narrator: Previously, on "Hell's Kitchen:
Battle of the States"...
- Welcome to the blind taste test.
narrator: Chef Ramsay kicked off
the annual challenge. - Is it a turnip?
[buzzer blares] narrator: Chris fell flat...
- Is it bass? [buzzer blares]
Turkey? [buzzer blares]
Collard greens? [buzzer blares]
narrator: Failing to identify a single ingredient.
- You got to be [bleep] kidding me.
- Oh, I'm sorry, Henry. I'm sorry.
narrator: Lisa... - Cod?
- Oh, my God. narrator: Cydni...
- Ricotta, Chef? narrator: And Anaiya...
- Pecan, Chef? - Yes.
narrator: All rose to the occasion...
- Wow. Congratulations.
narrator: Helping the Red Team cruise to victory.
- Yes!
narrator: During dinner service...
- Are you ready to walk lobster?
narrator: The Red Team was in perfect harmony...
- Walking lobster. - Walking now.
- Let's go, ladies. Let's go.
narrator: Earning the approval of Chef Ramsay.
- Great start.
What I call teamwork. Keep it going.
narrator: While in the Blue Kitchen...
- Chris!
narrator: Chris struggled on the meat station.
- It's rare. I need mid-rare.
Come on. Chris!
- Yes? narrator: Again.
- I've got one Wellington ice-cold in the middle.
Come on, back in the oven. narrator: And again.
- That's not cooking with passion.
You know and I know. - Yes, Chef.
- Get it together!
narrator: Chef Ramsay had high praise
for the Red Team...
- It's been the best dinner service so far.
Head back to the dorms. - Yeah!
narrator: But had no praise for Chris...
- It's clear to me it's the end of the road for Chris.
Take off your jacket.
narrator: Ending his dream of becoming head chef
at Hell's Kitchen Foxwoods Resort Casino
in Mashantucket, Connecticut.
[fire crackling]
And now the continuation of "Hell's Kitchen."
[all cheering]
- Red Team! - Red Team!
- ♪ It feels like this ♪
♪ To win dinner service ♪
♪ And Chef Ramsay ♪
♪ Says we kicked ass ♪
- Oh, shh. Don't--
Don't celebrate no more.
No, they're coming. Don't celebrate anymore.
- Let's be respectful.
- We don't have to put anyone else up.
He just sent Chris.
- He sent Chris home? - Yeah.
- Just like that? - Yep.
- No [bleep] way. - He's not [bleep] around.
He said, "I have no time to waste."
- You know, it's sad seeing anybody go home,
but everybody has their time here at Hell's Kitchen,
except for me. [bell dings]
- I'm happy that we didn't have to figure out two people.
- Yeah, it would have been a nightmare.
- 'Cause even though we would have known, it sucks.
Nobody wants to be put up there.
- I didn't want to go up. I-- [bleep].
I tried helping him [bleep] a million times.
Chris is definitely a loss in morale,
but the remaining four are laser-focused,
and I don't think we'll ever let that [bleep] happen again.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[bright music]
- Jayden, happy birthday, bro!
- Thank you, Lis.
Today is my day.
I'm excited for the day to start and to get rolling.
It's a good day to be in Hell's Kitchen.
- 27, bro. You're 27, bro.
You're almost 30. - Wow.
- You're on the downhill slide now, bro.
- Thanks, bro. - I'm just saying.
- It's definitely a birthday to remember, for sure.
Let's get it.
[humming softly]
[whimsical music]
♪ ♪
- What is going on?
- Red Team, Blue Team, good morning.
[together] Good morning, Chef.
- Did we just walk into Hell's Kitchen Circus?
Because if so, I [bleep] love circuses.
- Dinner services can be hectic, right?
[together] Yes, Chef.
- When we're working in a brigade,
it's not just about you.
It's about how you connect with your trusty teammate.
- OK. - Good to go?
- Yep.
- Oh, my God, how is that even possible?
♪ ♪
- Come on!
Oh, my God.
[applause]
- These guys are nuts.
You know, they just kind-- they just kind of
run in and just go to town.
What the [bleep]?
It's a pretty bizarre talent in my opinion.
- We're serving appetizers, entrées,
someone's on desserts.
- Are they gonna juggle right now?
What the [bleep]? - What?
[laughter]
[applause]
- The coordination is on point.
[together] Whoa!
[applause]
- Thom Wall and Keith Nelson. Come on, guys.
[all cheering]
- Well done. They are so in sync.
Each one always knows what the other person is doing,
and that is exactly how a great brigade should operate.
Agreed?
[together] Yes, Chef. - Good.
Blue Team, head to the plates, please.
Red Team, head to the bowls.
- I can't really reach the top,
so I think I'm already at a disadvantage.
- On your mark, get set, and go.
- Go. - Let's go.
- Go. - Ellie!
[chuckles] Ellie's like, "Catch."
And I'm like, "What the [bleep]?"
Like-- [chuckles]
Girl, we gotta win this challenge.
If you knock me out right now, y'all gonna be down one.
- I'm trying. [yelps]
- Oh, there you go. OK, stop, stop, stop, stop.
Line up. Back in line.
- We tried.
- I honestly don't know how Chef Ramsay
comes up with any of this.
- [as Gordon] Plate spinners tomorrow for the chefs.
- Let me tell you what your real challenge is about.
Today, each team will be assigned
to cook a cohesive menu featuring Chinese cuisine.
So you each need to come up with a dish.
Understood?
[together] Yes, Chef.
- Right, ten minutes to conceptualize
your menu starts now. Head to the kitchen.
Let's go.
narrator: For today's challenge,
each chef must select one of four
Chinese entrées to create and cook...
dumplings, stir fry, noodles, and sweet and sour.
- I feel comfortable doing dumplings.
So the next one would be?
- Stir fry, right? - Yeah, stir fry.
- I was thinking about doing baby corn,
green bell peppers, a nice stir fry.
- Maybe no green bell peppers...
- OK, maybe red? - Just because it's Asian.
With these particular challenges,
we kind of all have to think as a unit.
- Which one do you want to do?
- I think she feels more confident doing dumpling.
- I'll do noodle, I guess. 'Cause you wanted stir fry?
- That's fine. - Oh, I'm asking.
I don't know, 'cause--
- Anaiya, you're doing stir fry?
- Yes, Chef. - Right.
Red Team, Blue Team, I told you earlier
I wanted you all to be in sync.
To be successful in this challenge,
you're gonna have to do exactly that.
Here's how it's gonna work.
Two chefs from each team will get started
on all four of those dishes.
When I say switch, the pair that are
outside the kitchen will run into the kitchen,
and the first pair must exit the kitchen immediately.
Understood?
[together] Yes, Chef.
- Line up over here.
Let's go, all together.
- Two chefs cooking four dishes at the same time.
We want to break it up,
a complicated and an easy dish,
another complicated and an easy dish.
- Red Team, who's going first? - Me and Anaiya, Chef.
So I think this is a really good game plan
that we have going into it.
- Your 45 minutes start now! Let's go.
[claps] Good luck.
- I'm getting the broth, and I'm gonna get her eggplant in.
- Let's go, Jay. - Let's get it.
- Are you nervous? - I trust Anthony.
- Let's go, Blue Team.
- 45 minutes is never enough time, dude,
especially not when you're switching off like this.
- I'm going beef. Hand me that New York?
- Yep. - Eggplant is about to go in.
- Heard. Start your broth.
- Knowing that the Red Team has been very dysfunctional,
it's stressful that this challenge
is all communication based.
I'm gonna start pickling liquid for us.
Do you have your mushrooms? - Heard.
My mushrooms are cut and ready.
I'm gonna start the broth.
Get in there, little babies.
[prawns sizzling]
- Oh, I've never seen vinegar come out
of a [bleep] bottle so slow.
- Switch! Let's go.
- [bleep], Anaiya.
- Yeah, [bleep] Anaiya. Where is she?
- He said, "switch?" - Chef just called switch.
- [bleep].
narrator: Now the chefs have only ten seconds
to download the next pair...
- What do you need for yours? - I got all your components.
Everything is over there.
narrator: On where they left off...
- I need to get stock in that broth.
narrator: And what still needs to be done.
- That egg needs to be pulled in four minutes.
You don't have time to tell them [bleep].
- Out, out, out.
- Get out, get out, get out. - Out!
- She just told me to add veg stock to it,
and I'm pretty sure the prawns...
- With 10 seconds, that's all she told you?
- That was it.
[timer beeping]
I hear the timer for my egg go off.
Jada's just not turning around.
And I'm like, "[bleep],
she's gonna forget about this egg."
[dramatic music]
- She needs to get her sauce going now.
- This is what she said that was the sauce?
- She didn't tell me about the sauce.
- Come on, Lisa, sauce. Sauce, sauce, sauce.
- The rice is going.
- She said she didn't start it, but I don't know
what the [bleep] that is. - Switch!
Let's go! Switch.
- Where's the stock? - I added the stock.
- I just got to finish these. I have a second egg.
- Just in case. No, no, no, I didn't.
You just never know in this competition.
You always want to have two.
- Out, out, out.
- I know.
♪ ♪
- I need to get her sauce on. She has not done it yet.
I'm not sure if Lisa has worked with a lot of Chinese food.
I'm kind of nervous about it.
This is what she plans on her sweet and sour sauce being.
- I don't know if that's enough,
but it's a start for her filling, right?
- For five? - Last 15 minutes.
Switch! Let's go! - Come, Lis.
- Ten seconds. Off-load.
- I got my stir fry done.
- You need to finish that immediately.
- Get your chicken on. - Duck?
- Duck is in the oven. I just put a timer.
- OK, heard. - Out, out, out!
♪ ♪
Let's go. Pick up the slack.
Come on, Henry, stop staring. Let's go.
- Yes, Chef.
- He said dumplings were in the steamer.
♪ ♪
- What are you working on, Lisa?
- Chef, I'm gonna continue doing the sweet and sour sauce.
- OK.
- I have not made anything like this before.
I'm a little intimidated.
Try to get that dish on, Cydni. - Yes, Chef.
- Jada, you know what this is?
- The dandan noodle broth. - Sauce? What else?
- Yes, that has tahini, Shaoxing wine.
I'll be honest, I'm not sure what else.
- OK.
- Let me get my duck starting to render.
- Cydni, I'm gonna throw on this chicken.
- Switch! Let's go!
- No way. - Let's go.
- Everything you need is over here.
- Chili oil? - You're set up for success.
- Beautiful. - The rice is already ready.
The sauce is already ready. - Duck is resting right here.
- Heard. - I'm just wrapping them.
Like folding them over and wrapping them.
- Out. Out, out, out.
- How do you do the three? - Like this.
- Do you know how to do it, Anaiya?
Then maybe, Ellie, you should work on something else.
- Ellie's like, "Oh, I can fold them."
And I start to see her fold them.
And then I'm like, "Let me just fold these [bleep]."
I was like--
- They're talking about dumplings.
♪ ♪
- Nice, Anthony.
- Last five minutes, Red Team, Blue Team.
All together, let's go.
- Run, run, run! - Finish strong.
narrator: With everyone back in their kitchens...
- Henry, that duck, I put in for another minute.
narrator: Each chef can concentrate
on perfecting their individual dish.
- Cyd, I started steaming your dumplings.
- Thank you.
Beautiful wrap, guys.
- Thank you.
♪ ♪
- Did you taste my sauce? - Oh, yes, it's good.
