Brynn Crinston

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**Brynn Crinston** was a contestant on Season 3 of Hell's Kitchen Roleplay (Season 23) and Hell's Kitchen Roleplay Season 5 (Rookies vs Veterans). In Season 23, she ranked in 8th place and 13th place in Season 25.

## Personality

Responsible for one of the biggest personality turnarounds ever in Hell’s Kitchen history, as well as one of HK’s greatest romances, Brynn was a very passionate and emotional chef who developed a lot of maturity throughout her time.

Coming into Hell's Kitchen, Brynn had a rude, arrogant and volatile approach, instantly creating rivalries before the competition even started, despite having some redeemable moments. However, as the season progressed, in spite of her still being somewhat abrasive, she became more mature and humble, resulting in her creating more friends than enemies and was known to be funny and emotional at times. In the kitchen, she was delusional about her poor performances early on, leading to her being an easy target for nomination and eventually an early scapegoat when she performed decently, however, as the season progressed, she became one of the strongest chefs on the Red Team. Once establishing herself as a confident leader, both aspects disappeared during Charity Night and was what inevitably lead to her downfall. She had on-and-off feuds with Brent and Talia, though mended fences with the two later on, as well as an explosive one with Hugh. She had a dislike towards Shaggy and Teruteru due to their incompetence and despised Terrence due to his human indecency. However, she is also known to get along well with Mick, Kiibo and Sous Chef Skullcrusher, and despite having differences early on, she eventually formed close friendships with Abby and a closer one with Riyonn. She also formed a very close friendship with Pory, which later evolved into a romantic relationship.

Coming back, Brynn came back with more maturity in comparison to how she portrayed herself during the beginning of her first season. She has also displayed the same amount of passion and emotion that was displayed during her previous stint and remained social, specifically towards the people she was the closest to. In the kitchen, she produced superb challenge dishes, with only minor faults. However, she had a poor service run, going through a downward spiral, resulting in her being three times in a row, typically alongside her closest companions. She maintained her relationship with Pory, as well as her close friendship with Riyonn and grew closer with Kiibo and Michelle. She became friends with fellow veterans Daisy, Hal and Undead, and got along well with rookies Jamal and Diana.

## Season 23 (RP)

### Episode 1

Brynn was one of eighteen contestants seen on the bus to Hell’s Kitchen. Instantly, she boasted about her cooking skills, as well as her intelligence and was seen getting in a fight with Talia, and eventually Abby. She also took her time to get to know chefs such as Shaggy, Jesse, Hugh, Ronald and Pory. Eventually, the bus crashed near the Grand Canyon and after walking a few miles, Brent eventually called up a limo for all the contestants, so that they could arrive at Hell’s Kitchen both quickly and safely.

As soon as they reached the dorms, Brynn and Talia immediately bickered once again. However, the fight died down as Brent ordered pizza and asked the chefs about their culinary backgrounds. Brynn explained how she cooked for her family at a young age and how she took certain high school classes that helped her start her own business, “Crinston Cuisine”. She then stated that the reason why she applied for Hell’s Kitchen was because she wanted to step out of her comfort zone of being a personal chef and proved that she could work on the line and perhaps be better than Ramsay himself. Afterwards, she found out that Shaggy ate all the snacks in the dorms and threatened to kill him. Once Terrence started flirting with Abby, Brynn tried to help, despite openly admitting that she hated her, and advised her to lock herself in the red bedrooms.

Afterwards, Chef Ramsay came on the screen and announced the prize restaurant being at The Conrad, Tokyo as well as the teams. Brynn dreaded the fact that she was placed on the same team as both Talia and Abby, but was thankful when she wasn’t placed on the same team as Terrence. She then stated that the teams would’ve been more perfect if she and the latter switched teams, which peeved Abby. Back in the red dorms, when Talia stated that there needed to be a leader on the Red Team, Brynn immediately volunteered for the position, due to her being the only one owning a business. When Talia was against the idea, Brynn then pointed out that nobody else stepped up to be a leader, leading to the former to step up as a volunteer. After Brynn mentioned Talia’s inexperience, the latter gave in and made Brynn the team leader, causing Brynn to be ecstatic, calling the rest of her team “peasants” in the process.

During the Signature Dish Challenge, Brynn stated that her signature dish was going to help her stand out like a pro and that Gordon Ramsay should just give her the win at that moment. When her team found out that she was creating a gumbo, it created a nervous aura within the kitchen. Brynn was the third chef from the Red Team to present and went up against Brent. She presented a traditional Louisianan gumbo, which included shrimp, chicken and andouille sausage, as well as cinnamon to give the dish extra flavor and it was presented with white rice. Whilst Gordon Ramsay stated that it was not the worst gumbo he has tasted, he also stated that it was not good, due to the shrimp being poorly deveined, the gumbo being overseasoned and the rice being undercooked, giving her a score of 1 out of 5. The Red Team eventually lost the challenge 29-24.

The Red Team were punished by cleaning up both kitchens. When Brynn and Talia cleaned the Blue kitchen, they ended up finding a bag of blonde hair that belonged to Abby on Terrence’s station, which led to the former to state that he probably had a shrine dedicated to Abby and hoped that it was her extensions and not her real hair. After Christina used the terms “cancelled” and “blocked”, Brynn immediately called her a Twitter user and started a minor feud with her.

Before service, Brynn and Talia decided to quiz each other on meat temperatures whilst studying the menu. When Brynn asked how long a well done wellington took, Shaggy answered that it took fourteen minutes instead of twelve, leading to Brynn asking if he was stupid. She later got annoyed at both his and Terrence’s antics in the dorms.

During dinner service, Brynn was on the meat station with Talia, much to her dismay. She advised the team to communicate and be in sync with each other. When Shaggy gave out the times for the first order of appetizers, Brynn reminded him that he was on the fish station and that there were no scallops on order before he ate raw scallops and she shouted at him again. Whilst Lydia and Teruteru were cooking the first order of appetizers, Shaggy was ready with the scallops that weren’t even on order, leading to Brynn asking Hugh to do something about him and even recommended to drag him into the pantry and lock him up if need be. When Lydia’s capellini came out raw, Brynn requested Talia to jump on apps and reported the situation to Abby, who was on tableside. After finding out that Shaggy drank all the lobster butter, Brynn was aware about why he came to Hell’s Kitchen in the first place and suggested that he should join Abby in the dining room and stuff his mouth. After Shaggy got ejected, Talia checked up on the desserts station, finding out that they had all been eaten, with Brynn immediately accusing the former of eating them. After Hugh sent up undercooked scallops, Brynn stated that Hugh was making a huge ass of himself. Once entrees came in, Brynn took responsibility for the New York strips, however, the first order came out raw, resulting in a refire on the entire ticket. After the strip was refired, it came out as overcooked. When Talia pointed out that Brynn’s heat was off, the latter asked who turned her heat off and called it blatant sabotage. Once she got kicked off the station, Brynn got very infuriated and stated that Talia was only going to sink with her leadership skills. Heated about this, Brynn decided to purposefully turn the convection oven off the third time around as a form of revenge. However, she would not admit that to her teammates when they interrogated her and even stated that the viewers at home can be the judge of that. Once entrees were finished, the Red Team had to inform Chef Ramsay that their desserts were eaten, resulting in the red kitchen to shut down.

The Red Team lost service and Teruteru had to put up two nominees for elimination, due to being named “Best of the Worst”. When Talia stated that she’d put Brynn and Hugh up, Brynn was shocked and called bullshit on her choice. She then stated that Talia bullied her off her section and lied about tampering with the convection oven, even asking if anyone had any sort of evidence. When the decision was made, Brynn said to put her up and let the rest of the team see how pathetic they look during elimination.

Brynn was named the second nominee for elimination, with Hugh being the first. During her plea, Brynn stated that she found her nomination bullshit and made very deluded statements about her performance that night before stating that Hugh nominated himself for elimination, leading to Chef Ramsay questioning him. Eventually, both of them were spared as Chef Ramsay chose to eliminate Terrence from the winning team. After elimination, Brynn stated that the Red Team were gonna wish that they never met her, that she was on “Team Brynn” and will come back with a vengeance and win the whole competition.

### Episode 2

Still enraged about her nomination, Brynn decided to head to the hot tub to eat some Flamin Hot Cheetos and to drink a cold soda, but was eventually joined by Riyonn and Christina, much to her dismay. Later, she went into the dorms and eavesdropped on Brent, who was talking about her weak leadership skills and started a fight with him, before guaranteeing that the Red Team was going to win both the next challenge and service. Afterwards, whilst most of the other chefs were asleep, Brynn went to the hot tub to have some alone time, only to realize that Lydia was also awake, with the latter giving her advice on how to break the tension she currently has with the Red Team. Moments later, she realized that Pory was also awake and they exchanged details regarding their services and Pory hoped that she got redemption. Brynn later admitted that he was the only one she could have a normal conversation with and that she did not just consider him as only a competitor, but also a friend.

