Hell's Kitchen (American TV series) season 5

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The fifth season of Hell's Kitchen is the current edition of the American competitive reality television series where chefs compete to earn a job with Gordon Ramsay. This season of Hell's Kitchen began airing on the Fox Network starting on January 29, 2009. This season was taped in 2008.

The winner will be employed at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey with a $250,000 salary.

Contestants

There are 16 chefs competing in Season 5.

Contestant Progress

Each week, the best member (as determined by Ramsay) from the losing team during the latest service period is asked to nominate two of their fellow teammates for elimination; one of these two is sent home by Ramsay. On some weeks, there may be a variation in the nomination process, depending on the losing team's (or teams') performance.

Chef 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508
Andrea
WIN LOSE WIN LOSE NOM BoW WIN NOM
Ben
LOSE WIN LOSE NOM LOSE WIN NOM WIN
Carol
WINW LOSE WIN LOSE LOSE LOSE WIN NOM
Danny
LOSE WIN LOSE LOSE LOSE WIN LOSE WIN
Giovanni
LOSEW WIN LOSE LOSE BoW WIN WINR LOSE
Paula
WIN LOSEW WIN LOSE LOSE LOSE WIN LOSE
Robert
LOSE WINW LOSE LOSE LOSE WIN LOSE WIN
LA
WIN LOSE WIN LOSE BoW NOM WIN OUT
Lacey
WIN NOM WIN NOMB LOSE WIN NOM OUTM
J
LOSE WIN LOSE LOSE NOM WIN OUTM
Coi
WIN LOSE WIN LOSE LOSE OUT
Colleen
WIN NOMW WIN NOM OUT
Seth
NOM WIN NOM OUT
Charlie
LOSE WIN OUT
Ji
WIN OUT
Wil
OUT

WThis contestant was chosen to wait tables or serve the raw bar for the service.
BThis contestant was switched from the Red Team to the Blue Team.
RThis contestant was switched from the Blue Team to the Red Team.
MThis contestant was eliminated from service by Chef Ramsay while dinner service was still in progress.

  Contestant was a member of the Winning Team
  Contestant was a member of the Losing Team
  Contestant was chosen as the Best of the Worst (BoW), or the Best of the Best (BoB)
  Contestant was nominated for elimination but prevailed
  Contestant was nominated for elimination by Chef Ramsay
  Contestant was eliminated
  Contestant voluntarily withdrew from the competition
  Single team - contestant advanced in individual competition (IN)
  The runner-up of Hell's Kitchen
  The winner of Hell's Kitchen

Episodes

Each episode consists of a challenge with a reward, a service, nominations for elimination, and an elimination.

Episode 1

Episode 2

  • Original airdate: February 5, 2009
  • Episode recap: Hell's Kitchen - Episode 502, "15 Chefs Compete" (Fox.com)
  • Preliminaries: Following the previous service, a marching band awoke the contestants early in the morning and greeted with garbage bags containing food that they wasted. Unlike the last season, they will instead fish scallops out of big crates, and take the scallops to the kitchen, where they would be used for the day's team challenge -- shuck the scallops without leaving any cuts in the meat. The blue team won the challenge in a dramatic finish with J managing to have the last of six scallops be deemed good by Ramsay after a 0-for-5 start. They won by one piece -- 36 pieces to the red team's 35.
  • Award / Punishment: The men take a helicopter ride to Catalina Island; Robert, however, was forced to take a ferry due to his weight. To his further misfortune, when Robert arrived at Catalina Island, it was time to head back. While on a submarine ride, Seth demonstrated a level of knowledge of Gordon's personal life, to a point that had gotten Gordon to (jokingly) believe that Seth was stalking him. Meanwhile, the women stayed back to prepare a raw bar for the night's service, of which Lacey mostly slept through.
  • Service: During preparation, Ji had sprained her ankle and she was in doubt to be able to take part in dinner service, but announced to Chef Ramsay that she would. Carol and Charlie both struggled with risotto, but Ben was able to bail Charlie out with a good one. Colleen was horrid on the fish station, leading Ramsay to assign Lacey to help her, but after continual mistakes, Colleen was reassigned to the the raw bar. To make things interesting, Chef Ramsay declared the team to complete their service first to be the winner. Despite the setbacks, both teams would complete their service.
  • Winner: The blue team won, for completing their service first. The red team had one table to go when blue won.
  • Nominees for elimination: Colleen and Lacey were nominated for elimination.
  • Elimination: After Colleen and Lacey stepped forward, Ji announced that she had chosen to withdraw from competition, due to a sprained ankle she sustained during the raw bar preparation. She admirably completed service but felt that she wouldn't be able to carry on later into the competition. Chef Ramsay said she had been phenomenal and let her keep her jacket, as a token of her bravery. Colleen and Lacey were spared, to the apparent chagrin of the Red Team. As Andrea helped the wheelchair-bound Ji out of Hell's Kitchen, the Blue Team all rose and gave Ji a farewell standing ovation for her gritty performance. Ramsay then called on all those remaining to draw from Ji's perserverance, who Ramsay said demonstrated "courage at its best".
  • Chef Ramsay's Reason: "Ji showed great courage; unfortunately, her injury got in the way of her dream. She had a chance to win this, but sadly we will never, ever know."