- Yes. Yes, it's good.
I'm gonna plate mine because it's chilled.
- I feel good about Anthony's dish.
He told me he made some final adjustments,
so, honestly, I think we're probably gonna have
two of the strongest dishes.
- 45 seconds to go.
- OK, I got to get that chicken on.
Oh, my God. Oy.
- Ladies, you've got to move. Let's go.
- Heard, Chef. Honestly, I'm sweating.
- 20 seconds to go. - Come on, Lisa.
20 seconds, mama. What do you need?
- Heard, heard, heard. - Lisa, let's move.
Lisa, can we help at all?
- I'm just crushing up the peanuts.
- Come on, come on, come on, come on.
- Ten, nine, eight... - Come on, Lis.
- Where the [bleep] is Lisa? Let's go.
Five, four... - Lisa, Lisa.
♪ ♪
- Lisa, can we help at all?
- I'm just crushing up the peanuts.
- Come on, come on, come on, come on.
- Ten, nine, eight... - Come on, Lis.
- Where the [bleep] is Lisa? Let's go.
Five, four... - Lisa.
- Three... - Lisa.
- Two, one. Well done, Red Team.
Blue Team, well done.
I've got a very, very special judge.
He's worked in Michelin-starred restaurants
across his entire career, including Eleven Madison Park.
- [softly] Oh, my God.
- And I'm proud to say, he's even worked for me.
All of you, please welcome, Buddha Lo.
- Oh, my God.
[applause]
- I'm pretty honored to have him tasting
our food today, honestly,
but I'm definitely nervous 'cause, you know,
these Michelin guys got great palates.
- It's such an honor. - So good to see you.
- Oh, my goodness me.
Finally here at Hell's Kitchen.
- He's a [bleep] badass.
- I knew you were destined for glory.
And that's discipline, right? - It's a lot of discipline.
And that's what gets you here.
You know, self-discipline is so hard to learn,
but once you achieve it, you can do anything.
We definitely learned that at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay,
and that's what got me to where I am right now.
- Ready, Chef? - I'm ready.
- Excellent, right.
Let's start with the battle of the dumplings.
Please, let's go. - Come on, Cyd.
- Jada and Cydni.
- Looking over at Cydni's dish, it definitely looks tasty.
I'm a little nervous.
- Cydni, please, present your dish
and describe it to Chef.
- Today, I made a traditional pork filling
for my dumpling and a eggplant fried rice noodle slaw.
- Your dumplings were nicely pan fried.
Overall, great flavors, although,
I don't think the rice noodles were necessary.
- Yes, Chef.
- Jada, please describe your dish to Chef.
- It looks very tasty.
- We've got a mixture of prawn and ground pork dumpling.
Right in the middle is gonna be a quail egg yolk
to get emulsified fatness, as well as some peanuts
on top for some texture.
- The cooking of the dumpling is really, really beautiful.
Real well-balanced in the flavors.
- Thank you so much.
- Does the point go to Jada of the Blue Team,
Cydni of the Red Team, or do they both get it?
- My overall favorite dumpling
would probably have to go to the Blue Team.
[applause]
- Good job, J.
Touchdown, Blue Team, dude.
[whistle blows] Let's go.
That was a collective between Jada and I.
I'm proud. Hell yeah.
- Next up, the battle of the sweet and sour, please.
Henry from Texas against Lisa from California.
Let's go.
- What I did was a sweet and sour duck breast,
sautéed bok choy, and then Japanese potatoes roasted.
- It does look like a dish
that's not really very Asian inspired.
- Yeah, European plating there.
[suspenseful music]
- The duck was cooked perfectly.
But overall, I'm not really getting
a lot of those Asian flavors of going,
mm, I'm eating sweet and sour duck.
- Please, Lisa, describe your dish to Chef.
Thank you.
- I did tempura-battered fried chicken
with a pineapple sweet and sour sauce
and steamed rice.
- Definitely getting the sweet and sour flavors there.
Rice is cooked nicely.
♪ ♪
- Chef, the point goes to the Blue Team or the Red Team?
- It will be going to the Red Team.
- Well done. Lisa, good job.
- Thank you, Chef.
- I look at Henry's face, and he does not look happy.
I would be upset too.
It's a kick in the shins, but, hey, man,
if a Chinese chef is saying it's not Chinese,
it's not Chinese. - Wow.
Pulled it back, 1-1. OK.
narrator: Next is... - The stir fry, Jayden...
narrator: And... - Anaiya, let's go.
narrator: It's Jayden's New York strip stir fry...
- Maybe too many garnishes going on,
but flavor overall really nice.
- Yes, Chef.
narrator: Against Anaiya's...
- Chinese broccoli stir fry rice.
Quail egg on the top, and then some pickled daikon radish.
- Looks good. Very familiar with this.
So I can identify it as a fried rice straight away.
Really tasty.
They're both very close, and I'll probably
have to give a point to both. - Thank you, Chef.
- Congratulations. Well done.
[applause]
OK, final battle. The battle of the noodle.
Ellie from Nevada against Anthony from Iowa.
- I'm going up against Anthony,
and he [bleep] beat me in the last challenge.
Ugh, why are you such a good chef?
But I just-- let me beat you once.
Chef, today, I have for you a chili
and prawn broth and then a pan-seared soy sauce prawn.
- The broth, really delicious.
I think noodles were cooked really well.
The prawn was cooked really nicely as well.
You could have probably elevated the presentation
a little bit more, but overall the flavor is definitely there.
- Thank you so much, Chef. Thank you.
- Excellent. Thank you.
Anthony, describe to Chef, please.
- So I did like a little spin-off of a dandan noodle.
So ground ginger pork, six-minute eggs,
scallion, and cilantro.
- Visually, Chef? - Oh, it looks incredible.
I mean, the egg, you can already see is really nice.
♪ ♪
Everything that you did was really nicely executed.
The only problem that I have with this is that it's salty.
I probably could not finish that.
Please, check your seasoning.
We're going to the Red Team. - Thank you so much, Chef.
- Red Team, congratulations. - Good job.
- Ladies, congratulations, 3-2.
- Point for me, point for the Red Team.
Ooh-ooh! We are winners. Yes!
- Join me in thanking this prolific chef
for giving up his day to be here today.
[applause]
- It's an absolute pleasure.
- Ladies, well done.
[together] Thank you, Chef.
- In order to be my head chef here at Hell's Kitchen's
Foxwoods, you need to understand the importance
of the history of Foxwoods.
I've arranged an incredible private tour
of the magnificent Mashantucket Pequot Museum.
It's the world's largest Native American Museum.
There's more, ladies.
A little surprise for you back in the dorm.
The four of you, off you go. Well done.
[together] Thank you, Chef. - Good job.
- Thank you, Chef.
- Oh, activism!
- I've never seen the Red Kitchen
move so [bleep] quickly in my life.
[laughter]
- [screaming] We get pans!
- Oh!
- We get HexClads!
- It's the whole set!
- Oh, my God!
Mama got some HexClad pans.
- Guys, we [bleep] crushed that.
[bleep] - Look at this!
- Blue Team... - Yes, Chef.
- It's time for composting.
[laughter]
- It's important to give back to our amazing hosts, Foxwoods.
So I need you to build our compost boxes.
Then you'll need to get into those dumpsters,
separate all the trash from the bits.
These things [bleep] stink. Good luck.
[upbeat music]
- Could fry an egg out here.
All right, so these are your compost bins
that we got to get built. Then...
- Oh, it stinks.
- You got to get in there. You got to get the compost.
- The smell is close to, like, throw up,
if I had to describe it.
- Can you grab that screw?
- What the [bleep] are y'all doing in there?
- Power tools?
- You have to build the box too?
- Damn, no power drills. - Ooh, it stinks.
- I can smell it already. - Have fun, guys.
[drill hums]
♪ ♪
- Hello. Buongiorno, ladies.
You won another one. Good job.
I'm gonna leave you with Nakai,
so that you can actually learn something
interesting about this area.
- Good afternoon.
My name is Nakai Clearwater Northup.
I'm a member of the Mashantucket Tribe.
My people have been here for thousands of years.
- Wow.
- We have a strong-rooted history here.
- It's super awesome to see and learn
the history of the Native American tribe here...
- Right here in Mashantucket,
we had a glacier called the Wisconsin Glacier
that sat over our region.
- From the very beginning of time up until colonization.
- That's a mastodon.
That's a woolly mammoth's little cousin.
- 14,000 years ago, people were here
in Connecticut. I mean, that's like insanity.
- So this is our farmstead area.
We're actually burning out a traditional mishooy,
a dugout canoe.
This is our traditional process
of letting the fire do all the work.
- What are you cooking in here, clams?
- We got clams. We have lobster.
We got steamers. - Oh, my gosh.
- And this will be your next challenge.
No, I'm joking. [laughter]
- Cooking in a tree.
- Who would have thought that they're out here
cooking in a damn canoe?
- So this is a traditional plant
that we have right here on the res.
No matter what we harvest, we always say thank you for it.
So in our language to say thank you,
you say, "táput."
- Wow. - Táput.
[together] Táput.
- Táput. - Táput.
- There's a cake in here. - Yes.
[together] ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
- This is definitely not how I expected to spend my birthday.
I wish I could trade places with the Red Team right now.
This [bleep] is brutal.
[whimsical music]
- Ready?
- I'm gonna have maggots in my shoes.
- You could have won. You could have won.
- We could have, Chef. You're right.
This is definitely the [bleep] punishment
that we've ever done.
Oh, my [bleep].
I would take anything over this.
I can't. I'm gonna vomit.
- No, you're not. - Yes, I am.
I'm gonna [bleep] vomit.
[retches] I can't!
- Do not throw up.
You good? - [retches]
- Holy [bleep].
- Get me the [bleep] up out of here.
- Red Team, Blue Team, good afternoon.
[together] Thank you, Chef.
- Tonight is Charity Night.
It's our one time across the year
that we get to give back to incredible charities
that do so much.
Red Team, you'll be cooking for Connecticut Foodshare.
They're part of Feeding America Food Bank Network.
Last year, they fed over five billion meals.
Blue Team, the charity you'll be cooking for tonight,
Stand Up To Cancer.
Stand Up To Cancer was created to fund amazing,
groundbreaking cancer research.
- My grandfather actually recently just got
diagnosed with lung cancer.
So I feel really honored to be cooking for Stand Up To Cancer.
- Each of you will be responsible
for your own course.
You'll need to supervise the preparation
of that course and the cooking.
There's four of you.
We're only doing one course at a time,
but we are gonna be in sync.
[together] Yes, Chef. - Let's go guys.
- Let's get it, baby. - Marino.
- Sí, Chef? - Open Hell's Kitchen, please.
Let's go. - Subito.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Oh, my God.
narrator: Tonight, Hell's Kitchen is hosting
an exclusive charity event...
- Nice to meet you.
- Likewise, good to see you guys.
How are we?
narrator: Honoring the supporters
of Feeding America...
- Enjoy tonight, please. - Thank you.
- Thank you for coming. It means a lot.
- Wouldn't miss it for the world.
- My kids went crazy when they heard you were here.
- Oh. [laughs]
narrator: And the heads of Stand Up To Cancer.
- Welcome to you all. Thank you for being here.
- Thank you for having us. - Nice to see you.
