Episode 2: Hangovers from Hell

## Individual Challenge

As the punishment pass challenge started both teams rushed into the kitchen, Saraya was confident that her Mexican heritage would win her the day whilst Chelsea and Ashley were especially relieved that they, alongside McKenna, were the only women to not get drunk the night before, the Blue Team were a lot more organized in general with Xander, Miles and Tai feeling especially confident.

## Punishment Pass

The decision was left to the teams as to which dishes were to be sent up and Saraya successfully talked the Red Team into sending her tacos up against Ashley and Chelsea's over McKenna's, unfortunately for Saraya this proved to be a bad choice as her taco was deemed the worst dish of the day and was promptly sent back in line, ultimately Chelsea won the Punishment Pass for the women as her prawn ceviche tacos just beat Ashley's vegetarian tacos.

The blue team sent up Xander, Miles and Tai's tacos next and it proved to be a far more successful round with Xander ultimately coming out on top, Xander wasn't sure when he was going to use his pass but said he'd use it wisely whilst Chelsea was just happy to have done well in another challenge.

## Before Service

Before the dinner service started Chelsea and Ashley expressed concerns about how their teammates would perform as they were only just coming down from their hangovers but decided to trust that they knew what they were doing.

## Dinner Service

 **Appetizers** | Chelsea and Ashley
 **Meat** | Saraya and Cora
 **Fish** | McKenna and Ava
 **Garnish** | Sophie and Lisa

A tableside taco dish would be served by Kaylee for the Red Team and Tai for the Blue, the Red Team got off to a strong start on apps thanks to Chelsea and Ashley leading their station and communicating with McKenna and Ava on fish efficiently, the Blue Team on the other hand never got out of the starting gate as Trent proved to be utterly incompetent on the apps even with Xander's help and Grant wasn't much better on the fish station even with Miles and Jake helping him, eventually a burnt risotto got the men kicked out and victory seemed assure for the Red Team.

That is until the Red Team got past apps and Cora and Saraya, due to a mixture of their hangovers and poor communication, ruined any chance the women had at winning service,, eventually Ramsey had enough and kicked everyone out calling it one of the worst opening nights ever, Chelsea and Ashley tried to convince Ramsey to let them stay behind and finish service but Ramsey wasn't having it, ordering them up to the dorms.

## Post-mortem

Both teams were named joint losers that night and where told to come up with two nominees each, the women decided on Cora and Saraya as their nominees whilst the men decided on Trent and Grant.

## Elimination

Trent and Grant were named by Xander whilst Chelsea named Cora and Saraya, the women tried to blame their performances on their hangovers but Ramsey pointed out tat the rest of their team who were drunk were able to work through the hangovers whilst Grant said that he was a fighter and a team player.

Trent sealed his fate as the first boot however, he tried to claim that he was the least experienced chef of the bunch but Ramsey pointed out that Chelsea was both younger and fresh out of culinary school and when Trent tried to save face by performing magic tricks Ramsey made him disappear from the competition.

Trent's elimination comment: *“Coming into this competition I thought my combination of cooking talent and magic tricks would wow Chef Ramsey and blow the other chefs away but it wasn’t to be! Hell’s Kitchen is a dog eat dog environment and the sad part is? I couldn’t make a rottweiler appear to defend me!”*

Ramsey's elimination comment: *“Trent might be a part time magician, but the one trick he couldn’t do was pulling cooking talent out of a hat, and that’s why he Abra Kadabraed himself out of the competition.”*