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Hell’s Kitchen 4 winner

In June, we revealed the Hell’s Kitchen Season 3 winner to be 30 year old executive chef Rock Harper from Spotsylvania, VA. In tonight’s finale, he came out ahead of 26 year old nanny/personal chef Bonnie Muirhead.

As the winner, Rock is the head chef of a new fine Italian restaurant at Green Valley Ranch Resort in Vegas with a salary of $250,000.

Following improved ratings, Hell’s Kitchen will be returning for season 4 next year. In addition, Chef Ramsay will be starring in Kitchen Nightmares, which will premiere on Wednesday Sept 19 at 9PM EST on Fox.

Welcome to the Hell’s Kitchen 3 episode 4 recap!

Last week was an absolute disaster, neither the Red or Blue team managed to complete a full service as Chef Gordon Ramsay was forced to shut down the kitchen prematurely. Though it wasn’t all bad as the moronic Asian cowboy Aaron went for gold by passing out cold, falling ass-backwards into a cabinet and denting it nearly as much as his own head. After being rushed off to the hospital, Aaron received an extra special phone call from Chef Ramsay, letting him know that he would no longer be allowed back into Hell’s Kitchen! Finally!

Along with Aaron getting booted off the show for “medical reasons” (see also: overwhelming stupidity), Joanna was sent packing for her general suckage.

So now that we’re all refreshed on what happened last week, lets get down to business and see what this weeks Hell’s Kitchen 3 episode 4 has to offer.

Hell’s Kitchen 3
SE03EP04
June 25, 2007

• The Blue and Red teams both return to their dorms to sulk over their crappy performances. Back in the dorm Vinnie starts ragging on Jen for pulling spaghetti from a garbage, and rightly so.
• The contestants enter Hell’s Kitchen for a chat with Ramsay and he announces the challenge, a palette test! I love this challenge!

• The Challenge: Each team member has to taste and correctly identify three kinds of food. Each correct ID earns the team a point.
• Julie goes 2/3 for the Red team, while Brad goes 1/3 fo the Blue team.
• Mellisa goes 1/3 for the Red team, Rock goes 2/3 for the Blue team.
• Bonnie goes 2/3 for the Red team, Josh goes 0/3 for the Blue team.
• Vinnie can’t nail the first item (Seared Tuna) and effectively loses the competition for the Blue team. The Red team wins!

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Welcome to the Hell’s Kitchen 3 episode 3 recap!

Episode 1 of Fox Television’s best show saw my initial pick to win, Tiffany, get the boot, while episode 2 was a little more surprising. The constantly whining and crying retirement home Chef Aaron somehow managed to escape what seemed like certain doom, only for the little guy in the group and one of the shows most promising contestants, Eddie, to get axed.

Hopefully Aaron’s run of luck will all come to an end in tonight’s episode 3 and, judging by the previews and trailers for tonight’s show, it certainly looks like he’ll be the one to go, though I don’t think he’ll get eliminated, I think Chef Gordon Ramsay will give him the boot mid-service. So, enough talking about it, let’s get down to business!

Hell’s Kitchen 3
SE03EP03
June 18, 2007

• Both the Red and Blue teams return to their quarters and Rock has a sit down with Josh and tells him he’s not the leader of the team, as much as he would like to think so sometimes.
• 5:58am – A Navy and Marine officer bust into the contestants quarters and wake everyone up with some crazy bugel playing.
• The guys have to dress Aaron because he’s so useless!

• The Challenge: Both teams enter the kitchen to see Gordon Ramsay, who tells them they will, for the first time ever in Hell’s Kitchen, be serving breakfast! The kicker, they will be serving it to members of the US Army and Navy, so they better do well!
• The Red team cooks for the Army, while the Blue team cooks for the Navy.
• The women get off to a quick start, while the guys are quick to fal behind. Aaron volunteers to do omlettes and proceeds to burn two in a row, having to throw them out.
• 17 minutes into service and the Red team has already sent out 20 dishes, while the Blue team has failed to get a single dish out. Ouch!
• Things are going very well for the Red team until Joanna starts screwing up, sending out salty, raw hashbrowns. Chef Gordon Ramsay pulls all the girls aside, tells them all to get their act together, they’re going down hill and things get worse when Joanna says she’s out of potatoes. Uh oh!
• Julia is stepping it up for the Red team, taking leadership.
• The Blue team was doing okay, but again things start to break down and Aaron continues to screw everything up.
• The Red team finishes up and Chef Gordon Ramsay sends Julia into the Blue kitchen to whip the guys into shape and get things running properly. She nailed it and made the guys look like a bunch of fools.

