Hell's Kitchen Quotes

Gordon: Melissa?
Melissa: Yes, Chef?
Gordon: It's like paper scallops.
Melissa: I'll get new ones, Chef.
Gordon: (handing Melissa's scallops to Brad and Josh) There you go.
Josh: (interview) Some of the scallops she did, they were, like, thin as a paper; there's like nothing there.
Gordon: Pass it back to Chef Melissa there, the (bleep) gremlin. Everything she touches, she screws.

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Melissa: Monkfish chef.
Gordon: Eh, right. Fish King! (Josh) Come here you. There's the monkfish.
Melissa: Overcooked?
Josh: It's overcooked.
Gordon: Oh my god almighty. You don't know that's overcooked?
Melissa: Sorry chef.
Gordon: Hey Brad, she doesn't know that's overcooked. Rock, she doesn't know that's chewed to (bleep) and overcooked. Scott, she doesn't know that's overcooked!
Scott: Oh my god. Completely.
Rock: (interview) Melissa was nervous, I could see it in her eyes and she fell apart. The monkfish was overdone. Pressure busts pipes baby!
Gordon: It looks like regurgitated dog (bleep).

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[An entire table of entrees has returned to the blue kitchen and Gordon has had it.]
Gordon: Ohhhh no. The whole (bleep) sixtop returned. Hello, look at me. Thanks (Melissa) for overcooking the monkfish. Thanks (Josh) for shafting me on the mashed potatoes. And thanks (Brad) for being a (bleep) on the appitizers. It's just so sad. Shut it down! Clear down.
Man: What about dessert?
Jean-Philippe: When it's closed, it's closed.
Man: (Bleep) that!

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Gordon: Brad, tonight you were (bleep). In fact, you were worse than (bleep). You complimented (bleep).

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Gordon: (to Josh) Where's the lamb? How long please? HOW LONG PLEASE?!!
Josh: Lamb coming right now chef.
Gordon: Let's go.
Josh: Yes chef.
Gordon: Hey you, hey donkey.
Josh: Yes chef.
Gordon: One's nicely cooked yeah colored, one's boiled. (Bleep) off will ya? So we're under pressure now and this is where it seperates the (bleep) chef from a donkey! Come here! Let me tell you something.
Josh: Yes chef.
Gordon: Let me tell you something in your ear. YOU CAN'T COOK! That's what's just been confirmed to me.
Josh: Ready to go? We're coming Rock.
Gordon: Yeah you're coming. So is your (bleep) elimination.

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[After Josh Ruins some lamb chops]
Gordon: Just look what you're doing, you DONUT! BOILED, BOILED, BOILED, BOILED! DONKEY!"

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Josh: (interview) I'm working app(itzer)s tonight. I'm totally 100% confident in myself to get the team started off with a bang.
Josh: Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
Gordon: Why is the risotto on? We haven't given one away. How long has that been on there for?
Josh: That's been on there for four minutes. These were on there earlier. They're going away.
Gordon: (seeing that Josh has cooked five other risottos) (Bleep) h-- how many are you doing? Can someone stop this guy? You've started panicing my man-- How many (bleep) risottos are you doing up front? Look at all these pans!
Josh: Yes chef.
Gordon: What is going on? Let me tell you something, we've opened, we haven't served anything yet and we've lost money. What a (bleep) donut!

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Gordon: Scallops, risottos, spaghetti! (to Josh) What's in that basket?
Josh: This is one of the pulled--
Gordon: Why? Just talk to me. Why? Why? Why? (sees that there's already spaghetti in the basket)
Josh: Starting over. Starting over.
Gordon: Oh (bleep) me. In your restaurant when you come in here do you cook spaghetti before the customer orders it?
Josh: Never chef.
Gordon: So why are you doing it here?
Josh: It was wrong.
Gordon: (Bleep). Oh was it really wrong? Even my mom cooks spaghetti seven minutes before she wants it. Get it in the bin!

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Narrator: While Julia struggles to keep her station under control, Josh continues to test Chef Ramsay's patience.
Gordon: What the (bleep) is he doing? (sees more spaghetti in the basket) Wha? More spaghetti in there! (dumps it in the bin)
Josh: Sorry.
Gordon: We cook spaghetti to order! Even the (bleep), dirtiest, scummiest Italian restaurant in Venice Beach cooks spaghetti to order you donkey!
Josh: Yes chef.
Gordon: I'm just wondering what the (bleep) you're doing?
Josh: I'm here chef.
Gordon: You're pushing me to the (bleep) limit big boy. Huh?

