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[TWoP Nikita]

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The contestants face another intense challenge.

[strebor]

Don't curse at the sous chefs. Why would any cheftestant think that was all right?

BTW, I don't think the sous chefs need to curse at the cheftestants. Show a good example.

[HappyShroom]

HA. Elise got what she deserved. I was rather confused as to why ANYONE would stand behind a person like that. Hope she gets back tenfold what she's given.

Also, I agree that it was stupid for the kids to curse at Scott and Andi. Don't they know that'll come back to bite them?

I'm also glad Chino went. He seemed to be dragging people down. Maybe now the boys (+ Natalie) will make a comeback.

[Wrong Heaven]

I had weather interference at the end of the episode - am I correct in assuming it was Chino and Elise who went home?

[davidmf]

Elise got the standard Grrr Fakeout - The Person leaving Hells Kitchen is……. Elise....... get back in line

Chino went home

[Wrong Heaven]

Ah, I was hoping he was going to take out a few of the bad seeds tonight. Weren't the results supposed to be shocking as per an earlier commercial? Not so much with Chino!

[Pepper the Cat]

I was so hoping we'd be rid of that bully Elise. But I guess she makes good TV so she'll be around for a while.

[ReesieKitty]

Watching Elise have a go at Chef Mandy was sort of awesome- I was really hoping Chef Mandy would toss her out of the kitchen, but when she did the " I am up here and you are down here, get it?!?" thing with her hands we were all like Go Chef Mandy!

Seriously, Elise is not fooling anyone with her attitude- Chef Grr totally has her number, Chef Mandy is obviously sick of her, and her team showed tonight that her constant scapegoating of Carrie has not hidden the fact that Elise is the common denominator in every altercation, argument and problem that distract from the business of cooking. Carrie is a weak cook, but she can learn and get stronger as they go along (not saying she shouldn't already know what she's doing) but Elise's bad attitude and drama queen megalomania are not ever going to change.

Her whole ' I have no friends in the house, they don't know who they are f***ing with' just showed that she can't learn even from almost being sent home. And she never did have friends- she just thought she had misdirected and intimidated everyone into falling in line with whatever she told them. Good for all of them for not going along with her crap.

Man drama was sort of dull tonight, honestly. Chino's trying to make it look like Natalie was throwing him under the bus was so pathetic and fooled no one, least of all Chef Grrr. Glad to see him go. Monteray seems nice enough but pointless- lol, talking back to Chef Scott!?Really??

[rkthespos]

GR gave red team a break on the challenge round tonight - raw chicken is 10 times worse than anything blue team did, including dropping a piece of the grilled chicken. And it showed in the "punishment" - making chicken stock?? Oh, the horror!

I have to believe GR and producers conferenced with the sous chefs and told them to turn the heat up a notch.

Carrie is next to useless, but no question about it: Elise is just a low-class bitch. If I know that she is associated with any restaurant, anywhere, I will not step through the doors.

I expected Chino would be the one to go - but Elise, the time is coming soon. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

[niklj]

So uh...what crawled up Chef Scott's butt today? He was flipping out on Monterrey when Monterrey was calmly replying back to him until Chef Scott was all "EFF YOU!" Geez louise.

Darn you Gordon for making me believe :( I thought Elise's smug face would finally get off my screen along with Chino, but no...

Has the guy's team ever won the People Magazine challenge?

[Quorwyf]

I was happy to see Elise get called down to the chopping block but disappointed Gordon let her stick around. I guess he has hopes that no one backing her aside from the clueless Manhattan one will make her realize that she needs to change. Clearly she won't, or at least not very fast.

Right now I foresee blue pulling ahead of red, mainly due to the difference in camaraderie. Carrie seemed to not get any support from Gina at any point during the challenge, and Gina didn't hesitate to start every single sentence w/ some type of statement blaming Carrie when she was explaining the problem to Gordon and again when talking to the guests.

OTOH when Tommy and Monterray had problems Tommy stayed positive about their dish and said "We" had a slip-up when presenting, not that Monterray screwed up.

[strebor]

Both the punishment and the prize seemed underwhelming. Go-carting? Come on, Ramsay. You've done a lot better in the past. Plus the making of stock? Bloody hell! That's not punishment. Make them clean gunky stuff.

[dwmarch]

For a moment there I was worried the contestants were going to have to butcher the chickens they caught but thankfully it didn't turn out that way.

