Episode 14: That's Charity For Ya

Following Carlos's elimination the teams reconvened in the dorms. two things were on everyone's minds following that night's service, the Black Jacket Challenge and who would make the cut, Zara still found it surreal that she was this close to the Black Jackets after almost being an early boot earlier in the season and Jamie took the time to praise her for her growth and how she handled being Best of the Worst having heard about how hard it was from Max, Steve and Jazz were seen talking out on the patio and Steve was ready to put his bad service behind him, Jazz wasn't worried about the next service feeling that they were going to rock it.

## Team Merger

The next morning Ramsey told the remaining chefs that there wasn't going to be a challenge that morning for one reason: it was charity night in Hell's Kitchen and they were hosting two twelve tops to benefit the Make a Wish Foundation but it was coming with two twists, first the number differences meant that for tonight only he was merging the Blue and Red Teams together and that there would be nowhere to hide for anyone who under performed, the other twist was that the competing were in charge of the menu for the first time since Season 12 and that Ramsey would have the final say on the dishes. the chefs returned to the dorms and agreed on two things: that they should keep the menu easy to execute and delicious, with each chef getting a say in what dishes they added.

When the chefs presented their dishes Ramsey was impressed by the effort they had put into the menu though some dishes had problems, Jazz's Arctic Char Dish had too much acidity and needed to be dialed down whilst Zara's blackened catfish dish didn't exactly scream fine dining to Ramsey and was the only one rejected despite tasting delicious, disappointed but undaunted, Zara worked with Jamie and Max to refine the dish and it got accepted the second time around.

## Before Service

The chefs were hard at work prepping their dishes for the two twelve tops, Jazz was confident that she was going to do well in the service whilst Zara planned to treat this like a pop up restaurant that she was doing for charity, albeit a lot more upscale, once the prep wwas done Chef Ramsey welcomed the diners in, informing the chefs that one twelve top would consist of children/teens that were benefiting from the foundation, briefly giving Jazz flashbacks to her time as Assistant Maitre D' in the process.

## Dinner Service

The first few courses, led by Jamie, Max and Troy, went out with few issues but it hit two snags, first Carson couldn't get his New York Strips right at all and refused the aid of the other chefs, delaying the food by half an hour before Ramsey stepped in and told him to get his act together after which they got the dishes out in a timely fashion, the other snag was Zara's course because, despite her experience at hosting charity events, she froze when it came o leading her course causing more delays in the kitchen, thankfully Zara was able to recover and get the food out in a timely fashion allowing the rest of the team to complete the charity night dinner.

## Post-mortem

Ramsey said that it didn't have to be as painful as it was and told the chefs to come up with nominees for elimination, this proved to be an easy task as Zara and Carson's courses caused the most problems.

## Elimination

Jamie announced Zara and Carson as the nominees and Ramsey called them forward, Ramsey pointed out that this should've been in Zara's wheelhouse as she had hosted charity events before and Zara agreed, saying that the pressure got to her and she froze while also pointing out that she was able to recover on her own. Carson admitted his fault in the charity night service but felt that he could recover from this setback.

Ramsey said that this was hard because he had two young, hungry cooks in front of him, he initially announced Zara as his decision before welcoming her to the top seven and eliminating Carson for his failure to recover on his own, Carson took the elimination with grace, giving Zara a congratulatory hug and telling her that she was going to do great things in the industry if she ever decided to go into it full time and then thanked Ramsey for the opportunity before waving the other chefs goodbye.

Once Carson left Ramsey announced that he wasn't done and Zara tensed up, thinking that she was going to be eliminated, then five Black Jackets dropped from the ceiling hanging on coat hangers making the message clear to the remaining chefs, the Black Jacket Challenge was upon then.

Carson's elimination statement: *"Alas, the Car-Meister's time in Hell's Kitchen has come to an end, I have met some wonderful people in my time in Hell's Kitchen and I grew a lot during my time here but in the end, it wasn't enough, Zara's an amazing girl and she is going to be an amazing chef one day and hopefully? I'll be standing right alongside her!"*

Ramsey's elimination comment: *"On charity night it's all about weeding out who can't go all the way, Carson may be a funny guy but in the end no one was laughing with him as he dragged the team and that's why his time in Hell's Kitchen is over."*