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Costacat
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07-15-2000

Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 12:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
There seem to be some executive chefs cast also (wasn't Scott an executive chef)? I know there are more line cooks than execs, though. I guess maybe it could be the cachet of winning and becoming head chef (if in title only) for one of Ramsey's restaurants. Dunno. I do know that if *I* wanted to become a famous chef, I would head fro Top Chef way before I'd head for Hell's Kitchen. I mean, have we ever really heard much from the winners (or even other contestants) from Hell's Kitchen? The Top Chefs are all opening their own restaurants and doing really great things.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
excellent point costa - if you get some time with Rich Sweeney see if he can comment on Hell's Kitchen!!

Chitchat58
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07-25-2008

Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 4:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chitchat58 a private message Print Post    
Costa thanks for the catch on the wrong name. I did mean Salvatore.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 4:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
I'm sure I'll spend time with Sweeney. My neighbor is friends with him and I'm not gonna go to R Gang till Bobo takes me. Although I may forget to ask him about HK, if he's anything like my neighbor!

Or if we happen to indulge in their drinks. He tweeted this last week: "Habanero-infused tequila + Prickly Pear + Passionfruit lemonade = muy caliente! Oh, and don't forget some tasty cheddar-chive tater tots...and s'mores."

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 6:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
LOL!! Actually he should have tweeted "muy picante!" Caliente refers to physical heat like an oven!

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 6:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
I don't think anyone is gonna give him shizzle for the wrong word! And dang, but that drink does sound evil.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 3:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Bumping this to the top for tonight's comments! I am LOVING the two hour format!

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 3:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
Thanks for the heads up - I tend to forget to check out the Fox network!

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 4:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Gah. Another two hours tonight? Talk about an accelerated season! :-)

Auntiemike
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09-17-2001

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 12:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Auntiemike a private message Print Post    
Our FOX network was having technical difficulties tonight and I missed the show. Anyone care to recap for me and say who was sent home?

Riviere
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09-09-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 2:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Riviere a private message Print Post    
Ramsay fired Salvatore even though his team won.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 4:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
The first hour, what Riviere said. The challenges that first hour were for a couple's 50th anniversary. The girls won and got to go to a 50's restaurant, and boys had to decorate.

The second hour, the boys won the challenge and the girls had to shell peanuts and make homemade peanut butter. Both teams ended up getting kicked out of the kitchen (dinner service wasn't completed). Although the guys got kicked out first, Siobhan was the one who left.

Benjamin is a real nasty piece of work. He was very condescending to Siobhan. She went out with her head held high.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 4:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
I will miss Salvatore's good looks although I am probably glad I didn't have to work with him or eat his food!

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 4:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
DD was so upset with Ben's attitude towards Siobhan - they had a sandwich challenge.. they were awakened early and told they were going to a French place (cant remember what they were told, all I remember for sure was they got dressed in nice outfits ) when they got to the sandwich shop Ramsey laughed at them for getting dressed up.... it was a place that originated the "French Dip" sandwich (in LA one girl said she didnt know LA was known for anything... roflol)

Then the teams had to come up with sandwiches. The red team has 5 players, Blue 4 so Ramsey tells the team to look and each others sandwiches and pick the WORST one. and of course Benjamin made sure Siobhan's was worst and to sit out.

Well Fran's sandwich was soggy and Ramsey wouldnt only touch it. The teams were tied (DD said "duh called that one") so Ramsey calls for Siobhan's sandwich he said IF this is the worst Red team sandwich Red will win, he tastes her ahi tuna sandwich (with other funky stuff) and says, well its not as bad as Fran's Blue team wins!

Which prompted a huge discussion - Siobhan was all over I knew my sandwich was good yada yada...

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 4:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
The Blue team went to a winery (Rutherford?) 4 hours away, but since they were going by jet - tada no time at all!! They had champagne on the jet and drank wine... they showed Autumn being tipsy and silly - Ramsey told her early on to sip the wine, not drink the whole glass.

