Chase Farnworth

* First

**Chase Farnworth** was a contestant who competed on season 22 of Hell's Kitchen, he ranked in 15th place.

## Personality

Chase had a likeable personality and at times could crack good jokes. In the kitchen however, he was terribly inconsistent as he tended to be very hit or miss during dinner services and twice cost the team challenge victories due to clumsy mistakes and risks that didn't pay off. Although he tried his best to improve and stay positive, he didn't improve fast enough leading to his early elimination.

He had a short feud with Craig as they both saw each other as weak links.

## Season 22

### Episode 1

Chase arrived at Hell's Kitchen with the other 18 chefs. When Chef Ramsay revealed to head chef position at Hell's Kitchen Lake Tahoe as the prize, he revealed his excitement as he'd love to live in Lake Tahoe due to the beaches and beautiful scenery. During the signature dish challenge he was part of the seventh pairing and went against Olivia he served a poached salmon in a leek beurre blanc. Ramsay said while it looked very plain it tasted delicious and scored the dish as a solid 3. The blue team lost the challenge.

The next day the chefs came downstairs and found the dining room full of tapas menu items. He wondered what was going on and wondered if Ramsay had prepared a special tapas breakfast for them.

### Episode 2

During the tapas challenge, he said he'd never made tapas before but he'd eaten it many times and it can't be that hard as it's just little appetiser dishes. At one point while the chefs were cooking their dishes his flat top set on fire, leading Phil to ask if he was trying to get the blue team killed before they'd even started. What Chase made is unknown as it wasn't picked as either one of the top 3 or bottom 2 dishes.

During dinner service, he was on the appetiser station with Craig. Throughout the night both of them struggled to get the appetisers out. His first attempt at risotto was rejected for resembling baby food, his second attempt would also be rejected for being caked is pepper. Ramsay angrily asked him if he just threw the whole pepper pot in there. After a third unsuccessful attempt and nearly 30 minutes of no food coming out of the blue kitchen Ramsay had had enough kicking both him and Craig out of the kitchen and sending Darwin to take over on the appetiser station.

During elimination he was the second of 3 nominees, the first being Craig and the second being Emil. He survived elimination as Alice was eliminated from the winning red team.

### Episode 3

Following the previous night's service Marcus told him and Craig they were luck Alice existed on the other team and they had to seriously step up their games.

During the omelette grand prix challenge, he struggled throughout to get a single omelette up. His first attempt was rejected for being burned on the bottom, much to the frustration of Stephen. In the end both teams were tied at 9 each, it came down to him and Olivia's second attempts. He turned a corner too hard and the plate with his omelette went crashing to the floor. As a result Olivia was able to get her omelette approved and win the challenge for the red team.

While returning to the dorms before the blue team's punishment. He threw a wet floor sign in frustration and punched the door on the way back in. Phil told him to man up and own his mistake instead of crying about it. During the punishment in spite of being instructed by Sous Chef Jason not to throw away rejected eggs he trashed every one he messed. Chef Jason would catch him in the act and berate him for this.

During dinner service he was on the fish station with Darwin. He was feeling confident and said he was ready to kill the station tonight. His first batch of scallops were rejected for being overcooked, however he bounced back getting attempt accepted. After this he shouted "yes" punching the air, Chef Ramsay told him not to start pissing his pants since it was just the first ticket. He hit his stride and continued to push out perfectly cooked scallops, right up until the last appetiser were he served undercooked scallops. Luckily he once again bounced back and managed to get through entrees without any issues.

The blue team won the service.

### Episode 4

After winning the previous night's service he was seen celebrating in the hot tub with the victorious blue team.

During the soup challenge, the blue team had one extra chef and had to decide whose soup to drop. The blue team immediately pointed to his soup, but he argued that Craig's soup should be drop as it looked gloopy and he was confident his soup would win. This worked in swaying the decision. His soup was last to be judged with the blue team needing 7 points to tie and 8 points to win. He served tomato, bell pepper and green chilli soup. Guest judge Mario Batali asked him what kind of tomatoes he used, to which he answered canned tomatoes, Marcus knew this was a fatal error. Both guest judges expressed their disgust and the dis scored just 3 points. The red team won the challenge.

During the punishment the blue team continued to berate him for using canned tomatoes and being so confident about it. At one point he put a pot and sieve in the sink to strain his stock, but missed completely and poured the stock down the sink, Stephen called him a complete clown. He then started to make chicken stock, but picked up the chicken bones that Joey was using for his stock, causing even more frustration. Joey said working with him was like trying to draw blood from a stone.

During dinner service he was on the meat station with Stephen. His first New York strip was cooked to fuck, he received a verbal warning from Ramsay not to derail the blue team's momentum. His second attempt was once again overcooked and his third attempt was completely raw. Eventually Stephen stepped in to help him get out of the weeds. When it came time to cook the VIP table's entrees he served a completely raw chicken to the blue team's VIP guests. This was the last straw and the blue team was kicked out, the red team won the service.

During elimination he was the blue team's first nominee, with Stephen being the second. During his plea his stated he knows he had a bad night tonight, but he honestly felt Stephen had a worse service than he did, to which the latter said he was full of shit. Ramsay agreed with Stephen and Chase was eliminated for his inconsistency and lack of progress.

## Nomination History

 Week 3
 Week 4

## Post Hell's Kitchen

After his appearance on the show, Chase is currently a line cook at Front Street Brewery in Wilmington, he is also currently writing a cookbook and intends to open a pop-up dining business with his brother.

## Quotes

*(After elimination):* "When one of your idols tells you that you just weren't good enough, it is a bitter pill to swallow. I did what I could but it just wasn't enough. But I'm not gonna let this stop me, I'm just gonna keep building myself up until I eventually reach Ramsay's level."