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. Season 14's blue team set the record of most dinner service wins from the blue team in a season with six, excluding joint-victories. Nick had made some serious errors during services, which led to his elimination. Service: Both teams had a few speed bumps during the appetizer stage. The contestants were (in alphabetical order): At the end of each episode, one chef is eliminated from the losing team by Ramsay. When James announced that lunch would be served soon, Michael misheard him and thought that it was lunchtime and ran upstairs to the dorm to make himself something to eat, until James brought him back downstairs. Reward/punishment: The women head to Scottsdale, Arizona to go horseback riding at Cave Creek Outfitter and have dinner at Talavera. Lastly Alison tried to lead the team, but only managed to annoy them by saying the words "all day" repeatedly; regardless, they finished without any more incidents. She was considered a better, if more harsh leader, than Milly, though she also failed to spot sea bass being used instead of halibut, similar to a mistake she made during the challenge two episodes prior. Reward/punishment: The women headed to Manhattan Beach where they receive surfing lessons from Anastasia Ashley and had lunch. Next up was the wild boar dishes made by Meghan and Josh. Service: For this service it was family night, meaning that many of the comfort foods cooked in the previous challenge were on the menu. Related: Hell's Kitchen: Why Christina Wilson Wasn’t Asked To Cook For Audition. The Blue team became the first team in Hell's Kitchen history to receive approval for every dish from Ramsay as all the men received a score of 3 or 4. Despite the women having two 5 point dishes, they were hugely let down by Mieka, Chrissa, and Monique, which sealed the 31–28 win for the men, marking the first time the men won the signature dish challenge since season 9. In attendance were Il Volo, Tamara Taylor and Taylor Hicks. "Tuesday Final Ratings: 'The Flash' & 'The Voice' Adjusted Up; 'iZombie' Adjusted Down", "Tuesday Final Ratings: 'The Voice', 'The Flash', & 'The Mindy Project' Adjusted Up; 'NCIS: New Orleans' Adjusted Down", "Tuesday Final Ratings: 'The Flash', 'Forever' & 'NCIS' Adjusted Up - Ratings - TVbytheNumbers.Zap2it.com", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy-6JZ1ivr4, "FEATURED Tuesday Final Ratings: 'NCIS: New Orleans' Adjusted Up; No Adjustment for 'Forever', 'New Girl' or 'Weird Loners, "Tuesday Final Ratings: 'The Flash', 'NCIS', 'The Voice', 'Fresh Off The Boat', 'Hell's Kitchen' & 'Person of Interest' Adjusted Up", "Tuesday Final Ratings: 'The Flash', 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. These factors led to her elimination. 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. Service: In addition to Mabelynn Capeluj, Erik Palladino was also a guest for this service. Meghan Gill: Hell’s Kitchen season 14 winner. Her solid leadership meant she was deemed a good leader, and she was the only one to spot her mistake, catching a lamb wellington instead of beef. In the blue team, the pairs included Michael and Bret, Brendan and Cameron, and Josh and Randy. 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. Nick had a little reunion with his ex-girlfriend who was serving the blue team (much to the surprise of the other men, as Nick is openly gay). Episode Rundown: Hell’s Kitchen hosted a Homecoming dance, an epic argument at the dorms occurred, and the first team switch happened. The chef that won tonight on Hell’s Kitchen Season 14 is Meghan Gill !!! T argued with Monique about using tomato sauce from a jar, which she believed had ruined their chances of winning. 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. Milly had a rough service, but T and Meghan did not want to put him up, so Michelle was selected by process of elimination. The blue team broke down a 250-pound side of beef that'll be part of steak night in the next 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 teammates. T called out an order to Nick on the meat station, which he acknowledged. Episode Rundown: Steak was the main ingredient, two station meltdowns caused on team to struggle at dinner service, and an early front runner was sent home. 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. However, it has already screened in the UK. In the end, Ramsay eliminated Adam for being the main reason for the blue team losing dinner service and was also disappointed that he didn't bounce back. Alison got her course out without any problems, but Randy cooked portions in separate pans, leading to them being seasoned differently, and then didn't notice that Milly accidentally took 16 plates instead of the 12 required. Despite the men's head-start, the women ultimately defeated them by presenting 10 dishes, while the men had only managed 7 due to the duo of Micheal and Bret only presenting one plate because of Micheal's sluggishness. When the entrees started, Josh quickly grew frazzled and, in his confusion, nearly burned their first order. The blue team was assigned to make sangria (including preparing all of the fruit) and to bring in tabletops to the dining room for tonight's service that will host two charities. After hearing each of the contestants explain why they should stay, Chef Ramsay chose to eliminate Michael for being a consistently poor performer, and especially because of 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. The men were left in the kitchen peeling shrimp and prepping the clams and lobsters for a special that'll be served at the next dinner service. T Gregoire During Michelle's time as chef, T was reprimanded for taking too long on a wellington. Airdate: However, Cameron said having Ramsay in the kitchen only made him more nervous and intimidated; Brendan, his partner on the station, eventually helped him complete his first dish. Executive chef Meghan Gill from Roanoke, Virginia, won the competition, thus becoming the fourteenth winner of Hell's Kitchen . 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. Who won Hell’s Kitchen season 19? Meghan's team also had some hiccups during service, as Randy constantly overcooked the chicken entree. In addition to a vote each for themselves, Meghan also had votes from T and Michelle, with only Milly voting against her. The blue team also had their fair share of problems at appetizers as Josh served alcoholic risotto and then undercooked pasta, but after that the appetizers went without incident. Gordon needs more time to make his choice. When Tatum O'Neal decided that her Wellington steak was too raw, she asked for a halibut instead, which T cooked for her with no problems. West popped up twice more on "Hell's Kitchen" in the third season. Although chef lost the challenge, they were invited on the reward. He also fell behind T when she quickly walked up the salmon, and he had not finished the lamb. Team challenge: The teams were cooking for Calabasas High School's homecoming dinner where the theme for the homecoming party was Mardi Gras. 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. This was a close battle and they were both very good chefs and ran some very good dinner services tonight. The red team won the tiebreaker as Sarah's dish was deemed the best of the day. This is the first season to have an all-female final three. Winners of Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen almost never get their promised Head Chef position. However, things rapidly fell apart during entrees thanks to a dismal performance from Mieka and Monique on the meat station, who repeatedly served up raw wellingtons and steaks. While Hell’s Kitchen Season 19 is complete, it will be the summer of Gordon Ramsay. They also have lunch and beer with James at the Golden Road Brewery. The red team had cooked for Fran Drescher's "Cancer Schmancer" which includes the members plus Drescher, Ray Abruzzo and Peter Marc Jacobson while the blue team cooked for members from Stand Up Women's Network including Amy Davidson. In addition, Robert Englund and the finalists' families were also in attendance. Milly scored an impressive perfect 4 out of 4 ingredients (only done once before by Justin Antiorio in Season 10), and Meghan scored 3, but Nick and Randy both only identified 1. After that, they have thirty minutes to use the ingredients they bought to the make their dish for Ramsay. Team challenge/signature dish: The teams are divided into men versus women 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. In addition, Ramsay also tasks them to vacuum, shampoo, and clean the red carpet. Chef Ramsay deemed this to be in violation of the challenge rules, however, and instantly disqualified Milly and Adam. They then see chef Gordon Ramsay on top of the roof of Hell's Kitchen. Michael also had problems on the scallops for the first table, as he boiled them instead of searing them. The chefs each chose a protein to cook a Greek dish with, and broke plates to determine their other ingredients. Coming in at third place, representing his home country of Ireland with pride was one of … Season 14's blue team also was the first team to have Gordon Ramsay's universal approval of all of a team's. With the blue team having finished service and the women 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 their service. He then told Meghan to help Sarah on garnish instead of Chrissa, as she actually knew what to do to help Sarah. Service: Chef's tables were featured during gastro-pub night. Milly earned praise for detecting scallops that were not seared on one side, but then took over the fish station and made the same mistake, and had troubles with the scallops for the rest of the service. Eighteen chefs competed for the head chef position in season 14.[2]. 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. They will score each dish on a scale of 1 to 5. This season's head to head finals happened between the third pair of the top two finalists that did not receive any nominations for elimination. Both teams each had separate, unusual distinctions during the signature dish challenge. This is the third season where the top two avoided nomination. Ramsay then nominates Josh based on the same thing, that he didn't take any initiative to try to save the meat station. Minutes later, the rest of team was ejected after Ramsay discovered that none of the men actually knew what was on order. 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. “Hell’s Kitchen” season 17 is an “All Stars” edition of this reality competition series hosted by Gordon Ramsey. 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. March 3 – June 9, 2015 Elimination: While the women agreed that Mieka and Monique had been the two worst performers in the kitchen that night, T suggested the team into nominating Monique and Sarah to try to manipulate Ramsay into eliminating Monique, who they believed was a disruptive influence and kept the team from succeeding. Alison admitted to her mistakes, but asked Ramsay to consider her past weeks of consistency. Twenty initial contestants arrive at Hell's Kitchen, only to find that the doors to the restaurant aren't open, much to their confusion. Afterwards, he asked them to go to their respective doors where Meghan's door opened making her the 14th winner of Hell's Kitchen, while T took her defeat graciously. With the prize to became head chef at Lake Tahoe, in Las Vegas, Nevada, two chefs competed in a bid to take home the winning culinary role. In the end, they both stood in front of the doors and it opened for Meghan, so she is the winner of Hell’s Kitchen Season 14. Alison and Nick are up first with their Elk dishes. Heather West didn't stay in Las Vegas However, when they switched places later, T discovered that Nick had not started the order, which created a lengthy delay. The men will have Fred Willard in their kitchen while Jaleel White sat in the red kitchen. Episode Rundown: Cheese was the main ingredient, one team continued to struggle at dinner service, and a very satisfying elimination occurred. Number of Episodes: The dishes are scored on a scale of 1–5, with 1 being a disaster, and 5 being a "truly outstanding dish". The teams were divided by gender at the beginning, male contestants in the blue team, and female contestants in the red team. Reward/punishment: The women got cocktails aboard the American Pride in Long Beach where they were joined by Ramsay. Episode Rundown: A lunch service challenge took place, one chef had a surprising reunion from an old friend, and another threatened to quit the competition after an embarrassing defeat. The three members who received 1 (Chrissa, Mieka and Monique) were the first three women to be eliminated and the two chefs receiving 5 (T and Meghan) were the two finalists. Meghan Gill is executive chef at Dormie Network, a nationwide network of private golf clubs. The season 5 winner, Danny Veltri, was supposed to be a head chef at a casino in Atlantic City, but instead was given a job as a sous chef and ended up quitting. Due to this discrepancy, the winner and the runners-up, for those who are desperate to know, can already be revealed. This was not helped by the fact that as the women were sitting down discussing possible nominees, Chrissa tried to make coffee, only to break a glass, which led the women to believe she was not taking her place in Hell's Kitchen seriously. Far East Movement were also in attendance. 