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Cool video taking the piss out of Gordon Ramsay and Kitchen Nightmares – it’s very funny and does make a few valid points!!

Enjoy

Chief Plonker
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
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In a recent interview (that is featured in its entirity on the monsters and critics website, Gordon Ramsay gives us some amazing insights into this new season of Hell’s Kitchen.

Q: Have you seen a change in the caliber of people who are trying to be on the show?
Gordon Ramsay: I have to be honest, season five for me is: a) the most competitive; b) I will stick my neck out on this one and the top four contestants this year could have quite easily won in any of the previous years.
But of course it’s of great importance, but more importantly I focus on the talent. And I go through that shit fight for the first six or seven weeks and then I get rid of the sort of donkeys and I focus on the talent.

Q. Why is a properly cooked Beef Wellington such a Herculean task for the chefs on your show?
Gordon Ramsay: Don’t. I’m taking it off now. I’ve thrown the towel in. I’m so frustrated. That dish cooks itself. The battle of that dish, 90% of the organization is done sort of for you.

Q. What can you tell us about this year’s grand prize, the Borgata?
Gordon Ramsay: They’re going to take up a head chef position at the Borgata Hotel, fantastic resorts. It’s going to be a fine dining, unique new build, great interior, intimate setting.
And more importantly, a perfect platform. I’m very excited about this. One of the best prizes you’ve ever had so far. But having been there on an occasion, the place is sort of, I suppose, …answer to Vegas just out of New York. So, exciting, fun and very them being part of sort of the design of the restaurant. So more importantly, …. Great.

Q. Can you mention some of the new chef contestants?
Gordon Ramsay: God, yes, I’d love to talk about the individuals.
Ben, extraordinary. Again, tenacious – very, very flamboyant. As you know, I love Chicago; always have in terms of eating out. I always get frustrated when they don’t get the spotlight as much as New York does. But when you look at … and … in New York, and even going back to the days of Blackbird, …what Blackbird’s done in terms of setting the trend.
So, Ben is like having a rhinoceros in the kitchen. He’s non-stop. He’s energetic, a powerhouse. The fascinating thing is when you discipline a young chef, it’s the response that tells you how long they’ve got in this industry and Ben’s attitude was 100% professional in terms of, yes, he got knocked down, but he came back to be twice as strong, which is what I want to see.
Will, on the other hand, cooking is an internal thing; it’s something that comes from the heart. He’s very clever, very articulate; very, very calm in terms of putting it together. I enjoyed working with both of them.

Q: How do the contestants teams, separated by gender, stack up?
Gordon Ramsay: So I don’t know why this year and more than ever before, but being in that pressurized environment and you’ve got eight to ten individuals that are incredibly talented, they’re going to offload and explode. So yes, the ladies this season have been phenomenal. The guys are being sort of grumpy, arrogant and they take longer to learn. So, I can deal with that crap, trust me.

I’ve pulled these quotes from the interview which can be found at http://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/features/article_1456611.php/Hells_Kitchens_Gordon_Ramsay_the_full_interview

David Driscoll
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

Wow, some Brits turned on Gordon Ramsay’s show and didn’t like the swearing, what did the F%#$wits expect? Apparently Great British Nightmares featured 243 F-words and 312 swear words and I F%#$king loved it. It was also great to see it appeared on the torrents within hours of screening, so the rest of the world could get their dose of QUALITY Gordon Ramsay programming!

After putting up with the crappy Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares US version, this programme, which was essentially two Kitchen Nightmares Episodes mixed together (with real follow-ups as the UK version usually does!).

That’s right, I loved the $h!t out of it – clasic Gordon, he really cares, puts in 100% effort and does eveything he can – lots of great ideas and messages for restaurant and business owners alike! He so often seems more passionate than the business owners themselves and more often ready to put the hard work in!

