Episode 12: How Offal

Following the Cook for Your Life Challenge the teams reunited in the dorms, Zara was trying to keep a cheerful mood but admitted to Jazz that she was bummed because she had a hand in Amy's elimination, explaining that Amy was one of her first friends in the competition, Jazz pointed out that she would've had to go home eventually due to the nature of the competition and whilst Zara agreed, she still said that it sucked.

Jamie was shown to be deep in thought, commenting to Carson that she knew the Black Jackets were getting closer and closer by the day and that she was wondering if she was going to be the only member of the Red Team in the Black Jackets since Zara and Jazz were now in the Blue Team, Carson told her to not worry about it right now as he knew the competition was going to get fierce, whilst worrying about how Zara was going to fare, Jamie pointed out that whilst Zara was a sweet girl, she had seen a lot of improvement over the competition which Carson agreed with.

## Team Challenge

The next morning the teams returned to the dining room where a series of covered dishes which he instructed the chefs to pick one and stand in front of it, Ramsey explained that under each of those dishes was a delicious protein and that the chefs would have to cook with them in the next challenge, as it turned out the theme of the challenge was offal, Zara got Bull Testicles which left her flustered to hell and back when Ramsey told her what she was holding, Jazz got sweetbreads (prompting Zara to sheepishly ask if she could swap with Jazz), Jamie got pigs ears, Troy got a whole halibut head, Max got chicken liver, Carson got beef tongue, Mike got Tripe, Steve got bone marrow (much to both Zara and Jazz's jealousy), Carlos got cow brain and finally Kayla got chicken feet.

The chefs produced good dishes for the most part but it was Zara's dish that won her the day, whilst she was flustered over cooking with testicles (not helped by Jazz teasing her about handling testicles which Zara categorically denied) but her BBQ Beef Testicle slider was deemed delicious and was able to beat Jamie's pigs ears dish.

## Reward

The Blue Team were treated to a trip to a skin haven spa with a makeover included, which somehow made the already beautiful Zara and Jazz look even better, before they were treated to a meal at a high end farm to table restaurant.

## Punishment

The Red Team were tasked with doing trash day and as annoyed as Jamie was about this, she went about her job diligently, before prepping both kitchens for service, Jamie admitted to Christina that she was getting tired of losing services and felt that they needed to turn things around and fast which Christina agreed with.

## Before Service

The chefs returned to Hell's Kitchen and Zara and Jazz got complemented on their looks once they returned, Jamie gave a pep talk to the Red Team pointing out that the Red Team had lost too many services in a row and were seriously behind the Blue Team in terms of numbers.

## Dinner Service

 **Meat** | Kayla
 **Fish** | Jamie
 **Garnish** | Kayla
 Dessert

Because of the low numbers the Red Team had to pull double duty on several stations, and despite her efforts to get the Red Team to up their game as Carson and Kayla turned in bad performances on meat, apps and garnish, whilst Ramsey didn't throw anyone out he did swap Carson and Kayla around which got the Red Team back on track, meanwhile in the Blue Team they worked well again aside from Mike who was running solo on fish and turned in a terrible performance, refusing the help of both Zara and Jazz in the process, this culminated in a halibut being returned to the kitchen after a customer found a parchment paper in the dish but both teams completed service in tact.

## Post-mortem

It was a close call but the Red Team were named the losers of the service for having more problems than the Blue Team, Jamie nominated Carson and Kayla for nomination as she had to bail them both out which they agreed with but vowed to fight.

## Elimination

Ramsey asked a visibly frustrated Jamie for the Red Team's nominees and she named Carson and Kayla for their poor performances that night, both contestants gave their pleas but Ramsey sent them back in line before eliminating Mike from the Blue Team, both for his downward spiral and for sending out the parchment paper.

Mike's elimination statement: *"All it took was one little paper for my dream to end and here I am, on my way out despite being on the winning team, they call it Hell's Kitchen for a reason and the chefs that remain in there are stronger people than me! I'm back off to New Orleans and I'm going to work my ass of in the kitchen!"*

Ramsey's elimination comment: *"There once was a cook called Mike, whose chances of winning I didn't like, but when his fish came with a parchment paper I told him to take a hike."*