Give an Unstable Chef a Boning Knife
Give an Unstable Chef a Boning Knife by Roxanne McDonald
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And you still have to put up with him crying, swaying into a faint, and leaving bones in the sole big enough to choke Hell’s Kitchen right out of business. |
Eddie goes home instead of Aaron—you know, the %##@ cowboy who sobs when spoken to, goes AWOL often, and then returns to introduce himself to the diners as if he were, describes Ramsay, the president of the United States of America…right before he bones the Dover Sole that leaves several diners complaining of remaining bones.
The way the promos for “Hell’s Kitchen” were set up last week, it looked like somebody was near death in the kitchen. But then the episode 2 played through, and there were no sirens, no emergencies… to speak of. Even the comment from Ramsay that “you could have killed someone” was not a convenient segue to advertise how Aaron and his boning skills send someone to the hospital. So, I’m confused.
You don’t need hype on top of the hype that is “Hell’s
Kitchen”, to begin with, but apparently the medical emergency is yet to come. Still, I don’t dare infer that it has something to do with Aaron anymore, even though he is clearly the best contestant for ensuing medical help. Ahh, make that mental help.
This guy is whacked. He is seriously troubled, and someone should have (and maybe they did) escort him from the site and usher him to the nearest psych ward. I do not say this to be cruel. I am serious.
Many of us have been there (hell, from the way this piece is so scattered and incoherent, I can add my name to that list): so stressed and amped and confused that we can only speak a few repeated words in between the wracking sobs. Aaron is in the kitchen one minute (for the skinning and roe removing challenge), and he is gone the next…scurrying down the hall to the dorms where he stayed for hours—absolutely unable to cope with the least pressured periods.
Then he tries to bail—vacillating between leaving (leaving the others on his team in the lurch) and staying in his first giddy then faint states.
He also does this exaggerated greeting of the diners, chatting them up and making them feel visibly uncomfortable, even shocked that this strange person who has no wine list or water dispenser is getting all cozy and intimate.
Then he does the boning role, taking fifteen minutes to deliver a boned Dover Sole that is now cold and still containing bones.
Meanwhile, little Eddie, the “Bulldog in the body of a
Chihuahua,” is getting stepped on by the pushier chefs on the blue team and frazzling him just enough that he screws up the spaghetti or the sauce—whichever Ramsay spits in and says tastes so bad you wouldn’t serve it to a pig!
Lat week was the worst dinner service in the history of Hell’s Kitchen; this week the men are so bad they are sent off the lines and have to be saved by the women—who finish up their own dinner service then finish up the others’.
Rock is made best of worst, and having to nominate two for possible elimination puts up Eddie and Josh, giving stupid reasoning to boot: Eddie is “small” and Josh was “just all over the place”.
True Dat.
What about Aaron? Not helping tow the weight of the punishment the guys had incurred because he was cramping, aching, and numb.
Wait a sec. Maybe he is less mentally off and more with a condition that is showing itself in such symptoms…including the instant tears and fainting spells?
Well, as we shall supposedly see next week, somebody will be screaming to attend to the problem, physical and/or mental….
MEDIC!!!!
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