If You Can't Take The Heat

Stay out of the kitchen...Hell's Kitchen, that is. Or Chef Gordon Ramsay might just throw you out because you can't stop crying.

Ok, so we have a new set of contestants : 6 women, 6 men ... or is that 5 men and whimpering idiot? Aaron totally lost it right before the grand re-opening last night. He is a 48 year-old chef at a retirement home, and he couldn't hold it together after dinner prep. Chef Ramsay called the teams together (divided into the men in the blue kitchen and the women in the red kitchen) for a pep talk and Aaron started crying like a baby. And he couldn't stop! No matter how long and loud Ramsay yelled at him, he was crying! I understand that the experience is probably more intense than they show through the editing but you don't audition for it if you don't think you are going to even make it to the first dinner service!

The women were just unbelievable in the kitchen. They were [appropriately] named HELL'S BITCHES by Ramsey, and didn't stop bickering the entire time. I wanted to reach through the TV and slap some of them for treating Julia the way they did. Not only did they NOT talk to her during dinner prep, but Tiffany, Melissa, and Bonnie had the audacity to comment that Julia didn't deserve to be there because she works at Waffle House. So tell me Tiffany, how do you cook a quail egg without making it seem like a silicone implant. According to Chef Ramsey that's exactly what he thought of Tiffany's fried quail eggs. No matter how much Julia offered to help with the eggs, she wasn't allowed. Bonnie had her turn and kept breaking the yokes. So no appetizers were going out and the red kitchen came to a screeching halt because they wouldn't let Julia fry the eggs.

The blue kitchen seemed to be getting the appetizers out once Vinnie was taken off the station and Josh was put there. Vinnie was moved to washing the pots and pans, and Chef Ramsay noted that he had found his calling. LOL At one point Aaron found that his large 48 year-old body couldn't take the heat and he had to leave the kitchen. But not before he ruined the rest of the chicken. Apparently they also ran out of the other meats, and chicken and vegetable stock , which caused the very hot and sexy Sous Chef Scott to howl "We haven't served any food, how can we be out of everything?", or something to that affect. I was on the floor laughing so hard throughout this episode, but it really is sad how poorly these teams performed on their first night.

Aaron was so lucky that Hell's Bitches did so much worse at preparing food and was the losing team, so he is safe for now. Vinnie also squeaked by after talking back to Ramsay right before he announced the losing team. I guess Vinnie doesn't want to win his own restaurant. Gordon Ramsay doesn't like a smart ass and he doesn't forget either. Melissa was quite cunning when she told Tiffany that she wasn't going home. - "No Way" was her comment, but then she turned around and nominated her for elimination. Chef Ramsay agreed with her and took her chef's coat. One down and 11 more to go.