Seth finally got to the end of his rope in Hell’s Kitchen 5 Episode 4.
The girls are jumping up and down. Lacey’s the other team’s problem now. They’re honest with her and tell her she may well be dead weight just like Seth.
The chefs head to an Asian market to participate in Asian fusion. They will each select one poultry, one seafood, and one meat dish with a strong Asian influence. The teams have 25 minutes and $100.
Andrea has a loud voice and loud thoughts. Carol doesn’t believe loud always makes a good leader.
Lacey just wants to be heard at all. Her new team doesn’t care any more than her old team did.
Both teams are able to get to the checkout in time and on budget. Now they’ll have an hour to make the meals.
Red team tells Chef Ramsay they’re working on tuna wrapped in seaweed. He wants Asian fusion. Not boring. The whole team will need to try to fix the dish.
Does anybody need anything from Lacey? That would be a no.
Tanya Steel, editor-in-chief of Epicurious, which everybody in the world knows (I had to look up how to spell it personally), is going to be the judge.
Carol and Coi make pomegranate cinnamon glazed chicken breast. Slightly boring presentation. A little dry. Nice flavor.
Robert and Danny make a traditional pad thai with BBQ chicken. Nice. This dish is the winner.
Paula and LA made ahi tuna tempura. Perfectly cooked.
Ben and Lacey made pan seared scallops with sea urchin and caviar sauce. The girls win in a nice team effort. Perhaps Ben should have actually utilized his partner.
Colleen and Andrea made a kobe beef sashimi brushed with a Korean style sauce. Clumsy seasoning. Shame because the beef’s delicious.
J and Giovanni made some sort of beef. J doesn’t know what it is. Perhaps Giovanni should have brought the dish up because he knows it’s pizzaiola style beef. Way undercooked rice. Red team wins, and they take the challenge win 2-1.
Blue team will be preparing homemade fortune cookies, and they will decorate the whole restaurant with origami. The cookies are supposed to be extremely difficult, and the directions on the origami say that at first it will seem impossible.
Lacey’s sick of losing, and she’s ready to go home. Ben tells her they need her. Oh really?
For their reward, the women are watching wannabe sumo wrestlers: Chef Ramsay and Jean Philippe. After Ramsay beats up JP, the girls get to hop into the sumo suits.
While the men struggle with the origami, Lacey seems to be the only one able to get it. Ironically, this punishment has united the team, at least for the time being.
The women return, and they’re drunk from the sake.
Red team continues to focus on how much they hate Lacey.
Chef Ramsay says that the tuna dish, the one he thought was going to be boring, was one of the best dishes he’s ever seen on this show.
Ramsay likes Giovanni’s risotto, and he likes LA’s as well.
Appetizers are flying out of the kitchens, but the customers with the biggest appetites just arrived. The sumo wrestlers want one of everything on the menu. Each team will need to split that duty.
The boys are impressed by Lacey’s performance.
Andrea has burned her wellingtons and decides to hide them. J’s having the opposite problem. His are still rare. The fan’s on low instead of high.
Colleen has left the oven door open. She doesn’t think she did, but it’s open, so it would appear she did.
So where are the women’s wellingtons? Hiding. Not very well. Ramsay ends up finding them.
Chef Ramsay keeps calling Robert Bobby. His name’s not Bobby. That was his dad’s name, and he apparently hated his dad. He’s throwing a bit of a tantrum, so Ramsay takes him into another room and screams at him some more.
Andrea’s still trying to recover from her earlier issues. She’s making up random numbers as to how far behind she is.
J’s chicken is raw, and no entrees have left their kitchen in nearly 14 minutes. He doesn’t even know what they need.
Red team has moved on to rock hard and raw dessert from Colleen.
Dinner service has collapsed. Again. Both teams lose for the second week in a row. The good news is that Giovanni and LA did a good job. Otherwise, it was a disaster. One individual from each team will be nominated.
The chef wants to see Bobby in his office. He doesn’t want to be called Bobby any more.
Andrea’s okay with being nominated because she screwed up so bad. Colleen’s okay with being nominated because she believes the blue team will be sent home.
On the other team, Lacey’s safe. It’s between J and Robert.
Red team has nominated Andrea. Blue team nominates J.
Ramsay disregards the nominations. He wants Robert to wake up. All that aside, Colleen has been sent home.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 5 Episode 6, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on Fox.