With one fully functioning arm throughout the season, Dave Levey beat Kevin Cottle for the win in season 6. A new group of contestants is ready to be yelled at by someone who may well not be playing for a full deck.
The 16 contestants making up the Hell’s Kitchen season 7 cast are:
Andrew Forster
Age : 28
Hometown : West Babylon, NY
Occupation : Farmer, Wake Forest, NY
Autumn Lewis
Age : 29
Hometown : Chicago, IL
Occupation : Personal Chef, North Hollywood, CA
Benjamin Knack
Age : 33
Hometown : Elmont, NY
Occupation : Culinary Instructor, Malden, MA
Ed Battaglia
Age : 28
Hometown : Burlington, NJ
Occupation : Teacher, Edgewater Park, NJ
Fran Klier
Age : 44
Hometown : Rockville Centre, NY
Occupation : Catering Chef
Holli Ugalde
Age : 24
Hometown : San Bernardino, CA
Occupation : Banquet Chef
Jamie Bisoulis
Age : 26
Hometown : Chicago, IL
Occupation : Sous Chef, Chicago, IL
Jason Ellis
Age : 37
Hometown : Greenville, SC
Occupation : Personal Chef, Suwanee, GA
Jay Santos
Age : 32
Hometown : Melrose, MA
Occupation : Executive Chef, Medford, MA
Maria Torrisi
Age : 24
Hometown : Scranton, PA
Occupation : Kitchen Supervisor
Mikey Termini
Age : 29
Hometown : Santa Cruz, CA
Occupation : Line Cook, Kihei, Maui, HI
Nilka Hendricks
Age : 28
Hometown : Glen Cove, NY
Occupation : Line Cook, West Hempstead, NY
Salvatore Coppola
Age : 35
Hometown : Monte Di Procide, Italy
Occupation : Pizzeria Chef, Laurel Springs, NJ
Scott Hawley
Age : 32
Hometown : Modesto, CA
Occupation : Executive Chef, New York, NY
Siobhan Allgood
Age : 25
Hometown : Rockledge, PA
Occupation : Pub Executive Chef, Philadelphia, PA
Stacey Slichta
Age : 38
Hometown : Buffalo, NY
Occupation : Private Chef, Studio City, CA
Chef Ramsay opens the show by promising that they will complete the opening service. Good luck, dude.
They are given 45 minutes to create their signature dishes.
Stacey cooks for celebrities. Holli plays cute/ditzy.
One of the women is a cookbook author… she’s never actually cooked before. Despite that, her dish is delicious. Ramsay hugs her and tells her to relax. Then he kisses her and his tongue gets stuck in her mouth. Well, they’re pretty well being Punk’d. It’s really his wife.
Salvatore and Maria square off. Maria’s dish is cooked perfectly. Salvatore’s dish is undercooked, and his pasta is not from scratch, despite the fact that he says he’s from Italy.
1-0 women.
Holli and Benjamin are next. Benjamin’s fresh pasta is delicious. Holli’s dish is spit out.
1-1 tie.
Scott and Jamie go next. Please don’t eat Jamie’s toothpick that she lost in the dish… he’s not even going to taste it. Scott’s food is rather pathetic.
1-1 tie still.
Mikey and Siobhan are next. What’s with the mohawk and tattoos (including one that’s of the show’s logo)? Mikey’s messy looking dish tastes delicious. Siobhan’s tuna and mint is brave but works.
2-2 tie.
Stacey and Jay go next, and Jay scores the point.
3-2 men.
Fran and Jason are next, with Jason scoring the point.
4-2 men.
Ed and Autumn are next, as Autumn closes the gap.
4-3 men.
Nilka and Andrew are the last duo. Andrew has raised and butchered his own animals and likes to eat them raw. A little creepy. Bland food. Nilka has drenched her wings in half a bottle of tobasco. Nobody scores.
Men win 4-3.
The winner of this year’s show will become the head chef at Savoy Hotel in London, England.
Chef Ramsay has made a series of video lessons to show them how to cook dishes. The first lesson is lobster risotto (shocker). Throughout the night, the alarms keep ringing and ringing and ringing, each one bringing a new lesson. This is like something you’d see on Big Brother.
The women have received their punishment: cooking breakfast in bed for the guys while they continue to sleep.
Scott is emerging as the leader of the men, or at least the strongest talker.
Stacey’s on the fish station. First, she forgets the seasoning. Then she puts too much. To make matters worse, her scallops are raw.
Salvatore is burning everything. He’ll switch over to salad. Can’t burn that.
Fran’s potatoes are under/over/incorrectly cooked. Then she zones out and fails to respond to Ramsay. Also, she’s afraid of the grease.
Benjamin is asked to taste the food. He does so. Rather than tossing his spoon in the water, he tastes the food and then puts his spoon right back in it.
Back to Fran. Crab in the lobster risotto.
Jamie’s first entree is cold. Maria finds this all quite funny. After that, Maria, Jamie, and Fran are thrown out of the kitchen. Nilka is pulled back into the kitchen. As Fran flips out, Maria continues to have uncontrollable laughter.
With Ramsay yelling for the halibut, Scott says it’s good to go. Mikey thinks it needs a minute. It does. Scott then tells him to make sure it’s cooked next time.
Benjamin is cooking the risotto without rice. That’s not gonna work. Eventually, he and Salvatore are kicked out.
Stacey hasn’t been on the line for a really long time. She’s not sure how long her food is going to take. That said, she can take a hike, too.
Mikey’s next attempt at halibut is also raw. He can join the others in the dorm.
Seeing as he’s thrown half the people out, those who remain can now join together to complete the service. Ed takes the leadership role of the combined teams.
Those who remain manage to complete the first dinner service, a show first. Ramsay’s still not ready to celebrate, and he will still decide on a losing team. The women have lost because they sucked, and they must come to a consensus on which two should be put up for elimination.
Nilka suggests Maria. Autumn would nominate Fran and Stacey. Fran says that Autumn just stood there watching everybody.
The first nominee is Stacey; the second nominee is Fran.
Fran should stay because she’s not the worst. Stacey admits she’s a screw up, but she has nowhere to go but up.
The person leaving Hell’s Kitchen is Stacey. Was she really the worst?
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 2, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox.