Hell's Kitchen (U.S. season 14)

Twenty contestants arrive at Hell's Kitchen, only to find that the doors to the restaurant aren't open, much to their confusion. They then see chef Gordon Ramsay on top of the roof of Hell's Kitchen. He tells them through a megaphone that he wants to see how committed they are to being there by jumping off the roof before they can enter and asks for volunteers. After two contestants have jumped off the roof it's revealed that both of them are in fact stuntmen and not real contestants. The real contestants are then asked to get into Hell's Kitchen and cook their signature dish.

Team challenge/signature dish: The teams are divided into men (Blue Team) versus women (Red Team), with both teams cooking in front of a live audience, similar to the Signature Dish challenge from the previous season only this time taking place within Hell's Kitchen itself. The dishes are scored on a scale of 1–5 with 1 being a disaster and 5 being perfect. This proves to be by far the best signature dish challenge, as almost all of the signature dishes (and every one of the men's dishes) receiving good feedback with Meghan and T being the highpoint as they both scored 5 out of 5 with their dishes and only three were panned. Chrissa's ginger cookie chicken was spit out and deemed hideous, Mieka's shrimp cake with asparagus was “all bad” and lastly Monique's pasta was panned for using sauce from a jar instead of making it from scratch. Monique also argued with Ramsay about it in front of the audience, which earned her a 1 out of 5. The men won the challenge 31–28, marking the first time the men won the signature dish challenge since season 9.

Reward/punishment: While the women stayed behind to reset Hell's Kitchen for dinner service and fold, stuff, and seal stacks of Hell's Kitchen reservation confirmation letters, the men got to go to Saint Rocke where they had dinner with William Shatner.

Service: Right before dinner service Chrissa was making her team unsure of her as she seemed out of it and asked Ramsay if she could go to the toilet. Josh and T were also serving tableside. Both dinner services had their fair share of mistakes: in the Red Kitchen, Chrissa was wandering around being a distraction for her team until Ramsay told her to go out and help T on tableside and told Meghan to help Sarah on garnish instead of Chrissa as she actually knew what to do to help Sarah whilst Mieka and Michelle did well on the fish station. In the Blue Kitchen, Cameron had problems with his seasoning of the risotto until Nick came and assisted him. Michael also had problems on the scallops for the first table as he boiled them instead of searing them, angering Ramsay as he had taken an awful long amount of time to cook them, but he rebounded. On entrees Bret and Milly served up a raw lamb but recovered after that and the Blue Team finished the first service with no one ejected. The same could not be said for the Red Team as they got stalled on the meat as Christine and Monique were unable to cook an order of pork and lamb correctly, with the lamb being raw on their first attempt and then on their second attempt the lamb was raw yet again (due to Monique not knowing her oven wasn't on) and the pork was dry. On their last attempt they finally managed to cook the lamb correctly, however now the pork was raw, which infuriated Ramsay as there were a whole 6 people on the meat station at this point (Alison, Christine, Meghan, Mieka, Monique and T) and they were still not able to push it out, forcing Ramsay to kick the entire Red Team out. This marks the first time the blue team won the first dinner service since season 7.

Elimination: The women were called down by chef Andi but was stopped by Ramsay on the stair were they were told they had lost. He told them to come up with 2 nominees for elimination. During deliberation Christine and Monique were first pointed out for their mistakes on the meat station, but Chrissa quickly joined the discussion as a potential nominee due to her team feeling she was out of her element and being the worst cook on the team. Alison revealed the nominations as Monique for the first nominee and Chrissa as the second. Ramsay also personally called out Christine for nomination. After hearing each of their pleas he started with sending Monique back in line and then eliminating Chrissa for being out of her element on the signature dish, before dinner service, during dinner service, and even while she was being eliminated.

Team challenge: Both teams each have to retrieve crabs from the ocean. This also meant that most of them had to in fact learn how to navigate a rowboat; the men coped with this better, getting back first and earning themselves a 30-second head-start for the next part of the challenge. The teams were then split into pairs (the blue team having one team of three since they had an extra member) then had to present ten perfect crab cake dishes after they shucked, sautéed, and plated them. Despite the men's head-start, the women ultimately defeated them by presenting 10 dishes, while the men had only managed 7. T and Michelle were the stand-out performers, single-handedly making five out of the red team's ten dishes.