Episode 3

  • Original airdate: February 19, 2009
  • Episode recap: "Hell's Kitchen - Episode 503, 14 Chefs Compete" (Fox.com)
  • Preliminaries: Both teams were awakened at 6AM by Chef Scott, who takes them on a field trip to a meat rendering plant, where he shows the contestants how the meat is cut and where the cuts come from. Back at the kitchen, Chef Ramsay gives the contestants a challenge -- match the names of the cuts of meat with the cuts themselves, then place the names of the cuts on a cow, in the area where the cuts came from. The blue team won by getting both parts of the challenge 100% correct first.
  • Award / Punishment: The blue team fly to the Sunstone Winery in Santa Ynez, California, where they have a wine tasting, followed by a steak dinner. The red team stay behind to make cuts of meat out of two large sides of beef, requiring the entire team to carry each side into the kitchen. Furthermore, for lunch, Chef Scott treats them to a lunch, consisting of cow's tongue and offal, leading some contestants to vomit.
  • Service: Tonight's service is a split "steakhouse" service, split into two two-hour seatings -- one team cooks while the other serves, and vice versa. During the first seating, the blue team frequently sent out undercooked meat, and even prepared dessert before the appetizers; Seth also overcut filet mignon, wasting a great deal of the meat making the cut. During the second seating the red team worked at a faster pace, but also apparently undercooked some meat; some customers returned meat that Chef Ramsay thought was cooked correctly, causing him to accuse the blue team of sabotage. Both seatings were eventual failures as well as complete turn-arounds from the last episode's service, and shut down before everyone's dinners were served.
  • Winner: Based on the amount of entrees served, the red team won.
  • Nominees for elimination: Seth and Charlie were nominated for elimination.
  • Elimination: Charlie was chosen by Chef Ramsay to leave Hell's Kitchen. Ramsey stated he didn't think Charlie was head chef material.
  • Chef Ramsay's Reason: "Charlie is a prep chef, but I'm looking for a head chef. He seems like a nice guy but you know where nice guys finish."

Episode 4

  • Original airdate: February 26, 2009
  • Episode recap: "Hell's Kitchen - Episode 504, 13 Chefs Compete" (Fox.com)
  • Challenge: Both teams cook a special breakfast service for a group of 100 young football kids and cheerleaders; the first team to successfully serve everyone in their half of the group wins. The blue team had an early lead but fell behind by the end because it was too slow with scrambled eggs; the red team won. After losing the challenge, Ben and Danny from the blue team got into a fight.
  • Award / Punishment: The red team goes "camping" for the day at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The blue team cleans up the dining room and the entire kitchen, as well as prep both teams for that night's service. The blue team failed to finish prepping the red team's side by the start of service.
  • Service: In a standard service, the red team was missing its tomato butter sauce, which was supposed to have been made during the blue team's prep; on that account, Chef Ramsay suspected sabotage. Coi pre-makes spaghetti instead of cooking it to order. Colleen makes one beef wellington too many. A butt of a head of lettuce was found in someone's caesar salad prepared by J. And Seth wiped a pan off with a dirty rag after wiping his face with it. In addition, almost every appetizer and entree was returned. With Chef Ramsay's temper reaching the boiling point, he closed the kitchen and declared the service a total and complete failure. In addition, he ordered all teammembers back to the dorms immediately to decide which two team members from each team should leave Hell's Kitchen. All this was done in front of the customers, without the usual post-mortem.
  • Winner: No winners; not even a Best of Worst.
  • Nominees for elimination: Ben and Seth from the blue team; Colleen and Lacey from the red team. Coi nominated herself but the others didn't agree.
  • Elimination: Seth was chosen by Chef Ramsay to leave Hell's Kitchen due to his lack of progress.
  • Chef Ramsay's Reason: "Seth showed that he had all the passion in the world, but the bottom line is he's a crap cook."
  • Team Change: Effective next episode, Lacey will participate in the blue team.

