Category: hell’s kitchen 8

Although he was on the winning team in Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 7, Salvatore was eliminated.

When they get back, Ben continues to berate Siobhan, who pretty well hates his guts now. She insists she doesn’t care what he thinks. Sure seems to me that she cares.

They head to the restaurant where the French dip sandwich began when a chef screwed up and dropped his food in gravy (I’ll bet that chef did not get yelled at). When they return to Hell’s Kitchen, they are given 30 minutes to create their own unique sandwich.

Because they have one extra person, the red team will need to decide who has the worst sandwich. Ben obviously attacks Siobhan. The others support this decision, and she will step down.

Ed and Ben go first. Ben’s tuna is cooked beautifully. Ed’s sandwich is delicious. Both score a point.

Holli and Jason are next. Holli’s ambitious sandwich worked. Jason’s is nicely seasoned. Both score a point again.

Fran and Jay are the third duo. Fran has made her chicken delicious. Jay’s stands out well. Fran’s soggy bread results in Jay getting the point to take the lead 3-2.

Autumn and Nilka are the last pair. Nilka’s dish is adventurous. Autumn’s presentation is shockingly bad, although she thought it looked fine. That ties it 3-3.

Siobhan’s sandwich will be used as the tiebreaker. Better than Fran’s. Because the red team did not send Siobhan’s dish instead of Fran’s, the blue team wins.

Red team will need to make peanutbutter and jelly from scratch. Blue team will go on a trip to wine country via private jet. Much drunkness ensues.

After the challenge, Siobhan continues to be angry and whine and whine. Ben, meanwhile, continues to insist he made the right decision. He’s become a jackass since he put on that red outfit.

With the blue team hungover, the red team thinks they may finally have a shot at winning a service.

Jason starts off with overcooked scallops, and Jay starts off with raw food.

Fran follows suit, delivering raw risotto as well. At least she’s consistent.

Autumn drops the ball on garnish. She’s in her own little world.

Siobhan’s black scallops are not golden brown. And she’s not even hungover. That said, she can now go into the dining room to eat her mistakes. Ben takes over her station and refuses to let her back in when she returns.

Nilka has delivered raw chicken. If there’s one thing you don’t want to screw up, it’s chicken.

Ed and Jay have delivered raw duck. So the blue team has been thrown out.

Speaking of the red team, Fran is having trouble cooking salad. Her risotto remains no good. They get thrown out, too.

Since both teams were booted, nobody wins. Both teams will need to nominate two people.

Jay nominates Autumn and Ed. Jason agrees. Over on the red team, Ben picks Siobhan, obviously. Nilka picks Siobhan and Fran. Fran nominates Siobhan and Nilka.

The blue team has nominated Autumn and Ed; the red team has nominated Siobhan and Fran again.

It’s safe to say the blue team is safe. The red team, however, is back in the same spot where it was last time, when one of them should have been eliminated instead of Sal. Siobhan can hand over her jacket. Ben got his way after he stole her station, while Fran skates by yet again.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 9, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox.

Scott was eliminated in Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 6 because the women on his team could not stop arguing with each other. Following this elimination, Benjamin was reassigned to the red team.

It’s a 50th anniversary, so the challenge will be to recreate classic dishes served at the wedding 50 long years ago. Jay believes he will take control of the blue team since Ben is now gone. The chicks are not screaming at each other for a change, which they attribute to Ben.

Ed and Nilka are up first. Nilka doesn’t know what Steak Diane is, and it shows. Ed knows what he’s doing and scores the first point.

Autumn and Holli serve up chicken kiev. Autumn and Sal have created chicken meatballs, and Ramsay says he’s got slightly pink balls, which is the result of Sal apparently having not cooked all the food until it was too late. Holli’s dish reminds the couple of what they make at home. It’s tied 1-1.

Jay and Ben are the last duo to go. The wife likes the blue team; the husband likes the red team. Ramsay will break the tie. Red team wins.

For their reward, the red team will be stepping back to the 50s. They make a big deal out of the fact that they won for a change. As for the blue team, they will be transforming the dining room to go along with the occasion. Jay quickly gets tired of Autumn’s talking.

An hour before service, Jay slices his hand. He says he’s fine after the medic looks at him.

Ed and Nilka will be doing the tableside service of the Steak Diane.

Autumn is told her crabcakes are nice. Ben is not so lucky. His are rejected for being too cold. Now that he’s being yelled at, Fran’s not so happy with him any more. His replacements are burned. Nilka wants to help him out, to which he tells her to get the f out of his way.

Salvatore hopes to do everything perfectly so he’s not history. Good luck with that. He says he’s afraid to do anything because he knows he’ll just get yelled at anyway.

Holli’s duck is overcooked, and her chicken is raw.

Like Sal, Fran’s struggling on the garnish station. After she gets screeched at, back to yelling at Sal.

The losing team tonight is the red team based on how difficult it was to get food out. They will need to nominate two people for elimination. Fran nominates Holli and Ben. Ben responds that Fran should go up. Nilka picks Siobhan and Fran because that’s her choice. Siobhan nominates Holli and Fran. Afraid Holli may be in danger, Ben defends her and goes after Siobhan.

Fran is the first nominee because things came out a little slow. Siobhan is nominated in spite of her service because she’s lacking as a cook. Although she’s been nominated so many times, Fran is safe. Siobhan, too, is safe. Salvatore had the worst service. Well, this was completely pointless. Why bother pretending anybody else is gone when you have absolutely no plans to even consider any of them? Sal has been eliminated. Stupid fake drama.

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Maria was sent packing in Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 5.

Nilka has decided she hates everybody, from the bottom of her ass.

The challenge is to create dishes using one of the 5 mother sauces and all 20 ingredients with no repeats. Blue works on a plan together. Nilka is focused on her own dish, for which she hordes all the ingredients she can get her hands on. Autumn is happy to be working on a united team without all that bickering.

Because we haven’t seen enough of his family members so far this season, Ramsay has invited his mother and wife to help judge.

Fran cooked pasta and oysters. Ramsay calls her a smart cookie for taking the risk with that combination. Salvatore has made eggplant and undercooked pasta. Red team gets the first point.

Siobhan has butterfly cornish hen, or at least that’s what she thinks. It’s a pigeon, a bloody one. Not even gonna taste that one. Jay has made duck breast and peas. Bland, undercooked, and crunchy. Nobody gets a point.

Holli makes halibut. Or sea bass as Ramsay calls it. Ed and Autumn cooked sea bass as well. Both dishes are good, but the blue team gets the point.

Nilka cooked steak and mushrooms. First class. Jason made steak and potatoes, also very tasty. Red team takes the lead 2-1.

Benjamin made John Dory. A little dry and a touch too little seasoning. Scott made duck breast on sweet potatoes. Too pink and unseasoned. Blue team ties 2-2.

In order to break the tie, Ramsay highlights Jason’s dish, which shouldn’t have lost the point anyway. This brings the blue team to a win.

Nilka, who had the best dish, has Scott angry. She grabbed all the ingredients everybody else wanted. Not only did that help her shine, but it also screwed over everybody else.

Red team will be cleaning the kitchens. In the process, Siobhan breaks out in hives. Punishment part two is to prep both kitchens.

Blue team will be treated to an English afternoon, which I take to mean tea and crumpets.

Fran says that the red team is so much worse now that Scott’s there. He may not be bringing much to the table in terms of cooking, but at least he’s not having a breakdown like half the chicks on the team.

It’s family night, meaning there will be a children’s menu, and Ramsay will make an effort for the first few seconds not to swear.

Who’s cooking the spaghetti? Red team does not know. Perhaps if Benjamin explains it to Siobhan, she will cook it. Might want to wait until the water is boiling first, though.

The blue kitchen is getting appetizers out to their customers, but it’s not long before Salvatore starts getting yelled at. By lying about the risotto, he’s lost Ramsay’s trust. He had it before?

Nilka gets scolded for cursing in front of the children. Pot, meet kettle.

Fran overcooks her scallops. Maybe Jason can deliver the chicken on the blue team. Maybe not.

Back in the red kitchen, appetizers finally start going out. Now Scott can try to cook the beef. Try being the operative word. He knew they were undercooked but didn’t think they were too undercooked. That’s comforting.

Ramsay gathers the red team for a question. Is that the best roast chicken and the best beef? No, chef. Red team is dismissed. Time to dogpile on Scott. It’s apparently his fault they suck.

With the red team out of the kitchen, the yelling stops, and service is completed.

Red team will need to pick two nominees. Scott says Siobhan and Nilka or Fran. The women will obviously target him.

The first nominee is Scott; the second nominee is Fran. That said, Fran wants Siobhan to be the second nominee. This all leads to continued bickering amongst the team. Fire them all. What chance do any of them really have?

Fran, Scott, and Siobhan step forward. Scott’s finally reached the end of his rope. He may be overly full of himself, but the red team’s downfall is their arguing.

Benjamin, who had hoped to destroy the red team, is now part of it. Good luck, dude.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 7, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox.

With both teams having performed well, Autumn and Scott were spared from elimination in Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 4, although it meant they had to switch to the opposite teams.

Autumn’s happy to be blue, since it means she can get away from those bitches. Scott continues to claim his downfall was helping other people.

Ramsay brings in some pigs. They’re not going to have to butcher them. Rather, on their collars are ingredients. Nilka wants to get bacon, but bacon is too damn fast. She gets stuck with blood sausage. Hopefully that goes well with prunes.

Once that is done, they will work in pairs for 45 minutes to cook three pork dishes. Siobhan doesn’t like Scott because people who offer input suck. Fran and Nilka explode their already difficult to make appealing blood sausage.

Nilka and Fran cooked blood sausage with a prune puree. Nilka’s not pleased with the plate. Ramsay spits it out. Whose idea was prune and sausages? That would be Scott, but to be fair, the items Nilka and Fran were so horrible they deserved to get screwed over. Benjamin and Ed cook pork loin and bok choy. This dish is delicious. They score a point, and Ben offers to make love to his dish.

Jason and Autumn cooked honey glazed bacon with honeyslaw. Nice but too sweet. Ramsay suggests they should have added mustard, which Autumn wanted to do but was shot down. Siobhan and Holli made pork tenderloin with sweet and sour apple and mustard sauce. Cooked perfectly, and the red team ties it 1-1.

Jay and Salvatore cooked pork loin chop and pinto beans. Nice. Maria and Scott made something quite long-winded. Nobody can figure out what Maria is babbling about. Ramsay explains it, and what was wrong with it. The sweet potato soup garnished with a bit of hamhock is not what the task was. The pork was supposed to be the main ingredient. Blue team wins the challenge.

For their punishment, the red team will clean up the pigs. And in case you’re wondering, pigs really don’t like taking baths. The blue team’s reward is a trip to the spa. They find out that Autumn looks better in a bikini than Scott would.

Tonight is the first ever Hell’s Kitchen BBQ.

Nilka starts off frying chicken. The problem is this is not a fast food restaurant. She shouldn’t have fried half the chicken before they even begin.

While the blue team is serving, red team will be cooking. Then they’ll switch around.

Sal says that, if the customer doesn’t like the food, he has no problem bringing it right back. His writing’s not any better than it was last time, which he says is because he didn’t go to school.

There’s plenty of arguing in the kitchen. Nobody wants to listen to anybody. These idiots might consider listening to Ramsay at least.

Fran gets the first compliment of the night, doing a good job on her appetizers.

Autumn follows right where Sal started. Rather than just offering to take food back, she badgers people to do so. She’ll be taking whatever she can get back, just for the sake of screwing over the other team. Siobhan’s burgers are returned undercooked.

Scott’s chicken does not impress. It’s like leftover fast food, which is apparently a bad thing. Then he gets yelled at for leaving the oven door open while cooking.

This time the burgers don’t even get out. Siobhan’s burgers get rejected by Ramsay because they are raw. With that, time’s up.

Blue team heads into the kitchen, as the red team goes out into the serving area. Red team doesn’t even have to try to screw up. It takes 10 minutes for the first ordered to be delivered.

Like Fran, Jay gets compliments for his appetizers.

Sal’s in his own little world. He’s got too many voices in his head.

Maria and Holli both take orders from table 33. Ramsay’s question is why Maria didn’t check whether their orders had already been taken. If I’m a customer, I’d let her know without being checked with. All quite fishy.

Autumn’s ribs are stone cold.

After an hour and a half, all of the diners have received their appetizers. If only they were the ones they asked for. Another screw up by Maria.

Jason has dropped some chicken in with the fries. Sounds like a good idea to me. Not such a good idea to the ranting madman.

The red team loses because it’s almost like they all hate each other. Fran will be responsible for nominating two people. Scott’s pitch is that Maria’s screwed no matter what, but she shouldn’t risk him, too.

Maria is the first nominee. Nilka is the second nominee, and she’s not happy by this surprise. If Fran won’t nominate Scott, Ramsay will.

Nilka can get back in line. Scott’s nomination was merely an attempt at creating drama, as Maria is the person leaving Hell’s Kitchen.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 6, which airs next on Fox.

Despite Fran’s lackluster performance, Jamie was eliminated in Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 3.

Before they head back, Ramsay tells Salvatore to keep fighting. He hasn’t given up on him yet. Neither has Scott.

The challenge starts off with some dice. Each person gets to roll the dice once, and they will be granted ten seconds per choice.

Blue: halibut (Scott), endive (Jason), salsify (Ed), crab (Benjamin), peas (Jay), bacon (Salvatore)
Red: beets (Fran), shallots (Nilka), mango (Autumn), ham (Siobhan), turnips (Maria), duck (Holli)

Autumn wants to help Nilka, who doesn’t want her input, but she’s going to get it anyway. Salvatore is looking to help out… anyone. Scott will have some sympathy for him.

The men have come up with a pan roasted halibut with a bacon, pea, and crab ragu, salisfy puree, and a salad of crab and endive. Good comments, except for the endive.

The women have cooked a mango glazed pan seared duck, pureed turnips with ham, mango, and beets. Looks boring but tastes delicious. Autumn gets credit for putting duck fat in the turnips. Nilka also gets credit for her seared duck, although it has more fat than meat.

Ultimately, the winning team by a fraction, is the men. Had the duck been cooked better, the women would have won.

For their punishment, the women will be cleaning the entrance hall and prepping both kitchens. The men will be going skydiving for their reward. Jason considers this more of a punishment than a reward. They’re not really jumping out of a plane, though, just simulating it.

When the men return from their reward, the women apologize. That’s probably not a good sign. Then Maria breaks down crying.

For the service, there will be chef’s tables in the kitchen.

Scott views himself as the blue team’s mentor. This is coming off as condescending.

Jason cooks his capellini perfectly. Siobhan, however, has put lobster in hers, rather than crab. I’m sure the diners would appreciate that.

Sal has cooked raw fish.

Back to Siobhan. Lobster again. It may say crab, but it looks like it’s probably not.

Salvatore’s called up. He’s pretty sure he’s going to get yelled at again. Nope, snappers cooked perfectly.

Nilka delivers on the meat station. Once again, Sal also delivers on the fish with perfect salmon.

Ed serves up rock hard potatoes.

Autumn doesn’t even get a chance to serve up her fish. Because she doesn’t use a spatula, she drops part of it, enough to be yelled at.

Scott delivers his first filets to the pass. Rare. Feels medium rare to him. Like disagreeing with Ramsay is going to get him anywhere. Then he messes up again. At least Sal’s halibut is good.

