Louie was thrown off the show, Melinda was eliminated, and Robert from season 5 returned in Hell’s Kitchen Season 6 Episode 1.
Robert’s there to give the girls some advice, and they’re thrilled to have him.
The next challenge is to work with shrimp, cleaning them to meet Chef Ramsay’s standards. Lovely will sit out. They are given 10 minutes to clean as many as possible. Lovely’s attempting to be a cheerleader. Both teams want her to shut up.
Sabrina: 7
Amanda: 9 out of 9
Tek: 7
Ariel: 6
Tennille: 1 out of 8
Suzanne: 10
Robert: 4
Red Total: 44
Andy: 7 out of 8
Van: 9
Tony: 9 out of 10
Joseph: 5
Dave: 4
Kevin: 9 out of 9
Jim: 2
Blue Total: 45
Blue team wins the challenge. Tennille, who performed the worst, gets the blame.
For their punishment, the red team will have to make a shrimp cocktail for the next service. The blue team will go to Newport Beach, where they will go on a yacht.
Hoping to make up for the fact that she screwed them over in the challenge, Tennille tries to take control of the punishment, which just earns her more contempt from her team.
Joseph isn’t there for lunches or conversations. What is he there for anyway?
Robert intends to be the leader for the red team.
Kevin sees Tony cutting grapefruit and shows him the right way to do it. Tony says he’s not a moron and can cut grapefruit. So then Ramsay comes up and complains about the way they’re being cut. Tony blames Kevin. I thought even a moron could cut these, though.
Van will be a waiter. He hopes his charisma will help him through. Tennille will work at tables as well. She might consider smiling like Van is.
Tony’s still struggling with the grapefruit. Looking to get past this, he’s already cooking scallops. Uh, nobody ordered them yet.
Lovely is trying to cook with the stove off. Tek told her they were on. She has to be told?
Next stop for Tony, he’s serving up raw scallops. Kevin has to take the fish away from him so that they can get some appetizers out.
Robert’s off to a rough restart.
Jean Philippe wants Van cool in front of the customers. He also might need to serve the blue tables instead of the red tables. What’s wrong with these two anyway? There’s a language barrier. Van speaks Texan, while JP speaks whatever he speaks.
Red team’s trying to get appetizers out quickly. Too quickly. Their first table gets some raw shrimp. Nobody wants to be responsible for a pregnant lady eating raw shrimp.
JP’s ready to beat down Van. Ramsay has to pull them aside to give them a lecture.
Tennille’s backed up by 6 tables.
Andy has made some raw chicken, but at least he realizes it before he gives it to the chef. Not that this saves him because Ramsay finds something else to pick on him about. The question Joseph has is: why’s he keeping the meat thermometer on his arm instead of using it?
Sabrina has also cooked raw chicken. Suzanne warns her, but she doesn’t listen and brings it up anyway.
Tony is ready to impress with the fish. Or at least Kevin is anyway, taking over for him again.
Lovely’s fish is raw. She wants Ramsay to get his eyes checked because he is getting kind of old. After refiring, she returns with seabass that’s not raw. It is, however, burned.
Kevin has returned with raw fish. So now Joseph offers to cook it. Two other people do as well.
Sabrina’s now burned the chicken on the red team. Since nothing’s going out anyway, they can at least serve shrimp cocktail. Not cooked, not seasoned. A group of idiots could handle it, or at least that’s what he hopes. Once everybody gets shrimp cocktail, it’s time to shut down.
Both teams will have to come up with two names for elimination. Tony is willing to nominate himself. Andy, who was on the same station, is not. Tennille almost served a pregnant woman raw fish, so she’s getting a lot of fingers pointed at her. She shouldn’t have been given the raw fish in the first place, and in the second place she couldn’t have known the woman was pregnant. Lovely wants her nominated because she could have almost killed someone. Van’s got himself an attitude problem. JP should have punched him.
Tennille has been nominated for serving raw food. Lovely has been nominated based on overall performance and experience.
Who’s the first nominee for the men? Joseph’s response: they can speak for themselves, but they know who they are. Okay, try again. Who’s the first nominee and why? Answer: Tony and Andy. First nominee and why? Tony. He knows why. Try again. First nominee and why? Joseph doesn’t want to hear any more from anybody. Instead, he’d like to meet Ramsay out in the parking lot.
To be continued…
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 6 Episode 3, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox.