This week, Chef Gordon Ramsay presents the remaining trainee chefs with his signature dish. He then gives them 20 minutes to recreate it. All three contestants are quite intimidated by the task. They rush around the kitchen, searching for the proper ingredients. Keith chooses Chilean sea bass, while Virginia and Heather go for wild striped sea bass.

Fish selected, the cooks try to recreate the puree that accompanies the dish. Keith and Heather start preparing mashed potatoes. However, Virginia, who has spotted Tuscan white beans on a rack in the back, thinks that is the base of the puree. The last seconds tick away and the cooks plate their recreations. Now Ramsay will taste each dish and determine whose mirrors his the most. Ramsay congratulates each dish for being tasty and artfully produced, although only one faithfully recreated Ramsay’s signature dish. Virginia correctly used the striped bass, white bean puree and grapefruit from the original plate and Ramsay therefore compliments her palate. For her reward, Virginia will get to spend time with Ramsay, where he will divulge as many of his secrets and as much information about the intimacy of cooking as possible.

Virginia enters the kitchen for her personal training session. At the same time, Keith and Heather set out to polish all of the glassware and silverware. After showing Virginia some cooking tips, Ramsay moves on and teaches Virginia how to expedite and run the line. His main piece of advice is to scare the chefs, because when you scare them, they remember!

As Heather and Keith set to this week’s punishment they point out that the challenge dish is featured in Ramsay’s cookbook. The very same cookbook Virginia purchased the other day. Keith and Heather vow to not let Virginia win.

Hell’s Kitchen USA 2 is a Granada Entertainment USA Production for ITV2. It airs on Monday 30 October 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM