Cooking Like a TV Chef

After watching the premiere episode of season 9 of Hell’s Kitchen, I’m ready to separate most of the contestants into one of two categories: Those who have no chance of winning Hell’s Kitchen and those who have a shot at the prize of a $250,000 salary as head chef of BLT Steak in New York City. True to form, Chef Gordon Ramsay is using the first few challenges on Hell’s Kitchen to humble the contestants. He seems to set them up to fail, in order to make them doubt themselves. In the premiere episode he began sitting people out early in the show, short-staffing the men’s team. As food failed to pass Ramsay’s inspection and was sent to the trash bin instead of the restaurant tables, diners began walking out of the newly redesigned Hell’s Kitchen restaurant in Los Angeles and Ramsay shut the kitchen down. That increases the heat in the kitchen so to speak. Extra pressure, people feeling like they need to be defensive and are in danger of losing, or being humiliated tends to make people ag...