Episode 203: Do You Have What It Takes?

The chefs identify proteins, while in the dorms a huge fight occurs and someone's downward spiral caused their departure.

## Intro

As the chefs returned to the dorms, Yanny expressed how pissed she was with her team, and wanted to punch all of them. Tara said how angry she was that Yanny was still here, and did not want her to cause any more drama on the red team. Phillip said he was stoked that the blue team kicked the red team's ass, and wanted to do that again next service.

## Challenge

Sous chefs Gage and Ivette woke the chefs up, and told them to meet Vaughan downstairs for the next challenge. Vaughan introduced the Protein Identification Challenge, where they were split into pairs to guess proteins. The blue team were told by Vaughan to go upstairs, while the red team were chosen to go first. The first pair up was Rachel and Tara, and they were asked to guess the protein in the taco. They guessed chicken straight away. Next up was Kennedy and Meerah, and they guessed haddock, then sea bass before finally guessing cod. Next up was AJ and Jennifer, they guessed the lasagna to have kangaroo, followed by ground beef, then pork and finally guessed lamb on their fourth attempt. Last pair for the red team were Nicole and Yanny, Nicole suggested to Yanny that it was rabbit, but she disagreed and went with pork followed by, chicken, beef, turkey and finally guessed rabbit on their fifth attempt. The red team had a total score of 6:07.

The blue team came in to identify the proteins, and the first pair was Declan and Ross, they were asked to identify the burger, and they guessed pork it straight away putting the blue team to a great start. Next pair up was Brent and Spencer, they guessed seabass followed by cod and finally guessed salmon on their third attempt. Next was Harrison and Vincent, they guessed venison followed by ground beef, then they got kangaroo on their third attempt. Harrison said he was dumb and should've gotten kangaroo straight away. The final pair was JP and Phillip, they guessed buffalo and boar followed by lamb, beef, pork and they finally got venison. The blue team got 6:11 giving the red team the win.

## Reward

The red team go to play paintball, with Tara noting paintball was awesome, while Yanny saying she knew the red team would win, and the blue team should be intimidated of her. Yanny got third place, Rachel got second, and Tara got first.

## Punishment

The blue team had to prepare sardines, then they had to drink a sardine smoothie. Brent said it sucked losing, and stated he was about to throw up. JP was seen slacking off during the punishment, which annoyed Declan and he told him to get back to doing the punishment.

## Before Service

The women came back from the reward, and they were super loud. Then the chefs started prep, and Vaughan told both teams to line up and said that both teams must have a good service. The chefs said ''yes chef'' and Vaughan told Aldo to open Hell's Kitchen.

## Service

 **Meat** | Tara and AJ
 **Fish** | Yanny and Meerah
 **Garnish** | Jennifer
 **Tableside** | Nicole

A plate of a raw oyster will be served by Nicole from the red team, and Harrison from the blue team. Vaughan calls out the first order, Phillip sent his lamb to the pass and it gets accepted and Vaughan praised him for his efforts, While JP sends out his garnish but come back for being bland. Brent said in his confessional that JP made mistakes in two services a row, and stated if he fucks up a third time he's out. Meanwhile with the red kitchen, Kennedy sends out her scallops, which come back for being rubbery. Meerah wondered why Kennedy was fucking up, after yesterday's service has been great for her. Meanwhile Yanny's sent out her first order of halibut, but it gets rejected for being raw and it makes Vaughan ask the red team why they were fucking up. Meanwhile in the blue kitchen, JP sent out his refired garnish, but it got rejected for being crunchy, while Vincent sent out his first order of scallops, which got rejected for being raw. Which made Vaughan tell the blue team to wake up. Back with the red kitchen, Kennedy sent out her refired scallops, and it got accepted, while Yanny sent out her halibut, it got rejected for still being raw which forces Vaughan into yelling at her. Back with the blue kitchen, Declan told JP not to send the garnish up as his halibut was not ready, but JP didn't listen and sent the garnish up anyway, but it still got brought back for being still crunchy. Declan said he told JP not to send it up and he didn't listen and expressed how annoying that was. Vaughan had enough of JP and kicked him out of the kitchen, and told Ross to takeover for garnish. JP said Vaughan can kiss his ass, and claimed that he did not deserve to be kicked out Declan sent out the halibut, and it got accepted impressing Vaughan. Back with the red kitchen, Yanny sent out her refired halibut, but still got rejected for being raw. Kennedy then sent out her refired scallops, but were also brought back for being raw which lead into both of them getting kicked out.

Back with the blue kitchen, Vincent sent out his refired scallops which got rejected for being raw, and Vaughan told him to get a grip. Vincent sent out the refired scallops, but were brought back for being still raw and he got kicked out. Vaughan told both teams if they made one more mistake they would be kicked out. Ross sent out his garnish but got brought back for being under seasoned, which lead Vaughan into kicking the blue team out. Meanwhile with the red kitchen, AJ sent out the lamb and it got accepted, along with Jennifer's garnish and Vaughan praised the red team to keep on going, Meerah sent out the salmon but it got brought back for being burned and the red team also got kicked out and Vaughan shut down Hell's Kitchen.

## Post-Mortem

Vaughan lined up both teams, and told them that they were terrible and disastrous. Vaughan named both teams losers and told them to nominate two people for eliminated, then he dismissed both teams.

During deliberation, Ross said JP deserved to go up but JP claimed that he did not deserve to go up, but his team told him to keep his mouth shut. Brent called out Vincent for his poor performance, and Vincent admitted his performance was not great, but claimed that Ross also made some mistakes, but Spencer stated that Vincent made more mistakes than Ross. Meanwhile, Tara called out Yanny for her horrendous attitude and cooking skills, Yanny told Tara to go fuck herself, Tara also called out Kennedy for her performance on appetizers. Kennedy said she knew she was going up, but Yanny said Tara was a bitch, which led to another argument and a huge fight.

## Elimination

Vaughan called that service horrendous, and should be so ashamed of their performances. Spencer announced JP as the first nominee for his performances on garnish, and Vincent as his second for serving raw scallops. Jennifer announced Yanny as the first nominee for her attitude and screwing up on the fish station, and Kennedy as the second for screwing up appetizers. During their pleas, JP said he was passionate and claimed he was the best chef on the blue team, and also claimed the blue team will struggle without him. Vincent said he knew better, and should've not sent out raw scallops and apologized to Vaughan for his mistakes. Yanny said the red team were completely full of shit and claimed she did not deserve to be nominated once again. Kennedy said she felt like she was a great leader, and stated she can bounce back and said she would never make a mistake again. In the end, JP was eliminated for his inconsistency, in challenges and services. During his exit interview JP said it was completely bullshit that he was eliminated, and claimed Vaughan made the biggest mistake.

Vaughan told Kennedy, Vincent and Yanny to get a grip and bounce back or else, Vaughan then dismissed the chefs. After being dismissed, Kennedy said she dodged a huge bullet, and wanted to prove to Vaughan that she did deserve to be in Hell's Kitchen. Yanny said she wanted to kill the red team, and choke all of them for nominating her then she flipped them off. Declan said he did good but said the blue team, needed to step up their game.

Vaughan's comment: ''JP was way too inconsistent in challenges, and in services, instead of just perfect, he was just pathetic.''