With only 5 chefs left Chef Ramsay started the show by combining the remaining chefs into a single team. They celebrated with champagne which Chef Ramsay sprayed over the final five. The chefs traded in their red and blue jackets for new black ones.

Challenge
Tonight was the first individual challenge. Each cook had to create their own dish which will be judged by a panel of trend setting VIPs. The chefs were blind folded and taken to a secret location which turned out to be a high school cafeteria. They psyched us all out with their talk of trend setting VIPs and Jen’s reference to Mariah Carey. I was fooled too. The trend setters turned out to be 100 high school students. Each chef had 1 hour to prepare 100 servings of their dish. The students would try all five and vote for the one they liked the best. The winner would go with Chef Ramsay on a trip to Las Vegas! Here were their dishes:

Rock - Meatloaf on bread (looked like a burger)

Jen - Chicken and fettuccine

Julia - Grilled cheese and chicken with onion rings

Bonnie - Fried goat cheese over greens

Josh - Salmon

Most popular dish with 51% of the votes was Julia. As soon as I saw what the dishes were I figured Julia would win. The chefs need to think a lie bit. Come on, seriously, how many high school kids do you know who want salmon for lunch? Julia was allowed to take one of her teammates with her to Vegas. She picked Julia. Julia, Jen, and Chef Ramsay enjoyed a private jet to Las Vegas, then limo to the Green Valley Ranch Resort. This is the same resort where the winning chef will get to run a restaurant. After enjoying the spa, they went to the Green Valley’s sister resort the Red Rock Resort. At the Red Rock, they met Heather the winner from last years Hell’s Kitchen where they received a tour of her restaurant and got to try some of her dishes.

The losers got to vacuum and steam clean the dining room, then iron all of the linen and prep for the dinner service. I liked Josh’s quote when he couldn’t figure out how to run the steam cleaner, “We belong in the back of the house not the front of the house for a reason.” During the prep, Bonnie threw away a try of monk fish that didn’t smell good. Apparently that was what monk fish is supposed to smell like. She got yelled at then but either Chef Ramsay didn’t care or didn’t hear about it because nothing was said about the incident later in the show.

Dinner Service
During the dinner service the former blue team was having trouble. Josh was trying to get ahead on the risotto and had 4 pans going before any orders were even taken. Chef Ramsay was really upset about this because the risotto was essentially wasted because it would be overdone before they needed it. Rock followed this up by burning the scallops. Things then continued to spiral downward in the kitchen. Julia lost the fennel for the garnish, and then gave Chef Ramsay a little lip when he admonished her. Chef Ramsay yelled at JOsh for cooking the spaghetti in advance of when it was needed. Even after getting yelled at once Josh got busted doing it a second time! The final straw was when Josh’s risotto was sent back to the kitchen because it was undercooked. Chef Ramsay had finally had enough. He exploded at Josh. He made him take off his jacket off right there and then and told him to get out of the kitchen. Jen took over the appetizer station. Julia was having lots of trouble on the garnish station. After being yelled at by the Chef again, she was in tears.

The worst part of the dinner service though was the name calling contest between Rock and Jen. Rock was pissed at Bonnie for calling him out on not having the Turbot done in front of Chef Ramsay. According to him she wasn’t being a team player. You know if the roles had been reversed he would have done the same thing. Then he turned his anger on Jen for telling him what to do. The two of them spent the rest of the service calling each other names every time they passed one another. Jen and Rock’s bickering was driving Chef Ramsay crazy.

Results
Chef Ramsay told Bonnie that this was her best dinner service yet. “Spot on,” as he says. He gave her the chance to nominate the two chefs to go home. Jen was in tears when she was talking to Bonnie after the service. Rock was really angry with himself after the dinner service for letting his personal feelings interfere with what went on in the kitchen.

Bonnie nominated Rock because of his temper and his lack of communication, Julia because she struggled on the garnish tonight. Even though Chef Ramsay thought that she was the most improved chef he selected Julia. He was personally going to send her to culinary school and after she completed it she was going to come back to Hell’s Kitchen again.

Next Week:
Chef Ramsay has a big surprise for the chefs and turns up the heat on the final three. Each chef has a turn at taking control of the kitchen. One chef turns the tables on Chef Ramsay. It looks like Bonnie blows up at Chef Ramsay for forcing her to check everything when she is running the kitchen. After next week we are down to the final two.

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