Annie Mayberry

* HK Luskia

**Annabelle Mayberry**, known on the show as **Annie**, is a contestant who competed on the fourth season of Hell's Kitchen Luskia. She ranked in 18th place.

## Personality

Annie was a very sweet and naive person and a decent cook, but lacked fine dining experience which carried over into dinner service where she proved to be clueless with cooking scallops, leading to her early elimination. She generally got along with her teammates.

## Hell's Kitchen Luskia

### Episode 1/2

At the start of the episode, the chefs were shown going in limousines and travelling to Hell's Kitchen. At one point, Annie was talking about how nice it was but also how nervous she was, and said that this was a completely new environment for her as she spent practically her whole life in her rural hometown. The chefs arrived to hell's Kitchen where Kenneth introduced himself and his staff, then the chefs had to cook their signature dishes. For the signature dish challenge, she faced Blake in the fourth round. Annie revealed that she worked at a family restaurant that wasn't exactly fine dining, but said that she could get used to Hell's Kitchen. Her fried chicken was said to lack a bit of creativity, but was praised for not being raw, being deemed not bad, scoring 3/5. The red team won the challenge, and were rewarded with visiting a skyscraper and enjoying a dinner with Kenneth near the top, and she said that it was amazing going out because she had never been anywhere like it.

The next morning, Kenneth called the chefs down to the kitchen, and told them that someone was going to leave that morning, and that they were each going to be cooking with filet mignons. After time was up, Kenneth asked the chefs to line up, and said that he wouldn't be tasting every single dish; instead, he'd ask the sous chefs to taste them, and they'd pick the three best and the three worst from their respective teams. Her dish was not shown as it was not picked as one of the best or worst.

During prep, she was shown not knowing how to prep some of the items, and then admitted that she needed help, and Lara expressed concern over Annie's lack of experience.

For dinner service, Annie was on the fish station with Kat. She admitted to Kat that she didn't know how to cook scallops, but Kat was shown being in a trance. Then, when she sent her scallops up, Kenneth called her over, and asked what was wrong with them. She said that they were still raw, but Kenneth mocked her for that as they were, in fact, overcooked, and she needed to start again, and Lara said that Annie is proving herself to be out of her depth. Then, Kenneth saw that the fish station had four chefs helping out, and he called it fucking ridiculous, and asked Annie what the problem was, to which she said that she didn't know what to do, and Kenneth told her that it wasn't cooking school, and that they were supposed to already know that shit. He called the red team into the pantry, and told them that they had gone 90 minutes without any acceptable fish, and told them that they were fucking pathetic, and called Annie clueless, and the red team was kicked out of the kitchen.

The red team lost the service, and she was quickly chosen as the first nominee. She was announced as the first nominee, with Shannon being the second, and Kat was called up with them. During her plea, she said that she was a bit confused as it was a new environment and didn't expect it to be so difficult, but asked Kenneth to teach her, to which he said that he didn't have time to do it, and that again, it wasn't culinary school. Eventually, she was eliminated for not knowing what she was doing.

Kenneth's comment: *"After seeing Annie cook on the line, I quickly realized that she didn't know what she was doing, and neither did I."*

## Quotes

"I work at a family diner that isn't exactly fine dining, but I can get used to Hell's Kitchen."

"Chef, I was a bit confused, this is a new environment for me and I didn't expect it to be so difficult, but I think you can teach me how to do this stuff."

"I'm gutted that I'm leaving, unfortunately Hell's Kitchen isn't as easy as I imagined it would be. It's a very different experience from working in a family diner, but I'm grateful to have had this opportunity."