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Great HK content Flynn! And by the way, Raj mentioned that he has cooked thousands and thousands of pieces of salmon in his life before but the salmon he gave to chef Ramsay got smashed for being F##KIN RAW.
In Gio's defense, the rest of the blue team kept dragging him away to help them, and the whole team agreed to choose his over Benjamin's. Not exactly an excuse, but the loss wasn't entirely on the guy.
Honestly, the Kimmi episode was legendary. And her performance went South. Also, even though Devin was pretty inconsistent, he was the nicest guy on the infamous blue team.
@@AlessandroChiarelliPat I agree. Aaron and Koop I contest slightly. When Johnny and Andrew bully Kimberly in episode 4, Aaron just sitting there smiling at the idea, so the edit makes it look like he was onboard with it (though we may not know, the edit prob cut some stuff out), and in Episode 3, Koop says how much he relishes making a mess in the kitchen and having some “bitch server” clean it up. I’m not saying these guys can’t have flaws, but those go further than just flaws. No professional chef should behave that way.
Also, when Ryan moved to Blue Team, when they get challenge to cook the fushion of 2 dishes from 2 different countries, Ryan who got Japanese and French is confused at first. While Paulie being a jerk as always, Devin is nicely helping her. And Ryan's dish becomes the best of the day and lead Blue Team to victory.
@@ultranaticproductions3103I definitely can say that the blue team of S16 were rather sketchy and toxic all around, but yeah, I questioned the true intentions of Koop and Aaron. I do agree with you about Devin as well. I also find it incredibly hard to even like Johnny and Andrew (hate them, yep, definitely, definitely hate those two lol), the latter trying to get away with fooling around with Heather knowing full well he had a fiancee back home. F'n moron. Didn't exactly help his case or Heather's. She received death threats over that fiasco. Also, I had a small suspicion that Pat would get screwed by his own teammates. But knowing about the many unwritten rules of HK, Pat (despite his cooking skills being pretty) was probably set to fail, given he was in his forties. Throughout the entire series, no HK contestant over 40 years of age has ever won the competition. Ramsay, in that regard, wants someone relatively young to run his restaurants.
Honorable mention goes to the Vegan from Season 20, who boasted about her skills with vegetables and fruits, only to fail the blind taste test by not guessing a pineapple. A massively forgotten one.
As an italian Person i was STUNNED by how NOT GOOD Salvatore was. I'm not claiming to be a world star Cook but i know how to do the basic, traditional things
When chefs on Hell's Kitchen cook their specialisties and fail, I think it's due to overconfidence. They're so used to cooking it that they forget the basics or that it has to be to Chef Ramsey's standards. (I've seen it happen on Masterchef as well)
Additional, they have teammates who are really their competitors cooking it. What's the best way to sabotage an alleges teammate? Ruin what they're known for. Screwing it up during a challenge tends to be a more realistic reflection, but I do understand they must be able to have teammates execute their specialties in a brigade. A chef's personal expertise may not be what they cook professionally outside of Hell's Kitchen.
IMDB says he was in the U.S. Army at one point. Not sure whether that was said in the show or not, so can't confirm, but if that's true, then Dan "living in Asia" was likely an assignment. However, to the best of my knowledge, there are no U.S. Military Bases in *China* where it counted the most for that challenge.
@@ultranaticproductions3103 Guess that would explain why it was only a vague "in Asia" then since I'd imagine the specific location would be classified military information
Here's what I think of Charity Night: -Jose's disastrous meat station in Season 18 - "HOW ABOUT YOU GIVE ME YOUR SPINACH, MICHELLE?" -Barbie, Season 17 -Nikki forgot 2 plates in appetizer, Season 19 -Both of the team struggled in Season 20
I'm surprised you didn't mention Marc from season 19. He was given a pork chop to work with in a challenge and it was his time to shine but then he screwed it up despite being Puerto Rican and getting a 5 out of 5 for his signature dish which was literally a pork chop. Marc even mentioned that Puerto Ricans cook pork like pros and yet, he became a disgrace to his own country.
Clemenza and Kimmi were definitely the funniest to me. Clemenza of course had to pronounce every Italian word he could in Italian Kimmi said south probably over 100 times.
“ Salvatore had a big heart. Too bad he couldn’t cook with it.” “ Dan was just too much of a wild card. There’s no way I’m betting a restaurant in Vegas on him.” “ Devin had a hard time remembering the tickets Unfortunately, his performance tonight would be hard to forget.”
Everytime he mentioned “I lived in Asia for a year”, I always asked WHAT PART OF ASIA?! Because Chinese cuisine is extremely different from Russian, Turkish, and Indian cuisine. So depending on where he lived in Asia, that fact may hold no bearing on this challenge!
as others have been saying, this has been a trend for a few seasons to the point i'm sure every HK fan noticed it, and i personally believe moments like these were intentional. no doubt they choose to cover as many of the chefs' specialties as possible in a season to see if they can walk the walk as much as they can talk the talk. it just feels too coincidental that almost every time these kind of chefs lost or got eliminated, or almost eliminated, it was usually their own specialty that was their downfall. when left to their own devices, theyre usually fine w/ their specialties, but, when theres a whole night DEDICATED to their specialty, i think the pressure to excel, prove themselves and lead their teams to victory breaks them and they fumble. there are ofc chefs like Salvatore that they claim to know their specialty inside and out, but theyre not up to the standards of Ramsey and the show. you gotta bring your A+++ game to the show and SHOW that you can do the specialty you so claim to know like the back of your hand, dont just tell (read as "brag")
this is my favorite kind of irony in hell’s kitchen especially. they chat about their heritage the whole season and when they get to shine they straight up fumble the bag
Giovanni was very lucky he wasn’t put up for steak night’s complete failure. Sure he wasn’t the only one to blame but as he was running the grill AND the EC of a steakhouse, a large part of the blame should have been on him.