While the red team shelled peanuts to make peanut butter (silliest challenge ever imho! Some were shelling as if their lives depended on it others were just pretending to shell - looking like they shelled 1 peanut an hour... nothing came of it)

Blue team enters, drunker than skunks (love that saying, as if skunks get drunk!!) and I believe it was Siobhan that encouraged more drinking... I think it was Ed in the hot tub they dared to go naked - and of course he does... (he probably forgot about shrinkage and being on TV and all)

Next day the Blue team is slow to get up their prep time was painful to watch, setting up for doom and gloom.

One wonders why they were taken to an alcohol induced reward in the middle of a comp - except it was a TV show and it made good tv.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 4:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
Jason had some good comments during his confessional times. Autumn stood out on the Blue team as knowing nothing. Fran made some great risotto and some gawd awful risotto - up and down Ramsey yells at her, he yelled at her when it was good, yelled and kicked when it was bad. She went up for elimination each time and Ramsey told her she had footprints there in the carpet.

Holli overcooked the duck, but the chicken was raw. She didnt go up for elim because Ben wants Siobhan out - she has no passion, and its his professional opinion her sandwich was awful, he wouldnt serve it at his restaurant!

Ramsey yelled at Siobhan for allowing Ben to take over her station (she really burned the scallops, so Ramsey made her take them to the dining room and eat them. Then when she returned Ben was cooking scallops, apparently she picked up a pan of his cooked scallops and threw them in the garbage)

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 5:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
The "french" restaurant was Phillipe's.

It was Holli who was encouraging Ed to drink more once the blue team got back. Siobhan joined them in the hot tub, and Ed was dared to drop trou. He did.

Missyb
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07-28-2004

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 7:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Missyb a private message Print Post    
This show has completely lost its appeal to me. The people come across as so unattractive and nasty and Ramsey comes across as a big whiner. His voice when he is in the kitchen is one big whine. I want to plug my ears so now I just turn the TV station.

Carmenv
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04-14-2006

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 9:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Carmenv a private message Print Post    
I actually can't do the back to back one-hour episodes like they have been showing lately.

I can handle the first hour, but after that, I, too, have had enough bleeping and whining and backstabbing...I either go online to find out what happened in the 2nd hour, or watch it later. One hour at a time is about all I can handle!

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 10:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
We record it and watch the two hours separately. I wish they wouldn't do this with reality shows. Far too much at once. I have the same issue with the 2 hour Biggest Loser episodes etc.

Mamabatsy
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08-05-2005

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 1:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamabatsy a private message Print Post    
They need to finish this show up early so they can have GR's next show starting at the end of July.

Konamouse
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 2:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Konamouse a private message Print Post    
I like we can fast forward and get through it in 90 min.


Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 3:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
best point of the show? Ed drunk as a skunk in the hottub. HOT!! He never caught my eye before but Wow, nice body

BUT even tho everyone was hung over, their experience shone thru. My sister worked as a cook, lots of them party hard then work the next day. Hangovers arent that unusual for them

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 3:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
costa and reader were talking about Salvatore and his parents working him in restaurant instead of letting him go to school

I was listening to a radio interview a few weeks back. The topic was that laws are being made (canada?) so that children arent Working in family restaurants. The man speaking was very angry. He was raised as a young child helping out in his family restaurant, he is now carrying on the family tradition by having His Kids working in the restaurants after school.

it sounds like someone reported him since the kids bus the tables and do cleaning while patrons are there to observe.

The reason I bring it up is that Family Tradition is often felt to be of MOre Worth then simply an education. After all, the kids will Never be allowed to do anything OTHER than continue the family business.

In my opinion the brainwashing has to start young. IF these laws change, i can see less kids working like adults in those family restaurants.

Salvatore maybe wanted to be MORE than just a pizza chef. This show proved that education would help him. I hope he continues.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 6:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
Costa - thanks for the facts (my mind is just off!)

Sunshy dh also worked in that environment - he started at age 11 because his dad was in the restaurant business (he was a manager, and moved a bit - dh was always right behind - he had to earn his own money for school supplies, school clothes - and of course for his dates... yes, we've been together since he was 15 - he was lucky that he didnt have to give up his schooling tho since his dad didnt own the restaurants)