Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen

May 30, 2013

We are getting awfully close to the time when the red team and the blue team disappear and everyone gets their own black jacket.  Now, that really is a special moment for the series.  It is the moment when the intra-team backstabbing become front-stabbing, it is the moment when everyone is open and honest about being in this for themselves, and not just honest to the camera, honest to their competitors' faces.  It is also the moment, sadly, when Ramsay tends to get slightly more nice about what people are doing in the kitchen and acts like he's been successful mentoring them.  That bit we don't buy, but we totally accept the rest of it.

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Hell's Kitchen

May 07, 2013

The remaining chefs are tasked with hosting a Quinceañera which includes arranging a tasting for the birthday girl, decorating for the party and making sure guests are not left unattended; two chefs must be nominated for elimination following dinner.

Hell's Kitchen

Apr 09, 2013

Chef Ramsay makes an unexpected decision that changes the game for everyone, meanwhile one chef from each team must assist wait staff out in the dining room; Gordon asks the teams to nominate two of their own for elimination.

Hell's Kitchen

Mar 12, 2013

We know what you're thinking, but not to worry, summer repeats aren't here quite yet.  The truth is we're not entirely sure why "Hell's Kitchen" is coming back so soon (though we could hazard a few guesses), but it's not really important why.  What is important is that a few competent, more semi-competent, and a whole lot of incompetent chefs are about to step into the kitchen with Gordon Ramsay and get yelled at for their inability to do a perfect risotto or beef wellington whilst getting hit in the head with a verbal frying pan by the master chef himself.  "Hell's Kitchen" returns tonight with the premiere of season 11.

Hell's Kitchen

Mar 09, 2013

Gordon pits the women against the men in yet another challenge, forcing everyone to get along in order to save their own team; the teams prepare Mexican specialties for famed chef Thomas Ortega, who proves to be a harsh critic.

Hell's Kitchen

Feb 09, 2013

Dishes in the kitchen begin to heat up as Gordon faces the men against the women as the 17 remaining chefs compete in the second challenge of the competition; a demanding dinner service stresses several amateur chefs who have never run a restaurant.

Hell's Kitchen

Sep 10, 2012

One of the reasons we love this episode is that the voiceover guy doesn't say "And now the continuation of 'Hell's Kitchen'" at the start of the episode.  Instead, he says "And now the conclusion of 'Hell's Kitchen.'"  Well, maybe he says "finale" sometimes, but the point is that he is forced to vary his spiel and we love that.  We also love the idea of learning which of the contestants we've been pulling for ends up winning it all.  And, truthfully, we've have successfully picked the winner just about every season (they're always the ones smiling at the end of the episode).

Hell's Kitchen

Jul 09, 2012

The Blue and Red team become pitted against one another after Chef Ramsay plans to change up the competition; already trying to fight back nervousness in the kitchen, the remaining chefs plan dinner service for three very important clients.

Hell's Kitchen

Jul 03, 2012

"Hell's Kitchen" runs an 18 episode season and tonight is episode 10.  Now, that would make episode 9 halfway home and tonight's episode more than halfway.  What with tomorrow being a day off for most of us, we recommend that you spend some quality time with Chef Ramsay tonight, no matter how long you need to stay up to make that happen.  If you don't watch tonight, how will you know if the kitchen is still full of 'fat cows' or if they've finally worked out how to make the wellington and cut the scallops properly.

Hell's Kitchen

Jun 04, 2012

Ah "Hell's Kitchen," that show where one week you're a 'fat cow' because you've burned the beef wellington and where you're a savior the next for making a perfect risotto.  We love the series' consistency from year-to-year and their unabashed desire to cast the same type of people over and over again.  There is comfort in knowing that there will be one great cook who can't win because they're not a chef and that Ramsay will make at least one person cry.  That last one is actually a guarantee (because if no one on the series cries, we'll cry).

