Hell’s Kitchen Coverage: Bye, Bye Aaron

Indian cuisine is on a completely different level than any other cuisine out there. The “Hell’s Kitchen” chefs take it to a level that no sane Indian chef would dare take it in a new episode.

The episode started with Aaron doubting the grand prize. He said he’d rather earn it than win it. Isn’t winning “Hell’s Kitchen” the same as earning a head chef position?

The next morning Ramsay asked all the chefs, “What is the one place in the world that you’d like to go to?” He called on Bryant and he said Holland. Ramsay’s reaction was “seriously?” Why not? There’s plenty of top notch cuisine there. Continuing on, Ramsay said one of the ethnic foods he fell in love with was Indian. To bring home this point he brought out Bollywood dancers.

For this challenge the chefs had to make four Indian dishes: pork, lamb, chicken and cod. There was a catch though. One chef first had to move ingredients around on a tablet within a three minute time limit. It looked liked one of those square puzzles with one square missing. Anyone who has ever played one of these puzzles knows how frustrating they are. The weirdest one was on the Red was Sterling’s chicken with lentils, chick peas, mustard greens and zucchini.

Once again, a guest judge was on the show. This time it was executive chef/owner of “All Spice” Sachin Chopra. Each dish was graded on a scale of one-five. The team with the most points won. It was back and forth until the end where it was a tie. The tiebreaker was Jennifer’s pork dish because it got the most points (8/10) giving the Red the win. Their prize was a day at “Willow Spa.” They also got “Vitamix” blenders.

The Blue spent the day prepping both kitchens and cleaning up “Hell’s Kitchen’s” exterior. Sade spent the majority of the day complaining.

Dinner service that night may be called an eye opener. Both kitchens had their fair share of problems.

In the Blue Santos and Bryant were called “muppets” by Ramsay because they couldn’t figure out that they had to make one flatbread each. Even muppets can figure that out. Bryant also brought up raw scallops. Aaron overcooked a lobster tail and blamed it on Bryant. He would later bring up two raw halibuts. He would then overcook two salmons and Bryant overcooked cauliflower.

The Red did much better here than last episode. The only problem was with Jennifer arguing with Sterling about one of his flatbreads being too big. Ramsay thought they were perfect. Jennifer had the line of the episode: “Sterling, I love you, but if you *bleep* me on these flatbreads I’m going to throw your ass in that *bleep* pizza oven and make a *bleep* Sterling pizza.”

The losing team was the Blue and they had to choose two. In the dorm things got out of hand when Bryant went all out “Incredible Hulk” on Sade and Aaron. The Blue ended up nominating Aaron and Bryant with Aaron pretty much saying he’s given up and Ramsay saying he’s gone.

Whatever was going through Aaron’s mind made no sense. “Hell’s Kitchen” is one of the best ways to know if you have what it takes to run a kitchen. Well, so long to bad rubbish. He was going home one way or another.