The next morning, the chefs received a phone call to tell them to look inside the fridge, only to see that it is filled with cups of ramen, as well as a note to come downstairs. When Chef Ramsay explained the challenge, Brynn questioned his explanation after he deemed ramen a “criminally underrated” dish. During the cooking portion of the challenge, Brynn stated that the challenge should be a cinch, due to her Asian lineage. Brynn’s ramen dish was not chosen as a top three dish, however, Hugh announced it as the worst dish on the Red Team, which led her to think that she was an easy target, so she was thrown under the bus. Brynn presented a chashu ramen with a traditional shoyu broth, garnished with a soy marinated boiled egg, sweet corn and spring onions, as well as some butter for flavor. Morimoto criticized the presentation and both judges criticized the lack of flavor within the dish, with the former calling the dish an embarrassment. Ultimately, Chef Ramsay decided that Hamish had a worse dish than Brynn, giving the Red Team the challenge win.

The Red Team were rewarded with a sushi dining experience in Las Vegas. During the reward, Brynn called Hamish an MVP for having a worse ramen dish than her and enjoyed having the dining experience with her team. Coming back to Hell’s Kitchen, she was thankful that the Red Team did not have to prep the broths for the ramen special that night, due to the Blue Team already doing so during their punishment.

During dinner service, Brynn was on the fish station with Teruteru. When the first ticket came in, Brynn asked Abby for a time on the appetizers. When Abby’s carbonara got rejected for being undercooked, she stated she was going to refire a new batch, until Brynn told her to put the current batch back on the heat instead. After Abby sent up her refired carbonara, she got criticized for the portion sizes, which led to Brynn questioning how the former overportioned it the second time if she only needed to cook the dish for longer. During the next order, Brynn ordered Abby to drop the ramen and to tell her and Teruteru when she was two out, however, Abby incorrectly thought that the scallops dropped at the ninety second mark, leading to a miscommunication issue. When Teruteru got his scallops compared to hockey pucks, Brynn assisted with the refire and communicated with Abby on apps to ensure everyone was on the same page and eventually got the scallop refire accepted. During the third ticket, Brynn was trying to communicate with her team regarding the timings for her scallops. However, as soon as the order was sent up, the table was rejected due to Abby’s overcooked egg for the ramen dish. Chef Ramsay had enough and kicked the Red Team out of the kitchen.

Neither team won service and had to decide on two nominees. Brynn stated that her nominees were Abby and Teruteru. When Hugh tried to nominate her, it lead to Riyonn asking what exactly she fucked up that service, to which she answered that she didn’t fuck up anything and that she tried to communicate times with Abby. Whilst Abby was a unanimous vote, the second nominee was between Brynn and Teruteru, the former being due to being the weakest link and untrustworthy. However, Brynn tried to defend herself by saying that she didn’t fuck up and that she was aiming to change her attitude.

Brynn was named the second nominee from the Red Team, with Abby as the first and were eventually joined by Teruteru. Walter, Mick and Brent from the Blue Team were also up for elimination. Before her plea, Ramsay questioned why she was up for elimination, despite not making any mistakes. She answered that she thought that her current nomination was more blasphemous than the other one, stated that she didn’t have an opportunity show him her skills that service and stated that she tried to communicate with Abby to show that she could be a trustworthy team player, but stated that the kitchen went to shit due to miscommunications from the latter. Ramsay decided to spare her and Mick first and told them to go back in line. Nobody was eliminated and Brynn said goodbye to Abby and welcomed Walter onto the Red Team. After elimination, Brynn stated that the gloves were going to come off and that she wasn’t going to play nice anymore.

### Episode 3

Back in the Red bedroom, Walter reintroduced himself to the Red Team, revealing his full name, as well as his address, with Brynn hesitantly welcoming him to the team. Afterwards, she went to the dorms and conversed with Pory, with her talking about how she wished she was on the Blue Team with him, with them potentially being allies or best friends before later conversing about Walter and Abby. After saying that she could work well with people if her bitchy tendencies were looked past, Brent interrupted Brynn and Pory’s civil conversation, stating that she was the opposite of what she claimed to be. Brynn told Brent what really happened in the Red Kitchen the second service before telling him to get off her case due to him being on the opposing team, which eventually led to a heated argument between the two.

Before having the challenge explained, Brynn found herself paired up with Talia for it. Once she found out that sushi was the main dish for the challenge, she was annoyed that they had to create Japanese cuisine again, but then thought it was fitting, due to the prize restaurant being in Japan. During the challenge, Brynn was responsible for cutting the salmon and preparing the rice, as well as doing a final quality check with Talia. Both brought up three plates of sushi and got all three accepted. The Red Team eventually won the challenge.

The Red Team were rewarded with a wine tasting trip with Chef Ramsay at the Cellar 360. During the reward, Brynn was ecstatic to taste wine and toasted to victory before taking a sip and admitted the wine was delicious. Christina then accidentally spat wine in Brynn’s face, causing her to be angry and she was later disgusted by Christina’s antics during the reward.

Before dinner service, Chef Ramsay announced that it was Meat Lovers Night in Hell’s Kitchen and that each team will have VIPs in their kitchen, leaving Brynn in suspense. When Chef Ramsay announced that the Red Team VIP was going to be multi-time world champion, “The Skull Crusher”, Brynn was one of the many that became ecstatic about this news. Right before the doors opened, she, along with Riyonn and Lydia, fought and asked Chef Ramsay if they could host the chef’s table, to which he declined.

During dinner service, Brynn was on the fish station with Riyonn. She told her team that they needed to do good during service as Skull Crusher was dining on their side. When Riyonn asked if she wanted to cook the scallops or the lobster for the first order, she chose the former. Whilst waiting for the appropriate time to drop her scallops, Brynn greeted the VIP guest and whilst she was able to escape Chef Ramsay’s wrath, it didn’t stop Hugh from calling her out. Eventually, Brynn sent up her first order of scallops up to the pass, which were praised by Chef Ramsay, however they had to restart the ticket again due to Christina’s overcooked risotto. After going back to her station, she waved at the VIP which once again caught Hugh’s attention in a negative light. Brynn was seen communicating with Hugh and Riyonn to ensure everyone was in sync. Eventually, the team got the order refire accepted, leading to Brynn calling Hugh a “huge savior” before insulting Christina. Despite offering to help out with the salad, Christina declined her offer. This did not stop Brynn from communicating with her team. After finding out that Hugh’s first attempt at the VIP risotto was stuck to the pan, she immediately took back what she said about him earlier and was annoyed that the team had to start the table again. When Riyonn told her to get pans hot for scallops, she reminded him that there were none on order, before she ordered Christina to start the salads. Eventually, the second table of appetizers were accepted. When Sous Chef Harry wanted the next order at the pass in seven minutes, Brynn reminded him of the times for the appetizers, with the longest one needing six minutes at most. Eventually, her scallops, along with the rest of the table, got accepted.

During the start of entrees, Teruteru incorrectly recited the order, which annoyed Brynn and the rest of the team. Minutes later, Brynn then told Lydia to be on standby with her wellington garnish. Although the entrees were sent up to the pass, they were immediately sent back, due to Walter’s chicken being black, infuriating Brynn. When Walter wanted to take responsibility for the chicken refire, Brynn questioned him and advised him not to fuck it up. She was seen communicating with Talia and Lydia on garnish and reminding Teruteru the correct timings for said station. When Walter sent up raw chicken, Brynn offered to take over the meat station, but her offer was declined by the Sous Chef. After he got kicked off the station by Riyonn, Walter asked about the chicken, agitating both Brynn and the former. Eventually, with Riyonn’s help, the first table of entrees were accepted. During the next table of entrees, Brynn took responsibility for the salmon, whilst Riyonn cooked the halibut, both communicating with the meat and garnish station on times, with the former praying that her salmon does not come out raw. When Teruteru’s strips were undercooked, Brynn was panicking due to her protein dying at the pass. Eventually, the second table of entrees went out to the dining room. During the last ticket, Brynn took responsibility for the pork, with her reminding Teruteru that it came off fish, before telling Riyonn to do the branzino. Once the table was sent up, it was sent back due to Walter’s chicken and Teruteru’s burnt strips, with Brynn metaphorically threatening to kill the latter if he fucked up the strips for the VIP. Chef Ramsay had enough and kicked the Red Team out of the kitchen, with Brynn and Riyonn waving at the VIP table in plain sight of Ramsay. When the former got angry at them for waving, the two begged to stay as they were not responsible for the fuckup, but were immediately declined, frustrating them both. However, that did not stop the two and Lydia from conversing with the VIP and getting his autograph after service.

Both teams lost dinner service and had to nominate two chefs for elimination. During deliberation, Hugh immediately nominated Brynn, however, Christina, Riyonn and Teruteru were all in disagreement with that decision. This also lead to Brynn asking why she was nominated over Walter, reminding Hugh that Walter fucked up the chicken three times, with Hugh arguing that she was nominated due to her lack of professionalism. Brynn then stated that she cares about the food and customers equally, as producing good food leads to customer satisfaction. When Hugh only stated that he had one thing sent back, Brynn and Riyonn reminded him about the VIP risotto, before Brynn got frustrated about the team embarrassing her idol that night. After a heated argument between Hugh and Riyonn broke out, Brynn asked if Hugh or Teruteru should be up as the second nominee, before an argument broke out once again.