Hell's Kitchen

Aug 22, 2011

At the start of every episode of this series, the narrator gives us a really dramatic 'previously on "Hell's Kitchen."'  We are getting back-to-back episodes of the show tonight, but we hope that getting two hours of the show doesn't mean we miss out on a 'previously on' dramatic voice over.  Actually, we're really happy to have two hours of the show tonight because it means that we get to hear about twice as many stupid, fat cows and twice as much yelling that the chefs have destroyed the risotto yet again.  There's just nothing like Gordon Ramsay yelling at people; watch, you'll see.

Hell's Kitchen

Jul 18, 2011

We know that Gordon Ramsay is basically on half the series airing original episodes this summer, but "Hell's Kitchen is the one he was on first.  Oh, not this summer, this summer "Hell's Kitchen" is his last series to premiere, but it is also the oldest of those series.  As with the rest of Ramsay's shows, it features him calling people 'fat, stupid, cows' on a regular basis.  But in this series he does it with more knives than usual around which makes his yelling somewhat more dangerous.  Get ready for the beef wellington, "Hell's Kitchen" is back.

Hell's Kitchen

Dec 15, 2010

We don't think that we'd call this season of "Hell's Kitchen" our absolute favorite, but it certainly has had some pretty great moments.  It isn't that we wouldn't suggest some overhauling of the show for the next season, but we do think that there's still a lot to like here.  But, that doesn't really address the question of whom Gordon Ramsay is going to select as tonight's winner.  We have our guesses, certainly, but Ramsay doesn't always see things the same way we do.  Weird?  Yes, we think so, but then again, it is Gordon Ramsay and he does get a kick by going against the grain.

Hell's Kitchen

Oct 13, 2010

It doesn't feel like all that long ago that Gordon Ramsay was a not-quite-as-old chef, screaming his head off about the way a 'fat cow' was wandering going about trying to make risotto on his new series (yes, he probably said those exact words last week as well, but he was older than when he first uttered them and the series was not longer new).  "Hell's Kitchen" is airing its 100th episode tonight and that means that it can live on in syndication forever.  Well, it would mean that if this was a scripted show which works far better in syndication that reality series tend to, but it's still a pretty good number to be at.

Hell's Kitchen

Aug 10, 2010

It would be foolhardy of us to suggest that this season of "Hell's Kitchen" has been markedly different from any of the others.  It hasn't, it's been more of the same.  However, in this case, that means that it's been more of the same awesome.  We're sorry if you don't feel the same way, but we could listen to Gordon Ramsay spew venom to incompetent chefs week in and week out for years on end.  He's just that good at it... check that... he's just that great at it.  The man is a legend when it comes to spewing venom.  We particularly like it when he calls someone a "fat, stupid cow."  Semi-redundant, yes, but great.

Hell's Kitchen

Jun 01, 2010

For many a year now, Gordon Ramsay has been inviting chefs, cooks, and would-be kitchen types into a television studio known only as 'Hell's Kitchen' to be part of a reality show known only as "Hell's Kitchen."  Though we believe that Ramsay truly does want to find worthwhile people to run the various restaurants he's been tasked with finding chefs for, he doesn't always get the strongest candidates.  Though sad for him, that's great for us, as it's much better to hear Ramsay yell 'you BLEEPing moron, you stupid BLEEPing cow, that's not risotto!' than it would be to hear him yell 'you BLEEPing beautiful man, that's exactly the BLEEPing way I want it.'

Hell's Kitchen

Sep 29, 2009

Another round of chefs are berated and sworn at by Gordon Ramsay in their attempts at honing their skills and winning this cooking competition. 

Hell's Kitchen

Jul 21, 2009

Doesn't it seem like we just ended a season of "Hell's Kitchen"? Well, Gordon Ramsay is back and he has an all-new group of aspiring chefs to swear at. This season, the 16 contestants will be vying for a chance to serve as head chef at Araxi Restaurant in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Since it's the premiere, expect the chefs to make their signature dishes and then expect Chef Ramsay to be highly unimpressed with all of them. No, we aren't psychic. This show just doesn't change all that much.