r/HellsKitchen

Let’s just lay out all the memorable moments.

- Melinda’s Capellini Caper (cue Heather’s horrific reaction and Tennille’s quote)

- Louie “tending” to his meat and subsequent ejection

- Tiger Woods’s rubber scallops

- Amanda’s salmon blunder (freezing the salmon)

- Joseph almost getting into a fight with Ramsay

- Jim not being able to count to six

- Lovely disappearing for a “water break” for almost an hour

Am I missing anything?

They were tasked with cooking a soft boiled, scrambled and poached and sunny side up eggs in 5 minutes

How the fuck did any of them overcook the soft boiled? It takes 6 minutes to make a soft boiled egg yet a couple of them served 7-8 minute eggs in a 5 minute time cap

So there were some uploads where the entire service was uploaded on YouTube without any music or cuts where we actually can see teams struggling 45 minutes on 3 appetizers. I think Heather's season was uploaded.

Are there any more?

I haven’t met him but I live an hour from where S5 Ben works now and S12 Winner Scott is from My Hometown and I go there about 3 times a week so I probably said hi to him or ate at a restaurant where he was cooking or something and didn’t know it was him

We only seem to see Appatizers and Main courses. But why dont we always see Entrays and deserts? Is there a reason for this? Are they not always on the menu

Every chef on the show needs to present a signature dish, that perfectly describes themselves on a plate. It's the ultimate first impression to our Michelin-star host. So, if you had the great fortune to end up on this show, what would you present to Chef Ramsay, and why?

For me, I'd do a variant of the spaghetti dish I make for myself everytime I start up another watch-through of a randomly-picked season. It's kind of my special night, whenever I can pull it off. Here's the "recipe":

Basic Ingredients:

• ½ pound of angel hair spaghetti

• Boiling water

- Pasta Water Seasonings:

• Salt

• Black pepper

• Garlic salt

• Garlic powder

• Lemon pepper

• Garlic pepper

• Adobo all-purpose seasoning

• Italian seasoning

Sauce ingredients:

• Marinara sauce

• Milk

• Applewood smoked bacon

• Salted butter

Optional toppings:

• Grated parmesan cheese

I'd have to make it fine-dining, by not only making my own pasta and sauce, but also making it into a chicken parm. I'd southern-style fry off two chicken breasts, and sit them on top of the pasta. I'd also have to cut down on the portion size a bit, so it doesn't look like a giant tub of spaghetti and chicken.

For anyone who hasn't watched, I'd highly recommend, it answers alot of questions

What season can you just repeatedly watch even though you know who will win? For me it is season 19, while I can't stand Amber, Cody, Declan, Syann and Mary Lou more than make up for her.

I would love to know some of your HK hot takes and I will try and respond to as many as I can!

Here are some of mine:

Marino is better than JP, I found JP a bit unprofessional for a Maitre D and I thought he was overly snide at times.

I'm not fond of Jason Z from S12. I found him way too over passionate and I didn't like how he used physical intimidation in arguments (especially in his feud with Sandra, I don't blame her for not wanting to help him win).

S12 generally is overrated. Scott and Rochelle are all timers but aside from that, there isn't anyone I find remotely compelling.

Virginia was the rightful S2 runner up (I know this isn't as hot nowadays).

S22 has superceded S6 as the best season (no idea if this is spicy or not).

I prefer the modern seasons to older seasons because of Ramsay becoming more of a mentor.

Holli rightfully won S7 and Jay winning would leave him as easily the most unlikeable winner.

This is my first time watching season 14 and I’m on the first black jacket elimination episode.

I know Megan is really liked within this sub but honestly she comes off as super bitchy to me. In this specific episode I can’t believe that Megan and others are only voting Michelle from “process of elimination” even though she hasn’t done anything wrong.

Just my opinion but I think it’s clear both Nick and Milly did the worst because they both messed up multiple times during the service. Nick is very obvious but at least he can take it and say okay I’m the first one going up. I think Milly not voting for himself is understandable but still cowardly when he knows he did the worst after Nick.

T even mentions prior to them talking that it’s all about last nights dinner now but yet she doesn’t want to vote for Milly either? So it’s all cool to just vote for people based on how much you like them versus actual cooking ability??

Don’t get me wrong I love Hell’s Kitchen and I know it’s more Ramsay’s decision than anyone else’s. But I can’t help but feel bad for Michelle because she hasn’t done anything wrong during service and is just getting ganged up on because the other black jackets like someone else better. It’s not a team game anymore, it’s individual. So why shouldn’t it be based on their performances?

I usually only lurk in this sub but honestly this episode pissed me off so badly I had to make one lol

Edit: I’m sooooo satisfied that Ramsay called them all out on it during the actual elimination. He saw through all of their bullshit and told them just how negatively it reflects on them!! Exactly!! I’m so glad he said he was disappointed in them. Milly you thought you were gonna get away by being likable LOL 🤣

Me personally, I can't urge myself to watch season 17. Just knowing the level of toxicity that season brought, from Elise round 2 to Josh not getting a chance on the red team to Nick getting screwed out of a win, all of that just makes me feel like it's not worth it.