On the back of their performances, Salvatore and Nilka can nominate one person each from their teams. Nilka would be happy to get rid of “the princess” Autumn, so basically it’s about a personality clash rather than anything food based. Siobhan realizes she should be afraid as well, though. Salvatore goes to talk to his friend Scott, who made some big mistakes. Scott’s excuse: he’s too busy trying to lend a helping hand to pay attention to what he’s doing.

Nilka has nominated Autumn; Salvatore has nominated Scott. Ramsay calls Autumn soulless. Well then. Scott says his new plan is to screw everybody else over and just focus on himself instead. Both of them can take their jackets off. Autumn joins the blue team. Scott joins the red team.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 5, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox.

Three people were nominated in Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 2. None of them went home. Ramsay instead decided he’d had enough of Mikey. Leading up to that, Andrew decided he had enough of Ramsay (can’t imagine why), so he quit the show.

Benjamin’s mad that Jason didn’t go home. Jason rants about not doing this where he’s from. Apparently, where he’s from, they swear a lot and threaten to break chairs.

Today the kitchen is open for lunch, with simple foods like burgers and fries. Their guests will be the USC Trojans marching band and cheerleaders.

Autumn and Fran are getting their salads out. Jason is handling the salad on his own over in the blue kitchen. Too bad he’s not delivering.

Jamie’s on the burgers. She’s got this. Only not really. Maria insists on driving the bus. Speaking of burgers, Scott has served up a raw one.

Give these cheerpeople some food so we don’t have to listen to them chanting already. After a while, it doesn’t matter because all this yelling in general is getting annoying.

Having finished their lunch service first, the ladies win. For their reward, they will get a day in the sun at the Malibu Beach Inn. Fran thinks she’s a MILF. No chance of that. They get to meet Ramsay’s family. I feel like I’m watching The Apprentice with family members appearing out of the woodworks every episode.

The men’s punishment will be helping to clean up the LA (not Louisiana) river.

Fran burns her hand on some hot water. Not wanting to miss service, she chooses not to tell anybody.

Holli and Salvatore are appointed to the position of assistant maitre d, helping out JP, whose work apparently requires three people on this task. Sal’s writing is not English. It’s not Italian either. Whatever it is, Jean Phillipe decides to take over.

Maria has a secret. She never really did a lot of risotto before. Not a secret any more.

Scott insists on doing appetizers on his own. He tells Ed he doesn’t want to get yelled at for somebody else’s mistake. Good deal. Get yelled at for your own mistake.

Benjamin’s meat is cooked perfectly, but one is coming back. It’s not medium well. The reason: it’s not written on the ticket. After getting screamed at for a while, Salvatore decides he wants to quit, too. Have these people not seen this show before or something? JP tells him not to take it personally. Sounds pretty personal to me. Sal decides to stay, but if his team does badly, he’ll put himself on the chopping block.

Fran also has a steak come back. Her recooked steak is also not good. She doesn’t know what she needs right now, aside from some help.

Jason’s falling behind on the garnish. Scott tries to help him out, but Jason doesn’t want help any more than Scott did.

As Jamie gets yelled at for burning some food, Siobhan seems to find the scene all quite amusing, but she jumps in trying to bail her out. Not only do Siobhan’s efforts not bail out Jamie, but they cause her station to sink as well.

Ben continues to shine on the beef. Fran continues to be a disaster. Eventually, she finally admits she’s got pain in her hand. However, the medics can’t look at it, and Autumn better shut her mouth. Ignoring Fran’s idiotic pleas, Autumn tells Ramsay, and now she will be going to see the medic whether she wants to or not. Looks pretty serious.

The blue team has won, for which they can thank Benjamin. The women will have to nominate two people. Fran’s the obvious target. Maria and Jamie are the other potential targets.

Obviously, Fran is the first nominee. Jamie is the second nominee.