During the elimination ceremony, Brynn announced Walter as the first nominee, revealing his address in the process, due to him being unable to redeem himself on the red team as well as his fuck up on chicken, leading to her believing that he can only cook meth. She then stated that the second nominee was a tough decision between Hugh and Teruteru, but the team ultimately decided on Hugh, due to his fuck up on the VIP risotto as well as his inability to admit mistakes. After Hugh threw both Brynn and Riyonn under the bus during his plea, the two and Lydia spoke up, with Brynn stating that Hugh was way more delusional than what she was about his performance. After Ronald got eliminated, Brynn showed no sympathy in the confessional, telling him to go back to whatever fast food “shithole” he came from.

### Episode 4

After the elimination ceremony, Brynn decided to relax in the hot tub with Riyonn, Lydia and Pory. After Pory vented to Brynn and Riyonn about his annoyance with Brent and Abby, the latter two came to the hot tub, with Brent offering drinks whilst Brynn drank her soda. Later, she, along with the rest of the Red Team found out that Hugh trashed the red bedroom, with Brynn’s bed being doused in beer. She then told Hugh that she was sick of being the scapegoat of the team and knew that his bias against her was solely due to her personality rather than her skills. She then asked Riyonn if Hugh should sleep on the couch for the rest of the season, to which neither of them disagreed. Brynn then walked out of the room stating that Hugh was definitely the next to go and deserved to be on the chopping block the two times he was up for elimination. Afterwards, Brynn told Pory how disappointed she was about the service on her side, but admitted that she was glad that she was not nominated for once and once the latter admitted his mistake, Brynn witnessed another argument between him and Abby. Later that night, Brynn and Abby conversed in the hot tub, putting their differences aside, due to Brynn’s growth in maturity, before the former asked the latter how things were with her and Jesse.

The next morning, Brynn found out that there was a basketball hoop installed near the hot tub, leading to her shooting hoops, and eventually, her newly appointed sous chef, Sous Chef Skullcrusher joined her. She then went back to the dorms and answered the phone call from Chef Ramsay, with him telling her to get the other fourteen chefs and to head outside, to which she did. Eventually, a bus trip led them to the pond for their next challenge. For the challenge, Brynn was tasked to make five schnitzels along with Lydia. They were the second pair from the Red Team to get everything accepted and afterwards, went overboard and created another five. Due to Christina’s bursted crepe, the Red Team eventually lost the challenge, leading to Brynn stating that she made ten schnitzels for nothing.

The Red Team were punished by delivering a shipment of bluefin tuna, before deboning and filleting the shipment. Whilst Brynn helped with filleting the fish, Riyonn called Christina out for staring at him, leading to the former making a snarky comment regarding how the latter should focus on her fillets and not on Riyonn.

During dinner service, Brynn was on the garnish station with Hugh, much to her dismay. During the first ticket, she was seen communicating with Teruteru on apps regarding times and eventually, the first order of apps was accepted with ease. During the second order of apps, she was seen communicating with both Walter and Riyonn on fish. After Walter stated his lack of knowledge regarding percentages, Brynn questioned his qualifications of being a high school chemistry teacher. During the final ticket of appetizers, Teruteru’s risotto was returned from the dining room, infuriating Brynn, with her stating that he’s having his third shit service in a row. However, despite a few setbacks, the refired risotto as well as all the appetizers were served. During entrees, she took responsibility of leading the garnish station, with her separating tasks between her and Hugh. During the first ticket of entrees, she took responsibility for the chicken garnish and stayed in sync with Lydia on meat, as well as the fish station. However, the first attempt at the order was declined due to Lydia’s raw chicken and Walter’s raw halibut, angering Brynn. When Chef Ramsay told the Red Team to look at Walter’s raw refire, Sous Chef Skullcrusher made a snarky comment, leading to Brynn stating that he was the best sous chef ever. When Riyonn tried to save Walter’s halibut by cooking it for longer, Brynn was panicking, due to her and Hugh’s garnishes dying at the pass, however, the order finally got accepted. During the next order of entrees, Brynn took responsibility for the pork garnish. After the entrees were sent up to the pass, Sous Chef Skullcrusher told Chef Ramsay to get the fuck back in the red kitchen, leading to Brynn praising him once again. When the Red Team found out that Walter’s salmon was undercooked, Brynn thanked Riyonn for taking control of the fish station, before claiming that Walter sucked. When a customer complained about his overcooked pork, Brynn told him that there was no pork sent out from the red kitchen as of yet. Eventually, the order got accepted and sent out. During the final order of entrees, Brynn took responsibility for the chicken garnish, whilst telling Hugh to do the strip and halibut garnish. When the order was sent up, Chef Ramsay was fed up, due to almost every protein having an error and kicked the Red Team out of the kitchen.

Both teams lost dinner service and had to nominate two chefs for elimination. During deliberation, Brynn considered Walter as her first nominee and was tossed up between Teruteru and Christina for her second. After Teruteru stated that Talia should go up, Brynn disagreed, before stating that Hugh also wasn’t going up, despite his severe lack of passion during service. When the team was tossed up between Teruteru, Talia and Christina as the second nominee, Brynn wanted the team to come to a consensus with the decision, with the former being her choice.

During elimination, Brynn announced Walter as the Red Team’s first nominee, due to him being unable to yet again redeem himself as well as his fuck ups on the fish station, leading to her still believing that he can only cook meth. She then announced that the second nominee was a tough decision, before stating that it was Teruteru, due to his inconsistencies within the past three services.

### Episode 5

After Walter’s elimination, Brynn decided to raid the kitchen pantry due to the lack of food in the pantry located in the dorms. When coming back from the pantry, she was greeted by Pory, with her admitting that she was saddened at his nomination. She was confident that he could redeem himself and stated that she had been on the fish station during half the services after he stated that he had been on the meat station during most services.

The next morning, Chef Ramsay asked both teams who the strongest chef on the team was. When the Blue Team blurted out a plethora of different names, Brynn muttered, calling them divisive. During the Jacket Challenge, Brynn was tasked to create a fish sandwich. She and Talia exchanged recipes, with Brynn correctly identifying that Talia’s recipe was for a spaghetti carbonara. During the judging portion of the challenge, when she found out that Brent made a hoagie roll instead of a Philly cheesesteak, she compared Brent and Mick’s communication to Manda and Dannie’s during the same challenge from their season. Brynn was the sixth person to be judged and went up against Jesse. Her dish was criticized for the lack of color and flavor of the fish and was stated to look plain and boring, with her losing the round and tying the score at 3-3. After Jesse scored, she arrogantly stated that he only won the round because she lost. Thanks to Riyonn, the Red Team won the challenge 4-3. The Red Team were rewarded with going to Santa Monica Pier amusement park. However, due to Kiibo using his Punishment Pass on her and Hugh, she had to endure the punishment with the Blue Team. This resulted in her being upset at first, but she quickly changed her attitude towards it, knowing that Pory would keep her company.

Brynn, Hugh and the Blue Team were punished by setting up the playground for Family Night. Brynn had a swing set thrown at her by Hugh, resulting in her feeling angry and pained, as well as Abby and Pory checking up on her. Brynn then asked Kiibo why he sacrificed his Punishment Pass, especially after he stated that the reward seemed fun. After he brought up the fact that she and Pory were good friends, she got startled when he noticed, with him stating that he overheard their conversation, leaving her speechless. As they were building the playground, Brynn comforted Pory as he was concerned about the upcoming service. Later, the two got headbutted by a goat and checked up on each other before heading back to the dorms.

Back at the dorms, Brynn received an ice pack after the goat incident from Pory, to which she appreciated. They then smiled and wished each other luck for service. Later, she discussed the assigned stations for service with Jesse and Talia. Before dinner service, Chef Ramsay reminded the chefs that it was Family Night. Once he revealed the donkey costume that Mick had to wear out in the dining room, Brynn laughed and confessed that it was more suitable for Hugh, due to the fact that his name sounded like “huge ass”.

During the Family Night dinner service, Brynn was on the garnish station. She was seen reminding Hugh about the timings of the pizza, as well as reminding him to do a quality check, to ensure the dough isn’t raw or burnt. After Hugh sent out one acceptable pizza, he sent out an improperly rolled out one to the pass, causing Brynn and Riyonn to be peeved. Later, Brynn got even more angry when Hugh sent one that was burnt at the bottom, due to the fact that she reminded him to check the pizza before sending them to the pass. After Christina and Talia had appetizers accepted, Brynn read out the next ticket whilst Chef Ramsay wasn’t in the Red Kitchen. Once Chef Ramsay came back and revealed that another one of Hugh’s pizzas was burnt, Brynn jumped on the pizza station with Riyonn, helping assemble the pizzas for the latter to fire and after Hugh was kicked off the section, the two had their pizzas accepted. When Hugh messed up the risotto, Brynn got angry, before feeling satisfied when he got kicked out of the kitchen. Eventually, she and Riyonn got all the pizzas out to the dining room, allowing herself to move back to the garnish station during entrees. Brynn asked Christina to help with the salmon garnish and toast the buns for the kids burgers, whilst she does the strip and wellington garnish. As they sent their first order of garnish up to the pass, it was sent back due to the strip and burger being raw and the wellington being overcooked, so they had to refire. Eventually, they got their garnishes accepted and cooked the Blue Team’s order, since they were kicked out of their kitchen. Brynn got Talia to toast the burger buns and eventually, the Red Team sent everything out and finished service and were named the winners.