Please, enjoy. - Thank you.
narrator: All of tonight's guests
will enjoy a five-course meal featuring pan-seared scallops,
led by Anaiya in the Red Kitchen
and Henry in the Blue Kitchen, lemon capellini pasta
overseen by Lisa and Anthony, a five-spiced duck breast,
led by Cydni and Jayden,
filet mignon with glazed vegetables
and topped with a quail egg, helmed by Ellie and Jada.
And all the chefs will work together in their kitchens
on a passion fruit soufflé dessert.
- I mean, he is the best of the best.
- Yeah. - It's crazy to watch him.
- Anaiya. - Yes, Chef.
- Come with me. Henry, come with me.
- Yes, Chef.
- Give me a time for 12 scallops.
- Eight minutes. - Eight minutes, let's go.
- Eight minutes. - Twelve amazing plates.
Let's go. - Yes, Chef.
- Let's go.
- Team, we're eight minutes out.
- Eight minutes out. Heard.
Come on, ladies, get the scallops in the pan.
- Oh!
- I am very excited for everybody
on their stations tonight.
Everybody is very strong or else we wouldn't be here.
Two orders in each pan. - Yes, Chef.
- Plus, I think I have immaculate leadership skills.
This face screams leader.
- I'm salting.
- Get 'em in the pan first and then salt the other side.
Get 'em in the pan. Get 'em in the pan.
- All right.
- Here, I'm gonna go in the middle,
and then we're gonna work our way there.
- Team, seven minutes. - Heard.
- Seven minutes, heard.
- My plan to lead this course is I'm delegating,
and I'm communicating, but I'm not gonna be back
behind the kitchen cooking.
- You're gonna have to start placing plates
here in a minute, Henry. - Yes, Chef.
- Chef Ramsay is wanting us to lead this course,
which means you got to be at the pass plating,
making sure everything's coordinated.
- Three minutes, team.
- Scallops are coming out of the pan now.
- We're five minutes out, ladies.
- Heard, five minutes out. - Anaiya.
- Yes, Chef.
- Why are we cooking half the scallops?
- I don't know, Chef.
You guys are supposed to get all the scallops down.
- Oh, I thought we got them all down already.
Here. - Hey, ladies.
It's the same table.
[together] Yes, Chef. - Get 'em down.
Get 'em down.
Make sure you're not overcooking them.
- Why is that pan not hot?
[dramatic music]
- How are we looking on more scallops, team?
- Working scallops right now.
- Heard that. - He's plating, Anaiya.
You can see he's plating. Come on.
- Someone can come walk them.
- Go grab the other scallops, Lisa.
Go grab-- - Give me that tray.
- Yeah. - [gasps]
Oh, my God, are you OK? I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
- Ow. - You OK? You OK?
- Ow, ow, ow. - You OK?
The [bleep] scallops just shoot down
and oil splashes all over Lisa's hand.
- Stop working in midair, ladies.
Let's go. - Yes, Chef.
- Crazy bitch. She [bleep] burned my tattoo.
$500 worth, burnt.
- Anaiya, happy with that? - Yes, Chef.
They look gorgeous, Chef.
- Henry, we got to go. - Yes, Chef.
- Come on, I want them up. - Yes, Chef.
Yes, Chef. Yes, Chef.
- Up, up, up. - Heard that.
- Well done. Off you go. Go, please.
narrator: Both kitchens are off to a pretty good start,
as the first course is delivered
to the dining room... - Wow.
That is delicious.
narrator: Much to the delight of some very cheerful VIPs.
- This is incredible.
It's really delicious.
narrator: And now Jayden...
- Is that capellini in now? - Yes, Chef.
narrator: Has Anthony's second course
off to a puzzling start.
- Do we need it now? [together] No, Chef.
- Once that's cooked in two minutes' time,
what are we doing with it? - You can't do anything, Chef.
- Come on. [together] Yes, Chef.
- All right, toss those. We got more.
It's fine, toss them. - Lisa.
- Yes, Chef. - Anthony.
- Yes, Chef.
- Capellini and lobster, how long?
- Ten minutes. - Ten minutes.
- Can you do ten minutes? - Let's go.
- Yes, Chef. - OK, cool.
- Ten minutes to the window. - Heard.
- Ten minutes to the window. - Heard it.
- OK, we're gonna go with ten minutes.
So that's one order, two order.
- No, these are all six.
A pretty simple course, boil pasta, twirl pasta,
top with lobster, sauce.
- Get these [bleep] in there. There you go.
- How long, Lisa? - Seven minutes, Chef.
- No, you're not Lisa. You're Anaiya.
- I feel that Anaiya is kind of overstepping.
- Lisa, how long? - Seven minutes, Chef.
- Thank you. Let's go.
- Seven minutes. - Heard, Chef.
- Let's go.
Turn that pasta now, Jayden, please.
- Yes, Chef. - You guys ready?
Start bringing me bowls. You good, Chef?
- Now, you got a minute, Bubba. We got a timer.
- All right.
- Anthony is communicating right now,
but he's just saying a lot of words
without a whole lot of direction.
- Pasta's got to-- got to have it...
- 30 seconds. - Right now, Papi.
- It's not ready. - Yep.
Give me-- give me two bowls of pasta right now.
- Jayden, we're gonna switch,
because you have gloves on, and these are hot as [bleep].
- Heard.
- Hey, hey, hey, look at me. Look at me.
- Yes, Chef. - Don't take it out.
Anthony, I could spot from here it was undercooked.
- Yes, Chef.
- And I'm not even cooking the [bleep] thing.
- Two more minutes, and I'm ready to go.
- No, you're going, girl. They're [bleep]. You're going.
- The capellini got dropped too early,
then it got dropped too late.
I jump in to help, and the water's not even boiling.
- And, Anthony, it's not even 30 seconds away, by the way.
- Yes, Chef. - It's crunchy.
Holy [bleep].
- Ellie, where are you with that lobster?
- Coming up right now!
- Remember, Anaiya, finish it with the lemon.
