Ji injured herself in Hell’s Kitchen Season 5 Episode 2. Regardless, she stood on her feet and completed the task without complaining. The women ended up losing in a close race. Colleen and Lacey, a pair of disasters, were nominated, but Ji ultimately decided to leave due to her injury.
Andrea wishes Lacey would twist her ankle.
The chefs get to bed at 3am. They’re awakened at 6am.
Nobody has a heart condition or fear of heights, so they’re good to go once they grab their barf bags. It’s a meat processing plant. They should probably be paying attention. Lacey says she isn’t.
They get back to the kitchen to meet Chef Ramsay, where they need to know their meat. First, they must identify the meat, then they must identify where it is from the cow. Ben goes first for the men and gets 1 wrong. Andrea gets 2 wrong for the women. Giovanni’s attempt for the men fixes the mistake. Paula is able to correct the mistakes for the women. The men try first to get the cow parts and get 3 wrong. Colleen gets 3 wrong for the women. Seth tries for the men and brings it up to 7 wrong. Robert drops it to 6 wrong. Lacey brings the women to 6 wrong. Ben wins it for the men.
For their punishment, the women will have to butcher some sides of beef. Once they’re done lugging the cow corpses off the truck, they have to butcher them, then eat the less popular parts. Tongue, kidneys, hearts, and liver. It’s not long before everyone is throwing up. Andrea’s drama seems to actually be uniting the team.
The men will do some wine tasting and dinner at a steakhouse, and they will travel via private jet. Robert gets to wear his wedding shoes now, which he wasn’t able to do before since he had to postpone his wedding to come on the show.
Hell’s Kitchen is a steakhouse for the night. There will be two seatings. One team will cook; one team will serve. Then they’ll switch. The men opt to cook first. Giovanni is confident because he works in a steakhouse. It takes the women 20 minutes to get the first ticket in. Obvious sabotage, which probably is not the wisest move. Charlie’s cloth catches on fire. Somebody might want to step in before he burns the place down. Ben has the brownies and cheesecake ready before the appetizers are out. Giovanni is leading the meat station. He’ll need to cook his meat completely, and many of his steaks appear to be coming back. Lacey forgets her table until JP tells her. They’re running out of filets, down to just one left. Seth doesn’t know how to cut them, so Charlie has to show him. Chef’s not only not impressed but aggravated that he wasted so much of the meat. The men started on a low note and have continued on that note throughout.
The women are up next. Charlie’s not sure whether he took one of his table’s orders, but they have time to kill anyway since there’s nothing coming out of the kitchen. Chef Ramsay has Colleen repeat her tongue twister of an order list again and again and again knowing she has to screw it up eventually, which she does, so he uses this opportunity to tell her something’s wrong with her. 45 minutes in, the salads have started leaving the kitchen, but Coi has made raw shrimp. Charlie’s spilling food. At least it’s just on the table and not on their clothes. With less than 30 minutes left, Andrea’s starting to get the steaks out. Steaks are coming back, but Chef Ramsay says the customers are wrong and that their steaks are cooked perfectly. See if those customers come back in a real restaurant if you tell them that.
The teams will be examined on cooking, service, and feedback from the customers. Charlie is the worst waiter; Lacey is the worst waitress. Despite how they’re supposedly judged on other factors, it comes down to the team that served the most entrees. The women finally win. LA is disappointed by not being able to get rid of dead weight.
Seth wants to take out the strongest guys. Then he’s the strongest guy. Yeah, once he gets rid of like everybody else. Giovanni’s starting to get some votes, but some people also blame him for being a steakhouse guy and doing so poorly on the steakhouse task.
Despite the talk, the nominations come down based on performance. Seth is the first nominee because of his lack of experience. Charlie is the second nominee because of his performance during the task.
After J makes the nominations, Seth wants to go down the line because he doesn’t agree that that’s what everybody wanted.
Ramsay doesn’t care whether these are the actual nominations or whether J just made them up in his mind.
Charlie believes he should stay because he has more experience than Seth. Seth agrees that he has a lot less experience and is looking for a mentor. Then he goes on and on. With that said, Charlie is going home. Ramsay’s looking for a head chef, not a prep chef, and nice guys don’t get to finish.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 5 Episode 4, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on Fox.