Also, Gio should consider lucky that night for not being put up on elimination as Charlie was struggling on his station while Seth being a moron for not knowing how to butcher a fillet and wasted so many fillets and caught red handed by Ramsay for hiding so many wasted fillets. Till these days, I still don't understand how Will and Charlie got eliminated over Seth who mostly all the time being useless spoiled rich kid and also Ramsay's stalker
If I remember correctly, Van from Season 6 was a fish chef but in his last two services, which were both on fish stations, he completely crashed and burned.
Yes!! Thank you!! I’ve noticed for years that it seems every time there is an Italian challenge or an Italian night, the self proclaimed Italian chef does awful. So glad to see this video and for it to pretty much prove it true-
Hearing Kimmie declare that she's from the South throughout her season, it's a complete shame she flopped spectacularly during the down south service. Yikes. I'm sure by now there are memes of her in the annals of the internet...
About Dan... Ameeicans living abroad for just a year is never a reason to boast about... we see them, they never learn the language of the country... and on Dan's case I find it very sketchy the fact that he said he lived in Asia and not a specific country
Kimmie would be a better Black Jacket option than Robyn because Robyn constantly making drama and inconsistent while Kimmie has been doing good on cooking.
I have the feeling editing decided after seeing kimmies southern performance to put a special attention on all the times she mentions being from the south, so her fail is even more worse, without editing so many moments wouldnt nearly as legendary as they are.
I wonder if the producers do something or other to make it harder for the chefs to do seemingly basic things (per their expertise)? I just cannot fathom how so many people can fall so hard (not even just do mediocre, but flat out suck) at something that they're really good at normally and have aced many times over before. Do they configure the ovens to heat things weirdly or something?
I wonder if the people fail their specialties because they tend to go more towards personal taste/usual practices in their families home kitchens than professional/culinary school approved practices Like the italian one, the dude getting shit on for using canned tomatoes when thats what people normally use at home? Or the dude putting too much breading on the fish, that might just be how he or the people he knows likes it so he defaulted to that
I live in Texas for 33 years. But I hate southern cooking. Anything with spice and most southern comfort food. People don't believe when I say where I am from. So I can understand failing on what you should like.
From what I've seen of this show (and I've only watched about half the episodes) the ones who say they're of a certain heritage and therefore know how to cook it's food are the ones who fail. Whereas the ones who also specify they've cooked that dish plenty of times before are the ones who do better... generally
I believe 2 factors are at play. Many say they've cooked a dish many times, but was that casually at home in your kitchen where you control everything. A professional stove/ oven is different than most professional ones. Additionally, in a service teamwork is required because each component is cooked by someone else unless it is an individual challenge. Even if Kimmie's cooking was on point, the service overall, could have still failed. That team was toxic and cutthroat.
it’s a shame that brett let overconfidence take over his personality. i love brett so much. he is one of the best chefs i had seen on personality alone. he was powerful in voice, he was vocal, he was supportive, he was trustworthy, and he was a great vibe. i loved watching his seasons. him going on medical leave was sad, because gordon said he was capable of making a black jacket. it was so sad. he is amazing. i love him. he’s one of my favourite chefs.
If there's ever a part 2, Billy from season 21 should get a mention for getting his scallops on the menu and proceeding to ruin them 4 times along with Abe!
Overrated? Debatable. Delusional?! Uh...no. He did in fact have quite a few strong moments in cooking Italian dishes, especially during Season 18, and at worst, he's overly passionate. But he does frequently apologize for mistakes he makes in the show, acknowledging he did screw up.
In defense of Bret. Ramsey was 100% wrong and pretentious thinking you cant use canned tomatoes for soup. Canned tomatoes are actually better than fresh tomatoes becuase it has more flavor since they sit in their own juices. You just have to counter the saltiness with sugar.
Yes but Bret is an Italian cooking an Italian inspired dish, canned tomatoes aren't exactly what comes to mind when you think "fresh Italian cuisine" and Bret messed up big time by adding more salt to them instead of sugar
But still, you can't serve canned, frozen, pre-package food to Gordon Ramsay, the world class chef. He expected everything is fresh and coming out of scratch. That's why in Kitchen Nightmares, he's always dissapointed of how the restaurant owner usually using canned, frozen or pre-package food most of the time and thinks it's normal. His standard is high.
Both of you ARE WRONG. Canned whole peeled tomatoes simply tastes better than fresh tomatoes for soups and sauces. Any Italian chef will tell you this. Youre basically saying always used fresh tomatoes that dont add any flavor at all so you dont hurt Ramsey's feelings. Tomatoes are the exception to the canned rule. They can be canned, they should be canned, and should be used canned. Im not saying use canned tomatoes for a salad. For sauces and soups... absolutely. World Class Chef Ramsey needs to get his head out his ass. All canned are not created equal.
11:00, good canned tomatoes is actually okay. San Marzanos and good Italian tomatoes are hard to get in the states so getting imported canned tomatoes from Italy is a good option and it keeps for a long time.
Imho, it's not that surprising see chefs fail at their specialties in Hell's Kitchen. The stress and pressure in that competition can often throw many off their game and lose focus.
