Jessica, Ralph and Michael return to the dorms, where they find a chilled bottle of champagne waiting for a celebration of making the final three. Jessica’s confidence is growing, having avoiding the last two eliminations. At 3:22am, the contestants finally drag themselves to bed. Less than thirty minutes later, Michael gets a call from Chef Ramsay. He says there’s an emergency and he needs the chefs in their gear and in the kitchen straight away. Michael tries to rouse Ralph and Jessica, with no luck. Sous Chef Scott finally comes in and barks at them to get ready.
Once in the kitchen, Chef Ramsay has two pieces of news for them. One, they’ll be open for dinner that night, the first time they’ll have two service nights in a row. Two, their baker can’t come through for the service, so they’ll have to bake their own bread. At 5:12am, Ralph and Michael are kneading dough, but Jessica lays down for a quick nap. Seeing that she’s still tipsy, Michael and Ralph send her back to bed. By 8am the bread is done and the chefs are in bed. But two hours of sleep is all they’re going to get. Sous Chef Maryann calls the chefs to the kitchen.

Chef Ramsay is waiting for them with big news. They each have to create a new dish that reflects their cooking and their personalities. The customers will decide which dish they prefer, determining the chefs’ fates. Then it’s time for a new challenge. Soufflés. After Chef Ramsay gives a quick primer on making soufflés, he shows the chefs a tray of ingredients. Fruits. Jams. Chocolates. They now have ten minutes to make the perfect soufflé. Time runs up and Jessica hands over a mint and raspberry number. Ralph used chocolate, hazelnut and mint. And Michael used raspberry and chocolate. Chef Ramsay puts the three soufflés into the oven for fifteen minutes.

Jessica’s comes out looking spongy and, after a taste, Chef Ramsay laughs and pronounces it the worst he’s ever tasted. Chef Ramsay likes the flavor of Ralph’s, but tells him it needed more egg whites to lift the soufflé. And Michael’s needs more sugar. Chef Ramsay declares Ralph the winner, his first challenge win in over a month. For his reward, tonight Ralph will be allowed to choose between beef, chicken or tuna to make his personal dish. Those are the three ingredients for tonight’s service and Ralph gets first choice. Ralph chooses beef, Michael goes with tuna and Jessica is left with chicken.

The chefs get to work on taking stock of the kitchen’s ingredients to plan their dish for the night. Michael and Ralph are pretty certain about what they’re going to make, but Jessica has no idea what to do with her chicken. She decides to pound it out, stuff it with goat cheese and roll it with prosciutto.

After a hard day of work, it’s now 6pm. Chef Ramsay brings the team together to tell them that the diners’ reviews of the main courses and each chef performance in the kitchen tonight will determine who goes home tonight. At 7pm, the first customers begin filing in. Orders start coming in for Ralph’s filet mignon, Michael’s sesame-crusted tuna and Jessica’s stuffed chicken. But the chefs also have to prepare the starters and desserts. What’s more, they have no idea that Chef Ramsay secretly invited each contestant’s family to the restaurant tonight.

Thirty minutes into service, it’s time for the first main courses to go out. The first ticket gets held up when Jessica needs an extra minute to finish her chicken. Actually, she needs two minutes. Ralph puts his main course in a holding pattern. The family tickets come in and Chef Ramsay tell the chef they have VIP orders. One hour into service, the main courses are going out. One table gives the filet and chicken a rave review, but the tuna falls flat. Back in the kitchen, communication is much improved. Each chef is calling out wait times for their dishes. But with dessert orders coming in, Jessica is struggling to do both desserts and chickens.

Meanwhile, the VIP courses are going out. Each table is having one of each entrée, without knowing who prepared what. Jessica is still struggling to finish off desserts, while Michael and Ralph are firing out main courses. Jessica begins falling to pieces as she plates a soufflé. She tells Michael and Ralph that they won’t complete tonight’s service if she doesn’t get some help. Jessica sends two soufflés up to the hot plate, but they look so shabby, Chef Ramsay refuses to send them. Desperate, Jessica begs Michael to take over desserts, and when he can’t, she asks Chef Ramsay for help. Jean Philippe intervenes to calm Jessica down. But she still can’t get it together.

It’s almost 10pm and Chef Ramsay announces that they have three tickets left. Michael and Ralph bang the last entrees out. With all tables served, Ralph’s filet received 42 orders, Jessica’s chicken landed 34, and Michael’s tuna only received 26. With only three tables’ worth of desserts left for the night, Michael and Ralph pitch in on Jessica’s dessert section. Finally, the last soufflé goes out and the evening’s service is completed for the first time. Chef Ramsay pulls the team together and let him know how incredibly proud he is of the work they did tonight, particularly on such little sleep.

After a break, the chefs return to the kitchen to face Chef Ramsay. And he has a surprise for them. Their families. Chef Ramsay then tells the chefs that the families will be determining who had the best dish tonight. Ralph’s family goes first, and all three vote for Michael’s tuna. Jessica’s family is next, and they give one vote to each dish. Lastly is Michael’s family, and they have two votes for filet, one for tuna. The final tally is 5 votes for tuna, 3 for filet and 1 for chicken. And with that, Chef Ramsay tells Jessica that her time in Hell’s Kitchen has come to an end. With encouraging words and a big hug, he sends her on her way.

