'Hell's Kitchen:' Mmmm, nice pancetta

Julia, Julia, Julia.

Those scallops were not overcooked. Worse, you were duped into misbelieving your own eyes by Bonnie. Bonnie! She's been ridiculed again and again by Chef Ramsay for living down to that dumb-blond stereotype. Rock and Melissa are already sharpening their knives.

Other highlights of the night: Vinnie getting the boot, not for mistaking seared tuna for pancetta, of all things (probably thanks to his smoker's palate), but for overcooking one beef Wellington after another. (Does all that food really end up in the garbage? Can't Jen retrieve it and feed it to the homeless?) Rock talking about himself in the third person, and Ramsay prancing about, imitating Bonnie looking for her chicken.

But the piece de resistance required the assistance of TiVo. It was the almost-indecipherable remark Ramsay spat at the towering woman in the red-patterened dress who decided she'd get her 15 minutes by complaining about the wait for food in Hell's Kitchen: "Get the giraffe out of here."

For a moment there, she almost looked genuinely surprised.

--Rene Lynch

(Photo courtesy Fox)

Comments

[Tokatl]

His screaming and cursing was fun at first, but now he seems like such an armature. Really, how is eating tongue and liver a punishment. That's like an L.A. basic? where are these people from?

[mary]

When it comes to Gordon Ramsay, I just. can't. help. myself. What is it about him--he's a total obnoxious prick, and yet I am sucked in by his foul mouth and chin scar.

[Max Edison]

This show is turning into a joke. They have the same menu at each dinner, which they have been using for 3 years now. Worse, the contestants are not chefs, but short-order cooks, nannies !, and sandwich shop operators. Not one of them is capable of running a fast-food restaurant, much less a million-dollar resort place. The premise is, put some incompetents in a kitchen and let this Pommy fool scream at them. I'd show Mr. Ramsay how we treat punks like him in Texas: Rough.