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. When Wray won the reality TV competition, he was only 27-years-old, with a very bright future. For the red team, Josh scored 3, while the others each scored 2. Service: Tatum O'Neal and her son, Sean McEnroe, are tonight's guest for the chef's table. Elimination: The women quickly decided on Monique as the first nominee, but were divided between Sarah and Christine as the second. The women 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. The judges concluded that it was the best dish of the day, and it was a shame it didn't count. T’s first pick was Milly followed by Nick, Adam and last Christine. Jake Steinfeld and Jerry Hairston, Jr. were in attendance. After much thought, Ramsay decided, much to the other chefs' (especially Nick's) relief and delight, to finally eliminate Josh due to his long downward spiral, but praised him for his passion as well for bouncing back on this service after a string of bad services. 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). Hell's Kitchen Season 15 aired January 15 to April 29, 2016 on Fox Network, there were 18 contestants and the prize for the winner was a head chef position at BLT Steak at Bally's Las Vegas. [1] Gordon Ramsay returned as head chef with Andi Van Willigan and James Avery returning as sous-chefs for both their respective kitchens as well as Marino Monferrato as the maître d'. 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. Eventually, the team rallied and were able to complete their dinner service. Hell’s Kitchen Season 20 returns this summer. What many don't know is that his win happened while he was battling a prescription painkiller addiction. Elimination: The chefs decided that the choices for elimination would be from among Alison for her failures with the filet and the salmon, Michelle for her one mistake with the capellini, and Josh for his mistake with the garnish and his overall tendency to get flustered and frazzled in the kitchen. Hells Kitchen Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Service: The chef's tables for the final service include Tiffani Thiessen in T's kitchen and Lisa Loeb in Meghan's. Thankfully, Meghan managed to get Mieka back on track and successfully kept the garnish station from sinking the kitchen. This was the first final since season 10 in which a finalist did not throw a chef out of service. The men 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. 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. 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 (under her breath) if they could try again, the entire team was ejected. It all came down to one last dinner service on Hell's Kitchen. T was last to perform as head chef. However T was forced to put Nick back on garnish again when Adam was not communicating, and delegated Christine to support Adam on garnish after she sent up dry truffle mac. In the end, the chefs agreed on nominating Josh and Alison. 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. 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". Service: This was a special steak night, and it was the final service performed as two teams, with black jackets on the line for the merger into one team. After analyzing the service and overall performance, he called both of them into his office where he praised both of the finalists for their performance up to that point. After hearing each of their pleas, he sent Monique back in line (believing she was passionate, despite making mistakes) and eliminated Chrissa for being out of her element on the signature dish, before dinner service, during dinner service, and even while she was being eliminated, as she originally wandered off towards the exit without giving Chef Ramsay her jacket. All this resulted in Ramsay sending out half of one table's order before the other half was finished. When it came time to entrees Milly forgot to turn the stoves on and then served up an order of raw snappers. However, she would deliberately make errors in order to expose the chefs' weaknesses. The first-ever All-Star season of HELL'S KITCHEN … After having time to cook, they presented their dishes to Ramsay in a "King of the Hill" challenge. They then drank a milkshake that is filled with leftover exotic proteins from the challenge except for the alligator that Michelle ended up with. Individual challenge down during the team phase. Bret took the first point for the men with his trout dish, before Mieka took a point for her salmon dish, and Sarah earned a 2–1 lead for the women with her cod dish. Meghan was the Hell's Kitchen season 14 winner due to her passion, determination and leadership skills. Reward/punishment: The men spent a day at the spa. 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. “Hell’s Kitchen” season 19 was filmed in 2018 but didn’t air in the USA till 2021. Episode Rundown: Meghan and T competed in their final challenge, picked their brigades for the final dinner service, and one of them was named the winner of Hell's Kitchen. However T's team started slowing down at the entree stage as Adam repeatedly served up undercooked meat, which forced T to switch him with Nick on garnish. 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, where the teams were split into pairs (the men 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.