Alec Pool

**Alexander Pool**, known on the show as **Alec**, is a contestant in the fourth season of Hell's Kitchen Luskia. He ranked in 17th place.

## Personality

Alec was a generally arrogant chef, and didn't like admitting to his faults. When being called out, he always responded by either trying to prove himself right or being a smartass. His performances in challenges and services were bad at best, leading to an early elimination. He didn't get along with his teammates.

## Hell's Kitchen Luskia

### Episode 1/2

At the start of the episode, the chefs were shown going in limousines and travelling to Hell's Kitchen. When Jacob asked if they were there yet, Alec asked him what it looked like.

he chefs arrived to hell's Kitchen where Kenneth introduced himself and his staff, then the chefs had to cook their signature dishes. For the signature dish challenge, he faced Astria in the fifth round. His veal chop with broccolini was spat out and criticized for being so overcooked that it was like leather, with Kenneth stating that he didn't think it could even be digested, giving it a 1, before asking him what he was thinking. **Alec** responded by saying that he was thinking that it was a great dish.

The next morning, Kenneth called the chefs down to the kitchen, and told them that someone was going to leave that morning, and that they were each going to be cooking with filet mignons. After time was up, Kenneth asked the chefs to line up, and said that he wouldn't be tasting every single dish; instead, he'd ask the sous chefs to taste them, and they'd pick the three best and the three worst from their respective teams. His dish was selected as one of the worst. He presented his filet glazed in soy sauce and sugar, served with caramelized onions. He said that the flavours didn't make any sense and that **Alec** had burnt everything, deeming it bitter, acrid, and disgusting, and he said that he was a great chef and that it was annoying that Kenneth couldn't see that. Thankfully foe him, Blake's dish was later deemed even worse.

For dinner service, Alec was on the appetizer station with Simon. When Alec sent his salad, it was sopping in dressing. A frustrated **Alec** said that he thought the salad was good, and decided to deliberately send a salad with no dressing to spite Kenneth. He was berated for fucking up cold apps twice in a row, but he argued that it was how Kenneth wanted it, and Kenneth said that there was a big difference between his first salad, his second salad, and a good salad. Adam told **Alec** not to argue, and he went over and made a salad for him, and it was accepted.

The blue team won the service.

### Episode 3

Kenneth met the chefs downstairs, and the chefs saw a dome. Kenneth then lifted the lid off to reveal a rack of lamb, and told the chefs that one basic skill is knowing how to French a rack of lamb. He then gave a demonstration on Frenching a rack of lamb, and Alec cockily declared in a confessional that he didn't even need to pay attention as he'd be able to figure it out himself. When it was time to present his lamb however, it wasn't good enough and didn't score a point. Kenneth later told him that he was on thin ice, to which he argued that he wasn't. The blue team lost the challenge and were punished with cleaning a fountain, but he was shown slacking off, and when Erik said that he had to get involved, and help out, to which he said that he didn't give a fuck.

For dinner service, Alec was on the meat station with Manny. At one point, Alec sent a raw steak, and on second attempt, he overcooked it, so Adam had to bail him out. Alec then gave inconsistent times, and then sent up Manny's chicken which turned out to be raw. The blue team was kicked out of the kitchen. The teams were named joint losers, and Adam was named Best of the Worst on the blue team. Alec tried to say that Jacob should go up for being an idiot wit the risotto, or Ian should go up for throwing a bucket of coins. Adam then said that he was choosing the two people who hurt service the most, and that Jacob was able to bounce back while Ian didn't actually do anything wrong in the service. He was Adam's second nominee for elimination, and for his plea, Alec said that he was trying to figure it out, and said that he thought his raw steaks were perfect and accused Kenneth of finding problems with his food when there was nothing wrong with it, and Kenneth told him to shut it, sending the other three chefs back in line, and told Alec that he had enough of his bullshit, sending him home for his poor attitude.

**Kenneth's comment:** *"During his time on Hell's Kitchen, Alec seemed more concerned about proving me wrong than he did about proving that he deserved to win. Not so smart, Alec."*

## Quotes

"What was I thinking? I was thinking that it was a great dish."

"I really am a great chef, and it's annoying that Kenneth can't see that."

"I don't need to pay attention, I'll be able to figure it out myself."

"Those raw streaks, chef, were perfect, I just feel like you're trying to find problems with my food when there's nothing wrong with it."