"Episode 10 by Arthur Perkins" 
 
Blindfolds were placed on the team as they were transported by van to the site of the new London West Hollywood restaurant. Ramsay with great fanfare gave them all black team chef's uniforms to signify one unified team. He then took them back to Hell's Kitchen and gave them their first individual challenge. 6 main course items were distributed to the 6 chefs, who had 45 minutes to create an interesting menu item for Hell's Kitchen. They were -
 
Bobby - duck noodle soup
Petrozza - breast of chicken stuffed with duck confit
Matt - roasted veal loin
Jen - stuffed RibEye
Christina - pan seared sea bass
Corey - lobster stew
 
Bobby was close but no cigar. Petrozza got average marks. Matt was praised but did not make the final two. Corey was criticized for not using the whole lobster. Christina and Jen were the two winners, with Jen getting the prize. It is a day trip to Las Vegas, with lunch at the Green River Casino with rock, the winner of HK3. She got to bring any one other chef and chose Corey. The were inspired by chef Rock, but that and the correct price get you a cup of coffee. If they didn't already have the proper inspiration they should not be there.
 
The losers get to handle Delivery Day (which I presume is every day for a real restaurant) unloading produce and ingredients and bags of ice and whatever and putting them away in the correct place. They was massive sniping between Matt and Christina that was duly noted by Mary Ann or Scott. Ramsay points out that the same number of customers now have to be handled by one kitchen that were previously done by one. He assigns Jen to hot appetizers, Petrozza to cold appetizers, Bobby to fish, Corey to vegetables, and that leaves meat for (you guessed) Christina and Matt. The war between them continues.
 
Matt starts the evening off badly with a pan fire. He tries to put it out the wrong way and Ramsay demonstrates the right way to do it (get it under water ASAP) with typical style and attitude (lots of expletives that are bleeped out by the FAX network). Corey was late on a veggie and showed insufficient teamwork/communications. Matt and Christina have beef and chicken in the same pan and Bobby has two different types of fish in a pan. Both practices are declared unacceptable in a high voltage way by Ramsay. Christina is criticized for undercooking something (I missed it) and defends herself by stating that the 4 minute timing she used originated with Jen. Jen denies this. Corey burns her hand and tries to stay in the kitchen, but Ramsay orders her to visit the medic before she can return. Matt messed up the count of items and then Christina did the same. Customers return overcooked meat and it was Matt's. Matt is complaining about everything and functioning poorly in the kitchen. Matt claims he has a "migraine" to explain to Corey how something else he did got messed up. Ramsay has had enough of Matt's mistakes and orders him back to his room so he can focus on his migraine. Jen left rice cooking on a stove for many minutes too long and it burns, wasting the whole pot and jeopardizing orders nearly ready to go out. Jen is ordered out of the kitchen. Shortly thereafter, all chefs are ordered of of Hell's Kitchen with an uncompleted dinner service. Ramsay expresses his extreme disappointment. He asks the team as a group to decide on which 2 are nominated for elimination. In my view it's a no-brainer, Matt and Christina. Petrozza gets to announce the verdict which is Matt and Christina. Ramsay asks Corey to join that group. He tells her her disappointment that she is going backwards in her skills. Christina gets  a similar lecture about her inexperience. It's just smoke as nobody believes that anyone but Matt will be eliminated (except that matt doesn't believe it due to a confused mental process. Ramsay goes out of his way to state that Matt's elimination is "for all the right reasons."
 
Next episode there are 12 very beautiful models working in the kitchen. They appear to be part of a cooking school venture. The voiceover states that the remaining chefs will lie, cheat or steal to win. I think we saw that with Jen tonight and others were accused in the voiceover of one of those.
 
I was pretty disgusted at having wasted one hour of my valuable time to watch this drivel and that another one to write this recap. This episode wins the title "Worst Hell's Kitchen 4" episode. Other episodes have been subpar, but this one is now in a class by itself. The only redeeming part was the appropriate elimination of Matt, who was useless and long overdue. Everyone that's still in could win. Gordon Ramsay put the coda on that thought with the promise that "there are no favorites right now." If any chef had been a consistent performer, they could have claimed the role of favorite, but none has been above barely acceptable in performance so far. I hear the words "step it up" but it's just rhetoric until we have some behavior to enable that. Right now, I'm philosophically from Missouri (the show-me state) and I know that Gordon Ramsay is too.

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