HK:NY Episode 3

## Intro

Back in the dorms, Emily and Natalie were talking about each chef’s status in the competition and started by saying they are worried about Rebecca and Pamela and their harsh performances from the stations. Rebecca is aware of this and was spending the night studying on how to improve, which annoyed some of her teammates.

## Team Challenge

Gordon met the chefs right outside of Hell’s Kitchen where a large racetrack field is at. Mike said he had expected a lot of things to come for a challenge and a giant race track was not one of them. Gordon asked the chefs how the day should be started off and all the chefs replied with a breakfast meal. But when Gordon asked which dish was the most pristine and complex dish to nail, the chefs were left confused. Gordon lifted a dome that was in front of him and revealed a plate of Eggs Benedict, which the chefs were relieved to see. Lauren was happy to see that they were making Eggs Benedict because they made the dish hundreds of times. In this challenge, each team will need to perfect seven Eggs Benedict dishes. There will be one runner on each team that will be delivering the dish to each station. One or two chefs will be at each station. The stations consist of making the hollandaise, the poached eggs, the ham, the English muffins, and lastly Gordon at the judging table. Gordon told the chefs who will be at each station and who will be the runner.

 English Muffin
 Ham
 Eggs
 Hollandaise

The challenge started and quickly got off when Natalie brought up their benedict first and ran to the counter through the race track, but was rejected for having too much hollandaise. For the blue team, Taylor brought up the first, second, and third accepted benedicts. However, there was a slowdown when the ham was overcooked and the next few attempts were rejected because of that. The women quickly caught up, even after a little slowdown from Katie when trying to perfectly brown the English muffins, which she called exhausting. The women soon won by narrowing the playing field and beating the men by just a few seconds.

## Reward & Punishment

The reward for the red team got the ladies to experience indoor skydiving. Everyone but Emily was excited for this experience because she has never done that sort of activity in her life and isn’t sure of the dangers. The ladies arrived there and each had a fun time taking turns in the tube. Emily was a bit cautious at first but still had the guts to try it out.

The blue team had the punishment of dish cleaning. The men didn’t think it would be that bad until they got to the dishwashing room where they were confronted by a mountain of dishes and pans from last night's service. Cedric said washing that amount of pans was excessive and annoying. They spent the entire midday washing the pans but got a few laughs in while they worked. Omar said that the team should have taken the punishment seriously instead of goofing around.

## Service

Before service, Gordon called the chefs down and wanted to make sure that this service wouldn’t be a disaster. He’s been expecting a lot from the chefs that haven’t done so well and they should know who they are. He also said one wrong step and said goodbye to your jacket. Brittany said she doesn’t want to hear that come out of Chef Ramsay ever before a service.

 Meat
 Fish
 Garnish
 Tableside

A fried calamari pasta appetizer was being cooked by Natalie and Jacob as tableside. The night started in the red kitchen with an order of two scallops and two carbonara. Lauren had a bit of confusion with Rebecca not speaking up about the times, but was helped by Emily to get it to the pass. Emily was a little exhausted from the fact that Rebecca isn’t responding, while Rebecca said that she needs time to get it through and she'll tell her team when she’s ready. They got another ticket for three orders of the wagyu meatballs. Holly hoped to herself that Pamela could get the meatballs through. She said it was just meatballs and should be extremely easy. However when Pamela brought up one plate of meatballs, Gordon brought it back to show that not only were the meatballs overcooked but were also squashed. Gordon told Pamela that they are making meatballs, not hamburger patties. Brittany was able to bring up the garnish with Lauren and Holly’s new meatballs. Katie said that Pamela shouldn’t be struggling on Service #2. Pamela was a bit embarrassed to hold the team back but wanted to show her strengths.

In the blue kitchen, they started off with a steak tartar and two lobster risottos. The kitchen immediately got off to a bad start when Omar started out by yelling out times for other people on different stations. Gordon told him to cut the B.S. and let people do their thing and Omar do his own thing. Omar was a bit infuriated by this because he wanted to be a leader of the kitchen and not a bystander. Diego could see his attitude and told him to not get that angry over it. Cedric sent up the steak tartar and Seth sent both risottos up but was a bit late because of Franky getting the garnish. They got another order of octopus and scallops. Seth said that working a table that has all fish was a bit tiring because all the pressure would be put on him and Omar. Thankfully both proteins were sent up nicely. However, Mike got his pasta being sent back for being under seasoned which was quickly fixed.

Both teams were quickly out of appetizers and into entrees. Natalie and Jacob rejoined their respective kitchens.

