Heck's Kitchen is a reality TV show in which a bunch of chefs compete to become the head chef at an upcoming Gordon Ramsay restaurant. Compared to a "pure" cooking competition like Masterchef, Heck's Kitchen is more about inter-personal drama and the fact that most of the contestants are psychopaths who can't cook.
Gordon Ramsay himself has been awarded 16 Michelin stars throughout his career, although these were earlier in his career and mostly in London or in luxury hotels around the world. Over the last couple of decades he has effectively stopped running restaurants and moved into a more celebrity chef role, opening dozens of chain restaurant with names such as "Street Pizza", "Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill" and "Gordon Ramsay Heck's Kitchen".
The food served in the Heck's Kitchen restaurant chain (and in the fake restaurant on the TV show) is a kind of faux fine dining, featuring boring standards like lobster risotto and beef wellington.
Anyway, I was watching an episode and noticed that the carbonara looks fricking disgusting. It's all soupy and has peas and mushrooms in it. Here's the recipe from the man himself. It looks more like canteen food than a real carbonara.
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Here's a real carbonara for comparison:
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So I made the mistake of asking /r/hellskitchen if they knew why the carbonara was so odd. What I found will shock you:
The carbonara served in Heck's Kitchen looks fricking disgusting. It's all soupy and has peas in it. I get that Heck's Kitchen is far from fine dining but wtf is going on there? It looks like school canteen food.
A lolcow takes offence immediately:
“Far from fine dining”
What’s your restaurant experience?
My experience with fine dining is eating at Michelin starred restaurants around the world and not eating at fake restaurants set up for game shows. Heck's Kitchen is faux fine dining for the American reality TV audience. I'm sorry that you didn't know that.
LMAO no shot u just said my experience is eating at Michelin star restaurants 💀💀💀💀💀. I’m sorry that u didn’t know eating doesnt make you an expert on food. Yes sir, you have eaten at many different restaurants. That makes you more valid than the man who opened and runs those restaurants💀💀
Do you really not understand the difference between Gordon Ramsay's older, Michelin-starred restaurants and his newer, commercialised American tourist traps? Do you think that the chain Gordon Ramsay Burger is fine dining because it has his name on it?
I'm hoping that he's not done arguing. Someone else commented suggesting that I belong on /r/iamveryspecial. I'm having a hard time not cracking out some slurs but I'd quite like to hold on to this account.
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Reality tv has destroyed Gordon’s standards
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He's gone full sellout, he lost two stars from his self-titled flagship restaurant because he couldn't be bothered to run it anymore.
He's seen as a joke over here but Americans seem to adore him. It's funny because he doesn't have a single good restaurant in the States.
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I only like him for the fact that his road shows where he goes to badly run restaurants because it acts like an IRS fraud Bat Signal
Edit: I lived near a restaurant that got a makeover; management was extorting money, servers were stealing from the restaurant, owner was using business expenses for personal stuff. It was an ouroboros of crime lmao
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I don't think they make new Kitchen Nightmares anymore since that guy killed himself
. He had that shit short-lived hotel show which was weird because he has no experience running a hotel.
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Stop the Hotel Heck slander, Gordon really shines as a therapist in that show!
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Didn’t that dude’s family say that they really like Ramsay though?
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My favorite was that psycho b-word with the bakery that Gordon walked out on. It was so obvious her mobster husband was using the place to launder money and probably only even let her run it so she'd shut up.
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Amy's!!! Always love rewatching the episode and the follow up just for the lols
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Sellout get rich. What's the problem?
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He does private table for rich Jews and jew adjacents now it’s not like he’s guy fietti
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That guy is a communist srdine sportsball poster and mod
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What surprises you?
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Redditors should always be patrolled and insulted, I ate at a 3 star Michelin restaurant recently and I’d they brought that shit out I would leave
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Gordon Ramsey Burger is actually pretty good though I made a whole post about it.
And I say that as someone who has eaten at Alinea tier dumps and b-word about them constantly, I’m not uncultured. I love pissing away money on worthless shit.
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Ramsey is still a great chef and owns. In addition to the celebrity tv stuff he more so does a lot of private catering for rich people and events so it’s not like he gave up on his passions.
Heck’s Kitchen still owns and is a good show. He owned the millenitards and zoomers brutally in the “young guns” or whatever variant of it a year or two ago. There were like two or three vegan foids he just totally lost it on
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lol went to Heck's Kitchen in NY years n years ago. I wanted to see if the chef supersoldier actually ran his resturants in the same standards he tries to put others.
My food was cold n soggy lmao. It was so bad I got a refund.
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He's probably never even been inside that restaurant. The entire Heck's Kitchen chain is aimed at middle Americans who have no idea what fine dining is.
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Always enjoy your posts where you rile up dumb redditors but I do think you need to spend less time of reddit
Anyway, I'm picking up a new squire guitar later today, maybe I'll post it to /r/guitars when I get home. Any suggestions for amps that sound good on a squire?
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Literally just shart into a tin can while you strum the Squire, it'll sound better than if you plugged it in to anything.
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You’re an idiot
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Youre literally worse than those people.
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Hi I’m a good guitarist that can help you
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Gordon Ramsey peepeeriders are the worst. He honestly seems like a good guy, I just hate his fans. Also look at this video of him being BTFO by a thai chef
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REDDIT CANNOT FOOD
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Snapshots:
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Here's the recipe from the man himself:
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No gambling in my threads without contributing to the discussion thanks.
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Fine dining is a scam to siphon funds away from new money trash and for executives to scam businesses. You're paying some douche bag hundreds or thousands of dollars an hour to follow simple instructions.
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