Some of the swearing stats include:
F-word was used 240 times
312 swear words in 103 minutes – that’s one every 20 seconds
37 obscenities in 95 seconds…one every two and-a-half seconds.
The first F-word 31 seconds into the show
Complaints from 49 viewers who rang Channel 4
In the two-hour show Ramsay swore 243 times, 187 of them using the F-word.
The chefs and restaurant owners swore 69 times
The worst swearing comes 29 minutes into the show after Ramsay tells restaurant boss Justin Rowntree where he is going wrong.

When Justin doesn’t accept the criticism, his childhood pal Richie Russell – the restaurant’s chef – explodes in a 95-second outburst, telling Justin to listen to what Ramsay is saying.

At the height of hypocrisy, one newspaper printed many of the ‘offensive’ exchanges – how can you be outraged and then replace a few letters with other characters and think that is ok?

Here is quote from the article; the chef (not Gordon Ramsay strangely enough, which seems to contradict their position!) to the business owner and best friend.

“He says: “You’ve got to cut the f***ing bulls***. Why the f***are you still trying to make out you’ve f***ing got something when the f***ing, when the damage has been done.

“We already look like a couple f***ing t*ts so shut your f***ing mouth and f***ing listen. If you tried to turn it around at 2pm today me and him are f***ing off.

“I ain’t f***ing staying here. Just cut the f***ing crap to turn things around.

“He’s here to f***ing turn it round. You can do it without me or f***ing with me because I’ve had enough of

this f***ing charade because I don’t need this f***ing s***.

“I’ve got to stand next to him and show my tubs of f***ing s*** that I’m f***ing cooking. You’re f***ing… you’re not f***ing listening to him, he’s trying to f***ing tell you.

“I’ve tried to tell you for two years about every f***ing thing. Food, bands, and I told you that, but you don’t f***ing understand so show him some f***ing respect or else I’m f***ing going at 2pm that’s the… f*** it, that’s it, no f***ing bull****.

“F***ing dangle me like a f***ing puppet. Don’t take the f***ing p*** out of me any more. F*** this s***.”

Richie storms off and Ramsay says: “The dynamics of the top tier of your business is f***ed.”

Then he comforts Richie, telling him: “F***ing hell… well you got that off your chest.”

Just reporting the news Sunday Mirror – what bullsh!t

David Driscoll
The Plonker Club

The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

As I type this, there is only 2 days 19 hours 31 minutes and 05 seconds left until we get Gordon Ramsay and Hell’s Kitchen Season Five, according to the counter on the Plonker Club Website – the home of the Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite!

Now it is time to introduce those brave cooks who will be keeping us entertained (at their own expense) and will be the topics of numerous blogs, conversations, news reports and much gossip as well as opinion.

Their photos now appear on the chopping block on the Official Fox Homepage http://www.fox.com/hellskitchen/ – along with Gordon Ramsay and the other sous chefs!

In case you weren’t aware, Fox is really embracing Web 2.0 and there is also an official Facebook page for Hell’s Kitchen – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hells-Kitchen/13427984738

Only 2 more sleeps (maybe one – I might not be able to sleep tomorrow night!)

David Driscoll
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

A few nights ago on Fox, as part of their ‘confuse the crap out of everyone’ or possibly using dartboard programming – a new episode of Kitchen Nightmares USA aired.

This episode was for Cafe 36 in La Grange Il.

Episode 11 of season 2 wasn’t bad – there are some things that Fox won’t do away with – like annoying spoilers throughout the show, and recaps after ad breaks – I’m sure these shows are about 30 mins of footage (the torrents I watch here in Australia are 42-44 minutes (no ads). As always Gordon Ramsay’s passion for change and want to help came through – and this one wasn’t a bad story. A sweet old couple with no experience, who put in over $1.1 million (plus not drawing paychecks since the business opened) at least this one wasn’t just one big fight.

Please bring on the new series form the UK and fix the US series.

There is the final episode in the series airing on Jan 22 in the US according to the Wikipedia entry for Hells Kitchen.

Bring on more ‘QUALITY” Gordon Ramsay.

David Driscoll
Chief Plonker at The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite

www.theplonkerclub.com