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[Hell's] Kitchen: There was no "voila" for me
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This is chef Gordon Ramsay.
He stars in a Fox television reality show called Hell's Kitchen.
He stars in a Fox television reality show called Hell's Kitchen.
You can catch old seasons on hulu.
Gordon Ramsay has an impeccable food service standard and a terrible potty mouth.
He is made famous by the extreme treatment of his employees, who are often fired after one or two ill-timed mistakes. This is after being yelled and screamed at about how useless, worthless, pathetic, dumb, stupid, idiotic, careless, wasteful, incompetent or just plain helpless they are. This makes for lousey working conditions, but great television.
If this intrigues you, you should also check out Kitchen Nightmares and his other shows from the UK.
About the show:
Every season, a group of cullinary misfits, rejects, failures and all around non-chefs are tricked into going through a lengthy job interview via reality TV. They suffer great misfortune, embarrassment and ridicule at the hands of an overbearing world famous chef and a way too uptight Belgian wait-staff manager. Every week, Ramsay will choose one or two among them and tell them to GET OUT! (You're fired! is trademarked apparently.) A series of cooking and food preperation challenges followed by dinner services are the meat and potatos of the show. Hell's Kitchen is apparently an actual restaurant that people go in order to obtain food. Unfortunately, this does not happen very often, esp. during the early episodes wherein the incompetence of the contestants is borne out. Instead the patrons are subjected to an impromptu dinner theater wherein the protagonists are subjected to screams of foul-mouthed invective by a be-smocked British villain. The final two contestants will have the opportunity to select the previously rejected 8 contestants in the final head to head food service. The prize at the end of this dark tunnel is a job contract at a fantabulous new restaurant.
This will be the sixth season of the show, and the 2 hour premiere was the most amazing yet, with the promise of fisicuffs between a roid raging New Yorker and the demon prince of Hell's Kitchen himself, rugby and futball veteran Gordon Ramsay.
My money is on the angry Brit.
Red Team
[strike]Melinda[/strike] - Wasted enough pasta to feed Italy.
[strike]Lovely[/strike] - Wasn't very.
[strike]Tek[/strike] - Lost her steak in the game.
[strike]Amanda[/strike] - She could TOTALLY win Hell's Kitchen.
Suzanne
Tennille
Ariel
Sabrina
Blue Team
[strike]Louie[/strike] - Fucked up an entire lamb's worth of lamb chops.
[strike]Joseph[/strike] - Wasn't no bitch.
[strike]Tony[/strike] - Learned to cook from his heart.
[strike]Jim[/strike] - If he only had a heart.
[strike]Robert[/strike] - " " " " " " that works.
[strike]Andy[/strike] - Sliced off the tips of his talentless fingers.
Dave
Kevin
Van
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Ramsey will kick that douchebag's ass so hard
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And I really like Kitchen Nightmare's too. Ramsey seems like a pretty good guy in that show.
And my money's on the Brit, too.
Was I working in all the wrong places? Or have others shared my experience?
US Kitchen Nightmares has nothing on UK Kitchen Nightmares IMHO.
Azulan Saul Tigh
Are they still making beef wellington? I used to love the inevitable blow up after someone screwed up the beef wellington.
Also, the patented Ramsey "SOMEONE COULD HAVE DIED!!!" after some jackass tries to serve raw chicken rather than delay getting a plate out because they're so scared of him.
Besides understandable English
I had some friends lucky enough to eat in one of his restaurants and they continue to marvel at the experience. Apparently, the man knows how to get shit done well.
Azulan Saul Tigh
Well, bear in mind that his reputation has largely been made by people who have never worked in kitchens themselves. I thought he was a bit extreme at first as well, but then I realized that he was yelling at people for ruining entire dinner services and wasting up to thousands of dollars worth of food, and that sort of thing really does merit every expression of anger short of a punch to the face.
I can't say I like Hell's Kitchen all that much, though. It seems to me that they start every season by picking up a bunch of people who clearly won't be able to do the job (belligerent douche bags who can't cook worth a shit), and then we're supposed to act surprised when most of them fail. I'd much rather watch a program where everyone chosen at the start was skilled and creative enough to be a legitimate contender for the top spot.
Also, I second whomever said that Kitchen Nightmares is better on the BBC than on Fox. The Fox version is way too focused on personal drama, antics, and makeovers for me, as the main reason I watch is because I'm interested in how a restaurant is run and what sort of changes can be made to a menu in order to push it from on the brink to thriving. I also prefer Gordon doing the voiceover to random narrator.
The F Word's pretty good too.
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Yeah, your restaurants don't earn a total of 16 Michellen Stars for being average. His expectations are among the most exacting in the culinary world.
As for his attitude being SOP, I'd say it's pretty spot-on. I worked as a server in The American Restaurant here in Kansas City, when executive chef Michael Smith (James Beard award winner) was there. He was pretty brutal in his critiquing of the sous chefs if they did things even a tiny bit off.
Chef Smith didn't curse quite as much as Gordon does, but on a busy night the F-bombs would fly if things got backed up.