Reward/punishment: The ladies head to Scottsdale, Arizona to go horseback riding while the guys were left in the kitchen preparing for the dinner service. Tempers ran high when Cameron attempted to dictate to the others, feeling that he was the best chef there and it was his place to tell the others what to do. Josh told him, in a very blunt manner, to back off. Just before service started, Chef Ramsay caught Michael looking over the recipe for risotto, and berated him for not having already learned the recipe by heart.

Service: During dinner service, the blue team's scallops were continuously getting sent back for being too raw due to Cameron; Chef Ramsay eventually came over to the station and showed Cameron how to cook scallops to perfection. However, Cameron said having Ramsay in the kitchen only made him more nervous; Brendan (his partner on the station) eventually helped him complete his first dish. As the men finally started to pick up the pace however, Brendan and Cameron went on to make mistakes on entrees, forcing Ramsay to make them eat their incorrectly-cooked dishes whilst Josh did well on the meat station. Michael took over the station in the meantime, but further confusion occurred when Brendan and Cameron took control again, leading to all three of them being thrown out. Minutes later, an infuriated Chef Ramsay threw the entire team out after it turned out that not one of the men knew what was actually on order. Things ran much smoother to begin with in the red kitchen, thanks to T's vocal leadership on the appetizer section (though this irritated Monique, who felt T was being overbearing). They started having trouble on the entrees however; Alison and Michelle were supposed to be working together but their constant bickering meant they weren’t communicating and were giving conflicting reports to Chef Ramsay, meaning that T ended up having to step in and supervise that station as well. Mieka also had problems with communication on the garnish station so Meghan helped her out. Eventually, the team rallied and were able to complete their dinner service. The blue team had to come up with two people for elimination.

Elimination: Cameron was immediately voted as the first nominee, but the men had problems deciding between Brendan and Michael as the second nominee. In the end, they picked Michael who was considered the slowest. After deliberation, Ramsay ultimately eliminated Cameron for his poor performance on the fish station and for being easily intimidated by Ramsay during service.

Team challenge: After an early morning wake-up call from sous chef James, the teams were brought outside Hell's Kitchen, where two lakes of icy water had been set up; one containing fish heads, and one containing fish bodies. The teams were split into pairs and each had to match up the heads and bodies of a particular fish; the blue team accomplished this first, and so got five extra minutes in which to cook dishes using one of the four varieties of fish. Each member of the pair cooked their own dish, then faced off against their counterparts on the other team, with Ramsay and guest judge Michael Cimarusti awarding the best dishes a point. Bret took the first point for the blue team with his trout dish, before Mieka took a point for her salmon dish, and Sarah earned a 2–1 lead for the red team with her cod dish. On the final round it initially looked as the challenge would end in a tie, as Michelle's and Alison's halibut dishes were deemed mediocre, and both Milly's and Adam's were well-liked. However, Chef Cimarusti noticed that both of the latter dishes used the exact same side of rice, and the two men admitted that due to Adam being unable to cook his intended risotto side in time, Milly allowed him to borrow some spare rice. Chef Ramsay deemed this to be in violation of the challenge rules however and instantly disqualified Milly and Adam, meaning that the red team won 3–1 by default (Michelle's dish was chosen to receive the final point).

Reward/punishment: The red team head to Manhattan Beach where they receive surfing lessons from Anastasia Ashley and had lunch. The men on the other hand prepped fish for dinner service in addition to eating peanut butter and jellyfish sandwiches. When Chef James announced the blue team's lunch, Michael sheepishly rushed up to the dorms and made himself something to eat. Randy accidentally cut his finger and went to the hospital to get stitches, though he returned in time for dinner service.

Service: Both teams had very rocky services. The red team were backed up from the start by a weak performance from Christine and Mieka on the appetizer station, while T also struggled somewhat with the flatbread pizzas, and Alison and Monique had trouble getting the scallops out, with both blaming each other for their problems. After Christine and Mieka brought up a dry risotto and overcooked pasta on the final table of appetizers, and Sarah only further enraged Ramsay by asking if they could try again, the entire team was ejected. Things ran a little better in the blue kitchen, although one plate of scallops were returned with a piece of plastic in the salad with had been made by Adam and Michael made an extremely dangerous mistake by heating up a pan to the point where it was smoking hot, then leaving it right next to the cold pans under the fish station; Ramsay angrily told Michael that had Bret or Josh unknowingly grabbed the pan, they could have been severely burned. Things quickly went wrong on the entrees however, as Nick twice sent up raw pork, and then argued with Chef Ramsay when he rejected it. The team managed to get a few more tables of entrees out, but then Michael brought up the garnishes for a rack of lamb far too early. Nick, not wanting to further anger Chef Ramsay, brought up the lamb, but only succeeded in getting the entire team thrown out, as the lamb turned out to be almost totally raw.

Elimination: For the first time ever in the history of Hell's Kitchen, Chef Ramsay went up to the dorms and told them that both teams had lost and he wanted two people for elimination. The red team nominated Christine and Mieka as a result of their struggles on appetizers, while the blue team nominated Michael and Nick for their troubles on their respective stations. For a moment, they considered nominating Adam for his plastic in the scallop salad but stuck to their original consensus. After hearing each of the contestants reason why they should stay, Chef Ramsay chose to eliminate Michael due to his mistake with the hot pan, which he considered proof that Michael was dangerously incompetent and not fit to work in Hell's Kitchen or become his next head chef.

Team challenge: After spending the night playing drinking games (which Bret refused to take part in, considering it immature), the chefs were brought to a football field where they were told that they would be preparing classic American comfort foods, namely spaghetti, burgers, pizzas and mac and cheese. Each chef caught footballs, which would determine the ingredients they got to use, before returning to Hell's Kitchen to prepare their dishes, which would be judged by guest chefs Suzanne Goin and David Burke. The pizzas were first up, and Bret earned the first two points for his pizza, narrowly defeating Michelle's more simplistic pizza. In the burgers, Meghan's burger easily defeated Randy's dry, over-cooked and over-spicy burger, tying the scores, before the men retook the lead as Josh's traditional mac and cheese beat out Alison's bizarre (and undercooked) mac and cheese in a bun. In the final round, Brendan's spaghetti carbonara got praise from the judges, but Sarah's seemingly complicated spaghetti, lobster and prosciutto dish was deemed outstanding, not only winning the points, but being used as a tie-breaker and resulting in the red team winning their third successive challenge. The men were visibly distraught at this, but Chef Ramsay was unsympathetic and openly ridiculed them, especially Bret, who angrily yelled out a stream of profanities after the decision was announced.

Reward/punishment: The women got cocktails aboard the American Pride (schooner) in Long Beach where they were joined by Ramsay. The men had to peel a huge shipment of onions, in addition to preparing both kitchens for the night's service. Bret remained visibly angry throughout the punishment, and nearly provoked a major argument with the other men after he openly accused them of being content to lose the challenges.

Service: For this service it was family night, meaning that many of the comfort foods cooked in the previous challenge were on the menu. The blue team got off to a poor start firstly when Brendan cooked a risotto that was far too small, and then Bret attempted to recycle that risotto into a new one, causing Ramsay to angrily threaten to throw them out if they attempted anything like that again. The rest of the appetizers went without any major hiccups, and entrees initially went well, despite Ramsay accusing Milly of working too slowly. A major speed bump then occurred when Ramsay was presented with steaks and salmon that were both overcooked, resulting in him forcing the entire team to eat them. After that, the men were able to complete service, and while Ramsay made it clear that he was not happy with their performance, he decided to spare them from nominating anyone for elimination. The red team also had some initial problems on appetizers, including Sarah burning the scallops and Michelle needlessly adding extra salt to Alison's mac and cheese, rendering it inedible, but otherwise got through the appetizer stage without trouble. Their service rapidly fell apart on the entrees however thanks to a dismal performance from Mieka and Monique on the meat station, who repeatedly served up raw wellingtons and steaks. This eventually resulted in Mieka constantly asking the others their opinions on the temperature of a New York strip, which allowed it to cook so long that it became overcooked. Worse still, it was the last New York strip they had, making it impossible for them to finish service. Ramsay angrily ejected the team, and to add insult to injury, Andi then informed him that Sarah had served up a raw burger, which an irate Ramsay brought out to the team in the corridor, before telling the women to decide on two nominees for elimination.

