Tag: Hell’s Kitchen

Episode description #HellishHangover Challenge: In the first individual challenge as Black Jackets, the six remaining chefs were given 45 minutes to cook dishes that Ramsay would take photos of to have judged by in part by his 100 million social media followers. Ramsay and Michelin-star guest judge Kevin Meehan both judged the dishes on a […]

Episode description Don’t Be Fooled Challenge: The chefs participated in a Hell’s Kitchen-themed Grand Prix with two minutes to race with carts to pick up ingredients with four stations, with one stop at each station. At the end of the time period, the chefs learned they actually shopped ingredients for a different chef. The chefs […]

Episode description And Then There Were Two Ryan, Johnathan, and Sammi arrived at the dining room. Shortly afterwards, Ramsay called them to the dining room to introduce their final challenge: design their own menu for Hell’s Kitchen, each with the help of a sous-chef. Johnathan got Jason at the dorm, Sammi got Christina at the […]

Episode description One Hell of an American Dream After Ryan and Johnathan prepared their teams, Ramsay summoned them individually into his office to spend time with their families. Ryan worked in the red kitchen and Johnathan worked in the blue kitchen. Ramsay gave Ryan and Johnathan their head chef’s jackets and thereby commenced the final […]

Episode description The Dream Begins Eighteen contestants arrive to Hell’s Kitchen and are welcomed inside; Oscar De La Hoya, Martina McBride, Dia Simms, and host Gordon Ramsay are all standing behind four opaque doors as voiceovers of their life and rise to fame are played, with the corresponding celebrity opening their door upon the voiceover’s […]

Episode description Tad Overwhelming Individual challenge: Ramsay revealed that each contestant had to prepare their very own scallop dish by shucking and cleaning scallops by hand. Each team had to nominate their three best dishes and Ramsay would pick the winner from each team. The red team voted for Sammi, Leigh, and Melissa’s dishes while […]

Episode description Citizens of Hell’s Kitchen Individual challenge: Each team was tasked with making crab cakes, omelets, chicken & waffles, and steak & eggs for a dining room full of recently naturalized U.S. citizens. On the red team, Raneisha undercooked chicken, but rebounded and had no further issues. On the blue team, Mattias undercooked two […]

Episode description Gimme an H! Individual challenge: One chef from each team was tasked with elevating a classic American comfort food. Melissa and Brad had cheeseburger, Mattias and Raneisha had pizza, Jason and Carmen had chicken wings, Ryan and Atoye had spaghetti & meatballs, Leigh and Dahmere had mac & cheese, Jermaine and Donya had […]

Episode description Just Bring the DARN Fish! Individual challenge: The chefs were tasked with identifying four surf and turf combinations (oysters and venison, crab and ostrich, halibut and veal, & monkfish and rabbit). The women fell behind in large part due to Sandra and Donya hesitating to make choices during their portion of the challenge; […]

Episode description Fusion Confusion Individual challenge: The chefs were greeted at a soccer field by Alexi Lalas as part of their next challenge, where they would have to pair up and kick soccer balls at targets placed in a soccer net to determine the two styles of fusion cuisine they would have to cook. Ramsay […]