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This is worth mentioning though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCU3K6l95Xw
To say nothing of his other series where he went around saving restaurants run by people that had no clue what they were doing.
RE Youtube video: Ha! Almost spot on. I liked that the end of the show had him coming back after a few months to see great success or horrible failure in his absence.
Azulan Saul Tigh
Also his shows in the UK aren't BBC they're Channel 4.
I just realized that I thought that British people only had one channel.
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Edit: These Mitchell and Webb things are frackin hilarious.
Azulan Saul Tigh
The english is significantly less painful on the UK edition.
Oh sure, there's the occasional baffling accent, but The Fox Announcer (tm) gets really, really old on the US edition of the show. The writing staff on that show needs a swift and merciless beating. Edit: also, Ramsay returning to the resteraunt a few months later to see how things are going is something I love about the UK edition, and find bafflingly absent from the US edition, at least most of the time.
My girlfriend has gotten me hooked onto Ramsay's shows, and I agree that the UK Nightmare Kitchens is the superior show between the two. I also enjoy The F Word. I never got into Hell's Kitchen originally, because I felt it was just a loudmouthed guy being an asshole, with little constructive about it. Having seen him bend over backwards to fix up a variety of restauransts, I can appreciate his style of... critique with a grain of salt and just enjoy the spectacle.
Speaking of which, the opening of this season of Hell's Kitchen was indeed awesome, and I too am putting money on the angry Scottish rugby player. I say he wrecks the guy in one shot, if the guy is dumb enough to take a swing.
This season's winner won't be determined by who is the finest chef; it'll be the man or woman who's still standing after Ramsay's knocked the rest out.
This is a joke, right?
Just in case:
The BBC currently expends public funds on production and maintenance of: BBC1-4, BBC Radio 1-5, Various regional BBC radio stations, BBC New 24, BBC Parliament and a couple of others.
The various independent (i.e. they have commercials) channels include ITV 1-4, Channel 4 (and subsidiaries like E4 and Film 4), Channel Five and variations, plus the various subscription cable/satellite channels, of which the most prominent is Sky 1 (essentially Fox UK).
The "traditional" layout orders the channels BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV 1, Channel 4, Channel Five, then everything else, for historical reasons.
On topic; I'm pretty sure most of the contestants for the original version of Hell's Kitchen are actual aspiring chefs since they don't seem to screw up nearly as much.
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Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
According to wiki, most of the US restaurants ended up closing or ending up under new ownership.
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Not according to Wiki.
Tangent note: my dad didn't realize they swore on Sopranos for a season and a half, because he works a blue collar job, and thus that is the typical quality of discourse, and thus the non-stop f-bombs didn't grab his attention as unusual.
I stumbled across this website a while back when looking for the same stuff.
It's pretty much a 25% success rate.
Even the best UK success story, Mama Cheriss' Soul Food Shack went under because she expanded the restaurant too quickly.
Azulan Saul Tigh
9/21 restaurants on the US version are still operating under the same ownership. The same is true for 8/22 in the UK version.
Until looking this up, I had no idea how successful these restaurants end up being. Turning a failing restaurant around is a nigh impossible task, yet 40% are still open? I'm impressed. I figured like one per season would survive post Ramsay's presence.
Especially with the economy the way it is. Many times, after an episode of KN, I'd google the restaurant and they'd be closed. There's one that had the best wings or whatever that closed because of the economy. But it says on their site that they will open back up when things look better.
Kitchen Nightmares (UK Version, haven't seen the US one), however, is great. I'm not sure I understand why I enjoy this more, but I do. Could be because it's actual restaurant owners and people who actually know how to cook.
Granted, if you're training someone to be a chef, having them cook risotto until they puke is a pretty good way to teach them some fundamentals... but the show isn't called, "So, You Think You Can Cook?".
Yes, it's standard Fox Hyperbole (tm), but it's laid on so thick you could drown in it if you're not careful.
I've also noticed that here in the States, people don't seem to realize he's an actual chef with forty-brazillion Michelin Star restaurants. They think he's just some "English" (I know, they don't) guy with anger management issues.
My thoughts exactly, that's what I made last night to celebrate the start of the new season.
I'm pretty sure last season that chick Lacey was kept around to serve as an annoyance and nothing more. Any real competition would have kicked her off on the 1st day. There always seem to be very clear cut front runners, and then a bunch of people that can't even make a salad.
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And from what I've seen of the US version, Ramsey doesn't just go in screaming and shouting, he starts reasonable and only gets angry when they act like petulant children. Also the cooks some of these owners employ seem dumb as fucking hell.
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First, you'd have to explain to Americans what a Michelin Star is. And then you'd have to slap 'em around a bit when they ask why he hasn't got any "4 star" restaurants. All in all, not worth the effort.
But seriously, I'd appreciate if the US version spent some time explaining that much of his behavior isn't arrogance. It's trying to communicate where your skills/standards must be to compete at the top.
I don't know sometimes its not even competing at the top its serving competent food in a timely fashion. Or in some instances "How not to give people food poisoning jesus christ what the hell is wrong with you?"
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