Episode 6: No Mis-Steak About it

The episode opened with Jazz getting her injured hand looked at by a medic whilst Jamie and Zara looked on, the medic confirmed that Jazz's burn was healing nicely and that she could continue in the competition much to her relief, Zara was relieved that Jazz was going to be okay and the Aussie complemented Zara for her bounce back in both the breakfast challenge and the service, much to her elation, Jamie warned Jazz about trying to power through an injury like that again at which point Jazz sarcastically replied "yes mom".

In the Blue Team the men had a meeting about what to do with Vince since his attitude was only getting worse and the performances weren't getting any better, Troy suggested waiting to see how the next challenge/service turned out which Steve agreed was their best course of action.

## Team Challenge

The next morning Ramsey took the teams to a football field where he announced that the next challenge would test the chef's creativity with Steak and that they'd have to play football to get the ingredients, Jazz admitted that she wasn't much of an athlete in school and that the most she knew about football was the Aussie Rules variant which she doubted anyone else knew much about, Jamie commented that she watch an Aussie Rules Match whilst on vacation to Western Australia a few years ago but didn't understand the rules to which Jazz jokingly replied that it was because she was watching a Western Australian team.

The teams were able to get past the football stage of the challenge without much issue in spite of Jazz's injured hand and they produced exemplary dishes for the most part, all of which were judged by Ramsey, John Shook and Vinny Dotolo, the Blue Team selected Tyson's dish to sit out the challenge due to the difference in team numbers which came back to bite them when Jazz, despite getting an awkward mix of ingredients, managed to get the Red Team off to a strong start with her Beef Carpachio which received rave reviews and easily defeated Vince's pan seared steak which was raw in the middle, Zara and Jamie kept the women's streak going with their hanger steak and fillet mingon dishes defeating the efforts by Carson and Carlos, Kayla underdelivered with her skirt steak though which was beaten by Mike's efforts and Amy's New York Strip dish only tied against Troy's because both dishes had their problems, Kenny's ribeye was likewise easily defeated by Max's dish whilst Harper's dish managed to beat Carlos's, in the final round Steve's beef cheeks dish defeated Zoey's, winning the Blue Team their first reward in several episodes.

## Reward

The men were treated to a night on the town followed by them enjoying a meal at a high end steakhouse, Vince was convinced that there was no way the women were going to beat them at this rate at which point Troy reminded him that Jazz had easily defeated him in the challenge which Vince chalked up to luck.

## Punishment

The Red Team were tasked with cleaning the footballs that were used for the challenge and then preparing the steaks for family steak night, Jazz was visibly annoyed at this point, feeling that the majority of the Red Team weren't pulling their weight in challenges though she still powered through the punishment, admitting to Christina that she was used to prepping steaks anyway since she worked at a steakhouse.

## Before Service

Once the Blue Team returned from reward Ramsey reminded the teams that tonight was family steak night and the families of Ramsey, the sous chefs and Marino would be dining, he also added that Marino was short on staff tonight and required some extra help, producing two suits and calling Jazz and Troy to the front telling the two chefs that they were serving as Assistant Maitre Ds that evening and told them to go get changed, Jazz was annoyed by this as she would rather be cooking but admitted that she used to be a waitress and could draw on that experience during service, Troy on the other hand had never worked in such a capacity but was willing to give it his best shot.

## Dinner Service

 **Appetizers** | Harper
 **Meat** | Kenny
 **Fish** | Zara
 **Garnish** | Zoey
 Dessert
 Assistant Maitre Ds

A table-side Ceasar Salad was being served in the dining room by Jamie from the Red Team and Carlos from the Blue, Zara and Harper got the Red Team off to a strong start on Fish and appetizers respectively, much to Jazz's relief, to the point that Ramsey called Zara into the pantry to complement her on how much she's improved, Vince and Mike in the Blue Team on the other hand had a bad night on those stations resulting in Vince getting kicked out before appetizers were finished.

Things came to ahead in the Red Team however when Kenny completely tanked the Meat Station causing Jazz to grow more and more frustrated and angry in the dining room, made worse by the fact that Jazz took it out on the customers several times, this reached it's nadir for both chefs when Kenny was kicked out for serving raw chicken to Chef Ramsey's wife which especially infuriated Jazz as she was the one who served the chicken to Ramsey's wife, and snapped at Ramsey's daughter when she returned to the table with a steak order for her, these incidents saw both Jazz and Kenny get booted up to the dorms with Christina heading up to personally chew out Jazz for her conduct in the dining room which the Aussie agreed was way out of line.

Both teams went on to finish service inspite of these problems.

## Post-mortem

Ramsey wasted no time in declaring the Red Team the losers and told them to come up with two nominees for elimination, the rest of the women agreed that Kenny should go up for his struggles on meat but Jazz shocked them all by saying that she was putting herself up for elimination without elaborating as to why, only saying that it would become clear soon.

## Elimination

Ramsey asked Jazz to name the Red Team's nominees and she wasted little time in naming herself as the first nominee, much to the shock of the Blue Team, and then announced Kenny as the second nominee.

During Jazz's plea Ramsey revealed why she had put herself up for nomination, shocking the rest of the contestants and accusing Jazz of becoming arrogant and believing that she could get away with anything over the last few services, Jazz gave an impassioned plea to stay in the competition, saying that her conduct in the dining room wasn't a reflection of who she really was and that she couldn't live with herself if she went home on something that had nothing to do with her abilities as a chef, Kenny admitted that serving raw chicken to Ramsey's wife was a horrible mistake but said that he didn't believe that someone with Jazz's attitude was fit to lead a kitchen.

Once he heard both pleas Ramsey called both chefs forward, telling them that one chef was going home and one chef was being moved to the Blue Team, at first it seemed like Jazz's mistake was going to cost the Aussie her place in the competition and she was clearly panicking over it but in the end, Jazz was moved to the Blue Team and Kenny was eliminated.

Kenny's Elimination Quote: *“I just could never find my groove with either team, and that’s what cost me in the end big time, Jazz needs to sort her attitude out if she wants to be a head chef because there’s no way me or my boss in Las Vegas would’ve given her another chance after that, but I guess Ramsey felt that he had more to gain from her.”*

Ramsey's comment: *“Kenny had a blue jacket and then a red jacket, but tonight he ran out of chances and stood no chance at being saved over Jazz, and that’s why she’s in the Blue Team and he has no jacket.”*