Elimination: While the entire red team agreed that Mieka and Monique had been the two worst performers in the kitchen that night, T pushed the team into nominating Monique and Sarah to try to manipulate Ramsay into eliminating Monique, who they believed was a disruptive influence and keeping the team from succeeding. When Ramsay was given the nominations, Monique interjected and revealed the team's plan to rig the elimination, but Ramsay called her and Sarah out anyway. After hearing the pleas from both Monique and Sarah he decided to overrule the nominations and eliminated Mieka for struggling on three straight services as well as he felt that she had no confidence in herself and she had given up.

Team challenge: The teams were called down to the dining room, where they were presented with a huge array of cheeses. Each member will pick one member from the opposite team they want to go up against. The chosen chef will then spin the wheel to determine what cheese dish they'll be making. Then, they'll have to make it with one of the international cheeses that suit their dish the most. Monique and Nick faced off first with grilled cheese sandwiches, and Nick's sandwich easily beat out Monique's bland and overly simplistic sandwich. Milly was worried about his enchiladas, but Ramsay liked them; however, Meghan's enchiladas were judged to be truly outstanding and won the point. Adam and Christine both earned a point for their cordon bleu dishes, as did Josh and Michelle with their manicottis. Alison's potato croquette won the point by default, as Brendan didn't even know what a croquette was and instead presented a gnocchi, though Alison's dish was noted to be very good all the same. Randy then earned a point for his traditional lasagne, with Ramsay not particularly appreciating Sarah's unusual pistachio-filled lasagne. On the final round, T clinched the winning point for her calzone; both her dish and Bret's were deemed to be good, but Bret's calzone had noticeably raw dough, resulting in the women winning their fourth consecutive challenge.

Reward/punishment: The red team go jet skiing in Marina Del Ray while the blue team are tasked to break pieces off of the Parmesan cheese wheel where they have to prep it by grating the cheese which will then be served as part of tonight's table-side.

Service: This service's table-side appetizer was Parmesan frica, served by Alison and Nick for their respective teams. The red team started off well thanks to Meghan's strong leadership on the appetizer section, but were soon backed up by Monique constantly serving bland, under-cooked garnishes. Meghan jumped on the garnish section, but in her absence Sarah quickly fell apart handling the remaining appetizers, and Christine also had to be repeatedly told how to cook the salmon, and yet still sent it up raw. Ramsay brought the team into the pantry to give them a final warning, only for Christine's next order of salmon to turn out to be burnt, leading to the whole team being ejected. The blue team got off to a slower start due to Adam having initial problems with the risotto, but he soon got it together and got the remaining appetizers out without trouble. Bret also overcooked their first order of salmon, but likewise got his remaining orders out correctly. The main problem faced by the team was Brendan's weak performance on the meat station, as he struggled to give the other chefs correct times, and ended up holding up the kitchen for fifteen minutes while waiting for a rack of lamb to cook. Despite this, the team was eventually able to complete service, and were named the winners for the second week in a row. Ramsay was so disgusted by the red team's performance that he sent sous chef Andi up to the dorms to tell them to nominate two people for elimination.

Elimination: The red team quickly decided on Monique as the first nominee, but were divided between Sarah and Christine as the second. Despite Christine being considered more directly at fault for the service's failure, the women decided to nominate Sarah along with Monique, feeling that she would have done even worse than Christine without Meghan's close supervision. While Ramsay felt that Sarah was falling apart and did not have the strength of character needed to compete in Hell's Kitchen, in the end he eliminated Monique for refusing to admit to having made any mistakes, being totally shunned by her team, along with having performed badly in every service so far and showing no signs of improvement.

