Hell’s Kitchen

Episode description Five Comedians Walk into Hell… Challenge: The final five chefs had to teach five comedians how to make Ramsay’s lobster ravioli. The pairings were as follows: Brandon-Jim Norton, Egypt-Jeff Dye, Hannah-Yamaneika Saunders, Kyle-Judy Gold, and Whit-Druski. Whit won the challenge. Reward/punishment: Whit chose Kyle to go with her on a shopping spree to […]

Episode description Hell at the Pass Challenge: The four chefs had 2 hour in total, with one hour for prep and fifteen minutes for four rounds, to serve diners table-side from four stations. The diners voted on the best and worst chefs. Kyle won the challenge, with 75% of the vote, and chose Whit to […]

Episode description One Hell of a Ride The final three were each assigned a sous-chef. Kyle was assigned to sous-chef James, Egypt was assigned to guest chef Kesha Tatro, and Hannah was assigned to sous-chef Michelle. The final three chefs met their families afterwards and had lunch with Ramsay. They then went shopping and toured […]

Episode description Hell’s Finish Line Kyle and Hannah prepared their teams for the final dinner service, and received their head chef’s jackets. Ramsay gave both an all-expenses paid trip after the finale, with three other people each, to the Great Wolf Lodge, a swimming park at Foxwoods. Service: Both kitchens had very good services. Lulu […]

Episode description Hell Heads East Eighteen chefs sailed by boat and were escorted by the Coast Guard. They had 40 minutes to cook their signature dish for chef Ramsay. Team challenge/signature dish: Brittany cut her thumb, and had to remake her dough after blood got into it. Ramsay scored the signature dishes on a scale […]

Episode description The Flame Game Individual challenge: The chefs competed for the punishment pass, awarded to one member of each team. The chefs had 40 minutes to cook a dish using flambe. Whit burned the skin of her salmon while cooking, and took it off. Each team had to pick their top 3 dishes for […]

Episode description Shucking Hell The chefs were woken up early by the sous chefs to pick up frozen seafood. Uri and Shant suffered pain after bringing in seafood. Team challenge: The two teams were given 30 minutes to make a seafood tower, featuring 8 hot seafood appetizers. The blue team dropped Brandon’s oyster dish. The […]

Episode description In a Pickle Team change: Ramsay had Lulu switch to the blue team, to even out the numbers at 7 each. Team challenge: The chefs played pickleball to hit balls into barrels with specific ingredients, and pick a chef to cook against who hit a ball to pick the protein. The chefs had […]

Episode description Homesick in Hell Team challenge: Each team had to cook 7 burgers head-to-head. Kyle on the blue team had to cook 2 burgers. The chefs had 90 seconds to race for tickets with ingredients, and 35 minutes to cook their burgers. George Motz was the guest judge. The score was 4-3, with the […]

Episode description Hell on Wheels Team challenge: The chefs had to cook with pasta, with matchups chosen randomly and pasta types chosen using pachinko. Whit and Brittany both cooked tortellini, with Whit’s dish dropped. Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli were the guest judges. The score was tied 6-6, with Joe’s dish being judged the best, […]

Episode description Harmony in Hell Team challenge: There was a choir performance by the Yale Whiffenpoofs. The chefs had 45 minutes to grab 5 ingredients, one at a time per singing round, and cook beef dishes. Ramsay judged the dishes head-to-head, with the final score being 4 to 4. Ramsay broke the tie based on […]

Episode description Get a Clue! Team challenge: The chefs played Secret Ingredients, with pairs of chefs having to guess ingredients and assign them to their dishes. Each team had 45 minutes to work with 3 proteins: airline chicken, cod, and a pork chop. The blue team dropped Egypt’s pork chop. Ramsay judged the dishes, with […]

Episode description More Bang for Your Buck Team change: Since the blue team had 4 members while the red team had 6, Ramsay sent Atoye to the blue team to even out the numbers. Individual challenge: Each team was tasked with spending $100 at a grocery store to buy ingredients that would be used to […]

Episode description The Pastabilities Are Endless Individual challenge: Each team was tasked with making four pasta dishes using five ingredients per dish which are retrieved by balancing themselves on a narrow, curved beam suspended over a pool of marinara sauce (where falling nullifies the attempt entirely). Carmen notably struggled to cross the beam in a […]

Episode description A Hellish Food Fight Individual challenge: The teams faced the famed and highly anticipated Blind Taste Test, which was space-themed. Chefs who failed to correctly identify two ingredients caused one of their teammates to get covered in “messy space debris” first was “milky-way” milk. Further incorrect guesses caused dustings of sprinkles followed up […]

Episode description A Hell’s Kitchen Special Delivery Ramsay announced the final seven chefs would compete in a series of three challenges to determine which of them would get a Black Jacket. First challenge: The first challenge was a game of craps to determine the eight ingredients for the first dish to cook, which would then […]

Episode description #HellishHangover Challenge: In the first individual challenge as Black Jackets, the six remaining chefs were given 45 minutes to cook dishes that Ramsay would take photos of to have judged by in part by his 100 million social media followers. Ramsay and Michelin-star guest judge Kevin Meehan both judged the dishes on a […]

Episode description Don’t Be Fooled Challenge: The chefs participated in a Hell’s Kitchen-themed Grand Prix with two minutes to race with carts to pick up ingredients with four stations, with one stop at each station. At the end of the time period, the chefs learned they actually shopped ingredients for a different chef. The chefs […]

Episode description And Then There Were Two Ryan, Johnathan, and Sammi arrived at the dining room. Shortly afterwards, Ramsay called them to the dining room to introduce their final challenge: design their own menu for Hell’s Kitchen, each with the help of a sous-chef. Johnathan got Jason at the dorm, Sammi got Christina at the […]

Episode description One Hell of an American Dream After Ryan and Johnathan prepared their teams, Ramsay summoned them individually into his office to spend time with their families. Ryan worked in the red kitchen and Johnathan worked in the blue kitchen. Ramsay gave Ryan and Johnathan their head chef’s jackets and thereby commenced the final […]