Flynn needs to make the lists of Worst Finale Brigades either on their performances or the finalist' choice: Season 2: Virginia is so pathetic, she chose her brigades just because she felt that they're weakest chefs while she had Keith, one of the only good chefs on that season with Heather and she promised that $1000 dollar if she won. Just showing how much pathetic she is. Season 3: Both of Rock and Bonnie chose their original teammates and they're the only finalists who never have gender mix on their team due to lack of switched team as Melissa is the only one who got switched only to get eliminated later. However, it backfired for both of them as Julia showed her bad attitude as she doesn't want to be in Bonnie's team as she's also got undermined by Bonnie for being Waffle House Cook many times. While in Rock's team, everyone on his team is so pathetic without him as Rock usually carrying the team. Even there's a deleted scene where Scott has to jump in to help the others and nagging them. It's a miracle Rock won the season despite his brigade is horrible. Season 5: Poor Paula, she has no choice but having Lacey as her last pick and Lacey once again being a whiny brat who can't shut up and makes everyone frustated one last time. Season 8: This is more like a karma for Russell as Vinnie and Rob are mostly tired of being his punching bag and they tried to sabotage him as much as possible. Season 11: Mary is so frustrated to have Dan on her team as Dan left her for smoking! She even wanted to switch Dan to Ja'Nel but she didn't do it. She becomes the first finalist to kick out her brigade in the service and man the way she kicked out Dan is so satisfying. Season 12: The fact Scott immediately kicked out Jessica for messing up on her station many times but Jason had kept Sandra who's also for messing up her station many times really shows who is a better leader. Season 13: Frank keeping making mistake on Bryant's team and Bryant becomes the last finalist who kicked out his brigade so far. Season 18: It takes so long for both of Ariel and Mia to choose Motto as their team member even though Motto is clearly talented guy. Also, Mia is choosing her brigade so random and trying to avoid drama especially between Scotley and Trev as she has Trev on her team. Even Paul in Season 9 took a risk for having Elise and Carrie on his team and somehow it worked. Also, her dish is mostly based on her Puerto Rican root and none of her team understand the dish. Season 19: Amber keeps whining to Kori of why she did not pick her over Jordan until the morning finale. Also, she's always panicking over nothing and makes Mary Lou switch station with Cody. She's also the main cause of why Mary Lou lost to Kori. Season 20: While Trenton being so assertive on lead his team even though most of his brigades found him annoying, Megan on the other hand is too chill. Even she got scolded by Christina to stop play nice. Also, she made a huge mistake to have Josie and Emily (a.k.a the vegan "couple") on her team which could cause a distraction between both of them.
Paul didn't choose to have both, Paul chose Elise, and as the final 2 (Krupa and Carrie), Will thought that Elise and Carrie together would ruin Paul's service, and chose Krupa, he just worked with it, and did great
Mia's not choosing Motto and choosing Trev instead was a fatal mistake. Why not pick the best available first. Trev was made too many simple errors throughout the season, especially fornthis to be his 2nd time. Mia, as she did all season, made her decisions based on personal feelings, not professional facts. A good leader makes the best from a bad situation. Besides, they could have been separated by station. Kicking someone out was always an option. Leaders prepare for contingencies. Michelle to deal with Elise, her direct rival who definitely wanted to sabotage her in the finals. It wouldn't have mattered anyway, Mia's menu did her in. It was too unfamiliar to her team, so with too many unknown cuisine dishes to be mastered with little time, Mia was destined to fail. Meanwhile, Ariel did OK with Scotley. Why? No drama. Scotley made errors initially but recovered.
I believe S8, as far as Russell's brigade is concerned, it's rather understandable Vinny and Rob were obviously over Russell and his douchey attitude by that point. I know that Russell has mad skills in the kitchen, but he only showed himself to be far too f'n big for his britches. And also, he threatened to blackball them from any culinary opportunity. Russell was beyond arrogant regardless.
@@varisrevolver4061 Ironically it backfired for Will since Krupa messing his service many times and Will gets his first crash and burn. While Paul managed to make Elise and Carrie work together and they both finally realize it was Paul's day and they put their differences aside and lead Paul to win. Kudos for Paul to make the two individuals who don't like each other to work together.
@@seanswinton6242 It still irks me till these days that none of Ariel and Mia thinking to pick Motto first. If I was the contestant on finale, I'll choose the strongest chef at first so my rival will feel disadvantage. But yeah, Trev has been so awful on Season 18 as he constantly making the Veteran and Male Red Team losing but still, he doesn't deserved so many bullying from Scotley, Jose and Brett the most. It would be hillarious if one of them chose Scotley and Trev on one team and see if they desroyed them or lead them on victory like Elise and Carrie on Paul's team on Season 9.
How is Van not on this list? He was a fish cook and sunk the fish station sending raw halibut and scallops during a black jacket service. Earlier in the season during the filleting challenge he was on point.
Everything you said for bret becomes irrelevant when you remember that he won the risotto challenge and got his risotto on the frickin HELLS KITCHEN MENU!!
Here, Patrick - Family guy, eliminated on family night Royce - The rolls royce of meat, eliminated on meat night Kimmie - from the south, went south on southern cuisine night Clemenza - italian , eliminated on italian night
Oh, this is the cliché I always look forward to whenever I’m watching Hells kitchen or any other cooking competition show like MasterChef or top Chef. A chef messes up something that should be in their wheelhouse. Whenever a contestant claims that they’ve got a particular challenge in the bag, I often go, you’re gonna mess it up aren’t you. I never fail in that prediction.
I like noodles when it's slightly under cooked idk why but thats how i like my chicken 2 minute noodles. I don't mind if fully cooked but i still prefer it slightly under and with butter.
I realized that the chefs who boast the most are the ones that screw up the most, and when it comes to something they think they’re the master at, they probably get cocky, and that gets in the way of their judgement.
Season 6 van left the paper or plastic on fish despite being a fish cook. In season 8 which was a lot more diverse with specialities despite being the weakest set of contenders, Russell in the fusión cooking challenge got French which was his speciality and his dish was received poorly. Raj claimed to have cooked 1000s of pieces of salmon and be an excellent poissonier - all his salmon dishes were rejected except one in episode 4 season 8 Louis screwed up chicken parms and made Gordon spit out his ravioli in the challenge with him being Italian origin and working in a pizzeria prior. vinnie screwed up a spinach and ricotta dish at the final 8 and was kicked out, he also burst his raviolis in the ravioli challenge. Nona also made Gordon spit out her fried chicken in the signature dish after being the birth of the "I'm from the south" line Season 9 krupa made the naan breads for her signature dish which looked horrible and she was Indian origin Season 10 also had Royce get eliminated on the steaks dish despite the fact he also worked for a steakhouse
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Great HK content Flynn! And by the way, Raj mentioned that he has cooked thousands and thousands of pieces of salmon in his life before but the salmon he gave to chef Ramsay got smashed for being F##KIN RAW.
Kimmie was all about southern stuff and was proud of being a southerner but ironically she failed badly at cooking southern dishes
I only remember kimmie having a big mouth and a bigger body. All bark no bite
@@kaikaizo-iz7syYes me as well! Season 10 red team was horrible minus Christina!
@@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849And Barbie andDana!
@@bnicethegaynerd6025 Okay! Barbie and Dana was good as well! But couldn’t hold a candle to Christina!
Did you know Kimmie is from the south
In Gio's defense, the rest of the blue team kept dragging him away to help them, and the whole team agreed to choose his over Benjamin's. Not exactly an excuse, but the loss wasn't entirely on the guy.
The chefs who messed up their specialties can speak for themselves, they know who they are.
Crud I just made a comment referencing Joseph DANGIT you got it first well played
This will never get old.
Make a big southern dance about it.
How are you an Italian chef that can’t make pasta I’m confused
They do certainly speak for themselves…
Italians messing up Italian food is my favorite running gag every season!
Honestly, the Kimmi episode was legendary. And her performance went South. Also, even though Devin was pretty inconsistent, he was the nicest guy on the infamous blue team.
Aaron, Koop and Pat were nice too
Yeah I love Devin, all though sometimes I wonder if I'm biased towards him simply because he was the standout nice chef on that team haha
@@AlessandroChiarelliPat I agree. Aaron and Koop I contest slightly. When Johnny and Andrew bully Kimberly in episode 4, Aaron just sitting there smiling at the idea, so the edit makes it look like he was onboard with it (though we may not know, the edit prob cut some stuff out), and in Episode 3, Koop says how much he relishes making a mess in the kitchen and having some “bitch server” clean it up. I’m not saying these guys can’t have flaws, but those go further than just flaws. No professional chef should behave that way.
Also, when Ryan moved to Blue Team, when they get challenge to cook the fushion of 2 dishes from 2 different countries, Ryan who got Japanese and French is confused at first. While Paulie being a jerk as always, Devin is nicely helping her. And Ryan's dish becomes the best of the day and lead Blue Team to victory.
@@ultranaticproductions3103I definitely can say that the blue team of S16 were rather sketchy and toxic all around, but yeah, I questioned the true intentions of Koop and Aaron. I do agree with you about Devin as well. I also find it incredibly hard to even like Johnny and Andrew (hate them, yep, definitely, definitely hate those two lol), the latter trying to get away with fooling around with Heather knowing full well he had a fiancee back home. F'n moron. Didn't exactly help his case or Heather's. She received death threats over that fiasco. Also, I had a small suspicion that Pat would get screwed by his own teammates. But knowing about the many unwritten rules of HK, Pat (despite his cooking skills being pretty) was probably set to fail, given he was in his forties. Throughout the entire series, no HK contestant over 40 years of age has ever won the competition. Ramsay, in that regard, wants someone relatively young to run his restaurants.
Honorable mention goes to the Vegan from Season 20, who boasted about her skills with vegetables and fruits, only to fail the blind taste test by not guessing a pineapple. A massively forgotten one.
Oh Yeah! I forgot about that one!
As an italian Person i was STUNNED by how NOT GOOD Salvatore was. I'm not claiming to be a world star Cook but i know how to do the basic, traditional things
To be fair, he was a pizzaiolo, he was probably used to pizza more than anything else.
@@tafua_a i know but the issue Is that he was BAD at averything else
He was never nominated
When chefs on Hell's Kitchen cook their specialisties and fail, I think it's due to overconfidence. They're so used to cooking it that they forget the basics or that it has to be to Chef Ramsey's standards. (I've seen it happen on Masterchef as well)
Additional, they have teammates who are really their competitors cooking it. What's the best way to sabotage an alleges teammate? Ruin what they're known for. Screwing it up during a challenge tends to be a more realistic reflection, but I do understand they must be able to have teammates execute their specialties in a brigade. A chef's personal expertise may not be what they cook professionally outside of Hell's Kitchen.
Ah yes, Dan lived "in Asia" for a year. No specifications at all, just "in Asia." Ten bucks says he's full of shit
IMDB says he was in the U.S. Army at one point. Not sure whether that was said in the show or not, so can't confirm, but if that's true, then Dan "living in Asia" was likely an assignment. However, to the best of my knowledge, there are no U.S. Military Bases in *China* where it counted the most for that challenge.
@@ultranaticproductions3103 Guess that would explain why it was only a vague "in Asia" then since I'd imagine the specific location would be classified military information
I could give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he traveled the whole time and was never in one specific place, buuut I’m not gonna
Supposedly according to a Reddit thread, he lived in South Korea
The best part is that when he failed his teammate told him to go back to Asia for another year
It was a pleasure working on this collaboration with you, Flynn. Thank you for including me as a part of this!
Thank you for the idea!!!
Me watching the chefs as a non professional chef who messed up ramen noodles the night before:
*Diagraceful*
Well, it is the case in and out of Hell's Kitchen. Everyone is subject to having a bad service, except Season 14's Meghan!
Kimmie: Always saying "I'm from The South", "I grew up in the hood.", "I'm from Memphis, Tenesse."
Also Kimmie: *Got eliminated at Southern Night*
Seems like a trend in HK.
“I can confidently cook this food”
-Fails
Giovanni really failed on the meat station despite working in a restaurant that specializes meat, damn 😂
Van the fish cook also had a bad night on the fish station. it's like a curse or something haha
Andrew always bragged about how he was a steakhouse chef, and ironically, he was never shown making a steak properly
Imagine failing your own dish as a professional chef☠️
How are you an Italian chef that can’t make pasta I’m confused
Here's an idea: A video dedicated to the charity night services. I find them to be the best part of the show.
I am so on board with that. Whenever it was they were added, it added a very interesting dynamic to the show.
The All Star charity night was definitely memorable.
Trev’s charity service has to be the best I’ve ever seen.
Here's what I think of Charity Night:
-Jose's disastrous meat station in Season 18
- "HOW ABOUT YOU GIVE ME YOUR SPINACH, MICHELLE?" -Barbie, Season 17
-Nikki forgot 2 plates in appetizer, Season 19
-Both of the team struggled in Season 20
I'm surprised you didn't mention Marc from season 19. He was given a pork chop to work with in a challenge and it was his time to shine but then he screwed it up despite being Puerto Rican and getting a 5 out of 5 for his signature dish which was literally a pork chop. Marc even mentioned that Puerto Ricans cook pork like pros and yet, he became a disgrace to his own country.
Clemenza and Kimmi were definitely the funniest to me. Clemenza of course had to pronounce every Italian word he could in Italian Kimmi said south probably over 100 times.
“ Salvatore had a big heart. Too bad he couldn’t cook with it.”
“ Dan was just too much of a wild card. There’s no way I’m betting a restaurant in Vegas on him.”
“ Devin had a hard time remembering the tickets Unfortunately, his performance tonight would be hard to forget.”
Dan lived for a year in Asia. I guess it wasn't in China.
Everytime he mentioned “I lived in Asia for a year”, I always asked WHAT PART OF ASIA?! Because Chinese cuisine is extremely different from Russian, Turkish, and Indian cuisine. So depending on where he lived in Asia, that fact may hold no bearing on this challenge!
Plot twist: it was Yemen
Kazakhstan
as others have been saying, this has been a trend for a few seasons to the point i'm sure every HK fan noticed it, and i personally believe moments like these were intentional. no doubt they choose to cover as many of the chefs' specialties as possible in a season to see if they can walk the walk as much as they can talk the talk. it just feels too coincidental that almost every time these kind of chefs lost or got eliminated, or almost eliminated, it was usually their own specialty that was their downfall. when left to their own devices, theyre usually fine w/ their specialties, but, when theres a whole night DEDICATED to their specialty, i think the pressure to excel, prove themselves and lead their teams to victory breaks them and they fumble. there are ofc chefs like Salvatore that they claim to know their specialty inside and out, but theyre not up to the standards of Ramsey and the show. you gotta bring your A+++ game to the show and SHOW that you can do the specialty you so claim to know like the back of your hand, dont just tell (read as "brag")
this is my favorite kind of irony in hell’s kitchen especially. they chat about their heritage the whole season and when they get to shine they straight up fumble the bag
A mention to Billy from season 21: he was eliminated after failing in making his own dish, the one he had nailed before in the challenge
You mean season 21?
@@rayewaddell9668 sorry
Forgot Raj. His speciality was food. Everything he touched was amazing.
Giovanni was very lucky he wasn’t put up for steak night’s complete failure.
Sure he wasn’t the only one to blame but as he was running the grill AND the EC of a steakhouse, a large part of the blame should have been on him.
Seth wanted to put him up that night, although it was mainly just to eliminate a stronger chef, which did piss Gio off.
Also, Gio should consider lucky that night for not being put up on elimination as Charlie was struggling on his station while Seth being a moron for not knowing how to butcher a fillet and wasted so many fillets and caught red handed by Ramsay for hiding so many wasted fillets. Till these days, I still don't understand how Will and Charlie got eliminated over Seth who mostly all the time being useless spoiled rich kid and also Ramsay's stalker
@@Fulgore2005 I'm convinced that Seth just had a hatred for Gio, he tried to put Gio up E1, for being a shit waiter
If I remember correctly, Van from Season 6 was a fish chef but in his last two services, which were both on fish stations, he completely crashed and burned.
