Gordon Ramsay Abruptly Shuts Down Dinner Service on ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ CT Episode md06

Last week, “Hell’s Kitchen” returned to TV screens from Foxwoods for the 24th season of the cooking competition show and its second held at the Connecticut resort and casino.

The new season, named “Battle of the States,” features 20 chefs from around the country — each from a different state — competing for $250,000 and a spot as the head chef of the Hell’s Kitchen restaurant at Foxwoods.

This week’s episode, the second of the season, began with a surprise drop as scallop shells came erupting out of a crate that crashed down from the ceiling of the restaurant. Gordon Ramsay challenged each chef to make a scallop dish. However, the chef with the worst scallop dish would be eliminated from the competition before dinner service, Ramsay announced. On the flip side, the two chefs with the best scallop dishes would get “punishment passes,” which negate them from participating in any punishments handed out to their team.

In the blue kitchen, chefs Chris Faison, Jayden Canady and Antonio Wormley made the best scallop dishes, while in the red kitchen, the chefs with the best scallops were chefs Jada Vidal, Lisa Rivera, Cat Smith and Anaiya Lator. Ultimately, Ramsay chose Lator and Faison as the recipients of the “punishment passes.”

Leaving the show before dinner service was chef Carlos Walker of Alaska, who made pan-seared scallops with rosemary. Ramsay said the rosemary was overpowering while the scallops were overcooked. He said he “expected a much, much, much better execution on that,” and asked Walker to leave the competition.

Dinner service started with a plethora of hiccups coming out of the blue kitchen. Chase Cardoza was burning flatbreads and then undercooking them in the blue kitchen while Wormley was overcooking scallops and Bradley Wildridge struggled with making risotto. In the red kitchen, Maddy Bender of New York couldn’t remember items on the tickets, causing confusion in the kitchen.

The issues continued to pile on in the red kitchen as Bender kept messing up salmon orders. Everything came to a halt in red kitchen when Ramsay pulled the whole team aside over raw pork chops from Smith — telling them all to shut down service and come up with two people to eliminate.

In the blue kitchen, Cardoza ruined so many flatbreads that they ran out of cheese for the dish, and had to pivot to making salads. Undercooked lamb from Henry Johnson was among the catalysts for Ramsay to shut down the blue kitchen — effectively ending dinner service for the evening for both teams.

At elimination, Ramsay called the dinner service a “sorry state of affairs.”

The red team nominated Bender and Smith for elimination while the blue team nominated Cardoza and Wildridge. Ultimately, Ramsay chose Bender to leave the show, telling her that she “was not ready to become my head chef” and didn’t know who would give her a sous chef title at the age of 18.

“New Yorkers may be tough, but properly cooked salmon shouldn’t be,” Gordon said before the episode closed out.

Episode three airs on next Thursday and will stream on Hulu starting Oct. 10.