Episode 5

  • Original airdate: March 5, 2009
  • Episode recap: "Hell's Kitchen - Episode 505, 12 Chefs Compete" (Fox.com)
  • Challenge: Both teams visit an Asian supermarket, where they purchase the ingredients needed for "Asian fusion" dishes. The ingredients must consist of one seafood, one poultry, and one meat. Each team has only 25 minutes to shop and $100 to spend. Both teams got what they needed, within budget. Upon returning to Hell's Kitchen, they have one hour to cook their dishes. Each dish will be judged by Chef Ramsay and Tanya Steel, the editor in chief of "Epicurious". The red team won, as they had two dishes chosen to the blue team's one.
  • Award / Punishment: The dishes chosen by Chef Ramsay and Ms. Steel will be featured at Epicurious' web site. In addition, the red team spend the day sumo wrestling (wearing oversized sumo suits), and imbibing on sake. The blue team make fortune cookies and origami for that night's service. Lacey, who was once seen as a pariah on the blue team, saved the day when she shows her teammates how to fold origami.
  • Service: In this service, the night's patrons include a group of sumo wrestlers, who each orders everything on the menu, bringing an extra challenge to the service. Despite a great start on the appetizers, however, it went downhill from there—Andrea was caught hiding burned beef Wellingtons, so that Chef Ramsay wouldn't see them, while J's own beef Wellingtons were undercooked, as the oven fan was on low. In addition, Robert has wasted a lot of food in making his dish; he made Chef Ramsay even angrier by not responding to him when he called Robert "Bobby". And, on top of all that, Colleen's pear dessert was returned because both the pear and the pastry were rock-hard and raw. All was a lost cause, and the kitchen was closed. In a private meeting with Chef Ramsay following the service, Robert explained why he did not respond to "Bobby"—Bobby was his father's name, and Robert got teased when he was younger because of it. Chef Ramsay then told Robert that he will respect Robert's wishes, adding that if Chef Ramsay knew about it earlier, this wouldn't have happened.
  • Winner: No winners; Giovanni and LA were the Best of Worsts for their teams. Each of them will choose a person for elimination.
  • Nominees for elimination: Giovanni chose J; LA chose Andrea.
  • Elimination: Instead of eliminating J or Andrea, he told them to go back to the line. He then addressed Robert and told him to wake up. Finally, he summoned Colleen and told her to leave Hell's Kitchen, as he could no longer tolerate her mistakes. Ironically, as Colleen was leaving, Chef Ramsay complimented her on her tenacity and told the remaining contestants to follow her example.
  • Chef Ramsey's Reason: "There was no place in the kitchen I could put Colleen where she wasn't a disaster. It's time for her to go back to where she belongs—teaching—because she certainly can't cook."

Episode 6

  • Original Airdate: March 12, 2009
  • Episode recap: "Hell's Kitchen - Episode 506, 11 Chefs Compete" (Fox.com)
  • Challenge: The chefs had to create gourmet versions of three dishes the guest of honor (Max) liked: chicken soup, brisket, and burger. Ben felt he had the advantage, as he was also Jewish. While the red team was preparing their dishes the team, led by Carol, began criticizing Andrea and constantly arguing with her, as they thought she was trying to lead while being one of the weakest members on the team. The Blue team won with their soup while the Red team won with the brisket. On the burger, Max liked both but went with the Blue team because the Red team's burger, made by Carol, had blue cheese which he didn't like (the red team had warned Carol about using the blue cheese on the burger but she wouldn't listen).
  • Award / Punishment: The Blue Team was treated to a day at a spa. The losers had to set up for the Bar Mitzvah complete with a basketball court while Andrea and Carol argue about the loss. Francisco (from the wedding reception in season 3 and the birthday party in season 4) arrived again much to the chagrin of Jean Philippe.
  • Service: This service was the first one in Hell's Kitchen to be held for a Bar Mitzvah. The second part of the red team's punishment had them carry Max on a chair during the dance. Both teams struggled but were able to complete service. At the end, Chef Ramsay gave Max a surprise: The Harlem Globetrotters. During cleanup, Carol told Andrea that she wanted to punch her in the throat, which underscored the constant arguing and insults the two had shared during service.
  • Winner: The Blue Team for being more consistent during service. Andrea was chosen as best of the worst, much to the disgust of her team.
  • Nominees for elimination: While Andrea was deciding on her nominees, the rest of the red team got together and agreed that Andrea should not have been best of the worst and if picked, they would tell Chef Ramsey that Andrea was the weakest on the team. After struggling to come up with two nominees, Andrea selected LA and Coi. As according to plan, both nominees stated that Andrea was the worst on the team. Ramsay asked Carol who also said that Andrea was the worst. Paula said that Coi was the worst however, and Ramsay agreed with her at the end, eliminating Coi.
  • Elimination: Coi
  • Chef Ramsay's Reason: "When this competition began, I thought Coi was gonna be a really strong chef. But tonight she was exposed, when she couldn't even cook a bloody burger."