Yes!! Thank you!! I’ve noticed for years that it seems every time there is an Italian challenge or an Italian night, the self proclaimed Italian chef does awful. So glad to see this video and for it to pretty much prove it true-
Hearing Kimmie declare that she's from the South throughout her season, it's a complete shame she flopped spectacularly during the down south service. Yikes. I'm sure by now there are memes of her in the annals of the internet...
I immediately thought of Kimmy as soon as I saw the title of the video LOL.
About Dan...
Ameeicans living abroad for just a year is never a reason to boast about... we see them, they never learn the language of the country... and on Dan's case I find it very sketchy the fact that he said he lived in Asia and not a specific country
Imagine if he lived in Saudi Arabia 😂 technically that’s in Western Asia
He and Zach should have been the geniuses. They knew so much about Asian food.
After Kimmy stated during all season that she’s from the south, she fails in the night she was supposed to shine. The Irony.
Raj: "ive cooked fish thousands of times, im a fish poissonnier"
also raj: "just a quick little bite"
Still Raj: "Have some more mozzarella!" LOL
Kimmy: "I'm from the south!"
Also Kimmy: gets eliminated on Southern night
Challenge: chug a can of Coors every time Kimmy says that she's southern
I’m not here to die from alcohol poisoning my guy
@@gautamabhyankar4171 it's a Hell's Kitchen watching challenge to drink a can of Coors every Kimmy says something related to her heritage
More like;
Kimmie: "I'm from the south!"
Also Kimmie: gets eliminated *back to the south!*
Italians and southerners always mess up on their specialties in HK
I think Bret’s raw arancini during the dessert challenge in season 18 was worse than his tomato soup.
I didn't like kimmie on season 10 but it was sad to see her go down on southern night. I wanted her to shine.
Kimmie would be a better Black Jacket option than Robyn because Robyn constantly making drama and inconsistent while Kimmie has been doing good on cooking.
I have the feeling editing decided after seeing kimmies southern performance to put a special attention on all the times she mentions being from the south, so her fail is even more worse, without editing so many moments wouldnt nearly as legendary as they are.
I wonder if the producers do something or other to make it harder for the chefs to do seemingly basic things (per their expertise)? I just cannot fathom how so many people can fall so hard (not even just do mediocre, but flat out suck) at something that they're really good at normally and have aced many times over before. Do they configure the ovens to heat things weirdly or something?
6:12 the smoking gun on Salvatore is he said he's from Naples, not Napoli. Not exactly true to his roots.
I wonder if the people fail their specialties because they tend to go more towards personal taste/usual practices in their families home kitchens than professional/culinary school approved practices
Like the italian one, the dude getting shit on for using canned tomatoes when thats what people normally use at home? Or the dude putting too much breading on the fish, that might just be how he or the people he knows likes it so he defaulted to that
Ramsey: Oh boy .. may be its time for you to move north…. north pole..
I live in Texas for 33 years. But I hate southern cooking. Anything with spice and most southern comfort food. People don't believe when I say where I am from. So I can understand failing on what you should like.
just because you are from somewhere doesn’t mean you cook everything correctly or perfectly every time.
From what I've seen of this show (and I've only watched about half the episodes) the ones who say they're of a certain heritage and therefore know how to cook it's food are the ones who fail. Whereas the ones who also specify they've cooked that dish plenty of times before are the ones who do better... generally
I believe 2 factors are at play. Many say they've cooked a dish many times, but was that casually at home in your kitchen where you control everything. A professional stove/ oven is different than most professional ones. Additionally, in a service teamwork is required because each component is cooked by someone else unless it is an individual challenge. Even if Kimmie's cooking was on point, the service overall, could have still failed. That team was toxic and cutthroat.
it’s a shame that brett let overconfidence take over his personality. i love brett so much. he is one of the best chefs i had seen on personality alone. he was powerful in voice, he was vocal, he was supportive, he was trustworthy, and he was a great vibe. i loved watching his seasons. him going on medical leave was sad, because gordon said he was capable of making a black jacket. it was so sad. he is amazing. i love him. he’s one of my favourite chefs.
How about a retrospective of the oldest chefs in each season? All these 40 year olds, then suddenly Matthew.
Ngl it was quite funny seeing kory not get the point after kissing up to the chef and then rolling her r's for the word "green"
If there's ever a part 2, Billy from season 21 should get a mention for getting his scallops on the menu and proceeding to ruin them 4 times along with Abe!
I absolutely loved this video. Normally I don't like video collabs but you two worked together in complete harmony.
omg, a collab i did not expect but i enjoy so much!! such an epic crossover :D!!
Kimmie is so annoying we get it your form the south and then failed miserably at Southern Night and got eliminated!
I never understood Van. Great guy, talented chef, but both times he was on he went home after failing on fish when he was supposedly a Poissoner
Flynn and ultra? Best crossover this year? I think so!
Furthermore, Bret didn’t recognize the sabotage in his own risotto.
Brett is the most overrated/delusional chef in the shows history. A decent chef with the ego of a US President
Overrated? Debatable.
Delusional?! Uh...no. He did in fact have quite a few strong moments in cooking Italian dishes, especially during Season 18, and at worst, he's overly passionate. But he does frequently apologize for mistakes he makes in the show, acknowledging he did screw up.
So glad to see a collaboration between the two of you!! I love both of your channels and videos so much!! So this is awesome!
In defense of Bret. Ramsey was 100% wrong and pretentious thinking you cant use canned tomatoes for soup. Canned tomatoes are actually better than fresh tomatoes becuase it has more flavor since they sit in their own juices. You just have to counter the saltiness with sugar.
