[DUMB REDDITOR] /r/HellsKitchen regulars believe that Heck's Kitchen is fine dining

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.

Here's a real carbonara for comparison:

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.