• The Reward: The Red team gets a special military reward, a helicopter ride.

• The Punishment: The Blue team gets stuck with KP duty, peeling potatoes and onions for an entire military base. Wow, that sucks.
• As the Blue team is getting prepped to start KP duty, Aaron passes out, falls backwards and smashes in one of the aluminum cabinets. Yay! Usless twit!

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Welcome to the Hell’s Kitchen 3 episode 2 recap!

With Chef Gordon Ramsay at the TV shows helm for yet another season, you can bet every episode will be packed with hissy fits, injuries, a screaming British chef and a bunch of whining and crying contestants (yes Aaron, I mean you).

Last weeks season premiere made for a great start to what is gauranteed to be a fantastic season of reality television. There’s just one problem, the Hell’s Kitchen 3 winner has already been revealed! Keep in mind nothing is 100% until the shows season finale airs (even though it has already been taped), but if you don’t want to risk possibly spoiling an awesome TV show, don’t click that link.

Now, enough of the chit-chat, on to the Hell’s Kitchen 3 episode 2 recap, and this time around, I’m going to try a different format to try and tighten things up a bit. Enjoy!

• The show kicks off as both the red and blue teams return to their rooms after Tiffany’s elimination in episode 1.
• Aaron’s pacing around. He’s tired, he hasn’t eaten all day but he’s not hungry. Man do I not like this guy. The very site of him annoys me.
• Both teams are rudely awakened at 5:56am by Chef Gordon Ramsay‘s sous chef’s Mary-Ann and Scott slamming pots and pans together. You know what that means? It’s challenge time baby!
• Both teams slowly filter out of their rooms and are greeted in the dining room by Chef Ramsay. Ramsay gives them a hard time for all the food they wasted and tells them they’re going to be catching their own fish, but now how you might think. Ramsay leads the teams outside to a trailer that opens as guys start throwing fish out to the contestants. Eddie steps up and works hard as Aaron whines and cries even more.
• Ramsay brings both teams into the kitchen, Aaron starts to whine and cry and Ramsay tells him to go back and take a few minutes. What a tool!

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According to the reality TV blog Reality Blurred, an online gambling company may be responsible for leaking the Hell’s Kitchen 3 winner, and after only one episode has made it to air.

As we all know, Hell’s Kitchen is one of the many reality television shows that is NOT filmed live, in fact production on season 3 of the show wrapped up sometime in February. Reality TV shows employ hundreds of staff and most, if not every all of them, already know the identity of the show’s winner before it ever makes it to air. This is just one of many risks television networks like Fox have to accept in order to produce a show of Hell’s Kitchen 3 quality.

***SPOILER ALERT***

According to Reality Blurred, the online gambling company noticed irregular betting patterns involving a specific contestant before the airing of Hell’s Kitchen 3 episode 1. The company originally opened odds on the show with Rock as a 7/1 favorite, by the time the odds had closed for the airing of episode one they had received enough action to drop Rock’s odds as low as 2/1. According to reports, upon further investigation the company found a number of links between employee’s of the Fox TV network itself and a number of betting accounts responsible for driving Rock’s odds down.

It looks to me like someone that worked on the show for Fox decided to try and make a few extra bucks by betting on the Hell’s Kitchen 3 winner before anyone else. Not a bad idea, when you think about it. That is, of course, until you get caught. Obviously the person(s) behind the leak don’t much care for their job, either that or the risk of getting canned was out weighed by the prospect of winning a lowly $350.

In case you haven’t figured it out by what I have written above, I will come right out and say it. The Hell’s Kitchen 3 Winner is Rock! Not that this will keep me from watching the show. Even with the winner revealed, you still never know what’s going to happen through out the season and there is always a chance that the leak is incorrect. It does sound fairly accurate, but you never know.

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D-Day! That’s right folks, the long awaited day is once again upon us. Tonight marked the season premiere of Fox televisions hit reality TV series, Hell’s Kitchen 3!

The television shows third season is gauranteed to be fantastic and I can’t wait to see what it has in store. As usual, British badass Chef Gordon Ramsay has returned to throw 12 would-be super chefs into the fire and, up for grabs this time around, is the head chef position of the new Green Valley Ranch Resort and Spa in Las Vegas! So, without further adieu, I present to you, the Hell’s Kitchen 3 episode 1 recap. Enjoy!

SE03EP01 – June 4, 2007

The show starts off with a quick fireside chat by Chef Gordon Ramsay as he tells everyone how he won’t scream or swear in this season. Ha! Good thing he was kidding. There’s also a quick update on Hell’s Kitchen season 1 winner Michael, executive chef of TaToU in Los Angeles and season 2 winner Heather, head chef of Terra Rossa in Las Vegas.

Welcome to Hell!

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Things are starting to heat up around here! With the fall reality TV lineup all but wrapped up, it is time for the summer TV shows to officially kick into gear and pick up the slack, and you know what that means? Time for Hell’s Kitchen 3 baby!

Hell’s Kitchen has been one of my absolute favorite reality television shows since it’s premiere season and now going into it’s third season, things are looking better than ever. The new season is packed with great chefs, great dishes, amazing rewards, all new twists and, of course, what would the show be without the belligerent rantings of one of Britain’s finest, Chef Gordon Ramsay!

Hell’s Kitchen 3 kicks-off Monday, June 4 at 9/8 central on Fox and will pit 12 aspiring master chefs against one another for the coveted title of Head Chef of the brand new Green Valley Ranch Resort and Spa in Las Vegas! Once again the contestants will be divided into two seperate teams; that’s right folks, we’re in for another exciting round of Girls vs. Guys competition.

Without further adieu, I present to you and yours, the 12 Hell’s Kitchen 3 contestants:

• Red Team (Girls team)
  • Bonnie, 26 of Los Angeles, CA – Nanny/personal chef
  • Jen, 26 of Hazelton, PA – Pastry chef
  • Joanna, 22 of Detroit, MI – Chef’s assistant
  • Julia, 28 of Atlanta, GA – Short-order cook
  • Melissa, 29 of New York, NY – Line cook
  • Tiffany, 27 of Scottsdale, AZ – Kitchen manager
• Blue Team (Guys team)
  • Aaron, 48 of Palos Verdes, CA – Retirement home chef
  • Brad, 25 of Scottsdale, AZ – Sous chef
  • Eddie, 28 of Atlanta, GA – Grill cook
  • Josh, 26 of Miami Beach, FL – Junior sous chef
  • Rock, 30 of Spotsylvania, VA – Executive chef
  • Vinnie, 29 of Milltown, NJ – Night club chef

My initial impression of the new cast is, well… interesting:

Aaron is already doomed to fail. Hell’s Kitchen generally doesn’t go to well for older people and, let’s face it, a retirement home chef? That’s just not going to cut it.

Rock is in for one hell of a difficult time and a whole ton of ass riding compliments of Chef Gordon Ramsay. Judging by the past two seasons of the hit reality TV series, Ramsay is anything but a fan of Executive Chef’s and seems to give them extra special attention.

Julia doesn’t stand a chance either. From the initial episode 1 preview video I’ve seen, anyone that breaks down in tears while trying to do something as simple as fry an egg is doomed.

I have to admit, this season has got me excited and I am really looking forward to the first episode. But, going into Hell’s Kitchen 3 pretty much blind, my initial pick to win it all is 27-year old kitchen manager Tiffany. She’s been in kitchens all her life, she’s got professional training and, judging by the preview videos, she seems to be in the right mindset. You heard it here first folks! Tiffany will win Hell’s Kitchen 3 (maybe), hehe.

Fire up your TiVo’s, stock the fridge with drinks and snacks, and get ready, Hell’s Kitchen 3 kicks-off June 4 at 9/8 central! Don’t miss it.

Stay tuned for more Hell’s Kitchen 3 recaps, spoilers, videos and live blogs. They’re all coming your way on dingoRUE.com!

This post is dedicated to the memory of Hell’s Kichen 2 contstant Rachel Brown who just recently passed away. Our thoughts go out to the friends and family of Rachel in this hard time.

Hell’s Kitchen is the pinnacle of reality TV in my books. It has all the ingredient needed to make a hit reality TV series: challenging competitions, cool rewards and terrible punishments, great competitors, whiners and fighters, loads of drama and, most importantly, an angry, bitter, British host.

It seems like years since I watched the season finale of Hell’s Kitchen 2, where Heather vanquished the evil Virginia to claim the top prize, her very own restaurant, and ever since that faithful moment I’ve yearned for another season of the reality TV series. Well, it would appear that my wait is nearly over! The fantastic people at Fox have decided that they will kick things off early and begin airing new episodes of the Chef Gordon Ramsay hosted Hell’s Kitchen 3 this March! The series usually airs in the summer months, but with the passing of the craptacular series “The O.C.”, Fox had to search for something to fill the spot and Hell’s Kitchen just so happened to fit the bill. That also means that the schedule will be flipped around a little and the hit reality TV series will now be airing on Thursday nights at 9pm EST!

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