Team challenge: The teams must cook lunch for current and retired firefighters who are in the middle of their charity ride to commemorate their friends. Both teams started reasonably well, though the women were held up slightly by Sarah's slowness at preparing the salads, before both Milly and T held up their respective teams by serving up raw chicken (which luckily Sarah noticed for the women). While Milly was quickly able to regroup and get the chicken out correctly, T and Sarah continued to struggle, before Meghan helped them get the orders cooked perfectly. The women soon found their rhythm and began catching up to the men, but their early troubles ultimately proved costly as, resulting in the men winning just their second challenge of the season.

Reward/punishment: The men broke their 4 challenge losing streak as they headed to Malibu for a private safari tour with lunch at the vineyard and enjoyed wine with Ramsay. Nick had a little reunion with his ex-girlfriend who was serving the men (much to the surprise of the other men, as Nick is openly gay). Although Ramsay was embarrassed by their loss, he tasked the women to detail and clean the firetruck in addition to prepping 400 chicken wings for the next dinner service. During the punishment Meghan dragged the other women into the pantry and angrily accused them of not putting as much effort into service as she did, and while the other women (especially Alison) felt somewhat insulted by the insinuation that they were less talented and unworthy of working with Meghan, Chef Ramsay felt that she was showing the passion needed to lead the team, and told her to step up in service.

Service: T and Bret were assigned tableside service, with Marino emphasizing the importance of talking to and entertaining the customers, something that Bret found himself having to do a lot due to his team's struggles. The men were stalled out of the gate by Nick's constantly serving up undercooked scallops, and things got worse on the entrees, as he and Brendan couldn't get any orders of salmon out correctly. This in turn caused Josh to struggle to time his meat entrees correctly, and caused him to serve up raw wellingtons and racks of lamb. Further mistakes from the trio caused them to all be thrown out of service, with Bret and Milly taking over the fish, and Randy taking over the meat; after this, they rallied and successfully finished service, with Randy doing well on meat earning praise from Ramsay. On the red side, Christine got the team off to a bad start by serving a bland, undercooked risotto, while Sarah also struggled to get the garnishes out; as a result, Meghan took it on herself to supervise both stations, as well as handling the fish. While her abrasive leadership continued to annoy the other women, the team got through the rest of the service without a single dish being rejected, and with Meghan and Alison doing especially well on the fish and the meat stations. As a result, Chef Ramsay deemed the red team to be the clear winners, and told the blue team to nominate two men for elimination.

Elimination: The team very quickly decided on the two fish station chefs, Brendan and Nick, and Brendan's arguing of the decision resulted in a huge argument between him and Milly. When Chef Ramsay asked the two nominees to justify why they should stay, Nick admitted fault on not taking control of the station from Brendan sooner, but Brendan refused to admit being directly at fault and instead attempted to blame Adam and Nick for not helping him when he started falling apart on the fish station. This, along with his consistently mediocre performances during his time up to this point in Hell's Kitchen resulted in Ramsay eliminating him.

After dismissing the teams, Chef Ramsay called out Josh and warned him that he was not stepping up as a leader, and that he needed to be more assertive. Josh subsequently went into the dorms and gave himself a lengthy motivational speech, much to the bemusement of the other chefs.