Believing Fran can fight her way back from her losing performance, Ramsay gets rid of Jamie.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 4, which airs next on Fox.

Unable to figure out how long she has to cook food for, Stacey was the first person eliminated in Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 1.

The chefs are awakened at 5 in the morning by a loud alarm. For the team challenge, they will be working in pairs, preparing four different egg dishes in 5 minutes: poached, sunny side up, scrambled, and soft boiled. Siobhan will be on her own because the ladies are one person short. Autumn gets her back and helps make most of her eggs.

Nilka and Maria go first. Their soft boiled egg is perfect. They also score with all their other eggs.

Salvatore and Michael are the second team. Their scrambled egg is stuck to the plate after Salvatore put it back when Scott told him it was runny. His soft boiled egg is hard. Mikey, however, comes through with both of his eggs.

Siobhan goes next. How long does she cook soft boiled eggs? She doesn’t know. Her teammates helped her, and she blames Autumn for pressuring her into making her help her. That’s why she only managed to cook two poached eggs. The poached egg is worth a point at least.

Ed and Jay are next. Ramsay doesn’t even have to taste the poached egg to know it’s perfect. They also score with their soft boiled and sunny side up eggs. That ties the teams at 5 each.

Autumn and Fran are the next team. Autumn’s soft boiled egg is delicious. Fran’s scrambled egg, however, is not good. Nor is their sunny side up egg. Who poached their egg? Siobhan. Well, there goes another point lost.

Scott and Andrew score 3 points to take the 8-6 lead.

Jamie and Holli get all 4 points, including 1 for the best scrambled egg of the morning.

Jason and Ben need 3 points to win. Their first egg is bland. Their second two eggs score. The final egg is good. Men win the challenge.

For their reward, the blue team will be going on a helicopter ride. This presents an opportunity for us to hear more of Salvatore’s accent. I wonder if this guy even knows where Italy is.

As for the ladies, they will have to gut, clean, and filet a huge tuna. While they wait for delivery, Siobhan can go upstairs and cry some more.

Fran and Scott will be working with tuna tartar for the night and serving it tableside.

Salvatore can’t name a dessert. He can leave now.

Autumn has added salt to the water, far too much salt.

After some studying, Sal is back to name a dessert. He gets them all right except for the one in Italian.

Mikey’s rice is undercooked. He disagrees with Ramsay’s outlook on risotto. After 43 minutes, he finally makes it right. So it seems. That is until the customer rejects it and asks for it to be cooked more.

Once again Autumn wants to help Siobhan. This ends about as well as the last time.

Nilka’s lost on the garnish station.

Salvatore’s first wellington is cooked perfectly. Jason’s chicken won’t be coming up any time soon, though.

The women seem to be hitting their stride, but Jamie’s salmon is not up to par.

Over in the blue kitchen, they’ve cooked potato soup. Andrew starts to stand up to Ramsay. Stick it to the man. Not one to allow someone to stand up for themselves, Ramsay tells Andrew to get lost. Since there is not enough room in the kitchen for both Ramsay’s ego and Andrew, he has decided to quit the show.

There will be no winning team tonight. Both teams have to come to a consensus on one person.

Jason’s name is brought up first by the guys. His suggestion is Salvatore. Mikey agrees this, and he’s surprised that nobody noticed he couldn’t cook risotto.

Nilka is the target for the women. Maria wants to get rid of Autumn. Her reason: oversalted water. Really?

The women have nominated Autumn. Jason has been nominated by the men.

Once they step forward, Ramsay asks who the worst cook on the red team is. Not Autumn. What a stupid nomination then. Because Jamie is the worst chef (again the women follow Maria’s lead on this), she is nominated, while Autumn is now safe.

With three people having been nominated, surely that’s enough to choose from. So the person leaving Hell’s Kitchen is… Mikey. He backed his team up two services in a row, and they should have nominated him. At least he’s still got his Hell’s Kitchen tattoo.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 3, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox.

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.