And then there were two.

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Tonight on Hells Kitchen saw a roller coaster of emotions for mother of six Elsie.

The day got off to a good start when Gordon Ramsey set the contestants challenge. He presented each of them with a tray of leftover food and gave them 15 minutes to come up with a dish which used as much ingredients as possible while still tasting and looking great. While the other three contestants opted for very professional and up market dishes, Elsie in her own usual style went with something that could have came out of her own home kitchen. Traditional Chicken Soup.

Although the other contestants seemed to look down their noses at Elsies creation, it was good enough for Gordon to declare Elsie winner of the task and whisk her off for her prize, a cooking slot on the live national TV show Good Morning America.

While Elsie was gone the other three chefs Michael, Ralph and Jessie huddled together like 3 gossiping housewives and bitched about Elsie all day, the fact that she had been on the winning side of the last 5 consectutive tasks seemed to get under their skin. They and secretly agreed not to carry her in the kitchen that evening. They were true to their word and as cooking got underway Elsie could not rely on any of them for help or advice. Ralph seemed particularly icy as Elsie asked repeatedly where to find an essential ingredient and was blanked by him each time.

Gordon made the evening harder by switching the chefs stations every 30 minutes and Elsie along with the others couldn’t take the pressure. In the end the kitchen was shut down early and Gordon Ramsey declared that either Jessica or Elsie would be leaving that evening.

Not surprisingly it was Elsie, though I thought I saw the start of a tear in Gordons eye. He evicted her in the nicest way he could and stressed how proud he was of her and even told her that her “smile could light up a room”.

The rest of the team were faking some crocodile tears though the joy almost shone through on Ralphs face. They had done their work, they had worked against Elsie all night they stuck together and isolated her in what should have been a closely knit team experience. I just wonder how they will cope next week whe it is one of them that gets left in the cold….watch your back Jessie!

Well tonight we said goodbye to Jimmy in the Hells Kitchen USA. I felt a bit sorry for the big guy as the day started out well with him winning a competition set by Gordon Ramsey but soon went downhill very quickly!

First thing in the morning each of the five remaining contestants were given 5 minutes to prepare a mango flambe and the winner won an afternoon trip with Gordon. Jimmy won with Elsie coming a close second, but when Jimmy got to choose a team mate to join him for the trip he snubbed Elsie by choosing pal Michael. The rest of the contestants were left to thoroughly clean the dining room, needless to say they were not too amused!

Jimmy enjoyed a jaunt in a helicopter followed by champagne and caviar on the rooftop of an LA skyscraper. But the tables were turned that night when Jimmy performed very badly in the kitchen and was chosen by Gordon to leave Hells Kitchen. As he confiscated Jimmy’s jacket, Gordon, for once in a good mood, congratulated Jimmy for getting so far and told him to be proud and hold his head up high. Unexpectedly the eviction thus ended on a high, instaed of the usual barrage of insults thrown by Chef Ramsey!

Obviously this series has already aired in the US, the winner has already been chosen and is presumably now in the midst of running their own successful restaurant.

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It was battle of the teams on tonights Hells Kitchen USA .

Chef Gordon Ramsey decided that Hells Kitchen would be transformed for the evening into a traditional pasta house. There was to be two dinner sittings with one team cooking and one serving tables at each.

First up was the red team in the kitchen. They managed to serve less than half of the overall orders and by the end of the sitting Jessica of the blue team was handing out random starters to the customers who were still waiting for and unlikely to receive their main courses.

In the second sitting the blue team didn’t do any better. This wasn’t helped by the red teams sabotage and dirty tricks. They knew that the most time consuming dish to cook was Lasagne they also knew that the blue team were running low on lasagne ingredients, so they recommended this dish to each table they served. As a result the blue team managed to get out even less dishes and orders than their rivals.

At the end of the night Gordon Ramsay reviewed the customer feedback. Although the red team served more food, the blue team’s dishes were better received by the diners. Customers also rated the red team much lower than the blue for their serving skills, despite the fact that they had one extra team member.

So the decision was easy…….The blue team won. Michael got to nominate two fellow red team members for eviction and chose Elsie and his main competitor Chris (the executive chef). Gordon asked Chris to leave on the basis that he has been boasting about his executive status since arriving at Hells Kitchen and has repeatedly under performed. And so this week on Hells Kitchen USA seven became six, the competition got even more tense as the remaining contestants got one step closer to owning their own restaurant!

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Why is it that every American reality TV show has to have dubbed bits and voiceovers.

This has been especially noticeable in the current series of Hells Kitchen USA. Gordon Ramsay obviously found it necessary to touch up bits of speech that weren’t clear enough first time round, mostly insults I noticed. Its very similar to Big Brother USA when the housemates were made to read and re-read task instructions so the team could get the ‘perfect’ edit.

I can see why this is done, it obviously adds to the drama and impact of the whole programme. But somewhere along the way it looses its rawness and spontaneity, which I would think is the whole point of reality TV surely???

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GQ held its annual awards ceremony in London on Tuesday night and the award for TV personality of the year went to Mr Nasty himself, Simon Cowell.

The Chefs special award went to Hells Kitchens Gordon Ramsay, who incidentally can be watched at the minute on ITV2 in Hells Kitchen USA, which already looks much more interesting than last years UK version!