During the elimination ceremony, Brynn was happy when Hugh was called up by Chef Ramsay from the winning team and was even more ecstatic when he got the boot.

### Episode 6

After Hugh’s elimination, Brynn was very celebrative about how the ceremony went, but quickly got back to business and stated to her team that service was far from perfect. Afterwards, she made conversation with Pory, mentioning how Jesse and Abby were nominated by the Blue Team, leading to say that they were a Hell’s Kitchen power couple and were likely keeping the relationship a secret. Afterwards, Brynn asked Abby about Jesse and convinced her to ask him out.

The next morning, the remaining thirteen chefs were awakened by firefighters and were challenged to serve them breakfast, with the first team to finish winning the challenge. During the Breakfast Challenge Service, Brynn was on hashbrowns. She ensured that she constantly communicated with both Talia and Christina to match their times. Overseeing Teruteru, Brynn compared him to LA from Season 5, due to him being half asleep during services. Once she asked him whether the omelettes were flipped, he gave a response that she was not confident about. After finding out that the omelettes were burnt, the entire order had to be refired, with Teruteru starting over immediately, causing Brynn and the other women to be enraged. After Teruteru restarted at the wrong time again, Brynn told him to hop onto the french toast station. Eventually, the order got accepted. When Talia asked for someone to watch over Teruteru, Brynn said that she would keep a close eye on him and take over his station if need be. Whilst Brynn was cooking french toast, she compared Teruteru to Gail during the Final 7 relay challenge in Season 8, due to him just standing and her taking over at that point. Eventually, the team got the order accepted. During the last order, she hopped back on the hashbrown station and told Teruteru that he better have control of his own station. Whilst her hashbrown got accepted, Teruteru’s french toast was burnt, so Brynn took control of the french toast station. Once she was finished on the french toast refire, it got accepted, causing her team to complete service first and win the challenge.

During the post-mortem, Chef Ramsay announced the Red Team as the winners and praised Talia. This led to Brynn wishing that she got praised due to her single handedly saving Teruteru’s station. The Red Team were rewarded by visiting the Lady Byrd Cafe. Brynn was ecstatic to see the sports cars that were taking them to the reward. The Red Team mostly ate and talked about service during the reward.

During dinner service, Brynn was on the meat station with Riyonn. Despite being assigned to meat, Brynn helped out Christina on the fish station during the first order of appetizers. She took responsibility for the scallops, which were revealed to be undercooked during her first attempt, however she cooked them for longer and got them accepted. When Talia was using the word “yo” during service, Brynn questioned if she had been hanging out with Jesse lately. During entrees, Brynn stated that she wanted to bounce back on the meat station and give Chef Ramsay a phenomenal service. Whilst working on her strip, she took notice of how Lydia was way more vocal on the garnish station than Teruteru was, which did not surprise her. She got her New York strip accepted, ecstatic at the fact that she could cook one correctly. During the next order of entrees, Brynn took responsibility for the wellington on the ticket. Ensuring that she communicated well with Christina and Lydia, she eventually brought her wellington to the pass, which had to sit for three minutes, due to Christina’s undercooked salmon. At first, Brynn was concerned about her wellington dying at the pass, however, the salmon got accepted the second time and the order was served. During the last table of entrees, Brynn took responsibility for the New York strip whilst Riyonn took responsibility of the wellington. When the latter’s wellington got rejected for being undercooked, the former told him to cook it for another two minutes and eventually the table got sent out. The Red Team won service.

### Episode 7

Back at the dorms, Brynn entered the green bathroom to find Abby crying. The former tried comforting the latter, due to the fact that the Blue Team were essentially against her. Brynn stated that she could empathize with Abby as she had been in a similar situation with the Red Team. Later, the two went out of the bathroom and conversed with Pory at the dorms, with Brynn telling him that she was glad that he was not nominated at the last ceremony. When Pory tried motivating Abby, Brynn admired the fact that he does so to people who others may not have faith in, including herself.

The next morning, Chef Ramsay challenged each team to cook the wellington, strip, salmon, halibut, pork chop and chicken dishes from the Hell’s Kitchen menu. During the challenge, Brynn took responsibility for the wellington dish. When Teruteru wanted to take responsibility for the pork dish, despite Lydia already doing so, Brynn ordered him to cook the chicken dish. When Chef Ramsay ordered someone to get out the kitchen, Brynn immediately told Teruteru to get out, to which he refused to, before she, Talia, Riyonn and Sous Chef Skullcrusher all yelled at him to get out. Afterwards, Brynn and Talia found out that the chicken was burnt, so it needed to be restarted. Once Lydia left, Brynn took responsibility for the pork chop, and after the departures of both Christina and Riyonn, she also took responsibility for both fish dishes. Once Talia left the kitchen, Brynn was the last chef standing taking responsibility for all six dishes, finishing them off and beginning to plate them before everyone else entered the kitchen.

During the judging phase, Brynn was the first person to be judged from the Red Team and went head to head against Jesse during the wellington round. Ramsay acknowledged the cook of the puff pastry as well as the beef and she won the round, making the score 1-0. During the salmon round, the dish that Brynn finished for Riyonn, as well as the halibut round, which she finished for Christina were both praised for being perfectly cooked, the former dish also having crispy skin, earning her team another two points. However, she failed to help Lydia score during the pork chop round due to the bottom being burnt. Eventually, the Red Team lost 3-4, with Brynn stating that she was going to murder Teruteru for initially burning the first chicken.

The Red Team were punished for cleaning all the buses for the bus driver. When Brent kicked mud in Brynn’s face, she angrily threw a sponge back at him. She was then praised by the bus driver for her hard work, with her offering to clean the interiors as well. Once everyone was done, the bus driver praised the Red Team and Sous Chef Skullcrusher for getting the job done, with the former and Brynn wishing each other luck.

After the punishment, the remaining twelve chefs gathered around the dining room to watch Chef Ramsay do a demonstration of a holiday scallop dish, before he announced that half the chefs had to cook for their lives. Due to being the last chefs standing, Brynn and Pory had the power to choose who should cook for their lives. Brynn announced Teruteru as her first nominee, due to him being in way over his head after receiving the Best of the Worst night one and felt that he was the weakest link of the team. She then named Lydia as the second nominee, due to her lack of presence during the competition. Lastly, she named Talia as her final nominee, enraging the latter, with the reasoning behind the nomination being that she falters in challenges, with Brynn feeling that the Cook For Your Life challenge being a way to prove herself and bounce back.

Entering the dorms, Brynn admitted that it wasn’t easy nominating people and felt like shit, especially knowing that Talia would kill her if she survived. When Riyonn asked why Brynn nominated Talia, she answered that she would have nominated him, but thought he performed well challenge-wise in comparison and did not want to damage their friendship before admitting that Christina was the person that she would least likely nominate for the challenge.The former then asked everyone who was the most likely to be in danger, with Brynn responding either Abby or Teruteru. After Brynn was stressed out about her situation, it led to Pory comforting her, which then led to the former smiling weakly. She then asked if he was ready to be slaughtered by their teammates alongside her, to which he responded with a yes. She confessed that she wished that she could only nominate one person before she changed her mind and stated that she wished that it was only her and Pory safe in the dorms. Soon, Jesse, Talia and Lydia came back to the dorms, with Brynn admitting that she was going to avoid Talia after she witnessed the interaction between Jesse and Pory. Once Abby was deemed safe, Brynn immediately ran up to her and hugged her whilst in tears, before advising her to talk to Jesse, due to his attitude towards Pory. Once Abby informed everyone that Teruteru put twelve gallons of salt on his scallops, this led to everyone being in shock. Once Mick came back, Brynn admitted that it wasn’t shocking that Teruteru was the one leaving, before asking Riyonn how he felt about being the last male on the Red Team and assuring him that she did not have a crush on him. Later, Brynn asked everyone who’d they want to take to the finale with them, with Pory saying her name and her later admitting that she’d take him to the finale too.

### Episode 8

After a day full of emotions, Brynn decided to relax in the hot tub, and was eventually joined by Riyonn, Pory and a nude Abby. When Abby admitted that she was horny for Jesse, the other three, as well as Sous Chef Skullcrusher, convinced her to ask him out, to which she did. Brynn then stated that they were likely going to fuck and that the blonde was clearly not a virgin, admitting that this moment lead to a Hell’s Kitchen first. She then asked everyone else about their own love lives, with her stating she’s dated a few guys on her basketball team and some other personal chefs, before admitting that she was single. Once Mick joined the rest of them in the hot tub, Brynn updated him regarding Jesse and Abby. She, Abby and Pory then went back to the dorms, with her being concerned over the latter almost passing out due to a long day, causing her to feel embarrassed about her overreaction. After Brynn asked Abby how her intimate moment with Jesse was, the latter asked her when she would have one with Pory, shocking them both. After Abby exposed Brynn regarding her secret crush, this led to her nervously hiding the truth before the former pulled her back to the hot tub for a private conversation. Abby told Brynn to admit to her that she had feelings for Pory, to which the latter denied at first before giving in, before she later got told to eventually admit to him how she felt. This led to Brynn being flustered and embarrassed the rest of the night.

