I am disappointed with Hell's Kitchen this season, just all around disappointed. Normally with the show, in a bad season, I'm disappointed with the contestants, but this season goes way, way beyond that, even if the contestants really are more obnoxious than usual. This season my disappointment extends to the challenges and Ramsay as well.
Normally, I love the loud, boisterous, and sailor-mouthed Gordon Ramsay, but what was up with his attitude during the challenge last night. The chefs were broken into groups of two within their team and had to make sausages. What did that result in? A bunch of sophomoric jokes by the chefs – including Ramsay – about penises. How old are they? Shouldn't Ramsay be there yelling at them when they start to head in that direction? Shouldn't he be the guy who cuts them off at the knees every time they start to make bad jokes? Why is he joining in? Has he forgotten his role in the show?
Clearly not, because he spent dinner service yelling at the people as he ought to have. So, what happened during the challenge?
Well, I'll tell you my theory – the contestants this season are a joke and Ramsay has recognized that. He yelled at them during dinner service, because that's when his name and reputation were on the line in front of the public, but the same wasn't true during the challenge. Ramsay has decided that during the challenges this season he simply isn't going to kill himself to make these guys (and gals) do something they can't do
The sausage challenge they had last night was an incredibly easy one – make sausage when you already have the casing and the meat and the machine ready to go. The entire thing gave me the feeling of the producers dumbing the show down to the level of the contestants that they've gotten this season. It was an incredibly simple set of steps, and yet some of them still had trouble.
Need more evidence of the incompetence this season? Look at what happened during dinner service – Robert went apoplectic yelling at Andy due to his incompetence on the meat station. I understand where Robert was coming from, he at least has heart and – based on how long he lasted last season which had some decent contestants in it – some skill. Robert was wrong to yell (see below), but Andy is clearly in over his head this season. I'm not basing that solely on what we saw of him messing up last night, no, I'm basing it on sous chef Scott getting in Andy's face about Andy's incompetence. Scott tends to be a pretty even-keeled guy, has been every season; for him to go off on a contestant really indicates that the guy has a problem.
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