Tag: Hell’s Kitchen

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 […]

Episode description All Up in Your Grills Individual challenge: Each team was tasked with grilling various proteins (flat iron steak, chicken breast, chicken thigh, swordfish, trout, and tri-tip steak) and elevating them to a gourmet level. Guest judge Aaron Franklin offered mostly favorable reviews to the chefs aside from minor criticisms about texture and appearance; […]

Episode description Cooking for Your Life Individual challenge: Each team was tasked with preparing five popular ethnic American dishes (Chinese, Mexican, Indian, Thai, and Italian). Every time 5 minutes passed, Ramsay would force a chef to leave the kitchen and verbally communicate directions to other chefs. Since the red team had six members while the […]

Episode description More Bang for Your Buck Team change: Since the blue team had 4 members while the red team had 6, Ramsay sent Atoye to the blue team to even out the numbers. Individual challenge: Each team was tasked with spending $100 at a grocery store to buy ingredients that would be used to […]

Episode description The Pastabilities Are Endless Individual challenge: Each team was tasked with making four pasta dishes using five ingredients per dish which are retrieved by balancing themselves on a narrow, curved beam suspended over a pool of marinara sauce (where falling nullifies the attempt entirely). Carmen notably struggled to cross the beam in a […]

Episode description A Hellish Food Fight Individual challenge: The teams faced the famed and highly anticipated Blind Taste Test, which was space-themed. Chefs who failed to correctly identify two ingredients caused one of their teammates to get covered in “messy space debris” first was “milky-way” milk. Further incorrect guesses caused dustings of sprinkles followed up […]

Episode description A Hell’s Kitchen Special Delivery Ramsay announced the final seven chefs would compete in a series of three challenges to determine which of them would get a Black Jacket. First challenge: The first challenge was a game of craps to determine the eight ingredients for the first dish to cook, which would then […]