I'm also looking forward (maybe moreso) to Kitchen Nighmare's. It's been on BBC, and if you haven't seen it, try to find it. I wonder what the US version will be like. I also enjoyed The F Word. And lastly, Top Chef has my pick as best show to actually see chefs compete. HK is a little too over the top (nannies and Wafle House cooks?), so I like to see people with some skill.

keytohwy

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What I want to know is how the hell did the women's team construct and cook their 3 leftover meals in under 7 minutes?

Easy; Bonnie is so hot the food cooked right in her hand. All the others had to do is put it together, she touched it, and voila.

Naw, she can't cook, remember? Just a good palate and imagination.
Plus, she burned a NY steak. An exile offense in my kitchen. Ramsey can't seriously think she's got what it takes to run her own. Must be some producers running interference, I figure.

Hmm, none of them as what it takes to run a kitchen. I would seriously be scared to eat where they run a kitchen.
Bonnie, hot? Hardly.
A suggestion, one of the sponsors of the show should be an acne cream.

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Bonnie, hot? Hardly.

Bonnie was SMOKING when they did the cover shots with Ramsey. Her face is very pretty with a nice slender bod.

You need to learn to see beyond the hair pulled back, no make-up and wearing a smock. Many see, few observe.

Ah yeah...Bonnie is ok. He face is pretty, not sure about the bod though. Not that impressed.

You want hot? Look at Casey in Top Chef!

Question: Does anyone seriously doubt that Rock will win this? I've been convinced since almost day one.

I can see the final three being Rock, Jen and Julia. Julia can handle herself in a kitchen, she understands the basics and works well under pressure. However she doesn't have the creativity to win. Jen is the opposite.

The one thing that does become clearer each week is that a lot of it is about as much a competition as pro wrestling is. You know that every challenge is going to go down to the wire; how much of that is down to editing I don't know. But take last week's photoshoot - there was no effing way the guys were ever going to win that one challenge, despite the fact that Brad's dish looked way better in every way than Jen's.

The British version was always way better - uncensored and with Angus Deayton's sarcastic deadpan commentary.

The very same thing was playing in the back of my mind during these missions. I think Rock is a shoe-in as well. The only reason Bonnie stayed was because she attracts more viewers.

So what do you reckon - can Bonnie hold on for another week?

Evens: Bonnie
2-1 Josh
3-1 Jen
5-1 Julia
10-1 Rock
50-1 Jean-Philippe

Rock is the only one qualified to be a chef. Julia has a lot of potential. I'd like to see Ramsay offer her a job and see her work her way up. She understands how to communicate and how to get food out.

Can I just say that after covering a semester of work in 10 days (1300 pages of text, in class from 8 a.m-6 a.m., two paper, one group project and a three hour long essay exam), that it feels great to be able to talk about Hell's Kitchen? Also, my fellow students would have curled up in the ball had they tried to go through culinary school. Going through that and having kitchen experience definitely pays off in terms of keeping one's cool and budgeting time.

My fellow grad students were an intense lot and not given to reality tv watching. It's definitely their loss .

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Can I just say that after covering a semester of work in 10 days (1300 pages of text, in class from 8 a.m-6 a.m., two paper, one group project and a three hour long essay exam

Otherwise, how was Champaign?

It was nice, the little I saw of it. I posted a wee shout-out to you on my old Champaign thread to thank you for the Papa Dell's recommendation. It was really good and most appreciated

If you go back there for any reason, please eat at Bacaro. We went the night after my final and it was so good.

Een, I have been looking for you.

Spo, hi!

Well I didn't see *that* coming.

Too bad....

I really think Jen will win.
Rock doesn't deserve it.

I'm sorry but Jen is a moron. She calls herself a pastry chef but she couldn't make a crepe in the first episode. It was a god-damn waffle. She took food out of the garbage and was going to serve it! There is no way I can see her running a kitchen.

I don't know y'all. I think Julia might surprise all of us and win. Rock doesn't have the character to be a good chef, or maybe I just don't like him.

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I don't know y'all. I think Julia might surprise all of us and win. Rock doesn't have the character to be a good chef, or maybe I just don't like him.

She might win next year. I'll be excited to see her back.

Rock is the only person the whole season who actually can cook and has the ability/experience to run a kitchen. A good many chefs are less than likeable. I'd rather work for him than that simp Jen.

I hope that Julia ends up apprenticing somewhere good. She has a lot of raw ability.

Rock will win. He's a hothead, but then again, so is Ramsey. He has the skills at this point of the game.

Jen can't win. She tried to serve food from the garbage can.

Bonnie, well, I guarantee she will win....a contract from Playboy wearing nothing but a chef's hat.

I think I'm back to square one.
None of them are anywhere near the caliber of minimum competence in a Ramsey kitchen. Josh should have been booted weeks ago. Rock can't keep his immaturity and petulance in check; Jenn doesn't know how to run a kitchen effectively; and Bonnie, the ditz, still can't tell the difference between good monkfish and bad. Julia was the only one that had any potential.
Dump them all and start over.

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Rock is the only person the whole season who actually can cook and has the ability/experience to run a kitchen. A good many chefs are less than likeable. I'd rather work for him than that simp Jen.

I hope that Julia ends up apprenticing somewhere good. She has a lot of raw ability.

Hey I agree with you Een. Look at what I posted a few days ago. None of them can cook in my eyes anyway. They are all morons but after how Rock behaved I really doubt he will win.
So by deduction between Jen and Bonnie I chose Jen

I choose Jen too. Rock just isn't winning this the right way, he's purposely crushing everyone in his path. I don't think that's very noble and that's why I don't want him to win. Bonnie isn't ready to be in charge of her own restaurant, but Jen doesn't stick out to me as the winner either. I guess we'll have to watch and see what goes down.

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Rock just isn't winning this the right way, he's purposely crushing everyone in his path.

M.J., have you ever worked in a kitchen? That's the norm. I'm not saying that makes it okay but that's the reality. I worked for a very well-known chef who was the biggest ass ever but that person gets serious award nominations and is highly successful. I cringe every time I see this person on tv or mentioned somewhere.

I did work for one very nice woman but she was highly ineffective.

I'm not saying it's not possible to run a kitchen and be a good person but highly dominant, crushing personalities seem to do a lot better in that environment.