Hell's Kitchen Season 5 (Possible Spoilers)

[ditchdj]

Anyone been watching this????

Especially Ramsay laying into the "cooking school instructor" Colleen, calling her a "thief" and saying he's worried about the "poor bastards that she's taken money from".

I looked her up online and I can't believe that she's peddling herself for being on this show....



http://www.theclassygourmet.com/

[Aethian]

Oh my god...

Actually I think Ramsey has it right...she is a theif. Seen her cooking and multitudes of mistakes she has done? Even *I* knew some of those fancier deals were wrong and I'm still doing simpler things.

[ditchdj]

She even has her own local cooking show!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1936...eature=related

-----I take it she must be a real "hot item" in Omaha??? Personally I thought she was gonna be a real talent on the show with the way she has billed herself.

[Aethian]

I'm surprised she hasn't been filleted yet.

[Salted Grump]

Didja see the first episode when she offered Ramsay a course in 'Politeness'?

If looks were lasers, she'd have been a smoking hole in the ground.

[JLRodgers]

One thing that surprises many is, I'm a vegetarian, yet love Gorden Ramsey and watch many of the shows he's in

That woman.... either the editing's done in such a way to make her look bad, or I too feel sorry for al the poor suckers she's taken money from (and what was it? $300/hr? -- A cooking school I looked into, and actually used by big-named chefs, is actually less than that!)

[PhotoChick]

If you look at her "bio" she own a cooking school, has a cooking show on local access, and is food editor for a local magazine (probably one of those free ones at the grocery store).

Of course she never been to a real cooking school, just taken a few classes and she's never been the chef at a restaurant.

[Cookiesaur]

Man, and Ramsay can be such a sweetie-pie, too. (The original British shows he's done are nowhere near as over-the-top) These people are gonna make him have a stroke one of these days. My husband has been Colleen's worst enemy since her first appearance; I think he's hoping Ramsay just takes her down like a lion on a wounded gazelle and drags her carcass off camera. My biggest beef with her was when she changed a recipe of Ramsay's in the middle of service by adding marscapone without asking. Oh, Mr Ramsay. You are the powderkeg of rage of my dreams!

For a more serious competition, I also watch Top Chef on Bravo. I actually spotted an earlier eliminated chef on Iron Chef last night. AND SHE FAILED THEN TOO.

Yeah, I watch a lot of cooking shows. I consider it prep.

[JLRodgers]

Sadly I saw a few "Hell's Kitchen" photos.... that lady has the other color shirt (black "stripe" ones) -- the one that you only get once the red/blue teams are merged into one.... so she's apparently going to be there for a while.

[mattm04]

Wasn't she the one who never turned the over on an wondered why food wasn't getting cooked?

[ShadedWings]

My BF and I watch this show avidly.

I always at the burns that Ramsay hands out, especially when they're deserved.

Yeah, Colleen IS a thief. She's horrid.

Poor Ji... she didn't deserve to have gone home.

[Kiwi]

What did she steal?

I cant watch hells kitchen because Ramseys rage really upsets me
(Ive had people scream at me like that at the craft store when we were out of ribbon/thread/oxygen and once famously because I wouldnt refund a $2 packet of bias binding)

I watched a few episodes when it first started and always wondered why professional chefs became so incompetant when they cook on that show.... now I know, because they dont always have professional chefs!

[Cookiesaur]

I think when he called her a thief he was making reference to the fact that by portraying herself as a professional chef (which she is not, you don't get to just call yourself a chef) when she really does appear to have poor cooking skills, she's "stealing" money from the people she's charging for cooking lessons. If she's representing herself to them as a professionally trained chef, then yes, she is.

Ramsay on American TV is paid to be much more theatrical, loud, and vulgar than he normally is. Watch "The F Word" or the British version of "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares" on BBC and you'll see that he's actually only slightly more hotter tempered than your average joe; he rarely raises his voice (unless he's found mouldy food in the fridge), and he doesn't toss around insults. It's a shame the US networks feel the need to make him seem louder than he is to garner ratings, because he really is a first rate chef.

Trust me, Ramsay is not an ogre. When he walked out of a restaurant he was working in years ago, the ENTIRE staff (including front of house) walked out with him as a show of solidarity, and most of them are still working for him today.

[Camry178]

I love, love, loooove this show. I've been watching it since day one, season one!! I think Ramsey hits the nail on the head with each and every insult he dishes out.

Colleen is an idiot. But I think Lacey should be next to get the ax. She really sucks.

[JLRodgers]

I always at the burns that Ramsay hands out, especially when they're deserved.

I once found myself staring at the TV in horror thinking of things that made his comments seem tame.... Granted I wouldn't say them aloud and he does, but still.