Chef Ramsey Doing the Devil’s Dirty Work
Chef Ramsey Doing the Devil’s Dirty Work by Roxanne McDonald
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They (some theys, anyway) say you can tell the type of lover a person is by watching him eat. So watch Chef Gordon Ramsey eat on the show Hell’s Kitchen and you might be able to infer how passionate he would be in the kip. |
In a similar respect, you might find how vociferous and fiery he would be by watching and listening to him run Hell’s Kitchen and the “donkeys”, “boobs”, “buffoons”, “nitwits”, and other wannabe chefs.
The show is made a “must-see” because of Ramsey’s perfectionistic, and at the same time highly intolerant of incompetent persona.
His attitude of course carries the general tenor of Hell’s Kitchen competitions and performances, for Hell’s Kitchen runs on the overt fire, heat, and Hell on earth metaphors.
In conjunction with the Satanic tridents dropping into glasses of unctuous-looking liquid, the brands (no pun intended) whooshing into vengeful blazes, and other bugs and bytes of fire and brimstone, Ramsey’s vicious, vitriolic issuing of commands and administration of punitive commentary make that one sensory experience viewers cannot get come most alive—we can FEEL the heat, both metaphorical and literal.
In the same respect, and with all due respect, Chef Ramsey, besides making for good TV in his weekly performances, credits the “winning” competitors, smiles and acknowledges skills and jobs well done, and brings to the show a personality that practices what he preaches (he’s a world class chef, hailing from London, where he raised Aubergine by three-star accolades and more); appears to identify with the strugglers (looking like he has toughed out a few street lives); and elicits an authentic desire on the part of the chef trainees to “please him,” to model him….
Moreover, one has to agree most times with the Chef who is taking on apprentices here in Hell’s Kitchen for REAL, and must put up with the likes of a dink who “forgets” to turn on the oven before a seating and serving of 300-some patrons;
a cocky but equally lazy contestant who sweats into the food while preparing it; and a dingbat who puts up on the pass bar an order of medium Beef Wellington which is blood red and cold in the center, and then a donkey who burns a number of steak orders, and an ass who glazes pastry crust with the wrong part of the egg….
Yeah, if we were responsible for the reputation of Hell’s Kitchen and the imperative satisfaction of actual restaurant patrons, we’d be calling those lunk-head doorknobs names that included “#!@^%^#@” too!
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