Episode 2: Burger All

## Individual Challenge

Following on from the previous episode the twenty chefs rush into their kitchens to prepare their burgers, Jazz is confident that her unique take on a burger will earn her the punishment pass as are Vince and Steve, Chloe is eager to make up for her signature dish by keeping her burger traditional.

In the Red Kitchen Jazz explains to Chef Christina that she went on a three month long foodie trip to Morocco the year before and is planning to bring those flavors to her Lamb Burger, Chloe was seen having problems with her pan and stove-top which lead Zoey to question what kind of steakhouse she works at in the confessional whilst Kimmie is hoping to hit another home run with a vegetarian burger.

In the Blue Team Vince is cocky that his Italian Sausage style burger will win him the day whilst Steve is hard at work making the components for his BBQ Pork Burger, Vince isn't worried, feeling that his years of experience over Steve will be enough to defeat him.

## Punishment Pass

The Red Team's burgers were tasted first with Jazz's Moroccan Lamb Burger being deemed absolutely delicious. Kimmie's is the only burger that comes close to Jazz's but isn't enough to dethrone the Aussie's efforts and when Chloe's burger is found to contain raw burger meat and soggy buns the punishment pass is awarded to Jazz without hesitation, much to Harper's annoyance as she felt her burger was a much better effort than Chloe's and would've given Jazz's burger a run for it's money.

The men's burgers are tasted next, whilst Vince's burger was deemed delicious it ultimately wasn't enough to stay in the running when put up against Steve's burger, Kenny's Southern Fried Chicken Burger just missed the mark awarding Steve the punishment pass! Jazz declared that she planned to hold onto hers for as long as possible whilst Steve planned to use his strategically.

## Before Service

After the challenge both teams returned to the dorm to go over the menu one last time, after another attempt at reaching out to Chloe failed Jamie talked to Harper who thought that Chloe wasn't going to last long in the competition based on her two challenge performances so fa, Jamie chose to remain optimistic regarding her chances, remembering what it was like to be a chef in her early twenties, Jazz got into a brief argument with Chloe and Leah who she saw as the two weakest links on the Red Team which was quickly defused with Zara's help.

## Dinner Service

 **Appetizers** | Jazz and Zoey
 **Meat** | Chloe
 **Fish** | Leah and Kayla
 **Garnish** | Jamie and Kimmie
 Dessert

During dinner service a tableside slider would be served by Harper for the Red Team and Troy for the Blue Team, both teams got off to a steady start with Jazz and Zoey getting the Red Team off to a strong start on appetizers, it was a different story in the Blue Kitchen as Vince couldn't get it together on appetizers sanding up cold carbonara and undercooked Risotto, however it was Tyler's badly mangled Lobster Tail that saw both men get kicked out of the kitchen in the end leaving Carlos and Max to get the Blue Team back on track.

In the red kitchen Leah and Kimmie started to fall apart on fish and garnish with them refusing the aid of Kayla and Jamie respectively, however when Leah called Ramsey "old man" after she sent up a raw lobster he promptly kicked her up to the dorms, moving Jazz onto the fish station to help get the team past appetizers, up in the dorms Leah planned to sit out the post service debriefing, figuring it wasn't worth getting yelled at by Ramsey some more.

Thirty minutes into dinner service and both teams had moved onto the entres, despite Chloe's confidence that she would lead the Red Team to a successfull service she had a terrible time on the meat station not once sending up an acceptable order of meat and at once point lying to Jazz about there being a duck breast on order when she offered to help Chloe cook something, in the Blue Kitchen Kenny slowed down the service with a poor performance on garnish but with Carson's help they were able to recover.

## Chloe's elimination

Things came to ahead for Chloe when she sent up two chicken and one pork that were all completely raw, requiring an urgent refire, however when Ramsey caught her taking one of the dirty pans from the fish station he called the Red Team into the pantry to chew her out in front of everyone, but it was the mistake of acting flippant when Chloe was asked about how dangerous her decision was that was the final straw for Ramsey and after going into detail about how much of a disaster she had been since entering Hell's Kitchen Ramsey eliminated Chloe in the middle of service, much to the shock of rest of the Red Team, Chloe was last seen tearfully packing away her things in the dorm before leaving, never getting a chance to say goodbye to Leah in the process.

The Red Team were warned that unless they shaped up someone else would be following Chloe out the door before the end of service, luckily a quick pep talk from Jamie got them back on track and the remaining members of the Red Team were able to complete service.

## Post-mortem

After service Ramsay inquired about Leah's whereabouts and the Red Team confirmed that they didn't know where she was, Ramsey then declared the Red Team the losers of the opening night's service due to the problems on the meat station and instructed them to come up with two nominees for elimination.

The Red Team found Leah in the dorms and informed her about Chloe's elimination, Jamie and Jazz named Leah and Kimmie as their nominees for elimination for their problems on fish and garnish which the rest of the Red Team agreed on.

## Elimination

The Red Team returned to the dining room and Ramsey asked Jazz for their nominees, she named Leah and Kimmie as the Red Team's nominees and after hearing the pleas from both women he eliminated Leah feeling that she had entered the competition far too early in her career and urged her to get more experience, once Leah was gone Ramsey warned Kimmie to step up her game or she'd be gone next.

Chloe's Elimination Comment: *"I can’t believe this is happening! Ever since I started watching this show as a teenager, I had dreamed of winning a season but now that dream is crushed.”*

Leah's Elimination Comment: *“I never thought I’d be eliminated this early! Hell I thought I’d be safe after Chloe got eliminated in the middle of service, but Ramsey was right, I should’ve waited a few more years before I applied for the competition, and now it’s too late.”*

Ramsay comment: *"Before service, Leah promised that she would steer the Red Team to a successful service, unfortunately she sank like the titanic and took Chloe down with her."*