The next morning, the chefs were greeted with a craps table in the dining room. During the Craps Challenge, Brynn was the second chef to roll for her team, with her asking Chef Ramsay to blow her dice before she rolled, to which he did. She rolled an A and chose asparagus to add onto the duck dish. The Red Team received duck, asparagus, maraschino cherries, garlic, red wine and squash as their ingredients, leading to Brynn conceptualizing the main concept of the team dish and Riyonn conceptualizing an idea for the garlic component. Once most of the team were in agreement, Brynn took responsibility of grilling the asparagus for the dish. The Red Team presented a pan seared duck breast, basted in garlic, with a squash puree, grilled asparagus and a red wine cherry demi glace. Chef Ramsay praised it for being rustic and for the overall dish tasting wonderful. The Red Team won the challenge.

The Red Team were rewarded with an overnight stay at the Rio, Las Vegas. When Christina asked the team what they were gonna do, Brynn stated that they had the whole night and suggested to drink, gamble and party before asking Riyonn how he felt about showgirls. She then proceeded to drink and win money after playing slots, before a stranger at the casino flirted with her, to which she rejected. When Riyonn was gambling, she told him and Sous Chef Skullcrusher to blow on the dice before rolling. The Red Team eventually headed back to their suite and stayed overnight.

During dinner service, Brynn was on the appetizers station. She stated that she has been on every other station so far and nailed those stations and hoped that she could nail the appetizers station to show that she was a jack of all trades. She had Talia help out with scallops and communicated well with her and eventually sent up her risotto to the pass. Despite it being overportioned, it got accepted. During the next order of appetizers, Brynn took responsibility for the carbonara whilst Talia worked on her capellini and Lydia worked on the scallops. After Lydia sent up undercooked scallops, Brynn stated that there was nowhere for the former to hide now, with Teruteru gone. Eventually, the refire of the scallops was accepted and the order got sent out. During the final order of appetizers, Brynn worked on the carbonara whilst Talia worked on the risotto and led her and Lydia on the apps station. After the last order of apps got accepted, Brynn said that the fish station should have done carbonara, as Season 1’s Civ said it was on the fish station. During entrees, Brynn reminded Lydia that salmon started at 7 out after the latter stated that she would start at 5 out and told Christina when to drop her garnishes for each protein. After Riyonn sent up a duck that was simultaneously overcooked and cold, she called it a new low. When Talia offered to help Riyonn on meat, Brynn told her to help on either chicken or duck, but preferred the latter. She then asked if fish and garnish could backtrack after finding out that Riyonn was behind with his duck. After Riyonn fucked the duck again, Chef Ramsay brought Kiibo’s duck to the Red Kitchen to compare, which Brynn indicated wasn’t a good sign for the team. After Riyonn got sent to the pantry for dropping the duck, Brynn temporarily took over the meat station. Eventually, the first ticket of entrees got sent out. Once the Blue Team came to the Red Kitchen to help out, much to her dismay, Brynn knew it was evident that they lost. After Brent tried to ask if she needed help in a provoking manner, Brynn got annoyed and snapped at him, arguing with him during the middle of service, causing Chef Ramsay to notice. After the final ticket was sent out, she told Talia to send out the desserts, however they quickly came back into the kitchen due to Riyonn’s prepwork, causing her to say that he had fucked everything he had touched that night.

The Red Team lost service and had to come up with two nominees. During deliberation, Brynn stated that Riyonn was hands down the first nominee and selected Lydia as her second one. However, the field was split on either having her or Lydia as the second nominee.

During elimination, Brynn was not nominated for elimination, as Chef Ramsay wanted one person to step forward, to which Riyonn did. During his elimination, she got tearful and wished him farewell. After Riyonn’s elimination, she welcomed Abby back onto her team.

### Episode 9

After the elimination ceremony, Brynn requested to have a one on one chat with Chef Ramsay in his office. During this meeting, Brynn tearfully apologized about what happened with her and Brent in the Red Kitchen and vented about her frustrations but told him that she wasn’t ready to quit at all. After receiving some advice, she stormed off to the red bedroom, hearing the Blue Team talk about her and got infuriated, due to the fact that Brent chose to provoke her, especially during an inappropriate time as she already got frustrated for both evidently losing service and Abby exposing her. Later, she sat at the patio, wrapping a blanket around herself, with Pory approaching her as she did so. After Pory saw her reddened eyes, Brynn told him about how she felt at that moment, leading to him comforting her, which she very much appreciated.

The next morning, Chef Ramsay congratulated the chefs on making the Top 10, before he got the chefs to close their eyes as a projector was wheeled out, with the projector having childhood photos of the chefs. Brynn was the ninth chef to have her photo revealed, leading her to be embarrassed. During the cooking phase of the Signature Dish Recreation Challenge, Brynn admitted that she is determined to redeem herself after she received a 1 out of 5 for her original dish and felt that she needed to focus, despite letting her emotions get to her lately. During the judging phase, Brynn was the fourth chef from the Red Team to be judged and went up against Mick. She recreated her gumbo, taking Chef Ramsay’s advice from her previous attempt to heart and substituted her original cinnamon seasoning with creole instead. Chef Ramsay praised her for taking his advice and stated that the creole seasoning allowed for the shrimp to pop more, deeming it an overall good dish and scoring a four out of five. Eventually the Red Team lost 19-20.

The Red Team were punished by cleaning the entirety of Hell’s Kitchen. Brynn wasn’t seen as much during the punishment, but called Brent a prick as he knocked over their cleaning supplies. After the punishment, the latter wanted to talk to Brynn in private and asked if they could quit the fighting, despite not being on the best terms with each other, which she accepted, apologizing for the incident during the previous dinner service in the process.

During dinner service, Brynn was on the garnish station. During the first ticket, Brynn tried to ensure that Lydia was on track and in-sync with Talia. When Lydia brought up two orders of undercooked scallops, Brynn questioned the former’s intelligence. During the next order of entrees, Brynn offered for her and Christina to help Talia on flatbreads, with the latter rudely declining, making Brynn state that Talia should’ve taken the help due to it still being a team phase. After Lydia didn’t respond, Brynn thought that she was falling asleep during service and would go sooner rather than later and once the former fucked up the scallops and the lobster, the latter ordered Christina to go on fish. When Lydia tried to defend her performance, Brynn questioned her accountability and had to remind the team what needed to be refired. Eventually, the refire as well as the next order of appetizers were accepted. During entrees, Brynn asked Abby for times and urged her to communicate with her and urged Lydia that they can both match times on their respective proteins. When Abby messed up on timings, Brynn told her to bounce back. When Lydia asked Brynn to drop her garnish, the latter reminded her that it had already been dropped a minute ago due to her needing to be 30 seconds ahead. When Abby forgot about the strip, Brynn was baffled about this and got even more annoyed when she argued with Tate. After Abby got sent into the pantry, Brynn told the team to refire the ticket and asked for someone to hop on the meat station. When Lydia asked if she could hop on meat with Talia, Brynn reminded her that she was on garnish, before Brynn asked Christina, who was on desserts, to help out. Eventually, the first ticket was accepted. During the next order of entrees, Brynn communicated to Abby when she could drop garnishes for each protein and asked Lydia if she was cooking the salmon 90% skin side down. Despite Abby needing to backtrack on her chicken, the order eventually got accepted. During the final ticket, Brynn asked Lydia if she needed an extra set of hands on fish and eventually got Talia to help out. After Abby brought up an undercooked strip, Brynn asked if she could get it back in the pan, however, Abby decided to throw the strip at Tate instead, causing the team to need a refire. Once Abby got kicked out, Chef Ramsay reassigned Brynn to the meat station, leading to her asking if someone could take over garnish, with Christina coming to her aid. Eventually, the final order of entrees were accepted and the Red Team finished service.

The Red Team lost service and had to come up with two nominees. During deliberation, Brynn undoubtedly named Abby and Lydia as her two nominees. After Lydia asked which of the two was stronger, Christina pointed out that they were on the same level, with Brynn adding that they were leagues below the rest of the team. Brynn then later reminded Lydia that she sunk the momentum on apps.

She was not nominated for elimination.

### Episode 10

After Abby’s elimination, Brynn looked over at a very depressed Jesse in concern. She went to the hot tub to clear her head and was joined by both Mick and Pory, with her and Mick exchanging what happened on each other’s side of the kitchen. When Mick asked her who the weakest link of the Red Team was, she responded that there was one person that was not pulling her weight as much as the other three were and that was Lydia. When Mick vented his concerns about his boyfriend’s current situation, Brynn pondered about how her family and friends were doing, which included her pets back home. This led to her and Pory exchanging info regarding their pets as well as their own family issues. Eventually, Kiibo joined the conversation and asked about potential Black Jacket candidates, with all three men stating that Brynn would definitely get one. Later, she brought up the childhood photos that Ramsay revealed and when she blurted out that Pory looked cute in his, she noticed Mick and Kiibo’s reaction to this information, which led to a secret confrontation between her and the latter and resulted in her being embarrassed.

