Back on the tele is one of my favourite shows, Hell’s Kitchen, featuring Gordon Ramsay and a bunch of aspiring chefs. The first episode of the season, Gordon made a disguised and great entrance. After blowing his cover, he made all the contestants cook their signature “crap” according to Ramsay. One dish even made him hurl! Oh the drama!
After criticizing all the signature dishes, what followed was one of the worst services ever for the show. These contestants are all over the place, and so far no one has really shined. Some may argue Louross did well, but he just seems weird to me. Just because he can spoke up, it doesn’t mean he can cook.
I find it hard to believe Gordon can hire one of the contestants to become an executive chef of some big restaurant. Just a couple challenges on this show cannot makeup for the years of essential experience needed to run a major restaurant. Inspiration is only 1% of the way to seriously earning such a high position. I can understand if these contestants were required to have formal training, but because the directors & producers of the show are the ones choosing the contestants, they are only looking for the ones who can spice up the show — not earn the position.
We’ll see how things go this season, but I’ll surely enjoy the bollocking these contestants will receive from Ramsay. I hope he gets to show some more of his personality this series, because he can be quite funny as shown when he was on the Jonathon Ross show.
Some other British notables that I love to watch are: Jimmy Carr, Alan Carr, Sean Lock, Vic Reeves, Stephen Fry, and Jamie Oliver.