In the red kitchen, their first order of entrees was 2 orders of Lamb and 2 orders of salmon. Emily finally got Rebecca to talk and was able to put up both orders of salmon up perfectly cooked. Gordon thanked Emily for getting Rebecca to speak up. However, Pamela didn’t listen to Holly when she said she was going to bring up one lamb before Holly was done with the other. This confused Holly and forced Gordon to call her out on not having the other lamb. Pamela said in confession that she wanted to make Holly feel exposed because she’s a stronger chef on the team. However, karma returned to her when Holly said she was not told of Pamela bringing the first lamb up. And to rub the salt in the wounds, the lamb Pamela brought up was undercooked. Gordon gave a warning to the chefs that if they don’t pick up the pace, he’ll start throwing people out. The next proteins were sent up perfectly.

In the blue kitchen, they got an order of 3 beef wellingtons and 2 cod. Cedric said he was happy he was able to make the beef wellingtons because he was able to replicate it when he was in culinary school. On the other hand, Taylor was a bit worried about the wellingtons because he said that they were “a pain in the butt” to prepare and cook. Diego was able to help him out. But all of Taylor’s nightmares came to fruition when one of the three wellingtons were raw and cold in the middle. Gordon yelled at Taylor to get that wellington back in the oven. Jacob said he didn’t want this to happen, and he hopes that the meat station can step up. Taylor sent the ticket out with his re-fired wellington. The next ticket was 3 cod and 1 new york strip Mike was able to help Diego and Franky on the garnish for the 3 cod dishes. Omar continued to aggravate his team by running around frantically. Mike mentioned that cooking is an art, not a workout. The new york strip was gladly accepted but 1 cod dish from Seth was sent back for being overcooked. The next cod was accepted after getting Seth to have the cod on less. The next ticket all consisted of 4 filet mignons. This forced Seth and Omar to help Cedric and Taylor on the meat station. They were able to communicate with each other but Gordon ended up calling the blue team into the pantry when 1 filet was under seasoned and precut, but the garnish sent by Franky was soupy. Gordon told the blue team to wake up or get out and left them in the pantry to talk amongst each other. The men were able to psych each other up with confidence and they were able to get back in the kitchen and finish the ticket perfectly.

Back in the red kitchen, they got a ticket for 3 chicken, 1 steak, and 2 cod. Lauren was able to get the team into a better mood by complimenting and communicating with the red team. Gordon saw this and took it into consideration. Katie called out 7 minutes on the garnish for the chicken which immediately confused Ramsay, this forced Katie to redo her times shorter. Brittany wanted this service to go as planned and she said she had a good feeling about the service and hopes Gordon forgets about all the bad mistakes. Thankfully no mistakes were made on that ticket, which prompted Gordon to praise the work. Their last ticket was 2 new york steak and 3 salmon. The women worked hard to try and get everything when the cod went to the pass. After getting the fish after a few minutes, what was confusing was Pamela helping garnish and not Holly on meat. When Gordon called her out she realized that she had meat and completely forgot that they had a second steak. This angered Ramsay and the rest of the team. Gordon called the red team into the back when one steak was overcooked from Holly and what was even worse, Rebecca served undercooked cod. Gordon told the red team to go to the dorms and pick two people for nomination, and finally kicked the red team out. Lauren was pissed that she had a lackluster team on the last ticket.

The blue team quickly finished up their last tickets and sous chefs Daphne and Aaron finished the last ticket for the red team.

## Deliberation

Up in the dorms, the red team was not having a good time losing a second service in a row. They started discussing but had a hard time figuring out who was honestly the worst out of the kitchen. They decided either Pamela for forgetting the steak, Holly for overcooking one of the steaks and not communicating, or Rebecca for undercooked cod and a quiet voice. Brittany said in confession that she was in shock that she is in a team that refuses to talk amongst themselves. In order to be a team, they needed to communicate and that clearly did not happen.

## Elimination

At elimination, Gordon asked Emily for the two nominations from the red team. She first nominated Pamela for forgetting a steak and sending up an undercooked lamb without telling her team, Gordon agreed on this. When asked for the second nominee, Emily thought for a little while but ultimately nominated Holly for also going down a spiral in the meat station as well. Gordon was confused at first but agreed about this. He told Pamela and Holly to step forward. Gordon asked Pamela why she should stay, she said that she wants to prove to him that she is a great chef and a great leader. Gordon said that she forgot a ticket entirely, Pamela said it won’t happen again. Gordon asked Holly why she should stay, She said she slipped up tonight and she had proved that she can cook well in the kitchen. Gordon said that she needs to be more confident in herself if she wants to stay. After a hard decision, Gordon asked Pamela to hand over her jacket due to her lack of experience and inability to drive a station. Pamela said that she was mad that she wasn’t able to show Gordon her strengths and was ultimately disappointed in her performance. Gordon told the red team to wake up or things are going to get messy. He told both teams to get out.

***Gordon’s Comment: “Pamela forgot the ticket that sank her team. I’m sure she’ll never forget herself leaving Hell’s Kitchen.”***