Hell's Kitchen (2005-present)
I watched twenty two seasons with most of them I seen as they aired on TV. Hell's Kitchen is one of those long running realty competition shows you hear about over the years. Chef Ramsay acts like a drill sergeant for majority of the show. He breaks every chef down then rebuilds em into great chefs. Every challenge is designed to help better em in many ways.
Let's be honest he isn't going to give such opportunities to anyone. You really gotta work for it as proven by every season of the show. The main prize is the winner gets an executive chef position in a new restaurant somewhere in Las Vegas. I know some people might get thrown off by the name itself. Yes it's one of five sections within the state of New York.
Hell's Kitchen is actually the name of the restaurant used for this Ramsay show as well as the title of the show too. Maybe a little confusing for some people I apologize. I used to watch several cooking shows for many years. This was among the ones I looked forward to the most. Along with Top Chef as well as Chopped to name a few.
Yes a lot of challenges gets used a lot. More recently later in the seasons Chef Ramsay throws more curve balls the chefs don't see coming. A lot of them aren't that great at cooking. He does get some truly amazing chefs from time to time. Usually he splits the chefs into two teams using funny enough the two colors of military versus games.
Red and blue with red mostly being the women team while blue being the men team. Chef Ramsay barely does non eliminations on his show. It's more likely more than one person gets eliminated. Although those happens due to how disappointing their performances truly were. Most their dinner services doesn't go well.
Anyone thinking otherwise needs to get their eyes checked lol. Chef Ramsay is constantly putting pressure onto the chefs there's no breaks. He also has two sous chefs that helps both kitchens out. Yes he made two kitchens roughly the same size right next to each other. The only major difference is parts of it being either more blue or red respectively.
Chef Ramsay is constantly throwing curve balls. Even when the chefs starts to expect things. It's almost like putting more paranoia on them knowing Chef Ramsay going to test em more. In all honestly, he does want to be an mentor. He wants the very best chef among every group. Yes his standards are incredibly high with his reputation to meet it.
You can bet this is drama central for cooking shows. People getting upset at each other for so many reasons. Eventually a handful of them receive their black jackets. More recently, you have to earn em, which I actually respect Chef Ramsay for. Only the final two at a point during the conclusion gets head chef uniforms.
This isn't Chef Ramsay's first cooking show but close to it. There's a huge chance this possibly the one he's the most known for. Yes even throwing in Kitchen Nightmares or MasterChef. He doesn't hold back on either giving the rewards or the punishments. Some of these rewards are mind blowing. Sometimes rewards has unexpected surprises that makes em even better.
A random fact about the show not many people knows. The original version being the British version aired for four seasons. Chef Ramsay was the original host only in season 1 of that version. It also was done notably different from the US counterparts including how elimination works. Season 2 on that version made it closer to the US version's format.
Some of these punishments can be rather unforgiving at times. End of the day, regardless you won a lot of rewards or kept getting the punishments. Chef Ramsay still wants you to compete harder than you ever had before. He expects greatness out of every single person that competed on his show. This quickly became a timeless classic in every sense of the word.
Hell's Kitchen means so much to the right people. Some might view it being the cooking variation of The Jerry Springer Show. I strongly believe this show is way more than that. You do learn stuff from watching it. Not just about people but some great cooking tips as well as how restaurants works. You get to see people grow as you watch each season of the show.
Chef Ramsay could easily make any compilation from this show. Many people would have a great time watching em. Hell's Kitchen is easily among the best Fox shows I ever seen. Almost one of the most inspiring I ever gotten into as well. The world needs more shows like Hell's Kitchen. I just don't think it can be recreated by anyone else not even Chef Ramsay himself.
Very recently I fully watched the most recent season deeply surprised how damn great it was. Easily within my Top 5 Favorite Hell's Kitchen seasons to date. For me, the bar is set insanely high after watching it. Chef Ramsay must've been deeply proud. Honestly, it's a very strong recommendation go watch that season.
I know I don't often review cooking shows. But this particular one always meant so much to me. It actually got me into Chef Ramsay with MasterChef. I already lost count how many cooking shows he's hosting now. A handful on other channels with majority of them being on Fox channel. End of the day, thank you so much Chef Ramsay for a truly amazing cooking show.
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