Isabel Ortiz

**Isabel Ortiz** was a contestant on Googlecorn's Hell's Kitchen Roleplay. She is currently still in the running.

## Personality

Isabel came in with high energy and confidence, as well as a passion to showcase her Peruvian heritage during her time Hell's Kitchen.She is very much well known to speak her native language of Spanish and would oftentimes even speak in Spanglish. In the kitchen, she was known to be a stellar force in challenges, had an amazing palate and showed that she was consistent, could lead and be a jack of all trades during service, even to the extent where she takes over and saves a station. She is generally kind and outgoing, but is not afraid to speak the truth and would sometimes snark during confessionals. She got along well with Mary, Pani and Adrian and had an even closer friendship with Malcolm and Heather, helping the latter to get with the former. However, she has a dislike towards Olivia and Billy due to thier incompetence and attitude, Korekiyo due to his odd personality and Charles due to his massive turnaround in personality, despite initially getting along with him.

## Season 1 (Googlecorn)

### Episode 1

Isabel was one of the first people to hop on the bus and immediately conversed with Malcolm, introducing herself in Spanish and mentioning that her friends call her Izzy. She then admits that she was hoping that Hell’s Kitchen would be the perfect platform to show off her heritage and hoped that both her energy and spirit could convince Chef Ramsay that she was head chef material. Eventually, she met Adrian and they both exchanged information on what their occupations are, with her stating that she was a sous chef at an upscale seafood restaurant in Long Beach. When she heard the majority of her competitors were nervous, she told them to have more confidence in themselves. After Chef Ramsay explained that they will be cooking their Signature Dishes in front of a live audience, Isabel stated that she knew exactly what she wanted to do for her dish.

During the Signature Dish challenge, Isabel stated that her dish would help her stand out as a true culinarian and show off her roots, which was one of her main goals of being in Hell’s Kitchen. Isabel was the second chef to present her dish and went up against Billy. She presented arroz con pato, with the duck leg being cooked in duck stock, beer and pisco and the fried rice consisting of peas, carrots and both red and yellow bell peppers. Chef Ramsay praised the dish for tasting amazing and gave her the first five of the night. Isabel stated that her dish showed that she was a force to be reckoned with and that her competitors should watch out. The Red Team eventually lost the challenge 17-19.

The Red Team was punished by sewing jackets. During the punishment, Isabel was annoyed that half the chefs on the team put more effort in than the other half. Whilst sewing more jackets, Isabel pricked herself with the needle, but immediately informed her team that there was no blood from her finger. Due to Olivia being incompetent during both the challenge and the punishment, Isabel claimed that she would be the first to go.

Upon coming into the dorms, Isabel found her Henkel knife kit and was excited to receive them, calling them the best culinary knives and stated that she felt like a kid during Christmas. Whilst revising the menu, Isabel noted all of the Hell’s Kitchen staples in Spanish. When Samantha was concerned about the stew, Isabel told her there was nothing wrong with it and told her teammates that she ate a lot of it, leading to Heather questioning where she was from, with her explaining that she was born in Peru, but was raised in California. Later, she noted Korekiyo’s odd presence in the dorms.

During dinner service, Isabel was on the meat station, much to her excitement. When Olivia and Samantha were fighting over responsibilities, Isabel quickly got annoyed and muttered Spanish curse words under her breath. When Pani sent up raw and overcooked scallops and almost proceeded to refire them when Olivia was still restarting her appetizers, Isabel reminded the former to drop them when Olivia was two minutes out. After hearing that the Blue Team was on their final ticket of appetizers, she was embarrassed as they were only on their first ticket. Eventually, the Red Team got their first two tickets of appetizers out. When Isabel asked Pani if she needed three and a half minutes on her refired lobster, the latter questioned her times, leading to the former to remind her that the lobster had to be entirely restarted due to the initial one being overcooked. When Samantha sent up carbonara that was disgusting, Isabel noted that it was over salted before the Red Team got kicked out of the kitchen.

The Red Team lost and Heather was named Best of The Worst. Isabel was disappointed that the team could not even get past appetizers. During deliberation, she noted that Samantha was taking more of a backseat during apps and advised her that she should help drive the section alongside Olivia.

She was not nominated for elimination.

## Trivia

* She is the first contestant of Peruvian origin to enter the competition.
* She is the first chef in a roleplay spin-off series to score a perfect 5 in Signature Dish, win a Punishment Pass and score a perfect 4 in the Blind Taste Test.
* She is the ninth winner of the Punishment Pass, following Bret (Season 18), Syann (Season 19), Steve, Brynn (both from Season 20), Hunter (Season 22), Kiibo (Season 23), Angie and Jangue (Season 24).
* She is the ninth contestant and the fifth female contestant to achieve a perfect score of 4 during the Blind Taste Test, following Justin (Season 10), Milly (Season 14), Wendy (Season 16), Mia (Season 18), Declan (Season 19), Mae, Jake (both from Season 21) and Brynn (Season 23). She is the second contestant from the Red Team to do so, following Brynn.

## Quotes

* "HENKELS! They're the best culinary knives you could ever get! I feel like a kid during Navidad! Gracias Chef Ramsay!"
* *(About Nobert's catfish dish)* "That's the second time Nobert had his dish spat out. And he's only made two dishes."
* *(During the Universal Studios reward)* "Churros are one of my favorite desserts! It's a very Latin-American dish and if you haven't had one, then you're definitely missing out."
* *(About Mary's stone cold mashed potatoes)* "At least they weren't packaged this time."
* *(During the spa reward)* "I see Heather getting super flustered when Malcolm showed up. One of them needs to ask the other out fast, because it might be too late for one of them. After all, you never know what will happen in Hell's Kitchen."
* "Heather are you okay? Did you and Olivia switch brains or something?"