Hell's Kitchen: Tennile Goes Home

Chef Gordon Ramsay told Tennile to take off her jacket and leave Hell's Kitchen last night, leaving Dave, Kevin and Ariel as the final 3.

The episode started off funny with a Mini Chef Ramsay telling the chefs to make 80 portions in one hour of a stunning vegetarian dish.

The hour was not quite up when Mini Chef lead 80 screaming brats into Hell's Kitchen. The kid's picked Tennile's as the favorite, with her reward being a make over in Beverly Hills, followed by sushi lunch at a place called Nobu.

The other three's punishment was to clean up the mess left by all those kids.

Almost as soon as Hell's Kitchen opens, Tennile cooks scallops badly. Then Dave collapses in pain when he lifts a heavy plate of lamb with his broken arm. He yelps out in pain and stumbles out of the kitchen. Ramsay makes sure Dave is okay and soon Dave is back cooking.

Everything is going well and then Tennile has trouble cooking halibut. Her confidence is shot. Ramsay bucks her up with a pep talk and then Tennile is back sending out good fish.

Dinner service over, Ramsay voices concern over Dave's arm. And then turns to Tennile. The chefs did not have to discuss and nominate who should go home. Ramsay simply told Tennile her time was up. He was very nice about it. And Tennile was very gracious, with tears running down her cheeks. Tennile grew on me week by week.

The remaining 3 go back to the dorms, ready to celebrate, but Dave answers a call from Ramsay who says there is more business to attend to and orders them back to Hell's Kitchen. The 3 line up and brace themselves for something Hellish. Instead Chef Ramsay congratulates them and brings in 2 loved ones for each. Dave's sister and his fiancee, who got a big kiss from Dave. The fiancee looked like she'd be interesting to see more of. Kevin was real happy to see his wife and son. And Ariel hugged her mom and gave her fiancee a kiss.

It would have been interesting to see who Tennile's 2 loved ones would have been.

Hell's Kitchen: Sweaty Tattooed Mad Van Leaves

I really should have my permit to operate a TV remote revoked. A couple days ago I blogged about what I thought was the latest episode of Hell's Kitchen.

When I went to the FOX Hell's Kitchen website, to check on a name, I saw that the re-cap, for what I thought was next week's Hell's Kitchen, was up and ready to be read.

I thought I had myself a real scoop, that this was a mistake, that the erroneous re-cap would soon be taken down.

What I did not know was that on Tuesday FOX ran back to back episodes of Hell's Kitchen, to make up for it being pre-empted the week before.

I learned of my error when I read a viewer express joy at getting both Sabrina and Van off her TV screen in one week.

It is nice to be rid of Van. In the episode that killed him, Van once again had trouble cooking seafood, despite hearing him brag over and over again that cooking seafood is his specialty.

In his final episode part of Van's expertise with seafood included dripping a lot of sweat on to the fish while it cooked. Van's head looked like it was going to explode when Ramsay told him to come to him so Ramsay could yell at Van's sweaty face.

What caused that boy to sweat so much this episode? None of the others seemed to suffer that problem. I thought there was something way off about Van from the day we met him. His odd haircut, the tattoos, the Boomhauer garbled way of talking, the temper, the stammering when trying to describe what he'd cooked. And then in his last episode the innocent viewers were subjected to the sight of Van shirtless. I had to hit the pause button and try and figure out what the big tattoo across his chest spelled. I gave up.

Van cooks in a restaurant in Dallas. I need to find out which one and make sure I don't accidentally go there.

Tennile was the star, along with one-armed Dave, this episode. Tennile's shouted confessionals are both amusing and annoying. Suzanne needs to go next. She seems way in over her head.