The next morning, Brynn felt pumped about the challenge and shared her ecstaticness with Mick and Kiibo beforehand. During the challenge, Chef Ramsay asked what the most important quality a chef has is, with Brynn correctly answering that it was a palate, thus leading into the Blind Taste Test. Brynn went up second against Jesse, correctly guessing pear, coriander, avocado and ahi tuna, scoring a perfect four for four. Later, as Pory had not gone up yet, Ramsay asked one of the Red Team members to go again, with Brynn immediately volunteering due to her perfect score. She incorrectly guessed quail for chicken and egg yolk for squash, resulting in her losing the challenge for her team. After hearing the reward, Brynn got upset as she would have loved a spa day.

The Red Team were punished by cleaning up the mess in the dining room. During the punishment, the Red Team was silent, with Lydia eventually breaking the silence. Brynn was unsure about how she felt, due to her gaining a perfect score during her first round and losing it for her team in the end. When Chef Ramsay asked for a volunteer to head to the spa, Brynn eagerly did so. After she found out that she was going to deliver drinks to the Blue Team, she thanked him unamusingly, but was glad that she at least got to get out of Hell’s Kitchen. Once she arrived at the spa, she handed the Blue Team their drinks, with them thanking her as she did so. As soon as she saw the spa lady, she asked who she was, with Mick responding that she was Jesse’s latest crush, with her stating that Jesse was getting all the ladies during the season. As soon as Jesse had a hard on for the spa lady, Brynn was disgusted about it, but knew that he was very horny at that moment.

During dinner service, Brynn was on the appetizers station. When Brynn communicated times for her first appetizers, Chef Ramsay stated that there was a voice in the Red Kitchen. She and Christina got their first order of appetizers accepted with ease. When Christina’s scallops for the next ticket were raw, Brynn told her to get them back in the pan and eventually, they got accepted. When Christina brought up undercooked lobster tail for the next ticket, Brynn told her it needed about 30 more seconds and eventually all appetizers went out to the dining room. During entrees, Brynn decided to assist Talia on garnish during the first ticket. When both Lydia and Christina messed up on their proteins, it left Brynn to be very peeved, with Christina asking her to aid her on the fish station. Eventually, with her helping out Christina on fish, the first table of entrees got accepted. During the next ticket, Brynn tried to lead and communicate with Talia on the garnish station. When she stated that Christina’s raw salmon was alright and found out about Lydia’s overcooked strip, it led to the latter laughing, with Brynn asking if she thought the entire situation was funny. Once she told her teammates to refire the ticket, Chef Ramsay told her not to and brought both the Red Team and the Blue Team into the pantry, telling them to shut their kitchens down.

Both teams were named joint losers and had to come up with two nominees for elimination. When Christina suggested Lydia and herself, Brynn came to an agreement and stated that there was no explanation needed. When Lydia brought up the fact that Brynn stated that Christina’s raw salmon was acceptable to serve, Brynn said that she owned up to it, though it didn’t change the nominee choices regardless, as the former and Christina were still going up.

Brynn named Lydia as the first nominee, stating that she lacked technique, proper communication and care and Christina as the second nominee due to her sinking on the fish station to the point where she had to be babied. After both Pory and Christina were both sent back in line, Brynn smiled in satisfaction and was in agreement with Chef Ramsay’s choice to eliminate Lydia.

Back at the dorms, Brynn tried to comfort Pory after he was nominated for a second time in the competition. When Christina joined in the conversation, Brynn showed appreciation towards her plea and told both her and Pory that she knows that they can both redeem themselves during the next service. Once Pory hugged her for the first time, it led her to feeling flustered about it, which caught Mick’s attention. After the latter brought it up, it led to Brynn almost choking on a cookie in embarrassment. Later, she conversed with Mick and Kiibo about the current point of the competition and stated that with only eight people remaining, everyone had to be on their A game to stay in this competition. After Mick revealed that Brent volunteered to go on the Red Team as per Chef Ramsay’s request, she admitted that she thought that they were gonna choose Jesse. She then admitted that there were gonna be three strong women on the Red Team and a man who would benefit the team rather than hinder it and hoped that she could shine as an individual or she might be the chopping block’s next victim.

### Episode 11

With Chef Ramsay giving the chefs many days off, it allowed for Brynn to get to know her competitors a lot more during dorm life. After many days of hanging out with Pory and doing things such as showing each other photos of friends and family and even seeing each other’s culinary skill in person for the first time, it led to the two getting closer to each other and Talia advising Brynn to ask him out before it was too late. Eventually, the two had a conversation with Toasty, which led to Abby and Jesse’s relationship being brought up. When Pory admitted that he did not think that they were cute together, Brynn asked if he was jealous of Jesse being with Abby, to which he responded that he thought she was cool but she wasn’t someone he’d choose to date. Brynn then questioned it thinking that she’d be everyone’s choice, before he explained that she was not his type, which made Brynn ask what his type was. After Pory admitted that she was the closest to his type, it made her flustered to the extent that she hid her reddened face, however it died down as Brent went off topic. After the two brought up the fact that they would prefer to have a child sometime after marriage, Brent went back to the topic of relationships, much to Brynn’s dismay. Once Brent asked Pory who from the competition he would most likely date, he responded with Brynn’s name, causing her to be shocked. The conversation went off topic yet again until Brent brought up the fact that Pory complimented Brynn before, which made the latter question his motives. Once Brent left, Pory asked Brynn if the former was making fun of him, to which she explained that he wanted to fish info regarding her from him, but admitted that she’d like to know the truth for herself rather than getting someone else to do it for her. Later, the two went to the hot tub area and Brynn asked Pory if he had feelings for her, to which he admitted that he did since Cook For Your Life, causing her to go red and admitting that she developed feelings for him beforehand but only realized during the same stage as well. The two admitted that confessing their feelings for each other was a huge sigh of relief, due to their fears of rejection and being friendzoned and were both happy that they were a thing. Brynn then stated that she wanted to still stay focused on the competition, but still wanted to do romantic things with him, so Pory suggested to still do the romantic stuff in the dorms, whilst not letting their relationship get to them during the competition. Brynn then admitted that she did not know what her type was initially and thought that she and Pory would only be friends at the beginning, before she developed feelings for him as she got to know him better. She then admitted that she didn’t think he’d have the same feelings for her, but was so happy that he felt the same way.

The next morning, before the challenge, the two, along with Mick and Toasty were having a casual conversation. During the conversation, Brynn announced that Pory and her were now officially dating, with Mick congratulating the two. The final eight were then entertained by Kirk Lee Hammet from Metallica as they entered the kitchen. When Brent revealed that Jesse was moving over to the Red Team, Brynn was not exactly thrilled with the decision. During the challenge, Brynn was the first chef to choose a chef from the opposing team to go up against. She chose Pory due to the fact that he was the one she wanted to face in the finale, the reason much to the disbelief of Talia. Pory chose the jazz case, which revealed that they were both working with chicken. During the cooking phase of the challenge, Brynn stated that whilst her and Pory were a thing, her head was still in the game and she was prepared to take him down this challenge. Brynn presented a rustic pan seared chicken breast on top of haricot verts, with a side of sweet potato puree, with the dish being finished off in a creamy mushroom sauce. Whilst the presentation was criticized for looking awkward, the chicken was praised for being cooked perfectly, with Chef Ramsay stating that he also loved the puree and the sauce, with her easily scoring a point over Pory’s fried chicken. When Jesse presented an air fried salmon dish, Brynn questioned the use of an air fryer in Hell’s Kitchen. The score was tied 3-3 and the best dish from each team was judged again to break the tie. Thanks to Talia’s veal scallopini, the Red Team won the challenge.

The Red Team were rewarded with going to a concert headlined by Kirk Hammet himself. Brynn was excited that they finally got to get out of Hell’s Kitchen again. When Talia asked what to do with Jesse, Brynn answered that the Red Team should just cope and carry him if need be and stated that the Blue Team clearly kicked him off the team for being the weakest link. After Talia stated that she was glad that it wasn’t Pory moving to red, Brynn got very angry at that statement. When the rest of the Red Team thought that Pory was now the weakest link of the Blue Team, Brynn started to get concerned as she really wanted to go to the finale with him, though people had doubts due to his previous service and challenge performances and hoped that he bounced back so they could fulfil their hopes and dreams.

