Hell’s Kitchen Recap: Stunts?

It’s a high-flying, shopping cart pushing and sangria making episode of “Hell’s Kitchen.” Not to mention a soaring Red Team that is hell bent on giving the Blue Team a run for their money.

This episode had this season’s first major outburst. It was Jackie who completely went off on Ashley because she claims Jackie is “two-faced, fake ass bitch with fake ass tits.” This is creeping on “Hell’s Bitches” territory.

On to the day’s challenge. The chefs were sent off to “Fields Market” in what came across as a shop for your ingredients challenge. Instead, each chef had to put a bunch of shopping carts with letters on them to form the words for ingredients. They had ten minutes to spell out the names of each ingredient that every member of each team had to use for the challenge.

The Red managed to spell out halibut, beets, squash, kale, fingerling (potatoes) and wine. The Blue got salmon, chard, parsnip, lemon, rice and fennel. As a bonus, each chef had one minute to go into the market and choose one ingredient that would make their dish stand out.

Each dish was grading on a scale of 1-5 and the team with the best overall score wins. The dishes were pretty well done seeing how everyone except Jackie (two) got below a three and three chefs even got five (Ariel, Ashley and Joe.) The score was tied 22-22 with Ashley getting the tie-breaker. It seems like the Red Team is getting a lot better.

With that, their reward was flying around in stunt planes at “Sky Thrills!” The Blue had to spend the day prepping all the fruit was going into the sangria that was to be served at dinner service. Joe really hated peeling the grapes. He even said, “I’m gonna go burn the first vineyard I see to the *bleep* ground. I don’t care if it’s that Martha bitch’s either.”

At dinner service, things both kitchens had plenty of poor performances.

In the Red, Hassan was sweating into the lobster he was cooking. Ramsay even told him to wear a bandana. Jackie stopped communicating with the rest of her team. This caused Dannie to overcook her NY strip. This miscommunication continued throughout service, causing Jackie to make one and a half portions of fries. That is just amazing for someone who bashes other people’s cooking skills.

In the Blue, Jarred started saying “oui” after Ramsay told him that he had to speak French in his first cooking job. It annoyed the other team members so much that Frank said he would’ve hurt Jarred if he did that in Brooklyn. Joe, who was doing tableside, not only had problems finding his table, but he was slow and got his new jacket dirty. Ramsay told him to go change immediately. Later, Eddie was way behind on garnish, causing overcooked salmon. Eddie has really stopped caring. Speaking of not caring, Chad made pink chicken for VIP Omar Benson Miller from “CSI: Miami.”

At this point in the series, Ramsay expected better performances from both kitchens. Thus, both kitchens had to choose two chefs for elimination. That chose as made by Ariel and Jarred since they were the best chefs that night. Ariel chose Jackie and Kristin and Jarred chose Eddie and Joe. Eddie got eliminated.

After being horrendous, the Red Team has really bounced back. Not to say the Blue Team got worse, it’s just that now both teams are now on equal footing. Now this season is getting interesting since both teams have equally strong and weak chefs.