Yes but Bret is an Italian cooking an Italian inspired dish, canned tomatoes aren't exactly what comes to mind when you think "fresh Italian cuisine" and Bret messed up big time by adding more salt to them instead of sugar
But still, you can't serve canned, frozen, pre-package food to Gordon Ramsay, the world class chef. He expected everything is fresh and coming out of scratch. That's why in Kitchen Nightmares, he's always dissapointed of how the restaurant owner usually using canned, frozen or pre-package food most of the time and thinks it's normal. His standard is high.
Both of you ARE WRONG. Canned whole peeled tomatoes simply tastes better than fresh tomatoes for soups and sauces. Any Italian chef will tell you this.
Youre basically saying always used fresh tomatoes that dont add any flavor at all so you dont hurt Ramsey's feelings. Tomatoes are the exception to the canned rule. They can be canned, they should be canned, and should be used canned. Im not saying use canned tomatoes for a salad. For sauces and soups... absolutely. World Class Chef Ramsey needs to get his head out his ass. All canned are not created equal.
11:00, good canned tomatoes is actually okay. San Marzanos and good Italian tomatoes are hard to get in the states so getting imported canned tomatoes from Italy is a good option and it keeps for a long time.
Homies getting big bro. He's doing collabs now 😁
Imho, it's not that surprising see chefs fail at their specialties in Hell's Kitchen. The stress and pressure in that competition can often throw many off their game and lose focus.
Flynn needs to make the lists of Worst Finale Brigades either on their performances or the finalist' choice:
Season 2: Virginia is so pathetic, she chose her brigades just because she felt that they're weakest chefs while she had Keith, one of the only good chefs on that season with Heather and she promised that $1000 dollar if she won. Just showing how much pathetic she is.
Season 3: Both of Rock and Bonnie chose their original teammates and they're the only finalists who never have gender mix on their team due to lack of switched team as Melissa is the only one who got switched only to get eliminated later. However, it backfired for both of them as Julia showed her bad attitude as she doesn't want to be in Bonnie's team as she's also got undermined by Bonnie for being Waffle House Cook many times. While in Rock's team, everyone on his team is so pathetic without him as Rock usually carrying the team. Even there's a deleted scene where Scott has to jump in to help the others and nagging them. It's a miracle Rock won the season despite his brigade is horrible.
Season 5: Poor Paula, she has no choice but having Lacey as her last pick and Lacey once again being a whiny brat who can't shut up and makes everyone frustated one last time.
Season 8: This is more like a karma for Russell as Vinnie and Rob are mostly tired of being his punching bag and they tried to sabotage him as much as possible.
Season 11: Mary is so frustrated to have Dan on her team as Dan left her for smoking! She even wanted to switch Dan to Ja'Nel but she didn't do it. She becomes the first finalist to kick out her brigade in the service and man the way she kicked out Dan is so satisfying.
Season 12: The fact Scott immediately kicked out Jessica for messing up on her station many times but Jason had kept Sandra who's also for messing up her station many times really shows who is a better leader.
Season 13: Frank keeping making mistake on Bryant's team and Bryant becomes the last finalist who kicked out his brigade so far.
Season 18: It takes so long for both of Ariel and Mia to choose Motto as their team member even though Motto is clearly talented guy. Also, Mia is choosing her brigade so random and trying to avoid drama especially between Scotley and Trev as she has Trev on her team. Even Paul in Season 9 took a risk for having Elise and Carrie on his team and somehow it worked. Also, her dish is mostly based on her Puerto Rican root and none of her team understand the dish.
Season 19: Amber keeps whining to Kori of why she did not pick her over Jordan until the morning finale. Also, she's always panicking over nothing and makes Mary Lou switch station with Cody. She's also the main cause of why Mary Lou lost to Kori.
Season 20: While Trenton being so assertive on lead his team even though most of his brigades found him annoying, Megan on the other hand is too chill. Even she got scolded by Christina to stop play nice. Also, she made a huge mistake to have Josie and Emily (a.k.a the vegan "couple") on her team which could cause a distraction between both of them.
Paul didn't choose to have both, Paul chose Elise, and as the final 2 (Krupa and Carrie), Will thought that Elise and Carrie together would ruin Paul's service, and chose Krupa, he just worked with it, and did great
Mia's not choosing Motto and choosing Trev instead was a fatal mistake. Why not pick the best available first. Trev was made too many simple errors throughout the season, especially fornthis to be his 2nd time. Mia, as she did all season, made her decisions based on personal feelings, not professional facts. A good leader makes the best from a bad situation. Besides, they could have been separated by station. Kicking someone out was always an option. Leaders prepare for contingencies. Michelle to deal with Elise, her direct rival who definitely wanted to sabotage her in the finals. It wouldn't have mattered anyway, Mia's menu did her in. It was too unfamiliar to her team, so with too many unknown cuisine dishes to be mastered with little time, Mia was destined to fail. Meanwhile, Ariel did OK with Scotley. Why? No drama. Scotley made errors initially but recovered.
I believe S8, as far as Russell's brigade is concerned, it's rather understandable Vinny and Rob were obviously over Russell and his douchey attitude by that point. I know that Russell has mad skills in the kitchen, but he only showed himself to be far too f'n big for his britches. And also, he threatened to blackball them from any culinary opportunity. Russell was beyond arrogant regardless.
