Ramsey is really an a-hole. I would hire him to manage construction projects if I could afford him.

Great show

I had the pleasure to reserve the "kitchen table" (glass enclosure with sheik style motif) in center of HUGE kitchen at Gordon Ramseys for a fantastic dinner with my family (5 hours! for 700 pds).

A very tense place for all that work there! -- a lot of hollering-- but oh! the food!!

If anyone gets the chance this is a dinner you will not soon forget

yeah he sure is a jerk with a giant J. he loves to tear down instead of build up. no wonder nobody can perform well like that. everyone is probably scared to death to do anything--for fear that he will jump down their throat. i won't be watching anymore...it's way too insulting...for everyone.

My wife said she won't watch it again but I will. I've had a couple of chef clients who trash talked their staff because they were wanting perfection in their kitchen.

The problem I had was he wanted perfect service from his staff yet he told a customer to F off! I guess if you knew this was part of his schtick you would laugh it off. Personally, I probably would have told him where to stick it!!!

When he told the "bimbos" to go get more plastic surgery I nearly fell off the couch laughing.

It is pretty hard to swallow him saying that all he is trying to do is help them achieve their goals when he is such a complete a-hole.

That being said, I will probably return and see how "Blueberry" fares next week....

Saw the last episode, but not the first. Do these "patrons" know what's up when they come in?
Mr. I've-Got-a-Doctorate had my sympathy until he went off on the poor maitre d'. Really, I would walk out of ANY establishment before I waited 2+ hours for a meal. I don't care who the chef is.
And the contestants, my god! Have any of them ever held a job before, let alone a restaurant job? I haven't worked in a restaurant in nearly 30 years, but I think I could do better than most of them. If they can't handle the go!go!go! of a commercial kitchen, none of them deserve to have their own restaurant. Sheesh!

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I found it amusing and interesting and will continue watching.

I thought it was great tv.

OK not great but at least as good as any other reality based, thin the herd down to the alpha dog type of show can be.

How is it that the Brits can come up with this stuff and we poor Americans can't?

I keep missing it. When is it on??

Good question. Fox has been moving it around. I think it's on Mondays. But, they ran some kind of double episode the other night.

http://www.fox.com/hellskitchen/

i took a look to the web-site and watched the carbonara scene,

that's really not the way i would do it!

and he needs to many bowls and pans.

It is kind of funny when taken for what it is - an overblown spoof on a stereotyped angry chef with a bunch of mentally challenged minions worshipping his every word.

It's really not a reality show but how many are now anyhoo?

That being said it was "scripted" in a particulary humorous way so I'd watch again.

Agree with wino4ever, I've only watched the last show but it seemed very contrived. It is at times quite funny though.

I've downloaded episode 1 on BitTorrent and hopefully the rest on TiVo. I haven't had chance to watch any yet.

I love Ramsay. The Kitchen Nightmares series is great - there's a second series broadcasting in the UK right now. It's well worth the effort of getting the uncensored UK versions.

I've lived it and don't want to watch. i worked for an Austrian chef that reminded me of a cartoon Prussian nazi with everything but the Heidelburgh dueling scar. When i was plating veggies up for a banquet He instructed me "don't be so Jewish" I replied "I'm not being Jewish ,your being a nazi" This was not intended as a compliment, but i could see by the malevolent grin curling across his face that Han's took it as the highest accolade. I had many dreams of stomping the life out of Hans and then weeping with rage that he was dead and i could't kill him again.Luckily it was a lucid dream and i resurected him and restomped him again and again. Cooking for a living is not nessisarily good for emotional health.

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Yep. I watched it last night for the first time. It's pretty painful to watch though. Kinda of like PBS's 'Cooking Under Fire'. Asking someone to come up with a totally fabulous menu with 10 minutes of shoping and and hour to cook 5 courses is a bit unreal.

I'd watched 'Kitchen Nightmares' and found that amusing, but also like watching a train wreck in progress.

Abusive bosses are not funny. It's no way to motivate people. And people wonder why I started a virtual restaurantSub Rosa instead of a real one... it's a day in day out grind. A creative outlet, very much so, but damn hard work for the failure rate. I spent enough of my time slaving away at software companies. Some succeeded and some failed but our bosses were usually a bit nicer than Mr. Ramsey and we got paid a hell of a lot better than most any line-cook.

Will I be back to watch 'Hell's Kitchen'? Only if I stumble across it channel surfing. It's like Fear Factor meets Survivor at the Iron Chef's house... not all that much fun to be in or watch frankly.

I watched all three episodes last night. Thank you, TiVo. It's quality stuff.

The thing that annoys me is all the censoring. Look at the show it replaced at 9PM on Monday - 24. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the show, but it had stacks of graphic violence, torture, murder, etc. Apparently it's okay to show all that on TV, but it's not okay to show Ramsay telling someone their food tases like sh!t? I mean, come on.

It is a fun show that I do watch. It is excellent for conversation with friends about how the kitchen people approach their job. And yes, Ramsey is an A-hole but sometimes you have to be tough to get people to do things correctly. I wish they would spend a little extra time on some wine pairing.

It's an excellent show. I feel that the customers walking up to the line is a total setup. No chef of his stature let alone any would ever tell a client to **** off, unless they wanted their place to fail.

HK doesn't show enough of the exhaustion the cooks are going through. It's still an addictive show.

Weak and pointless show. Oh, be sure, I still watch it, but...

His BBC series are much more engaging and personal.

You may think this chef is brutal but trying working for one of Wolfgang Puck goon egomaniac chefs in Las Vegas for 5 years.

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Originally posted by josephlvnv:
You may think this chef is brutal but trying working for one of Wolfgang Puck goon egomaniac chefs in Las Vegas for 5 years.

josephlvnv,
Any experiences you'd like to share?

What's with all the sympathy?

Hello! It's a game show. These people are there as contestants. They are there voluntarily. They can walk at anytime. It's all for your viewing pleasure!

I’m just tired of hearing ...... “yes, chef” “yes, chef” “yes, chef.”
How pathetic - someone needs to tell him he’s fat SOB and to f^ck-off.

I'm a fairly mild mannered fellow, but I'd have to kick Mr. Ramsey's ass if he treated me the way he treats this group of whimps.