Hell’s Kitchen Season 10 Premiere Coverage: A Hot Start

It’s time to reopen the doors to Hell’s Kitchen and say hello to a new batch of contestants and our favorite foul-mouthed British chef.

Let the bleeps and the improperly prepared food fly in a two-night season première.

In this year’s competition, the chefs are competing for a chance to be the head chef at Gordon Ramsey Steak in the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. Now, who wouldn’t want a restaurant in Vegas?

But first, the chefs must prove their commitment to Hell’s Kitchen by shaving their heads because Head Chef Scott did it years ago. Head Chef Andi even did before the show (it’s actually make up). Two volunteers shave their heads before Ramsey puts a stop to it and says to cook their signature dishes.

The two volunteers? Scott’s friends. A cheap way to start Hell’s Kitchen, but it was funny seeing the women’s reaction to having to shave their heads. They looked so scared.

At tasting it went off as usual with the only interesting part being Clemenza coughing up a lung. He looked like he was about to have a heart attack over there.

The highlights were Tiffany’s lamb schnitzel feeling “like a wet diaper” according to Ramsey and Royce revealing he works at STK in South Beach, Hell’s Kitchen one runner-up Ralph’s place.

The Red Team win the first competition. Their prize is a BBQ dinner cooked by former Hell’s Kitchen winners Rock and Dave. The Blue Team must wash dishes.

A slow start, but things heat up at dinner service. Big time.

For the Red Team, Briana barely remembers the entrees because the Red Team spent the night drunk and fooling around instead of reading the menu. Rashni can’t cook a proper scallop which causes her to get thrown out and gets replaced by Barbie. The worst is the Wellington. The dough was horrible and the Red Team needed to re-roll new Wellingtons.

The Blue Team does worse. Far, far worse. Tavon destroyed the scallops in prep to the point they look like they’ve been mangled. And he’s an executive chef! He should know better. He gets thrown out. Royce joins him later after under-cooking spaghetti and saying to the camera how he’s a great cook.

Two hours in and no apps have left the blue kitchen and no entrees have left red kitchen. Ramsey shuts both down declaring the Red Team the winner. This was a first time in Hell’s Kitchen history where a kitchen has not put out any apps.

At elimination the Blue Team puts Tavon and…Don? Yes, Don. The chef who did nothing all night and he’s put up. Ramsey disagrees and calls up Tavon and Royce. Tavon Gets eliminated.

A slow start to a new Hell’s Kitchen but it does get going by dinner service. The Preview for the next episode looks like there will be fisticuffs and the return of Hell’s Bitches. Hopefully there won’t be an Elise Version 2.0 this season.

One was enough.