- Yes, Chef, I'm finishing the last chervil right now.
- Move. Move, move, move, move.
- Go, go, go, go, go, go. - How many plates?
- Twelve are up, Chef. - You're happy?
- Yes, Chef. - Good.
Well done. Service, go please.
Let's go. Well done.
- Thank you, Chef.
narrator: As the Red Team sends their second course...
- That is the best pasta I've ever had in my life.
narrator: The Blue Team is just beginning to plate.
- Flowers, please. - Come on, Blue Team, please.
- Yes, Chef. Flowers here.
Flowers here, please. Flowers here.
- I got some flowers. I got flowers.
- Up, up.
Clear it all. - Clear it all.
- Happy, Anthony? - No, Chef.
♪ ♪
- Stop. Anthony, Blue Team, come here.
- Yes, Chef.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
narrator: With Charity Night in full swing,
the Red Kitchen has already sent their capellini pasta
to their charity table.
- Blue Team, come here!
narrator: But there is trouble in the Blue Kitchen.
- Wipes. - Count the plates!
- One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
One more plate.
- Come on, guys.
- Sorry that your pasta is taking a little too long.
I apologize for the wait at the moment, OK?
- Where's that last lobster?
- With my scallop dish, you know,
I made sure that I had 12 plates
rocking and rolling and lined out ready to go.
- Pasta coming at you, Chef. - Thank you.
- Come on, Anthony, please. - Behind you.
- Yes, Chef. Give me, give me.
Thank you.
- Anthony as a leader for his course,
I hate to say it, but this is probably
one of the first times that I've truly seen Anthony fail.
- Marino, service, please.
Line up. Go, please.
- It took a bit longer, but it's finally here,
and it looks delicious.
- Cydni. - Yes, Chef.
- Jayden, come here.
Duck, how long? - Ten minutes.
- Let's go, ten minutes.
- Yes, Chef. - Let's go.
Well done. - Ten minutes.
- Ten minutes, ladies. Let's go.
- Ten minutes, heard, Chef!
- Duck's gonna rest for at least five.
- Yes, Chef. - Fried rice is going down.
I'm frying it up.
- Heard.
- Hey, Cydni. - Yes, Chef.
- It's called fried rice 'cause it's fried in a frying pan.
- Yes, Chef. - Come on.
- Yes, Chef. - Rookie mistake. Let's go.
- Let's get a wok going, please.
- Oh, my God.
That's why it's called fried rice, yes?
- Yes, Chef.
- Oh, my God, my Hell's Kitchen bestie
is getting screamed at because I stupidly thought
that rice was made in a pot. - It's not boiled rice.
- Yes, Chef. - Yes, Chef.
- Cydni, come on. - Yes, Chef.
- Aw, man. - Here.
- I'm about to baste these ducks for two minutes.
- When can I start saucing plates, eh?
- Two minutes out.
- I don't think they need basting.
- This one's a little thicker, mama.
- But you do you. Whatever you think.
Jayden as a leader, I would say he's definitely communicating,
but I don't think he's necessarily delegating.
- Guys, start plating.
We're two minutes out on the duck.
- Two. - Yes, Chef.
- Henry, go ahead and start slicing.
- Heard. Yes, Chef.
- Don't slice too early, guys.
They're gonna sit there and die.
Let's go. Where's the duck?
- Two minutes, ladies. We got two minutes.
[together] Heard. Two minutes, Chef.
- Knife behind you, ladies. - Oh, sharp, Chef.
- Out the way.
You guys want to check the first one?
Beautifully cooked. Let's go.
- Beautiful. Thank you, Chef.
- Let's go. All right, hurry up.
- All right, ladies, let's push.
- As soon as we get this laid out with rice,
you can start slicing.
- Yes, Chef.
- The most important key is you have to allow it to rest.
- It's got to go on the plate, Jada.
All the goodness is on the board.
- Yes, Chef. Yes, Chef.
- [bleep].
The minute I slice into the first one,
I'm just like, "Oh, [bleep] me."
It's so juicy, and it's just all over the place.
Technically, a hate crime, I think, in certain states.
- Jayden, ducks needed to rest longer
before we cut them, right? - Yes, Chef.
- [bleep]. - Sauce and flowers.
- Cydni, let's go. - This one's beautiful.
Acceptable.
- Right, Cydni, happy? - Cydni.
- Cydni! - Yes, Chef, happy.
- Let's go. Service, please.
Pick up. Let's go.
- I am so happy we're on the Red Team.
[laughter]
Blue Team still doesn't have their food.
- Someone should start saucing, no?
- Sauce, please? - I got these.
I got these. - Where's the sauce?
- Sauce?
Sauce, guys. - Where's the sauce, Jayden?
- Sauce is on the pot. Sauce is on the pot.
I kind of forgot about that five-spice jus.
- There's no sauce on this plate.
- Yes, Chef. - No sauce, no sauce, no sauce.
Let's go. - You need sauce here as well.
- More sauce, heard it, Chef. - More sauce, yep.
- Jayden, happy with that? - Yes, Chef.
- Service.
Go, please.
- So soft and sweet.
- This is perfect.
- Ellie. - Yes.
- Jada, two seconds. - Yes, Chef.
- Can we have one course served in harmony?
[together] Yes, Chef.
- Let's do 11, just to be safe.
- Let's go then, 11 minutes. Let's go.
[together] 11 minutes. - We're talking every minute.
- Yes. 11 minutes, ladies.
- 11 minutes. - They need 11.
- I'm basing. I need veg inside the pan.
- Heard.
- The asparagus is going to cook significantly faster,
so please keep your eye out on it.
- Heard it. - Got that. Will do.
- I want veg in seven minutes
- Oui, Chef. - Take this.
You need all the stock. You need the butter.
- I have the stock over here. - Cook all of that.