@@varisrevolver4061 Ironically it backfired for Will since Krupa messing his service many times and Will gets his first crash and burn. While Paul managed to make Elise and Carrie work together and they both finally realize it was Paul's day and they put their differences aside and lead Paul to win. Kudos for Paul to make the two individuals who don't like each other to work together.
@@seanswinton6242 It still irks me till these days that none of Ariel and Mia thinking to pick Motto first. If I was the contestant on finale, I'll choose the strongest chef at first so my rival will feel disadvantage. But yeah, Trev has been so awful on Season 18 as he constantly making the Veteran and Male Red Team losing but still, he doesn't deserved so many bullying from Scotley, Jose and Brett the most. It would be hillarious if one of them chose Scotley and Trev on one team and see if they desroyed them or lead them on victory like Elise and Carrie on Paul's team on Season 9.
Kimmie in every episode: “I’m from the south”
Also Kimmie: gets eliminated on southern night
Who’s excited for Hell’s Kitchens Return on September?
How is Van not on this list? He was a fish cook and sunk the fish station sending raw halibut and scallops during a black jacket service. Earlier in the season during the filleting challenge he was on point.
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The best part was chef Scott measuring the pounded chicken using his face.
Chefs can talk the talk but can't cook the cook thank God season 21 had dafne who can talk and show her cook
Yea Dafne was good, she just deserved to go over Cheyenne in F5 but she deserved black jackets
I know someone who’s specialty was their big mouth, but they got eliminated 2nd! But he knows who he is, he can speak for himself
Easy way to get drunk? Take a shot every time Kimmie says she's from the south
Bonus: Pat
Despite being Italian, he fail to make risotto.
I hope to see more collabs between and ultranatic because this was fun
He'll likely be joining me for something big in a couple months!
@@FlynnMasters @CAMarino92 Can confirm
I would also love to see those two collab with each other as well
Everything you said for bret becomes irrelevant when you remember that he won the risotto challenge and got his risotto on the frickin HELLS KITCHEN MENU!!
3:34 is that the same Kevin that got eliminated On the spot when chef pulls them in the pantry?
Yh
Devin simpson, The self proclaimed chef from south carolina, And devon rosenblatt, The self proclaimed canadian chef
11:14 CAUSE THAT'S WHAT WOULD BRIAN BOITANO DO!
Can you please do compilations of chefs who have quit/hospitalized?
It was kinda embarrassing how many times Van tanked on fish station in Season 6. Like... every time he had a bad service it was fish.
Here,
Patrick - Family guy, eliminated on family night
Royce - The rolls royce of meat, eliminated on meat night
Kimmie - from the south, went south on southern cuisine night
Clemenza - italian , eliminated on italian night
Oh, this is the cliché I always look forward to whenever I’m watching Hells kitchen or any other cooking competition show like MasterChef or top Chef. A chef messes up something that should be in their wheelhouse. Whenever a contestant claims that they’ve got a particular challenge in the bag, I often go, you’re gonna mess it up aren’t you. I never fail in that prediction.
Giovanni for season 17, kept being dragged away from his own pizza it wasn't entirely on him.
Where’s this Kimmie from? Not sure she’s ever said
Memphis, Tennessee
The South.....Dakota
She's from the hood
Can we talk about how every time Van failed he was on the fish station, when he was a poissonnier?
Shaina and her chicken lmao.
Raj has cooked thousands and thousands of pieces of salmon…
I wonder if Flynn is ever considering doing a worst Survivor teams list.
Wait, Kimmie was from the south?! Huh. Never knew that.
i could of sworn she was mexican
I like noodles when it's slightly under cooked idk why but thats how i like my chicken 2 minute noodles.
I don't mind if fully cooked but i still prefer it slightly under and with butter.
I wonder if Dan went to Asia for another year. Updates?
Edit: Omg, I think I was the 1.8k like! I just find that neat. :P
Did you see the Hell’s Kitchen season 22 trailer?
Do you think you could do a history of chefs eating their own food during service?
Not putting Kimmie in the thumbnail should be illegal
6:37 If you ask an Italian to make bucatini alla Amatriciana with fresh pasta in Italy, they’ll break your legs.
I realized that the chefs who boast the most are the ones that screw up the most, and when it comes to something they think they’re the master at, they probably get cocky, and that gets in the way of their judgement.
Surprised Raj wasn't here. After all, he did brag how good he was at fish.
Season 6 van left the paper or plastic on fish despite being a fish cook.
In season 8 which was a lot more diverse with specialities despite being the weakest set of contenders, Russell in the fusión cooking challenge got French which was his speciality and his dish was received poorly.
Raj claimed to have cooked 1000s of pieces of salmon and be an excellent poissonier - all his salmon dishes were rejected except one
in episode 4 season 8 Louis screwed up chicken parms and made Gordon spit out his ravioli in the challenge with him being Italian origin and working in a pizzeria prior.
vinnie screwed up a spinach and ricotta dish at the final 8 and was kicked out, he also burst his raviolis in the ravioli challenge.
Nona also made Gordon spit out her fried chicken in the signature dish after being the birth of the "I'm from the south" line
Season 9 krupa made the naan breads for her signature dish which looked horrible and she was Indian origin
Season 10 also had Royce get eliminated on the steaks dish despite the fact he also worked for a steakhouse
van, fish cook by profession, messing up on fish station multiple times on season 6
Idk if this is a hot take or not but Kashia is low key a villain in S12
Who’s the genius who noticed the “pattern” of people bragging about their cooking skills (and failing) in a cooking competition? 😂😂😂
I can’t believe Kimmie wasn’t in the thumbnail lol