I don't like to think this show is staged but that cutting board mishap made me wonder. Yes, let's cut the chicken in such a way that the big sharp knife is as close to our groins as possible.

I'm surprised sous chef Andi didn't go further in smacking Elise down although I think she could tell she wasn't getting through. Plus her arms aren't long enough to indicate how she (Andi) is way up above the ceiling while Elise is somewhere down below the floor. I think sous chef Scott just likes to yell. I don't even remember what Monteray did that was so wrong.

I was worried for Gina for a moment. She's my favorite so far and I'd hate to see her get kicked out for a random mistake made at the wrong time.

I'm glad Chino left with his head held high. He may not have been the most skilled cook in Hell's Kitchen but he was a nice guy. Ramsay actually confirmed something I've suspected for a while- three strikes and you're out.

[Quorwyf]

I don't like to think this show is staged but that cutting board mishap made me wonder. Yes, let's cut the chicken in such a way that the big sharp knife is as close to our groins as possible.

Not that hard for me to believe. There was an incident a few years ago in my area where a guy accidentally stabbed himself in the heart while cooking.

People do dumb things that usually don't end in bodily harm until their luck runs out.

[kiki1234]

Ramsay's fakeout on Elise was one of the best reality show moments ever. I actually laughed at her teary-eyed, lip trembling reaction.

Ah, I was hoping he was going to take out a few of the bad seeds tonight. Weren't the results supposed to be shocking as per an earlier commercial? Not so much with Chino!

I thought the same thing about the shocking results. I should have known though. It's about the 121st shocking elimination that wasn't.

Besides Elise, I'll be glad when Will and Elizabeth are gone. Her eyebrows weird me out and I think he's an asshole.

Tommy reminds me of a biker Jake Gyllenhaal. He might be going soon because he seems too nice for this competition.

[Ginandtonic]

Why do they have to have moronic rewards like go cart racing? What does that add to the show? Nothing. It's just stupid.

[NoPity1066]

I was happy to see Elise get called down to the chopping block but disappointed Gordon let her stick around. I guess he has hopes that no one backing her aside from the clueless Manhattan one will make her realize that she needs to change. Clearly she won't, or at least not very fast.

ITA, Quorwyf - but I saw it coming. Commented to Mr1066 after she was called down that GR was going to call her name and then tell her to get back in line (!, after a dramatic pause, of course), and he sure as sunshine did just that !

They will keep her around for the drama, guaranteed, But, as I've commented before, the "bitch" girl that doesn't want any friends, and the overly aggressive guy that's "in it to win it, no matter what" never, ever, ever wins.

Elise's days are numbered. So, so sad, as she seems like an otherwise lovely person and a very competent cook. She just decided to ramp up the bitchiness factor and thus doomed herself.

Maybe she's hoping for a stint on "Bad Girls" or something ? A little self-promoting Klassy Behavior ?

I dunno. So unnecessary, and such a waste for a hometown girl I was pulling for. Meh.

[binturite]

So uh...what crawled up Chef Scott's butt today? He was flipping out on Monterrey when Monterrey was calmly replying back to him until Chef Scott was all "EFF YOU!" Geez louise

I wouldn't be surprised if what crawled up Ol' Scotty's butt was a "suggestion" from TPTB to rail at somebody (Monterrey specifically or whoever messed up something) just to generate some lame drama for the camera on the men's side.

Because as I watched that exchange, Scott's overlong, over the top tirade came across to me as being 5% about the broked up fish entree and 95% about deliberately trying to get Monterrey to lose his cool and cuss back.

And don't even get me started on the ongoing Carrie vs Elise and Elise vs Everybody nonsense.

Man, I know it's too much too hope for, but I sure wish this show would go back to being mostly about...the food.

Edited by binturite, Jul 27, 2011 @ 1:59 AM.

[General Guy]

God, I hate Elise, but even I have to admit it was worth keeping her around for that hilarious chopping block turn-around. She fully expected everyone to side with her, and the look on her face as almost everybody said she should go (including the girl who hasn't been on the team since a full two episodes) was priceless. Then, when defending herself, she takes a moment to trash talk the other three people nominated, then adds, "I don't want to throw anybody under the bus", and without missing a beat someone else says, "Too late". I still wish she'd just leave, but that was pretty awesome.

