Hell's Kitchen

Last night, to much fanfare and few viewers, NBC premiered its latest reality series, The Chopping Block. Most easily described as a mix of the British show Last Restaurant Standing and Hell's Kitchen, the show introduced US audiences to chef Marco ...

By Janica Unruh I’m not the type to sit down and waste my precious time watching reality TV. To me, reality shows tend to be melodramatic, predictable, and completely uninteresting. But a few weeks ago, I ran across Fox’s fourth season of Hell’s Kitchen. I never expected a night in hell to be so good.Hell’s Kit...

By TV and Film Guy First on the list last night, you have Joanna, who wanted to serve rancid crab. She claims never to have smelled the crab, so, the claim goes, she didn't know that it was bad. She did however, as the cameras pointed out, taste it, so she should have had some idea. Good old Gordon Ramsay however was...

By Josh Lasser What in the name of all that is good and holy are those women on Hell's Kitchen thinking? No, seriously, it's time for a good old fashioned rant...Last night, three of the women -- yes, three of them -- tried to serve food that may actually have made people ill had it gotten out of the kitchen. It was...

By TV and Film Guy It’s Survivor but with Simon Cowell replacing Jeff Probst and getting to be judge, jury, and executioner. Hell’s Kitchen does not play at letting the audience decide who will be eliminated, that choice rests with Gordon Ramsay alone.

By Robin Kavanagh Still, the season premier was full of backstabbing, cattiness, and tears — from both sides of the kitchen. As usual Ramsay asked the would-be culinary stars to prepare their signature dishes, of which only two didn’t make him want to vomit. This never surprises me since Ramsay is such an epi...

By Jackie As the show opened, we had seven wannabe chefs, although not suited for fry cooks, contestants remaining out of the original twelve. Thankfully, Tom went the last episode. He should have never been there in the first place. Now I want Sara out of there just because she's an obnoxious, sneaky,...

By Jackie I think it may be sinking through to foul-mouthed, sometimes fowl-cooking chef Gordon Ramsay that he has no real winners with the candidates this season. I personally don't think any of these folks could make it past greasy-spoon or, perhaps the best might make the line at a franchise rest...

By Jackie Last night FOX TV aired the third episode of this season’s Hell’s Kitchen. Well, they aired the second episode first and then, of course, we had to sit through the recap of the episode that just aired. It’s enough to make you dizzy! I don’t know if they’ll be doing that all season, but speaking f...

By Jackie Summer is really heating up for the Reality TV genre fans! This week sees in the start of the highly anticipated (for me, anyway!) new series Treasure Hunters, the premiere of America’s Got Talent, and the pre-start of this season’s upcoming Big Brother 7: All Stars. Meanwhile, recent new...

By Jackie I enjoy cooking. I enjoy baking. Folks seem to enjoy eating food I prepare. But, do I want to be a chef? Or, more specifically, do I want to go through hell at the hands of Chef Gordon Ramsay of Hell's Kitchen?No way! This guy is brutal. He makes my own micro-managing boss look like an angel. And, of co...