Unbelievable.
Jun. 8th, 2021 12:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gridloreIt's funny that a guy who eats like a picky four-year-old is so into cooking competitions, but here I am. One of my favorites is Hell's Kitchen because the high-pressure environment reminds me of some of my tougher Army training cycles.
If you're not familiar with the series, it's pretty simple. Two teams of chefs (usually separated into men vs women) compete in a series of challenges in the first half of the show. The winning team gets an awesome reward, while the losing team suffers through a miserable punishment. The second half of the show is normally a live dinner service, with Gordon Ramsey pushing the teams to turn out flawless food under extreme stress. The reward is usually a head chef position at a prominent restaurant along with a cash award.
This season is titled "Young Guns" and all the chefs are between 21 and 24 years of age. Which makes for an interesting change from the usual mix of more experienced chefs and younger up-and-comers. But this season has gotten off to a rocky start, all because of one guy.
His name is Matthew Francis Johnson and he was listed as a "food vlogger." Oy. In the very first challenge, the traditional "signature dish challenge, he served Ramsay a cioppino. But he forgot to properly clean his shrimp, leading to Ramsay pulling the guts out and asking if he was meant to eat all that.
The next day and the challenge is cooking with hard liquor for a reward. Matthew, who h=was somehow picked as one of the three best on the blue team, brings up chicken that is nearly raw. Through all of this, he displays an arrogant, know-it-all attitude.
Then comes the dinner service. The men cannot coordinate anything in their kitchen. Matthew and another chef named Payton are working the meat station and simply cannot cook anything. At one point, Matthew whips out a meat thermometer to check on some chicken. This is so far outside the rules I'm amazed he wasn't tossed right there. Ramsay eventually tosses the entire blue team without them having served a single entree.
Mike Tyson and his family were at the chef's table in the blue kitchen, by the way. If you had a hungry Iron Mike looking at you for food, wouldn't you get it out to him? Just asking.
Anyway, Peyton and Matthew get nominated for elimination by their team for being utter fuck-ups. Ramsay adds another chef who fired a fish entree before a single appetizer had gone out. He heard from this chef and Peyton on why they should stay in Hell's Kitchen. But when he got to Matthew, Ramsay didn't let him say a word. Matthew got told that his attitude and cooking were nowhere near the standard Ramsay set, and before Matthew left, Ramsay pulled out the meat thermometer and handed it to Matthew, telling him if he's going to use it, he better learn how to use it properly.
There have been some spectacular flameouts and exits from Hell's Kitchen over the past nineteen series, but Matthew just earned his place in the pantheon of epic fails.
If you're not familiar with the series, it's pretty simple. Two teams of chefs (usually separated into men vs women) compete in a series of challenges in the first half of the show. The winning team gets an awesome reward, while the losing team suffers through a miserable punishment. The second half of the show is normally a live dinner service, with Gordon Ramsey pushing the teams to turn out flawless food under extreme stress. The reward is usually a head chef position at a prominent restaurant along with a cash award.
This season is titled "Young Guns" and all the chefs are between 21 and 24 years of age. Which makes for an interesting change from the usual mix of more experienced chefs and younger up-and-comers. But this season has gotten off to a rocky start, all because of one guy.
His name is Matthew Francis Johnson and he was listed as a "food vlogger." Oy. In the very first challenge, the traditional "signature dish challenge, he served Ramsay a cioppino. But he forgot to properly clean his shrimp, leading to Ramsay pulling the guts out and asking if he was meant to eat all that.
The next day and the challenge is cooking with hard liquor for a reward. Matthew, who h=was somehow picked as one of the three best on the blue team, brings up chicken that is nearly raw. Through all of this, he displays an arrogant, know-it-all attitude.
Then comes the dinner service. The men cannot coordinate anything in their kitchen. Matthew and another chef named Payton are working the meat station and simply cannot cook anything. At one point, Matthew whips out a meat thermometer to check on some chicken. This is so far outside the rules I'm amazed he wasn't tossed right there. Ramsay eventually tosses the entire blue team without them having served a single entree.
Mike Tyson and his family were at the chef's table in the blue kitchen, by the way. If you had a hungry Iron Mike looking at you for food, wouldn't you get it out to him? Just asking.
Anyway, Peyton and Matthew get nominated for elimination by their team for being utter fuck-ups. Ramsay adds another chef who fired a fish entree before a single appetizer had gone out. He heard from this chef and Peyton on why they should stay in Hell's Kitchen. But when he got to Matthew, Ramsay didn't let him say a word. Matthew got told that his attitude and cooking were nowhere near the standard Ramsay set, and before Matthew left, Ramsay pulled out the meat thermometer and handed it to Matthew, telling him if he's going to use it, he better learn how to use it properly.
There have been some spectacular flameouts and exits from Hell's Kitchen over the past nineteen series, but Matthew just earned his place in the pantheon of epic fails.
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Date: 9 Jun 2021 11:16 (UTC)