[Citroneuse]

I'm happy Chino went since he doesn't seem to be able to cook anything. I'm sure he can cook at his own restaurant where he can go at his own pace, but Hell's Kitchen seemed to be a bit much for him. Kind of odd that he was placing blame on Natalie (?) and saying that she messed him up, since he did horribly in the first two dinner services he was in, and even had trouble taking dinner orders from the customers.

I knew the Red Team was going to win that challenge, but really? Serving raw chicken is waaaaaay worse than anything the Blue Team served up.

Thought it was really cool of Tommy to just say 'we had a mishap with the chicken' instead of blaming only Monterrey. Also liked that Monterrey immediately informed the guys that he was to blame for that. Not usually what happens on this show.

Holy shit though, Elise really needs a reality check. Just because she did well in the previous dinner services means nothing if she fucked up bad enough during the current one. Looking forward to her leaving, but it probably won't be for a while, since the loud mouths seem to last forever on this show. Plus, she seems to be a competent enough chef, so she'll go after all of the flops who can't cook.

The only ones I even like are Tommy, Monterrey, Natalie (?), and shockingly, Carrie. She may be a bad chef, but the women are being really over the top in their hating of her. Meh on Krupa, and I really dislike Paul and Will. They really need to shut up and quit yelling so much in the kitchen. I get that it's frustrating when someone fucks up, but they don't need to be over the top jackasses about it.

[ElectricBoogalo]

Man, Elise does not know how to do anything but blame and yell. She is so busy pointing fingers and talking over people that she doesn't care that she makes no sense whatsoever. Case in point: when Krupa was moving out, Elise tried to play the innocent card and said that she NEVER talked about Krupa and then a split second later said, "All I said about you was _____" and proceeded to admit that she had said stuff about Krupa behind her back. Gawd.

I hate the way this show and MasterChef are edited (there's always a tie so it comes down to the last dish, we cut to commercial, repeat the last 15-30 seconds shown before the commercial, cut back and forth for approximately 437289789542 reaction shots, add the DUN DUN DUN music, and then have Gordon say one thing), but I bet the editors must love that Elise is such an insane illogical manipulative biatch with not a bit of self awareness.

I laughed SO HARD when she said that if Gordon asked all the women, they would all say Carrie should go and then all but one or two of them said they would eliminate Elise. The fact that she had no clue how abrasive and annoying they find her speaks volumes about her complete lack of self awareness. She is so delusional that it wasn't until then that she realized she has no friends in the house?

People who interrupt and talk over other people are one of my pet peeves, so Elise can go any time. As Krupa was finally moving out, Elise just kept yelling, "PERIOD. PERIOD. PERIOD." Yeah, that's a really effective argument with flawless logic. You totally convinced me!

Her attitude sometimes amuses me. First she said that she was going to kick Carrie's ass at go kart racing (which was amusing enough in itself - seriously listen to yourself there, Elise) and that she wasn't going to let her win but when Jamie won, Elise amended that to, "I didn't care who won as long as it wasn't Carrie." Of course losing to both Jamie and Carrie is okay! Third place out of three is great as long as Carrie didn't win. Never mind that Carrie BEAT Elise. Her flawed logic prompted one of Mr. Boogalo's most commonly used quotes when watching reality tv: "That's loser talk."

She tried to take all the credit for the dish she cooked with Elizabeth and got called out on it by Gordon when he said, "You don't like to share, do you?" which said to me that he's on to her. But her oblivious response was to act proud of the fact that she's a selfish liar. And for someone who likes to talk as much shit as she does about the other contestants, she's not that great a cook. She screwed up during the first service (at which time Gordon kicked her off and had Krupa replace her) and then tonight she screwed up the scallops.

Gordon Ramsey shouldn't have to teach you how to cook scallops on HK. This isn't MasterChef. If you come on this show and can't cook scallops and risotto (which are ALWAYS on the menu), you're an idiot. But during Jamie's point system, Elise still somehow thought that she was the only one who did well during the first service and everyone else should get points.

But my bigger issue is that she has such a delusional inflated sense of ego that does not match with her actual cooking skills. She acts like she's the only one who knows how to cook when she has made some big mistakes during dinner service and it's only the fourth episode.

Edited by ElectricBoogalo, Jul 27, 2011 @ 5:43 AM.

[mertensia]

But my bigger issue is that she has such a delusional inflated sense of ego that does not match with her actual cooking skills. She acts like she's the only one who knows how to cook when she has made some big mistakes during dinner service and it's only the fourth episode.

