive reality television series Hell's Kitchen premiered on September 10, 2014 on Fox.