Hell's Kitchen

[Vodstok]

Okay, i am maybe second behind only Cheeba as the resident foodophile on this site (although barbara is showing herself to be quite the foodie herself), and i watch Food network a disturbing amount, so i was curious about this show.

Seeing the commercials, i thought i was going to be constantly pissed off at Gordon Ramsey, the guy running the show. The commercials show him swearing, throwing away plates of food, and pushing some into people's gests. I assumed i was going to hate him, he looked like a pushy, arrogant asshole.

After watching it, i absolutely love the guy.

Most of the people are either incompetent or arrogant assholes themselves who expected to get bathe din compliments because they are hotshit in the southside of eastbumfucked's greasy spoon.

Gordon is blunt to the pounbt of cruelty, but did not seem to do or say anything uncalled for. I particularly liked it when he called the blonde chicks bimboes and told them to fuck off :)


did anyone else catch this? what did you think?

[Iniquity]

I had forgotten all about the show. In a way I was kinda hoping he would have been an asshole like the commercials showed, but I guess they are going for a sort of "Simon Cowell" of the food industry thing with him.

[Vodstok]

He is much better than Simon. He is very similar, but doesnt seem unnecesarrily cruel. But when he is cruel, he is brutal. Someof the people in the show were either first chef or executive chef at their restauraunt and were over confident. He took them down way more than a peg.

for yone guy:
"You are an exectutive chef?"

(smugly)"Yes"

"Serving that shit?"

(not so smug)"Yes.."

"Unbelieveable. That is fucking awful. Step back"

but, he gives compliment where they are due. one woman made turkey tacos. he said they looked terrible, but tasted great.

[Iniquity]

cool, maybe I'll catch it next week then. I figure if I can struggle through every damn episode of the original Iron Chef, then I can at least give that one a watch.

[ShankS]

ahh I see FOX has brought the Ramsey experience to the States... great viewing, superb knock downs on par with a heavyweight boxers mean fist.

he's had a few other here, 'Boiling Point' in 98, and 'Beyond Boiling Point' in 2000. More recently hes had couple of other programmes, forget the name, where he travels around the Uk visiting resturants and pulls the menus to pieces, not to mention crucifying the managers at every opportunity... great viewing

[ChEEbA]

Yes, I've followed Gordon for some time now, across various shows...You're right Vod, he can be a cunt, but....he gets shit done, and expects quality.
If a person is calling themselves a chef, they may as well come at least somewhere near the standard of the expectation of that title. He's direct, and if these folks can swallow their pride and not get touchy about it, they'd be better for it. He's a restaurant owner/manager/chef, so clearly he knows what he's doing.
It's a high pressure job, so yeah...if you fuck up, you get whipped into shape in the quickest way possible, he's by FAR not the only chef to be this blunt.
Gotta say, I have a great deal of respect for this guy.
Haha, I always figured you'd like him, Vod...

More recently hes had couple of other programmes, forget the name, where he travels around the Uk visiting resturants and pulls the menus to pieces, not to mention crucifying the managers at every opportunity...

I think that would have been something called "restaurant rescue"? It was good...he'd help out restaurants that were having problems for one reason or another, whip their staff into shape, and analyse their menu, to see how well it would go down among the locals eg - The fine dining menu in a fucking little fishing town...hahaha, that was some funny shit....the little "head chef" (yeah, at what was he, 18?) jerk was just trying to show off, and got slapped for it...
So Gordon would hang around, fix everything up a bit, then revisit a month later?
It was a good show, but I'd have liked it to be a little longer term, but it was still an enjoyable watch.

Aside from his television career, if you can get a hold of any of his books or recipes, he's very good.

[ShankS]

Originally posted by ChEEbA
I think that would have been something called "restaurant rescue"? It was good...he'd help out restaurants that were having problems for one reason or another,

just been looking whats on Tv tonight, Ramsay's on, bit of a coincidence....

'Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares' Series in which chef Gordon Ramsay visits struggling restaurants and attempts to transform them in two weeks. In this episode he visits D-Place in Chelmsford, Essex, run by Mexican-born Israel and his English partner Tara
Duration: 60mins

[ChEEbA]

Actually yeah Shanks, now that you mention it, that WAS the one I was describing...guess I had the names mixed up.., my bad.
Entertaining show, but unfortunately they haven't showed it in any kind of continuity here, which sucks.
Good show...

[Vodstok]

Its funny.. It never occured to me that he would have had other shows in other countries. Ive been back inthis country for so long, i forgot that we get everything after everyone else. Even shit we invented.

[crazy raplh]

that chef guy makes me laugh.

[barbra]

I want to be a cast member on this show. I haven't seen it yet, but I read about it on the fox web page. Maybe those cats on the show just can't handle pressure. Are all the women pastry chefs? I wouldn't mind going on survivor either.

[Preacher]

You should see the last series of Hells Kitchen with Gary Rhodes.

Its bollox compared to the first series.

Y'know Ramsey nearly gets slapped in one episode dont ya?

Good TV.

Latas

[Deposable]

Great show! I loved it, I seen the first show and now I can't wait for more.

Its hard to tell if the food is bad just by looking at it. I mean.. I am a horrible cook and know nothing about it. But it seems like he likes being a asshole just because.

Which is fine with me, It keeps me entertained anyway

[ChEEbA]

Well yeah, I have often wondered if it's because the food is BAD, or just not as good as HIS stuff (which admitedly is very good)...although in one case when he was bitching about being given a rotten mussle, I assume he'd know the difference there.
You're right, it does make for some good entertainment, I wish it was still on here.

[ShankS]

Originally posted by Deposable
Great show! I loved it, I seen the first show and now I can't wait for more.

Its hard to tell if the food is bad just by looking at it. I mean.. I am a horrible cook and know nothing about it. But it seems like he likes being a asshole just because.

Which is fine with me, It keeps me entertained anyway

he does seam like an ashole, but for a reason. Virtually every one of his resturants he's opened has achieved Michellin Star status within the first year of opening, and these stars aint dished out willy nilly.

[IDrinkYourBlood]

Speaking of the food network, HOW MANY SHOWS DOES JAMIE ALIVER NEED!!!! and I could shoot Rachel Ray from 40 dollars a day squar in the head.

[Vodstok]

I used to like her, but she has definately changed a lot in the past year.

And as far as Jamie Oliver, he hasnt been on food network inabout 6 months. The naked chef and all of his other shows seem to have disappeared.

[ShankS]

Originally posted by Vodstok


And as far as Jamie Oliver, he hasnt been on food network inabout 6 months. The naked chef and all of his other shows seem to have disappeared.


he's not had a programme here in ages, main reason is this new 'kids school dinners' thing he's got involved with. Our schools have always suffered with poor meal times, and he decided to visit a few and change things around. As all this stuff is associated with local council... and at the top level local government, he's also got himself involved politicaly, and tony blair used him in his election rallying.. Jamies supports the labour party. So I guess designing a new luchtime menu for the entire country has taken up quite a bit of his time.

[ChEEbA]

I saw the show that documented that...seems like a pretty good thing he's doing. Of course he's gonna get mad cred for it too...
Interesting stuff, might take a look at the book too.

[barbra]

of all the television chefs, Jamie Oliver is my favorite, him and mario batali. What was that guys name that use to do the furgal gormet?

[Deposable]

The best cooking show is Iron Chef. That shit is awesome! I love the fact they have original idea's.

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by Deposable
The best cooking show is Iron Chef. That shit is awesome! I love the fact they have original idea's. Same here.

Originally posted by barbra
of all the television chefs, Jamie Oliver is my favorite, him and mario batali. What was that guys name that use to do the furgal gormet?
Jeff Smith. He got in trouble for hitting on underage male helpers on his show. Did you know he was a preist? Im not kidding....

[newb]

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priest.........thats priest Vod.:D

paybacks a bitch

[Vodstok]

I knew it when i typed it. Too lazy to fix it :)


oYu bsatrad :D

[dev!ls advocate]

i loved it, can't wait til its on again,

[Vodstok]

Episode 2 was on last night. Dewberry washed out. I predicted accurately who would end up on the chopping block, because DB and Jeff fucked up huge.


Its funny, the commercials paint gordon to be a thoughtless, egomanaiacal bastard, but so far, i have yet to see him do anything completely out of line.

The part that got my blood boiling was actually the dickhead with the "phd in music education" :rolleyes: ....

Who had a pizza delivered to a restaraunt. i would have fucking killed him. then he starts trying to bump chests with the matre'd. it was beautiful though. some short guy stormed up and said "You. You're gone, out!" and the guy tucked his tail and left. fucking pussy.

A PHD isnt going to slow down a fist, you arrogant dick.

[ShankS]

read in the paper this morning over me cornflakes, an article about Ramsey and the owner of Bonaparte's reasturant, featured in last years series.

in short... apparantly her business went downhill after he'd left and reorganised her menu, customers dwindled and she ended up trying to sell the business, that failed, so she put the premesis up for sale, that failed to. Now she's filing for bankruptcy. There was no info on how bad the business was actually doing before he arrived and changed things around, but I'm quite sceptical it was all to do with what he did and what he changed. I know variations in menus people are used to can be offputting for some customers. Or maybe she had a large clientel of regular customers who liked what she was doing, and Ramseys intervention ruinied it all??

she's now going to write a book of her troubles, and hopes it becomes a tv series about the ups and downs of a reasturant owner... in the hope she claws back some of her lost finances.

[bwind22]

I watched the first 2 episodes. Pretty entertaining stuff! I was a line chef for 4 years and during that time I had one sous chef who made Gordon Ramsey look like a fucking teddy bear. This guy, (he made us call him 'Duke' :rolleyes: What a fag.) was not only verbally and mentally abusive, but physically too. On eof the dishwashers had to pull a knife on him once because he felt so threatened. Another time Duke rolled a full kitchen cart off food at me as hard as he could and I had both hands full of two trays of potatoes. Another time he threw a pumpkin across the kitchen at me and hit me in the back of the shoulder (I wasnt even looking at him.). He was the sort of guy that would be just fine one minute and then something insignificant could happen and it would just absolutely set him off. We believe he was bi-polar and seldom took his medicine.

Anyways, Gordon Ramsey's an excellent chef. He's treating his chefs with much more respect than Duke would and my guess is that he wont even try to physically hurt them at all. If Duke was stuck in the kitchen with people as incompetent as the ones they have on the show, I'm almost positive he would commit the act of murder... Probably on Dewberry.

[Vodstok]

Well, as luck would have it, Dewberry is gone. Im sure on some level he is relieved beyond belief.

Im glad Carrolanne got canned. She started off nice, but it turned out she was a mean lazy bitch.

[dev!ls advocate]

Originally posted by Vodstok
Well, as luck would have it, Dewberry is gone. Im sure on some level he is relieved beyond belief.

Im glad Carrolanne got canned. She started off nice, but it turned out she was a mean lazy bitch.

i second that, but who do you think is going to stand up to the chef next week? i say andrew... and in the preview for next week did someone throw up? 'cause thats what it looked like