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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.