Season 14: Meet the New Donkeys!

[cooksdelight]

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[mlp]

It struck me as I glanced at the pictures that the men seemed older as a group than the women.  Just for fun, I tallied the ages and the average age of the women is 27.4 and the men 32.5.  I wonder if this is the oldest group so far and if a little more maturity will make a difference in behaviors.  One can hope.

 

One guy has a really gross beard.  I wouldn't want him handling my food.  Ew.

[cooksdelight]

I noticed the beard also. And wonder if he'll wear one of those stretchy things to cover it.

[OnceSane]

I didn't make it to the end of last season, I'll try again this time around. Hopefully, more contestants can cook than cannot.

[BogoGog24]

I'll still watch but I don't imagine this season being any different than the last several. It never is.

[nitrofishblue]

I'll still watch but I don't imagine this season being any different than the last several. It never is.

They just never seem to upgrade the script book. All they do is fill-in the blanks in the script with names of the competitors. There is going to be the chef everyone hates, the cute chef, the ugly chef, the chef that can't cook the chef with the big ego etc etc etc (you get the drift). Sadly the script never changes. When will they ever phase out scallops and beef wellington? Such over-used products. That menu needs a HUGE facelift.

[AZChristian]

When will they ever phase out scallops and beef wellington? Such over-used products.

 

I understand what you're saying, but having eaten Beef Wellington at Gordon Ramsay's steakhouse in Las Vegas, I must say . . . Meg Ryan.  Best thing I've ever eaten in my life.

[MajorWoody]

That beard looks gross and unkempt. Shouldn't be too long before Gordon goes bonkers over a diner complaining about finding a few stray hairs in their risotto.

Also, one aspiring Chef is just 22 years old, and lists huevos rancheros as her signature dish. While it's hard to tell from that brief bit of info, she seems woefully unprepared to be an executive chef at any restaurant, let alone a high end place.

Any guess on who the stock characters are going to be?

[Julia]

I think it's kind of hilarious that they're promoting guest appearances by William Shatner and Urkel chewing.

[Totale]

Any guess on who the stock characters are going to be?

 

I haven't looked at the contestants page so just going blindly on past performance I'm betting on Old Guy, Knockers, Italian Stallion, Big Black Girl, and Heavily Tattooed Skank.

[BogoGog24]

There also needs to be a resident dumb person and a fat person (could potentially be one in the same).

Edited February 18, 2015 by BogoGog24

[Kate the Great]

Don't forget about Misogynist, Dramatic Early Injury, and Eddie Haskell (either gender).

[Julia]

and don't forget the scrappy working class hero with impulse control and personal space issues who gets their dish on the menu for the Hell's Kitchen tribute to Waffle House night (risotto, smothered and capped!) and then forgets how to cook it

[Lady Cassandra]

Seriously, this show is coming back again already?  Didn't last season just end?  I may have to stop watching, this is just getting to be too much, and one season is blending into the next.

Edited February 27, 2015 by Lady Cassandra

[Julia]

The sad thing is that he did a really interesting show in England about starting a training kitchen serving a convict-run baking company in prison (which is still in business and doing well), and he offered it to Fox, and I guess the concept of rehabilitation didn't serve their political purposes and they turned it down. He's actually doing a series of Kitchen Nightmares on BBCA concentrating on expatriate british restaurant owners on the continent. And we get this.