Both teams had to roll a die for their ingredients – which may look easy enough, but if we were in that situation, I’m sure many of us wouldn’t do as well as we think. The men were able to create quite a list of ingredients; they could be put together well. The women on the other hand had what seemed like random ingredients and would be hard pressed to make them work well in a single dish. When it came time to be judged, it was close. Amazingly, the women were able to make a pretty good dish given the ingredient they chose. The men won the challenge, but I was leaning more toward the women. They had to think and work creatively to make a good dish using those ingredients. We’ve seen this challenge before, and there’s always one team that chooses ingredients that don’t really work well together. Just once I’d like to see both teams have a pretty good list of ingredients to work with.
The men spent more time with Chef Ramsay 
and got to simulate skydiving in a wind tunnel – which looked like fun. Unfortunately, the wind tunnel does funny things to the flesh on a person’s face. Check out Jason’s face!
Back at the restaurant the women were pressed for time in order to get both kitchens ready for dinner service. Maria lost it and cried because she didn’t want to disappoint Chef Ramsay. When the men arrived and dinner service started, there was no mention of how under prepared the men were, so it must not have been that big of a deal or the women got some help. Based on what we saw, I was expecting the men to have sub-standard ingredients on their side of the kitchen, but apparently they did not.
Both teams did well during dinner service, Salvatore did a great job on the Salmon and Nilka stood out on the girls’ side. Scott didn’t do very well on the meat station, surprising coming from a guy who was in Jason’s face all through previous dinner services. Salvatore was put in the tough spot of having to put Scott up for elimination – there was no other choice really. Scott really stunk it up and there was no way that Salvatore could have chosen anyone else instead. Chef Ramsay decided to keep both of the chefs that were chosen for elimination, he had them switch teams. I think it was a good decision; both of these chefs have potential. I can’t wait to see how far they each make it, wouldn’t that be funny if they came down to the final 4 or even 2? Maybe Ramsay sees something in them.