Episode 7

  • Original Airdate: March 19, 2009
  • Episode recap: "Hell's Kitchen - Episode 507, 10 Chefs Compete" (Fox.com)
  • Team change: Shortly before the start of the challenge, Chef Ramsay transferred Giovanni to the red team.
  • Challenge: The chefs each have 20 minutes to make tapas, using leftovers from the previous service. The Red team won this challenge in a close race, 3 to 2. During the challenge, Giovanni took over leadership of the red team and was able to clamp down on some of the bickering between Carol and Andrea.
  • Award / Punishment: The red team go to Hollywood Park for a day of watching horse racing. The blue team stay behind to prep both teams' kitchens for that night's service, as well as bringing in small plates for tapas. Lacey was threatening to quit, as no one was listening to her, but was eventually talked back in by Ben.
  • Service: During this service, J overcooked rice for both teams, turning it into mush, and forcing Chef Ramsay to take the risotto off of the menu for the night. Andrea and Carol were forced to eat a pasta dish, after Chef Ramsay said that the pasta was raw. Chef Ramsay later expelled J from Hell's Kitchen in mid-service a`la Josh Wahler (Season 3, Episode 8), after J committed several additional mistakes including burning the salmon and undercooking the scallops. Chef Ramsay would later threaten to do the same with Ben after he was caught cooking Beef Wellingtons on a dirty pan. Nevertheless, both teams completed service.
  • Winner: The Red Team for finishing service first.
  • Nominees for elimination: Each member of the blue team must nominate who they think should leave Hell's Kitchen. The men nominated Lacey, while Lacey nominated Robert.
  • Elimination: Lacey and Ben were asked by Chef Ramsay to step forward. Chef Ramsay especially singled out Ben for nominating Lacey, as he felt that it was Ben that should've been nominated. But with J already out of the race, no other team members left Hell's Kitchen.
  • Chef Ramsay's Reason: "I kept Ben and Lacey because J put the kitchen in such a hole that they never stood a chance. They're very lucky that I sent J packing."

Episode 8

  • Original Airdate: March 26, 2009
  • Episode recap: "Hell's Kitchen - Episode 508, 9 Chefs Compete" (Fox.com)
  • Challenge: The palate taste test where each team member is blocked of sight and sound and must identify different foods by taste. The red team wins 8 to 7.
  • Award / Punishment: The red team is treated to a photo shoot for TV guide magazine in Hell's Kitchen while the blue team has to prep both kitchens for tonight's service and prepare lunch and hors d'ouevers for the red team.
  • Service: Both Eric McCormack from Will and Grace and Robert Patrick from Terminator 2 were in attendance. Lacey struggled on the meat station and her whiny attitude forced Chef Ramsay to eliminate her during service, similar to Josh Wahler from Season 3, Episode 8. (And just as had been the case with Josh Wahler, Lacey also didn't get the full elimination sequence of her jacket being hung up on a peg and her photo incinerating.) The blue team without Lacey was able to complete service while the red team wasn't.
  • Winner: Blue Team
  • Nominees for elimination: LA, Carol, and Andrea
  • Elimination: Lacey was thrown out in the middle of service `a la Josh Wahler (Season 3, episode 8). LA was eliminated.
  • Chef Ramsay's Reason: "LA was a real workhorse in the kitchen. I kicked her out because she lacked two crucial skills to be a great chef-- leadership and creativity."

References

External links

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