Team challenge: The chefs assembled in the dining room and were given a display of Greek dancing, setting the theme for the next challenge. The chefs each chose a protein to cook a Greek dish with, and broke plates to determine their other ingredients. Chef Ramsay and guest judge Michael Psilakis would both award each chef between 1 and 5 points, with whichever team gets the most points winning. Alison and Josh faced off first with lamb dishes, and Alison earned 6 points for an otherwise decent dish that was a little overcooked; conversely, Josh's dish was so severely undercooked that Chefs Ramsay and Psilakis refused to taste it, earning him the lowest possible score of 2 points by default. Bret's prawn dish then took the lead, scoring 8 points, while Michelle's unusual choice of prawns and kiwi fruit sauce earned her just 3 points. The lead swung back to the red team on the next round, as Meghan earned 9 points for her squid dish, beating Milly (who only got 6 points) for the third time in a challenge. Randy's chicken dish reclaimed the lead again, earning a perfect 10 points, and outshining T, who still got a respectable 7 points. Adam retained the lead with his pork dish, getting another 10 points, though the 8 points earned by Christine kept the red team in contention. In the final round, Sarah's swordfish dish got 7 points, with Chefs Ramsay and Psilakis noting that it would likely have been a 10 with only a little more seasoning; this left Nick needing 5 points to win, and despite overcooking his swordfish quite badly, he still managed to earn the required number of points to win.

Reward/punishment: 2013 Miss California Mabelynn Capeluj hosted the blue team's reward where they got to go go-kart racing. The red team are assigned to pick up all the pieces from the broken plates and clean both kitchens for tonight's service. Sarah spent most of the punishment wandering around trying to find a place to plug in a vacuum cleaner, much to the annoyance of her team-mates. Before service, Chef Ramsay pulled Milly, who was having a crisis of confidence about his level of experience, into the pantry for a pep-talk.

Service: Josh and Michelle were assigned tableside service, preparing an octopus appetizer. The blue team had a generally trouble-free service, getting through the appetizers without any major problems thanks to Nick on appetizers, but having a few minor problems on the entrees such as Randy making a very thin order of mashed potatoes and then trying to deny being responsible for it (causing a lengthy argument among the team), Milly serving poorly-sliced wellingtons, and Adam using far too much oil to fry the fish. Meghan and T got the red team off to a good start with a flawless performance on the appetizers, but the team was stalled early on when Alison repeatedly made mistakes on the fish station, including serving raw lobster and burning her poaching butter, forcing her to make a new batch and further holding up the team. She eventually rebounded and the team completed appetizers without too many more problems, but they soon fell apart on the entrees as a result of terrible performances by Sarah on the meat station and Christine on the garnishes; Christine had major problems getting the garnishes out (serving raw and then burnt eggplant, and severely over-seasoning the lentils), even after Meghan jumped in to help her, while Sarah served raw wellingtons and overcooked lamb, then another overcooked order of lamb along with burnt chicken. With the blue team having finished service and the red team still having eight tables left to go, Chef Ramsay ejected the women, telling them to nominate two people for elimination, before calling in the men to finish the red team's service. Leaving this seasons Red Team tied with the Blue Team from Season 10 as the team got that got kicked out as a whole from service happening 5 times as of now.

Elimination: The red team quickly agreed on nominating Sarah and Christine, though briefly gave consideration to nominating Alison for her early problems on the fish station and not doing enough to help out Christine. While pleading the case for her survival, Sarah claimed that no-one on the team had bothered to help her (even though T actually did try to assist her), and when Ramsay asked her would she do better on the blue team, she said yes. Chef Ramsay refused Sarah's request and eliminated her, however, saying that while he had seen much potential in her earlier in the season, he could not overlook her succession of terrible performances in service.

Team challenge: Each team member must create a dish out of an alcoholic beverage, either beer, wine or liquor. Then, their dish will be judged by Ramsay and guest bartenders John Ratzenberger and Marino. When the chefs were done with cooking it was announced the judges were only tasting 3 dishes from each team (one beer, one wine, one liquor). On the beer dish Michelle impressed with her Chocolate beer soufflé scoring 11 points out of 15 while Nick still earned a respectable 10 out of 15 points for his team with his sweet potato donut in a candy bacon crumble with a beer and caramel sauce. For the wine dish Alison's ribeye with port wine sauce earned 10 points while Adam's lamb with wine and poached pear reduction also earned the same score. In the final round Meghan's pan seared duck breast got praise for the presentation but lacked acidity with meant she earned 9 points, with opened up for Josh to take the victory with his grilled pork dish that got 11 points, with made the final result end with 31 to the men and 30 for the women.