After the reward, the chefs learnt that a Charity Night was being held for the next service. Brynn then cooked carbonara for the Blue Team’s dinner, with Jesse being upset that she didn’t cook him any. Afterwards, she and Pory conversed about the upcoming Charity Night service, with her admitting that she felt nervous as it was out of her comfort zone, but knew that most of the things she had done in Hell’s Kitchen were also outside of that zone and she persevered through it all. She then later brought up with Pory the conversation she had with the Red Team during the reward, advised him to prove them all wrong and bounce back and told him that she has always believed in him and always will, which led to him holding her hand for the first time, causing her to blush in surprise. Soon after, Pory decided to lay his head on her shoulder, leading to Brynn asking if he was tired after his dreadful punishment, with their moment being interrupted by a truck horn, indicating that the Blue Team’s punishment was far from done. Talia then questioned Brynn if she was still unsure of Pory not liking her, before Brynn told her what had happened and told her that their relationship was not going to affect her in the long run. Once the Blue Team’s punishment was done, Brynn and Pory decided to take some painkillers, due to their throbbing headaches from the truck horn, before deciding to sleep on the couch in each other’s arms.

Before the Charity Night dinner service, Brynn noted that Charity Night led to the demise of a plethora of chefs in the past and hoped that she could execute everything well, so she wouldn’t fall victim to the chopping block. After hearing that she would be cooking for St Jude’s Hospital Charity, Brynn yawned to the fact that Jennifer Aniston was the guest speaker for the charity. In the Red Kitchen, Brynn asked Talia if she was confident about service, to which the latter responded with full confidence before asking the former the same question, to which she responded more hesitantly before the two high-fived each other.

During the Charity Night dinner service, Brynn was responsible for leading the filet course. During Talia’s scallop course, Brynn was responsible for cooking half of the scallops. The first batch of scallops that were sent up were overcooked, and when she sent up the refires, they were fifteen seconds under, but she eventually got them accepted and helped successfully plate the scallop course. Brynn admitted that nerves got the better of her during the scallop course. She was not seen much during the fettuccine course, led by Jesse, but despite Christina initially sending up undercooked fettuccine and falling behind, the Red Team got their second course out and quickly got the turbot course, led by Christina, out to the dining room as well. Due to the Blue Team falling behind on the turbot course, Brynn was casually waiting for Pory at the pass to negotiate times, however, she quickly felt nervous again after viewing the dining room and seeing the prestigious guests. Soon after, Pory met her at the pass and they quickly negotiated a time of nine minutes on the filet course. Afterwards, she gave directions in a flustered manner, leading to Chef Ramsay and Sous Chef Skullcrusher telling her to calm down. Later as soon as she dispatched Christina off filets to help her plate, she realized that she put out fifteen plates instead of twelve, leading her to be chewed out yet again. She sent the course out, with half of the plates later being returned due to the filets being undercooked, leading to her asking Jesse if he has any backups seared. After Jesse sent up the backup filets, she checked and approved of them before resending half the table out. After sending out the desserts, Brynn tried not to cry, but admitted that it was such a shitshow for her.

After service, the Red Team were named the losers, causing Brynn to look down in guilt, which caught the attention of the Blue Team. During deliberation, Brynn was undoubtedly declared the first nominee. When discussing the second nominee, Brynn brought up that Talia took more lead on Jesse’s course than he did, but Christina sent up the undercooked pasta during the same course, before confirming the latter as the second nominee. After deliberation, Brynn went straight to the patio to sit and sob, which caught Pory’s attention and led to him approaching her. She explained that she fucked up Charity Night and that Christina was going up with her, which led to him advising her to fight and told her not to give up. She thanked him for the motivation, but told him that if she did not survive, she wanted him to make the finale for her and stated that she wanted to help him win during the final service. Afterwards, the two hugged it out and exchanged “I love yous” before heading to the elimination ceremony.

During elimination, Brynn was named the first nominee for screwing the pace of the kitchen with her raw filets and was joined by Christina. After Christina’s plea, Brynn questioned the former’s choice of words, which led to a small argument, with the latter reminding her that she nominated herself last service. During her plea, Brynn stated that it wasn’t an easy decision leaving her business to come to Hell’s Kitchen, and whilst she was inexperienced on a line, she adapted well to the restaurant environment. She then stated that she had learned, grown and matured within the past eleven weeks and said that she was a fighter, even though she did it in the wrong way at the beginning, before mentioning that she can bounce back from her horrendous charity night. Finally, she stated that she had so much passion and heart to give and was not yet done in Hell’s Kitchen, with her fire being far from out. After her lengthy yet passionate plea, she compared herself to Season 1's Shane, due to the fact that neither of them were short of words, before nervously letting out a few tears. In the end, Brynn was eliminated, due to her poor leadership during her course and being the cause of the Red Team’s downfall, causing most of her competitors to be saddened at this outcome. Chef Ramsay praised her for her growth and ability to both learn and cook, as well as her palate, but acknowledged that she was not ready to become his next head chef. She then thanked him for the opportunity, as well as once believing in her even during the time when almost nobody else did, before she got told to keep her head up as she had a very bright future ahead of her. Before she left, a very tearful Pory gave her one last hug, which caught her by surprise at first before she did the same back and initiated their first kiss together. She then wished him along with everyone else good luck before she left. During her exit interview, she said she was embarrassed and pissed about her performance and accepted that her leadership and communication skills were her demise and that she let her nerves get the absolute better of her. She knew that she was supposed to get stronger, but also knew that even the smallest errors could kill the most consistent chef at that point. Finally, she acknowledged that whilst she may not have won Hell’s Kitchen, her loss was not going to stop her from cooking and agreed with Chef Ramsay stating her future will definitely be bright.

Elimination Quote: "In her final plea, Brynn wanted me to compare her to Shane from two seasons ago. Unfortunately, in order for her to be in the same ballpark as him, she has to be a leader, which she very clearly isn't."

### Episode 16

Brynn was one of the eight chefs to return for the final service. She was Talia’s third pick after Riyonn and Jesse and the fifth pick overall and was eventually joined by Pory. When discussing menus, Pory stated that he was glad that he and Brynn can finally work together in the kitchen, with Brynn smiling and agreeing to that statement. After Riyonn stated that the dynamic between Talia’s brigade picks was going to be awesome, Brynn agreed, stating that everyone knew each other well and can work together very well. After Talia gave an overview of her menu, she initially put Brynn on the fish station before she stated that she wanted to do a practice service to finalize stations. Whilst Brynn was reviewing her notes for Talia’s menu, she was approached by Pory. When he asked her how it felt about being back at Hell’s Kitchen, she admitted that whilst she had really fun experiences during her time, she felt a bit nervous and sick to her stomach, due to her final service before her elimination. After Pory vented to her about how he thinks that Brent, Mick and Kiibo now view him after his ejection service, Brynn told him that he wasn’t useless and that one bad service or negative opinions from Ramsay or his team does not determine his overall worth and that he should believe in himself more. After Brynn told him that even if his former teammates may not have his back anymore, she reassured him that he’ll always have her by his side, leading to him tearfully yet happily hugging her, to which she hugged back with a smile on her face. Afterwards, she confessed that she could not help but think of them hypothetically versing each other in the finale and admitted that she didn’t root for anybody after he got eliminated and always hoped that she was on the same brigade as him during the finale, so they can prove that they can work well together in the kitchen. She then admitted that she was excited for their new life together in a different state and told him that she’s started searching up places they could stay together, both of them being glad that it’ll be just them and her pets and not sixteen other people. The two of them stated that they were looking forward to what the future had in store for them whilst holding hands and eventually the two of them kissed.

The next morning, before practice service, Talia noticed Brent’s off attitude, with Brynn explaining to her that he was pissed off ever since returning to Hell’s Kitchen, which led to a conversation between Brynn, Riyonn and Pory. During practice, Brynn was on the fish station. Initially, she sent up undercooked scallops, which led to Talia to ask her to put them back in the pan for a few seconds and eventually, they got accepted. Brynn then gave advice to both Riyonn and Pory during the second ticket of appetizers, which eventually got accepted, despite the latter initially sending up risotto stuck to the pan. During the final order of appetizers, Brynn volunteered to do the carrot tartare, which got accepted without any faults. After she sent up both an overcooked and underdone halibut, Brynn switched stations with Pory during entrees and took responsibility for the garnish station. Eventually, all entrees were accepted by Talia. After service, Talia’s brigade ate the food that they cooked and Brynn and Pory later learnt that their stations were being switched for the big day.

During final service, Brynn was on the appetizers station. During the first ticket of appetizers, she was responsible for the hazelnut risotto, whilst she delegated Riyonn to work on the duck flatbread. After sending her first order of risotto up, it was rejected for lacking seasoning, but after a quick fix, it got accepted. During the next ticket, she was responsible for the risotto, with Pory helping her on salads and Riyonn once again helping her on flatbread. When Brynn sent up her risotto, it was rejected for being stuck to the pan, along with Riyonn’s flatbread for being burnt on the bottom, resulting in Talia switching their responsibilities. Eventually, Brynn got her flatbread refire accepted, with Talia praising it for being beautiful. Brynn then got salads for the next ticket accepted. During entrees, Brynn helped with prepping the desserts until Jesse messed up the garnish for the second ticket as it was oversalted, causing Talia to switch their stations. During the refire, Brynn and Pory ensured that they were in sync on garnish and meat respectfully and got their refires accepted. During the next ticket, she and Riyonn were responsible for creating the tofu stir fry and it got accepted without any faults. During the final ticket, Brynn took notes of the firing times for the duck, wagyu and halibut garnishes and communicated those times with both Riyonn and Pory, with the final ticket being accepted. After service, Brynn admitted that she was happy that she could redeem herself from her poor charity performance and that she felt amazing. Eventually, Talia won the finals over Mick, with the former promising Brynn, Riyonn and Pory that she’ll offer them jobs in Tokyo.

