The Donut and Donkey Show AKA Hell's Kitchen
I really didn't expect I'd get hooked watching "Hell's Kitchen". The first season really impressed me a lot and excited me as well. My favorite chef contestant Michael made it all the way to the final 2 and won his very own restaurant. He was that awesome. His seemingly calculated "sabotage" became one of the standard tests used amongst the hopeful contestants in the seasons to come.
I really didn't like the whole cussing and screaming and yelling going on in the show even if they've been bleeped out. But as the season progressed I found myself feeling more and more in sympathy with Chef Gordon Ramsay. And you know what...he's not an ass. He actually has amazing patience to put up with all the donkeys and the donuts in his kitchen.
I like how he wouldn't put up with all the Survivor-ish tactics of who to put on the chopping block. He wouldn't kick out anyone because of some political move. He will kick out the most useless and hopeless person in the kitchen and that's it. Plain and simple.
I like the way he can whip up frozen dinners and meat by products into an amazing 5-star restaurant presentation. I love the blindfold taste test. Makes me wanna do the same thing with Shamsa when she grows older minus the headphones though since we already live in a very noisy neighborhood as it is. Heh!
Has anyone noticed the amount of alcohol? I mean how do you expect to get up so early after getting sloshed the night before? And why in the world is everyone smoking all the time? Doesn't smoking like affect your taste buds? No wonder they keep flunking the darn taste test.
We've watched all SEVEN seasons although I can't help but think was that really enough to hire someone to be the executive chef for a high-class restaurant? I can't help wonder if any of the competitors were coached during the confession time? Why is it that the women usually gets to be caught on camera in their underwear while getting dressed while the men are not?
There was a season that was so tedious to watch. Everyone hated each other's guts to the very end. Even at the comeback, some were still bitter and whined about it should have been me, should have been me, crying there like a wuss. I mean, come on! GET OVER IT ALREADY! YOU LOST!
Too much drama. What amazes me is the level of whining these people are so prone to doing. I mean WHAT PUNISHMENT...? Seriously dude..they whine over EVERYTHING! Cleaning fish, squid, meat...I mean HELLO? You are cleaning high end seafood, high end meat? These are fresh and the best and expensive. It's not like they're told to sniff through rotting meat or clean fish that was obliterated by dynamite. Golly!
Then they whine about the cleaning. Dude...WHAT CLEANING? They have all the cleaning products and gadgets for cleaning their cushy dorm and the 5-star restaurant. They whine over cleaning the road or a river...They try cleaning the Pasig River here and let's see about that.
They whine about prepping. I mean it's prep. The food is right there, plentiful, fresh and all they have to do is PREP! They don't have to weed out what's rotten from what's still usable.
They whine about buying produce and the delivery van. Dude..they buy stuff from one of the best supermarkets, they have food delivered in the truck already. I mean they try going to Divisoria market and let's see how that goes. They won't even survive riding the jeep and the pickpockets that swarm the area. Sheesh!
They keep going on and on about "This is the worst thing that has ever happened in my entire life." Repeat, Rinse, Rewind...next episode..." "This is the worst thing that has ever happened in my entire life." You must be joking! Really, this is the worst thing...wow, what a wonderful life you must live in. Wanna switch?
It's just awful like that. I really really like the show but I admit all that bratty attitude and whining is stupid, pathetic and almost required. It's like it must be on the application form if you wanna compete in the show. Can you whine?
I think the rewards are awesome and the punishment is really so-so. It's like they don't even come close. I also hope they change this Women versus the Men thing. I say just throw all the losers in one team and the winners in the other team, that way each team will be forced to shine so they can keep staying on the winning team. It doesn't feel fair when only one team member screws up and brings the entire team down over a challenge. I think it's quicker to weed out people that way.
And what's up with answering back at Chef Ramsay? Dude, you just don't. It's his kitchen. It's his rules. It's his show so stop talking back at him and quit bringing him raw scallops, you donkey!
I really didn't like the whole cussing and screaming and yelling going on in the show even if they've been bleeped out. But as the season progressed I found myself feeling more and more in sympathy with Chef Gordon Ramsay. And you know what...he's not an ass. He actually has amazing patience to put up with all the donkeys and the donuts in his kitchen.
I like how he wouldn't put up with all the Survivor-ish tactics of who to put on the chopping block. He wouldn't kick out anyone because of some political move. He will kick out the most useless and hopeless person in the kitchen and that's it. Plain and simple.
I like the way he can whip up frozen dinners and meat by products into an amazing 5-star restaurant presentation. I love the blindfold taste test. Makes me wanna do the same thing with Shamsa when she grows older minus the headphones though since we already live in a very noisy neighborhood as it is. Heh!
Has anyone noticed the amount of alcohol? I mean how do you expect to get up so early after getting sloshed the night before? And why in the world is everyone smoking all the time? Doesn't smoking like affect your taste buds? No wonder they keep flunking the darn taste test.
We've watched all SEVEN seasons although I can't help but think was that really enough to hire someone to be the executive chef for a high-class restaurant? I can't help wonder if any of the competitors were coached during the confession time? Why is it that the women usually gets to be caught on camera in their underwear while getting dressed while the men are not?
There was a season that was so tedious to watch. Everyone hated each other's guts to the very end. Even at the comeback, some were still bitter and whined about it should have been me, should have been me, crying there like a wuss. I mean, come on! GET OVER IT ALREADY! YOU LOST!
Too much drama. What amazes me is the level of whining these people are so prone to doing. I mean WHAT PUNISHMENT...? Seriously dude..they whine over EVERYTHING! Cleaning fish, squid, meat...I mean HELLO? You are cleaning high end seafood, high end meat? These are fresh and the best and expensive. It's not like they're told to sniff through rotting meat or clean fish that was obliterated by dynamite. Golly!
Then they whine about the cleaning. Dude...WHAT CLEANING? They have all the cleaning products and gadgets for cleaning their cushy dorm and the 5-star restaurant. They whine over cleaning the road or a river...They try cleaning the Pasig River here and let's see about that.
They whine about prepping. I mean it's prep. The food is right there, plentiful, fresh and all they have to do is PREP! They don't have to weed out what's rotten from what's still usable.
They whine about buying produce and the delivery van. Dude..they buy stuff from one of the best supermarkets, they have food delivered in the truck already. I mean they try going to Divisoria market and let's see how that goes. They won't even survive riding the jeep and the pickpockets that swarm the area. Sheesh!
They keep going on and on about "This is the worst thing that has ever happened in my entire life." Repeat, Rinse, Rewind...next episode..." "This is the worst thing that has ever happened in my entire life." You must be joking! Really, this is the worst thing...wow, what a wonderful life you must live in. Wanna switch?
It's just awful like that. I really really like the show but I admit all that bratty attitude and whining is stupid, pathetic and almost required. It's like it must be on the application form if you wanna compete in the show. Can you whine?
I think the rewards are awesome and the punishment is really so-so. It's like they don't even come close. I also hope they change this Women versus the Men thing. I say just throw all the losers in one team and the winners in the other team, that way each team will be forced to shine so they can keep staying on the winning team. It doesn't feel fair when only one team member screws up and brings the entire team down over a challenge. I think it's quicker to weed out people that way.
And what's up with answering back at Chef Ramsay? Dude, you just don't. It's his kitchen. It's his rules. It's his show so stop talking back at him and quit bringing him raw scallops, you donkey!