Reward/punishment: The blue team head to Moonlight Rollerway for some rollerblading. They also have lunch and beer with James at the Golden Road Brewery. The red team have to steam, starch and iron tablecoths in addition to washing the silverware.

Bret's exit: The next morning when both teams were prepping for dinner service, Bret took a bathroom break, during which he aggravated an existing slipped disc. He was escorted to the dorm by his teammates to rest, but when Ramsay found out about the injury he went up and told him he could not continue in the competition as it could lead to permanent back injuries and therefore eliminated him from Hell's Kitchen, but he told him to stay strong and get better.

Service: The menu for tonight service is gastro-pub inspired along with that chefs tables are present for the dinner service, the blue team will have Fred Willard in their kitchen while Jaleel White sat in the red kitchen. There's also a beer steamed razor calm table-side appetizer which were served by Meghan and Milly. During dinner service, the red team had an almost flawless service with the only two minor speedbumps being Christine getting overwhelmed on the appetizer station and Alison serving a raw order of lamb, but both of them recovered quickly. The same thing could not be said for the blue team who suffered from a major communication breakdown between Adam on the meat station and Randy on the fish station as they had problems with timing serving raw and overcooked fish and meat all night until Ramsay sent the red kitchen in to finish their service and asked the blue team to go up in the dorms and nominate two people from nomination.

Elimination: The men quickly decided on Adam and Randy due to their problems on their respective stations although both Adam and Nick tried to get Josh nominated for not helping the meat station when it started going down in flames, however when they were at the elimination ceremony and had nominated Adam and Randy. Ramsay to nominate Josh based on the same thing, that he didn't take any initiative to try to save the meat station. In the end, Ramsay eliminated Adam as he felt he was the biggest reason the blue team lost the dinner service and was also disappointed by the fact that he didn't bounce back.

Team challenge: Ramsay will reveal an exotic protein from each dome. The first person from each team who grabs the meat first will cook with it and present their dish for Chef Ramsay and his two guest judges Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, owners of the restaurant "Animal". They will score each dish on a scale of 1 to 5. Since Michelle didn't pick her meat, she chose alligator. Alison and Nick are up first with their Elk dishes. While Nick gets complimented on his presentation he only earns 6 points out of 15 as his dish is way under-seasoned. Alison got panned for her presentation but still managed to earn 8 points for her team. Next up was the wild boar dishes made by Meghan and Josh. Meghan's dish was deemed to be to safe earning 8 points for her team while Josh dish was undercooked and the cauliflower over-powered the rest of the dish earning him 7 points for his team. T and Milly presented their alligator dishes. Milly's dish earned a decent 9 points despite being a little under-seasoned and T earned 11 points. In the last round Christine and Randy were up for their team with their take on ostrich. Christine only earned 6 points as her meat was very bland and deemed kind of safe, opening up for Randy to win it for his team with his ostrich burger scoring a 12 points ending the final score at 34–33 to the men. Ramsay asked Michelle to bring the judges her alligator dish that was dropped in favor of T's. The judges concluded that it was the best dish of the day and it was a shame it didn't count.

Reward/punishment: The guys spent a day at the spa while Ramsay assigned the ladies to deep clean both kitchens. Following their punishment, they will then have to drink a milkshake that is filled with leftover exotic proteins from the challenge but Michelle ended up with an actual milkshake.

Meetings: Chef Ramsay met with each chef individually, giving them feedback on their performance, as well as advice for the rest of the competition. He asked each chef to rank the rest of their team. At the end of the meetings, he announced that the bottom ranked chef from each team would compete in a "Cook for Your Life" challenge with the loser being eliminated. The bottom chefs were Randy for the Blue team, and Christine for the Red team.

Elimination: In the "Cook for Your Life" challenge, both Randy and Christine made a few small errors, but overall prepared acceptable dishes. However, Christine's leaving out an ingredient from the risotto dish as well as attempting to make her own base for the bread pudding instead of using the base Chef Ramsay had prepared, led to her elimination.