Episode 705 - 12 Chefs Compete: Part 2 (Hell's Kitchen)

Episode 705 - 12 Chefs Compete: Part 2 is the fifth episode of Season 7 and the 83rd episode overall of Hell's Kitchen.

Plot
The 12 competing chefs take a trip to a farm, which is near to Hell's Kitchen, as part of a team challenge, but things go awry during the dinner service. Salvatore has a hard time writing orders, while Maria attempts to weasel her way out of elimination due to her horrible attempts at cooking crab.

Why It's a Dangerous BBQ Kitchen

 * 1) During the team challenge, the chefs are wearing their regular kitchen attire rather than appropriate farm attire.
 * 2) Speaking of farms, the chefs compete in a challenge on a farm with live farm animals around, which is pretty gross.
 * 3) Gordon using the knife and the knife sharpener to scare the contestants making them think that the pigs will be killed is very mean-spirited, especially since the pigs are adorable and cute.
 * 4) The first half of this episode, except for the cooking and the tasting scenes, feels like some weird mud fetish show rather than a legitimate episode of Hell's Kitchen.
 * 5) The scene where the contestants are talking in the living room only serves as filler.
 * 6) Maria is horrible at expediting in this episode, with one of the tickets (Table 33's order) being given to Holli, which causes Gordon to get upset.
 * 7) Before and during the dinner service, some of the contestants (especially the Red Team) feel more like butt-monkeys than skilled chefs:
 * 8) * Nilka puts breaded chicken in the fryer, thinking that it's fast food, even though Gordon announced that Hell's Kitchen was having a barbecue-themed menu that evening.
 * 9) * Scott Hawley fries the same chicken as Nilka, but it's burnt more than hers, causing Gordon to remark about how it looks like it came from outer space.
 * 10) * Gordon bins two of the Red Team's Kobe beef burgers after discovering that they're raw in the middle.
 * 11) * Gordon smashes the third burger from the Red Team to pieces after noticing that it's worse than the first two.
 * 12) * The Blue Team undercooks a steak, causing Gordon to proclaim that it's "STONE! FUCKING! COLD!".
 * 13) * Jason Ellis cooks chicken and French Fries in the same basket, causing Gordon to get mad.
 * 14) * Jason then attempts to cook more food for people in the dining room with only a few minutes left.
 * 15) ** What's worse is that many people in the dining room are starving and no food is being served to them until the last minute, when the blue team finishes cooking a few food items for the remaining customers.
 * 16) Gordon should have kicked several of the aforementioned chefs out of the kitchen because of the issues stated above, which is a rather wasted opportunity.
 * 17) Plot Hole: If Ramsay announced that it is a BBQ-themed dinner service, how did Scott Hawley and Jason Ellis cook chicken? This is hypocrisy since Nilka cooked chicken as well before the dinner service.
 * 18) The aforementioned dinner service, especially when Gordon smashes the Red Team's Kobe beef burger to pieces, can be mean-spirited at times.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The team challenge can be funny at times.
 * 2) Gordon's line: "IT'S STONE! FUCKING! COLD! Ice cold in the center!"
 * 3) The cooking challenge and the reward scenes are the only decent scenes, despite the latter being akin to something out of a weird mud fetish show.
 * 4) The revelation that Salvatore never went to school as a child is pretty emotional, and Gordon eases up on him after finding that out.
 * 5) Good Ending: Maria gets eliminated in this episode for her horrible expediting, as well as serving raw crab (which could potentially kill someone).

Videos
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