I want nothing but good stuff for Julia -- she's never worked with or tasted lobster before and she still manages to cook it well.

I'm pretty sure that's why he picked her dish on that challenge.

She did that??????? Ewww... I didn't see that one.

Thankfully, Julia stopped her. I SO wish it had been Ramsay who caught her trying that, though.

That was the same show where he chewed out Joanna for not realizing her crab had gone bad ... and missed seeing her licking the tongs. ew.

I'd really like to know - does Ramsey look at footage to see what people do when he's not actually watching them? 'cause there have been some things that have happened he didn't actually see but that were caught on tape.

And I think he tends to prefer the women - all the challenges they've won have involved them going somewhere with him and he gets all sweet and charming. The one challenge the men won - they got a spa day.

Go Julia!

And I think he tends to prefer the women - all the challenges they've won have involved them going somewhere with him and he gets all sweet and charming.

I always think "He's softening them up for the kill, isn't he."

Also, my kittens are on Brad or Bonnie going home next. Maybe Josh, but Brad seems like Vinnie redux and Bonnie's one abusive Ramsay remark away from a total meltdown. Outside of a personal screw up of epic proportions, I think Julia, Rock and Jen are going to be the final 3.

Brad can go any time, as far as I'm concerned. He seems to have delusions of competence - he keeps talking about how good he is, with nothing to back it up. Josh - eh, he doesn't seem to be very good, but he's not getting on my nerves as much as Brad. Hated seeing Rock lose it like that - and I thought dragging him over to do the trash at the photo shoot was just gratuitous nastiness, over and above the usual.

I did love when the women won the challenge - or was it the dinner service? - and Ramsey's pointing out that professional chefs, sous chefs and line chef - lost out to a waffle house cook, a nanny, and a pastry chef. heh

I want nothing but good stuff for Julia -- she's never worked with or tasted lobster before and she still manages to cook it well.

I'm pretty sure that's why he picked her dish on that challenge.

He didn't, though. Rock (feh) won that one.

It came down to the last dish, which was Jen's bisque against whatshisface's fancy experimental dish. Which is why Rock kept going on and on about the soup in his tantrum. (although I think he bitched about the risotto as well). Although if they did an homework on Ramsay they'd know he'd pick the prefectly executed simple dish with clean flavors. That's what he's about.

I kind of want to see Bonnie win, but I'm not sure why.

Did people see the commercial for Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares? I'm interested in seeing what the American version is like. Ramsey is so different in the British version of that show than he is in Hell's Kitchen.

Yeah, if you've ever seen his show The F Word it's a whole different side of him as well.

I think Hell's Kitchen deliberately encourages him to be at his worst - better drama, more excitement.

Ramsay's not as yell-y on Nightmares. Unless the chef/staff are being really stubborn and stupid and trying to cling to their ways that have brought their restaurant to the brink of failure.