Hell’s Kitchen Rookies VS Veterans Episode 10 Recap

There’s nothing charitable about these chefs. They have poor palates and can’t get food out in time in a new episode of “Hell’s Kitchen: Rookies VS Veterans.”

Don’t forget your white short shorts. 

This episode started with an accordion player playing “La Tarantella Napoletana” in the dining room. The entire dining room was decked out like an Italian café and Marino even came out with a gelato cart and wearing those shorts from the phot two episodes prior. This entire thing was just an elaborate way to introduce the blind taste test challenge. This is the one challenge many “Hell’s Kitchen”fans wait for because it shows off the palate of each chef. This season also had two chefs from each team receive punishment if their teammate got two, three or four wrong. If they get two foods wrong and it’s spaghetti fired from a cannon (yup, that’s a thing,) marinara sauce poured on them if three wrong and then grated cheese if four wrong.

The worst palate this season was Trev who got zero out of four (how do you confuse carrot with banana or lime with mango? Tomatoes taste like peas? When?) The poor chef who ended up looking like a spaghetti dish was Jose. More bad news for Trev. Everyone else answered 2-3 correctly with Mia getting a perfect score. The Blue Destroyed the Red 10-6. While the Blue were spending the day at the spa, the Red had to set up two twelve tops for that night’s dinner service and make gelato by hand. Everyone had a field day with Trev since he was the only one to get zero correct. This is probably his lowest he’s been this entire season. With that, it was dinner service where each team had to cook for a charity.

The Red had to cook for “St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital” and the Blue had to cook for “Waterkeeper Alliance.” This is something viewers are familiar with. Basically, each team had to cook five courses for the charities each chef had to be the leader per course (pan seared scallops were Motto and Mia, branzino was Bret and Ariel, truffle carbonara was Trev and Kanae, veal saltimbocca was Jose and Heather and the tiramisu souffle was a team effort.) If you’re expecting a perfect service since there were two charities in the dining room, look elsewhere. There was nothing charitable about this service.

The Bret and Trev had trouble with the scallops only being cooked on one side. The Red was behind on the branzino. The Blue couldn’t get the portions right for the carbonara and Trev describing how he wanted the carbonara was…interesting, to say the least. The disaster came with the veal. While both teams got the veal out at the same time (the Red were behind on the other three) six portions were returned to the Red for being raw. One or two raw veal is understandable but six is a joke. Jose didn’t cut into any of them to see if they were ready. Sure enough, the Red Team was the worst team this episode and had to choose two people for elimination.

They chose Trev and Jose with Jose getting eliminated. Trev is in deep trouble. For a guy who finished fourth his season, he’s sure doing everything wrong recently. His chances of getting a black jacket are dwindling with each episode. Jose shouldn’t have gotten eliminated, but having six portions of an expensive dish getting returned was stupid on his part.