## Season 25

### Episode 1

Brynn was one of 18 contestants on the bus, but was one of nine contestants secretly returning. Posing as “Briana Locusta”, she gained some insight on some of the rookies, noting that Diana was one of the main ones that she could stand, whereas Betsy was deemed the opposite. She also greeted “Nocturn Redtail”, fully knowing that his identity was really Riyonn, thus giving each other smirks. As Toasty almost exposed the secret of it being a Rookies vs Veterans season, with him mentioning her name, she acted neutral, yet still asked who “Brynn” was, before the sous chef corrected himself. As soon as she arrived at the dorms, she went to the blue bedroom with Michelle and Pory, noting that the team can drop the act in the bedroom, where the rookies cannot access. During her time with the veterans, she told everyone about how she worked in Tokyo alongside Talia, Pory and Riyonn, before moving to Atlanta with Pory to work for Danny. She also opened up about her behavior during the beginning of her first season, stating that both her parents and her most recent ex put her in an atrocious mood right before coming onto set.

Before Signature Dish, Brynn revealed her identity to the Rookies first, giving her resume before doing so, and eventually, every other veteran revealed themselves. During Signature Dish, Brynn seeked redemption after receiving a one during her first stint. She was seen passing Riyonn some ringmoulds and tasting Pory's garlic mash, before the latter gave her the pet name of "honey", causing her to get flustered. Brynn was the seventh veteran to present and went up against Ayumu. She presented a braised and caramelized catfish with coconut infused rice and stir fried brocollini, which traced back to her Vietnamese roots. Her dish was praised for being better than her cinnamon gumbo from Season 23 and for having sufficient flavor, scoring a 4/5. The Veterans eventually won the challenge.

The Veterans were rewarded with a restaurant visit alongside Chef Ramsay and Toasty. During the reward, Brynn praised the reward for being banging. When Toasty asked how she and Pory felt about competing on the same season once more, she stated that it was always fun to hang with who she thought was objectively the best boyfriend ever.

## Post Hell's Kitchen

* After her first run, Brynn went back to her personal chef company, "Crinston Cuisine", which has positive reviews, before she relocated to Tokyo, Japan.
* She, along with Pory and Riyonn, all took on Talia's job offer to work under her wing at The Conrad, Tokyo for a year, before moving to Atlanta, Georgia with Pory to take on a job offer from Danny to work at one of his high-end restaurants.
* After her second run, she returned to her old job as Sous Chef, before being promoted to Executive Sous Chef and later Head Chef. She also has plans to open her own restaurant in Atlanta.
* She and Pory got engaged and married, with her now going by Brynn Nog.

## Trivia

* She and Pory are the second pair of contestants to be in a relationship and eventually get married, following by Danny and Denise, and the first pair to have their relationship aired on camera.
	+ Ironically, the two worked for Danny after their first appearance on the show.

### Season 23

* She is the sixteenth Asian-American contestant to compete, following Wendy (Season 1), Aaron (Season 3), Louross (Season 4), Ji (Season 5), Gail (Season 8), Krupa, Gina, Chino (all from Season 9), Roshni (Season 10), Gaurav, Bev (both from Season 12), and Alan (Season 15), Brynn (Season 20), Elise and Angie (both from Season 21), and is the first Malaysian contestant of the show.
* She is the sixth contestant that won a challenge but was forced to do a punishment, following Cody (Season 19), Brynn, Steve (both from Season 20), Michael (Season 22) and Hugh (also from Season 23).
* She is the eighth contestant and the fourth 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 and Jake (both from Season 21). She is also the first contestant from the Red Team to do so.
* She and Pory are the only two chefs named the BoB for an episode to not make Black Jackets. The two were also eliminated consecutively.
* She has had the most instances of announcing the nominees this season, with four and was named the Best of the Best for one of them.

### Season 25

* She is the first chef to place eighth during her original season to return for another season.

## Quotes

### Season 23

* *(During Signature Dish)* "Step aside NERDS. I'll show you how it's really done."
* *(About Lydia's dish)* "He means second most edible thing. My dish was clearly a 6/5."
* "Looks like Hugh Jazz is making a HUGE ASS of himself."
* *(About Talia)* "YOU WANNA KICK ME OFF MY SECTION?! YOU THINK YOU CAN FUCKING LEAD?! GOOD LUCK BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST GONNA FUCKING SINK BITCH!"
* "Chef, I find it absolutely BULLSHIT that my fucking name was even CONSIDERED for nomination! These BITCHES are THREATENED by my intelligence and honestly, that’s the ONLY reason I’m up here tonight! It’s DEFINITELY NOT because of my cooking skills or my leadership! I was vocal with my team AND I performed FLAWLESSLY on meat tonight, but OBVIOUSLY you didn’t get a CHANCE to see that tonight! because I was BULLIED OFF MY SECTION by TaLia! Also, if it were between me and Hugh right now, I wasn’t STUPID enough to NOMINATE MYSELF BECAUSE I OBVIOUSLY WANT TO STAY HERE AND HAVE THE PASSION AND HEART TO BE HERE! I OBVIOUSLY DON’T DESERVE TO GO HOME. NOT NOW. NOT EVER."
* "Ronald needs to go back to McDonalds tbh."
* "The first nominee is unfortunately Walter White who lives at 308 Negra Aroya Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104. He had a chance to redeem himself on the Red Team but unfortunately FUCKED US ON CHICKEN and proved that the only thing he can cook is METH."
* *(To Hugh)* "You whine about personality and it not being cooking, but I've been targeted for 3 episodes straight! I didn't even have a dish sent back these last 2 services, and you want to lie and bitch and moan! I'm not going to sit here and be the scapegoat anymore, that goes for EVERYONE. Cooking, not your damn personality contest."
* "Wow finally the pond channel is used for something in this Discord server."
* *(After losing to Jesse in the Jacket Challenge)* "He only won because I lost. That's not a winner."
* *(After scoring a point for her wellington during Last Chef Standing)* "One point for Brynn."
* *(During the Craps Challenge)* "Chef, can you blow on my dice before I roll?"
* *(During the Vegas Reward)* "Riyonn's gonna some get bitches tonight! And those bitches are gonna get some flava from his elevata!"
* *(After scoring a second point during the Blind Taste Test)* “Wow I did better than Lydia and that Angie fucker from S1.”
* *(After confessing her feelings to Pory)* "At the start of the competition, I didn’t know what my type was and I viewed everyone as mere competitors. At the very beginning, Pory was the only person that believed in me and was fine with my abrasive approach and I genuinely thought we were only gonna be friends. But as soon as the competition progressed, we got to hang out and got to know each other more and it resulted in me falling more and more in love with him everyday and made me realize that he was totally my type. He was always there for me when nobody else was and is probably the easiest person to talk to. I never thought that he had the same feelings for me, but I’m so happy that he does. This is the best outcome ever and I could not be happier."
* *(After giving her final plea)* "Chef, you can rename me Oshane Bhatoa for that plea."
* *(After being eliminated)* "Oh yeah, I’m definitely embarrassed and pissed at myself and I’d be lying if I said otherwise. I could’ve performed better, but my leadership and communication skills were definitely my demise tonight and I totally let fear get the better of me. At this point, I was supposed to get stronger, but the smallest errors can kill even the most consistent chef and unfortunately that was what happened with me. It is what it is though. I may not have won Hell’s Kitchen, but at the end of the day, it’s not gonna stop me from continuing to do what I love, which is cooking. I know that my future will definitely be bright."
* *(To Pory)* "Yeah, you should start believing in yourself more, because you're better than you think you are. Trust me. Also, even if your former teammates don't have your back anymore, you'll always have me by your side."

### Season 25

* *(About Diana staring at Kiibo)* "Oooo, looks like Diana has a crush."
* "Lol why is security opening HK?"
* "What is with Riyonn and sex? First “sex in a pan” and now this? Man’s horny for his food istfg."
* *(About the Punishment Pass challenge)* "Last time I was on the fucking BOTTOM for this shit, even though Riyonn had chicken that was “uhhhhh undercooked and disgusting”. I need to win that pass and if it has the same advantage that it has Season 23, I know exactly who I wanna take with me to the reward."
* *(After hearing about S's plethora of raw chickens)* "I think the S in his name stands for salmonella."
* *(After being eliminated) "*Hell’s Kitchen is definitely one hell of a rollercoaster ride that can definitely affect you both mentally and emotionally, and once again, I think that’s where my demise was. The Brynn from the start of season 23, would not have done what i did just now, but this entire experience has made me a more mature, humble and an even better person within the span of two seasons. Part of me wanted to go all the way, but there’s also a part of me that’s kinda glad that I lost, considering that moving out and travelling all the time is a sincere fucking pain. I definitely have some alternative plans career wise. And I also cannot wait to see my boyfriend and greet him with a big hug and kiss. Onto bigger and better things - both personally and professionally."