- Ellie is definitely clear, probably too clear.
Ellie said six different times that I was picking up veggies.
Like, I know.
[bell dings] Got it.
Veg is down.
I'm gonna do asparagus a little later,
'cause I don't want it to overcook.
- Yes, Chef. - Heard!
- That asparagus is gonna overcook.
- Oh, yeah, so those have to be in different pans.
- Heard it.
- The asparagus cooks
significantly faster than the carrots,
and I look over, and the carrots and the asparagus
are in the same pan.
It's like, you can never be too clear.
You can start going on quail eggs!
- Got it.
- OK, 4 and 1/2 minutes. - 4 and 1/2, heard.
- How are the eggs? - Good.
- Right, Ellie. Let's go.
- Yes, Chef. - Get there.
I just hope this course goes out together
because I'm not here to make anyone look bad,
but I'm gonna focus on making myself look good first.
- Yes, saucing. - Where?
- By the potatoes. By the potatoes.
- Yes, Chef. I'm listening.
- Are you guys good, Jada?
- Ellie, we're 3 and 1/2 to the window.
- Jada. - Yes.
- Steaks out. - Steaks are out.
- Walking.
- Please make sure we keep them separate.
Henry, these carrots are still hard.
I need another 60 seconds.
- Your meat's up there. - Thank you.
- Jada, you're on your own here.
Where are the three? - Yes, Chef.
Henry, I need those carrots. - Carrots are 20 seconds out.
- I can't stop her. - No, Chef. We're good.
We're gonna meet at the same time.
- Bring them, Henry. Let's go.
- Carrots. I need carrots behind me, please.
[diners chanting] Plate! Plate! Plate! Plate!
- That's 11 minutes, let's go.
- Yes, Chef. - Good job.
- Yes, Chef. - Very nice.
Let's go. Service, please.
- Yes, Chef. - Go.
- I can feel my muscles right now being like,
"Thank you."
- All we need is quail eggs, you guys.
- It's becoming a routine for me
to come here and apologize.
I'm sorry about it. I don't know, it's like that.
- Come on, Blue Team, please, please, please.
Jada, happy? - Yes, Chef.
- Service go, please. Let's go.
[upbeat music]
- Out of all the meals, this is my favorite.
- I agree with you.
I think it's the best one. - Yeah.
- Red Team, come here please.
Blue Team, come here, let's go.
Final course, let's see if we can finish on a high.
[together] Yes, Chef.
- Let's go.
- Five soufflé, let's go. Let's go.
- All right, I need to check egg whites.
- Oh, I've been waiting for you, boo.
I have been waiting to hear Chef Ramsay say,
"We're making soufflé"
so I can show off my [bleep] skills.
[chuckles]
I don't know why that's doing that, but it's OK.
When I go to the egg whites, the poor mixer is like...
[jackhammer pounding]
And I'm like, "What the [bleep] is wrong with this thing?"
I broke it.
- Yeah, honestly, I think you might have.
- Oh, my God.
[suspenseful music]
- Is it...
- Do you want me to use my aggression, Chef?
- No. - It wasn't me.
♪ ♪
narrator: It's dessert course at Hell's Kitchen
Charity Night.
And Anaiya in the Red Kitchen...
- It's not going, Chef.
narrator: Has stopped down all progress.
- Is it--
- Do you want me to use my aggression, Chef?
- Have you finished with that? - Yeah, go ahead, use it.
- That's it. That's it. Simple as that. Here we go.
Take it through. Take it over.
- I got it. I got it.
- That's it. - I got it.
- Chef Ramsay, you know, he's like,
"Let's just get another mixer."
And I'm like, "Thank you for not yelling about this
"because I am stressed out right now
about this damn mixer."
- Ice cream's going up.
- Walking soufflés, ladies!
Powdered sugar, powdered sugar. Right here.
- Guys, I got those. Quenelles up there.
- OK.
- We need the spoons, and we need the ice cream.
- Heard. - Let's go, Anthony.
- Yes, Chef. - Service go, please.
[diners cheering]
- Red Team again.
- Wow, look at that.
- Sorry, guys.
[laughter, groans]
- Come on, Blue Team.
The soufflé waits for nobody.
Completely disorganized.
Go, please. Go. Go.
[dramatic music]
- Cheers to the last course.
- It's very delicious.
[tense music]
- Red Team, Blue Team, let's get one thing clear.
Tonight was giving you all an opportunity
to stand out like leaders.
Sometimes when I bounce from kitchen to kitchen,
it's like a mirror image with both of you performing well.
Blue Team, I'll be honest, your mirror cracked.
♪ ♪
The winning team is the Red Team.
Congratulations.
[together] Thank you, Chef.
- You were in sync.
You were fast.
You owned every course.
And before you arrived at the hot plate,
all of you knew what you were doing.
Blue Team, the capellini, duck,
filet, and even the soufflé
was a [bleep] show.
As the scallop dish was the only course
that even came close to being a mirror image
of the Red Team, Henry,
I want you to go back to the dorm and talk it out,
but come back to me
with two nominees up for elimination.
Is that clear? - Yes, Chef.
- Get out of here. - Yes, Chef.
- Two nominees.
- I think what made me stand out in tonight's service
was I effectively communicated.
That's probably why he chose me to make
the world's most difficult decision.
- First and foremost, let me just start out
by saying that I think my course
went out really smooth,
except for the fact that it could have rested
for a few more minutes.
But other than that, we weren't missing a plate.
- I feel like, for the next time,
what would be beneficial is you just
really solidifying the roles.
Have you got anything else?
- We're only talking about your course right now.
- Yeah, it was a rough one.
First of all, you know, I thought I had
everyone in the right position.
I think we did.
Yeah, I don't know. That's really all I got.
- The thing that I noticed, right?
You had Jayden on the right path.