Elise strikes me as one of those kids who always bossed everyone around at recess. "No! I said we're not going to play tag today!" and whose parents always backed her. "My Elise would never hit your Susie! Even if she did your Susie provoked it!"

I knew Chino was a goner; he couldn't adapt to a faster pace.

[ProfCrash]

All Monterray had to say was "Yes Chef, I will leave the fish on the spatula so it will not break apart" and he would have been good. Scott explained three times that the fish fell apart because he was taking it off the spatula to rest and then trying to pick it up with the spatula later. Monterray seemed to not get that the spatula was the problem. As he kept saying he couldn't control the fish falling apart, Scott looked more and more like he was going to beat him with the spatula.

Love Elsie getting called out by her team was beautiful and her response was so predictable.

[jersey guy 87]

Elise's days are numbered. So, so sad, as she seems like an otherwise lovely person and a very competent cook. She just decided to ramp up the bitchiness factor and thus doomed herself.

Other than being an abrasive bitch she's a lovely person? I guess the rubbing everybody the wrong way is just a minor flaw. As for cooking, there's been very little shown of her doing any. Yes, she and her partner had a good chicken dish, but she seems to spend most of the time in the kitchen yelling at everyone else.

Making chicken stock has to be the lamest punishment ever. Although Chino screwing up in the mock dinner service was excellent.

I thought Scott went completely over the top in berating Monterray. Yeah, Monterray wasn't completely owning up to having screwed up, but there was no need to keep beating on him until he reacted. Unless TPTB ordered him to, that is. And Monterray completely owned up to his mistake during the chicken challenge, and Tommy didn't throw him under the bus.

[Resmudge]

The blue team's mock dinner service was the dumbest thing I've ever seen on this show. When they said they were going to use the time to get ready, I thought they meant they were going to go over the menu and make sure they were organized, not that they were going to pretend to stir invisible risotto in an an imaginary pan. And then they got mad when Chino tried to get them to plan for a timing error; I thought that was a lot more useful than everyone else playing make-believe a perfect service.

The highlights of the episode for me were whoever it was that imitated Elise's smug eyebrows-up face followed by an editor cutting to a close-up of Elise making that face, and Gordon's continued reliance on hyperbole with his nonsense about how the winners of the go-kart challenge are going to be breaking "land speed records." Unless go-karts parks have changed a lot since I was a kid, I think the top speed is about 20 mph.

[Chyromaniac]

Making chicken stock has to be the lamest punishment ever. Although Chino screwing up in the mock dinner service was excellent.

Could not believe that Chino was play-acting being a lousy chef during Blue's practice run. "Okay guys, and then I'm going to tell you I forgot something and need two more minutes..." Talk about setting yourself up for failure.

[ProfCrash]

I thought Scott went nuts because Monterray was not understanding why the fish was falling apart even though Scott was telling him why it was falling apart. Monterry was not listening to the instruction and started to get pissed when Scott raised his voice from a normal conversational tone to a slightly annoyed tone. Then Scott went nuts.

[RavensGirl]

I am already thinking the top three will be Krupa, Natalie and Jonathan.

I have a soft spot for Carrie. She does'nt seem like a good cook but she seems like a great girl to hang out with!

I am actually a little afraid for the Red Team now that they have "voted off" Elise. She is going to make all of their lives a living hell and I would not be surprised if she tries to sink them in the kitchen.

It's too bad Heather was'nt the sous chef this season. I would have loved to have seen Elise pull her little attitude on her!

Edited by RavensGirl, Jul 27, 2011 @ 10:22 AM.

[HappyShroom]

She is going to make all of their lives a living hell and I would not be surprised if she tries to sink them in the kitchen.

Totally. And she isn't smart enough to realize that sinking them would reflect poorly on her.

[rkthespos]

Elise strikes me as one of those kids who always bossed everyone around at recess. "No! I said we're not going to play tag today!" and whose parents always backed her. "My Elise would never hit your Susie! Even if she did your Susie provoked it!"

I thought of the following after I posted last night, but Elise reminds me of one of the bratty, entitled, self-centered scumgirls that have been showing up on youtube videos - the NY Subway, MA Denny's and FL Burger King incidents come immediately to mind. In fact, all of last night's upstairs drama looked like it could have been captured by a cell phone cam!

Edited by rkthespos, Jul 27, 2011 @ 10:28 AM.