And it was just like-- just communicating.
Like, "Hey, we're gonna drop this pasta in four minutes."
- Henry's definitely enjoying this.
It's annoying, but I'm glad Henry
feels a sense of importance right now, I guess
- It's just that follow-through, right?
And then the number of plates. Like, counting your plates.
- Yeah, see, I trusted Jayden to count the plates.
I think we all kind of did [bleep]
honestly, in my opinion.
I don't think Henry had
a [bleep] flawless service by all means.
I don't believe I'm the weakest link on the Blue Team at all.
- You got anything else?
- I'm like just processing at this point.
- 100%, dude.
So talk to me about your filets.
- I think the carrots being undercooked,
that was just like a misread on timing.
So if we're gonna base it down to like who had the least
amount of flaws with getting it out,
that I would say that it would be me.
Anthony didn't even have enough plates.
I mean, I think as a whole,
Anthony is a stronger chef than Jayden is,
but Jayden performed better than Anthony did.
So it's just a whole mind [bleep] right now.
- So I just think, for the next time,
we just need to take our time, do it right.
There was no chef that remained unscathed.
That's why this whole deliberation
and this decision is tough.
♪ ♪
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- I'm happy to report the charities were thrilled
with the menu tonight.
I am not happy to report that the Blue Team
did not impress me with their leadership
and organization skills.
- Henry.
- Yes, Chef.
- First nominee and why.
- First nominee tonight, it's gonna be...
♪ ♪
[blade grinding]
- Henry. - Yes, Chef.
- First nominee and why.
- First nominee tonight, it's going to be Anthony.
Anthony's course was, by far, the shakiest on the Blue Team.
And the milestone to that was the 11 plates
instead of 12 plates at the pass.
- Wow.
Henry, your second nominee.
- Second nominee is gonna be Jayden tonight, sir.
[tense music]
- Jayden, why?
- Based off of the flow of the courses,
his duck course was also one of the shakiest.
He-- just not really honing in on that attention to detail,
making sure that all garnish were at the pass
when readily needed. - OK.
Jayden, Anthony, please step forward.
Right, Anthony, first up,
tonight's performance was a [bleep] show.
- Yes, Chef.
- Tell me why you should stay in Hell's Kitchen.
- Chef, I think I've been dominant
in this competition thus far.
This morning was the first time I hadn't
earned a point for the Blue Team.
I want to prove that I do have that attention to detail.
You know, that's what I've worked my whole life for.
I just want to continue to prove that to you
and to just grow and get better.
- Jayden. - Yes, Chef.
- Tell me why you should stay in Hell's Kitchen.
- Chef, I have the most passion out of the Blue Team.
I'm a strong competitor. I'm very vocal in the kitchen.
Tonight, I just-- you know, I slipped on the sauce.
The duck could have sat for another couple of minutes.
I take responsibility for that, Chef.
- I appreciate your honesty,
but, young man, you know out of all those proteins,
duck is the one that needs to be rested.
- Yes, Chef.
- The person leaving Hell's Kitchen is...
[suspenseful music]
Jayden.
Young man. - Yes, Chef.
- Give me your jacket. Listen up.
- Yes, Chef.
- It's your third time pleading in front of me.
- Yes, Chef. - I know you can cook.
There's no two ways about that.
But right now, you are not ready to lead.
- Yes, Chef - I appreciate it.
- Thank you for everything, Chef.
- Thank you. - Yes, Chef.
- Good night. - I love you, guys.
- Love you, J. - Love you, Ant.
Love you, Henry. Love you, Jada.
- Love you, buddy.
[somber music]
- Hell's Kitchen is definitely
a roller coaster ride.
I feel like I've learned more about myself
in these few weeks than the last 26 years on this Earth.
Chef Ramsay, it's been a pleasure.
One thing that will stick with me
is you mentioning that you see the passion
just extruding from my body.
That's always gonna be with me.
Nothing you said I'm gonna take for granted,
and I appreciate this opportunity.
- Anthony. - Yes, Chef.
- Back in line. - Thank you.
- Listen, there are no more off-nights.
Get a grip!
Get out of here. - Yes, Chef.
[dramatic music]
[sighs]
I'm definitely relieved I didn't get eliminated.
That was a rough one. [bleep].
- That was-- on his birthday.
- With only three of us, there's no room to hide.
There's zero margin for error,
and if we aren't already bringing our A game,
we got to bring our A-plus-plus game starting now.
- I was so scared.
I mean, we're getting slimmer and slimmer.
We're almost kind of having to not think as a team
and kind of think for ourselves,
and it's almost like every chef for themselves at this point.
My heart was in my ass, you know what I mean?
Because I just know anything can happen.
So I was, like, waiting for him to be like--
- Your heart was in your ass? My throat was in my ass.
- [sighs]
Jayden was the first person
in 24 seasons to drop a dish during a challenge.
Then he dropped the ball during service,
so I dropped him out of the competition.
[fire crackling]
narrator: Next time on "Hell's Kitchen:
Battle of the States."
- That's too much onion.
Jada, you're not putting all that in there.
- Will the relationship between the besties...
- Two hands, young lady. - [bleep].
narrator: Take a negative turn?
- Don't [bleep] it up, Jada.
narrator: Everyone is on edge...
- I can't even right now.
narrator: As the competitors...
- Hang on a second!
narrator: Are in for a surprise and a chance
to join an elite club.
- It's time for black jackets.
[all cheering]
narrator: But will the pressure cause one chef...
- Let's go, guys.
- There's black jackets on the line, so now or never.
- Watch your backs.
- I really need Lisa to get out of my way.
narrator: To turn up the heat a little too much.
- [screams] - Oh.
- What the [bleep] is happening?
narrator: It's all next time on "Hell's Kitchen."
- Yeah, rest in pizza, literally.
[screams]