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[After undercooked risotto was returned to the kitchen, Chef Ramsay has FINALLY had enough of Josh]
Gordon: Come here! Come here! Come here you! What are you doing? Just what the (bleep) are you doing?! Every table so far nothing's coming out. You're standing there, you're screwing me and you're (bleep) useless! What are you doing?
Josh: Sorry chef.
Gordon: Yeah well do me a favor.
Josh: Yes chef?
Gordon: (rips Josh's jacket open) Take that off and (bleep) OFF OUT OF HERE! Get out! Get out! Hey you, leave the jacket and GET OUT!! GET OUT!!! (throws a spoon at Josh)
(Josh heads to the back and takes off his jacket, Gordon follows him)
Gordon: Give me the jacket!
Josh: I'm giving you it.
Gordon: Give me the (bleep) jacket! (Gordon takes the jacket off Josh, crumples it up and throws it into the storeroom) (Bleep) useless sack of (bleep)! Get out!! GET OUT!!!
Josh: (interview) (imitates a bomb falling and exploding) I would've given my right arm to stay in this service and keep fighting. I came here with a dream to win. And it appears it's over. It appears that Green Valley Ranch is not in my future. Dreams over guys.

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[Gordon has introduced his mother to the three remaining chefs]
Gordon: Rock, no cursing.
Rock: No chef.
Gordon: Never ever in front of your mom.

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[the fifteen chefs enter Hell's Kitchen and meet Jean Philippe. Among them is Chef Ramsay in disguise.]
Jean Philippe: Welcome to Hell's Kitchen. You must be all very excited to meet Chef Gordon Ramsay. Actually, I'm quite good at doing an impression of him. "ONE SPAGHETTI! ONE RISOTTO! ONE CRAB! WHAT IS THIS?! NOOOOOOOOOOO! IT'S OVERCOOKED!!" What about you? Can you do a little impression of Gordon?
Shayna: "WHERE'S THE LAMB SAUCE?!!"
Jean Philippe: How about you?
Jason: "Come on! Where is it?!"
Jean Philippe: I think you're gonna have to work on it. What about you big guy?
Gordon: (steps up front) Jean Philippe, it's time to open Hell's Kitchen.
Bobby: (interview) Damn, he's doing it real good.
Gordon: Come here you! You donkey!
Shayna: (interview) Wait a minute.
Gordon: STOP! Shut it down!
Louross: (interview) I know that voice.
Gordon: That's right. It's me. (removes his disguise. The chefs start screaming and hollering.)
Rosann: (interview) Oh my god! I've been sitting next to the chef on the bus the whole (bleep) time!
Dominic: (interview) Whoo! Didn't know it was coming.

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[Signature Dishes]
Gordon: Please god, let there be something on the next plate. (reveals Matt's signature dish.) Woah.
Matt: (interview) My signature dish is going to help me stand out, because I'm a true culinary. I understand what Gordon's looking for.
Gordon: What is it?
Matt: I call it Exotic Tartare. Because it's with venison and diver scallops, with caviar and white chocolate and...
Gordon: Whoa stop. Let me get this right again. Either that or I'm just about to be Punk'd. Diver scallops chopped up, caviar and white chocolate. Do you smoke?
Matt: Cigarettes?
Gordon: No. Raw venison, raw quail egg, lime zest, olive oil, scallops, caviar and grated white chocolate. (takes a taste) Capers as well. (chews for about 15 seconds then throws it up in the bin.)
Narrator: After a disastrous start to the signature dish tasting, Chef Ramsay has lost more than just his hope.
Gordon: That must be one of the worst combinations I've ever tasted in 21 years of cooking. Piss off will you?
Matt: (interview) I really don't understand what Chef Ramsay didn't like about the dish. I'm a little boggled on that.
Gordon: (picks up the platter and throws it into the trash can) Unreal!

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Narrator: With Rosann's dish receiving a good review from Chef Ramsay, things might be looking up.
Gordon: (reveals Petrozza's dish, which is a whole pumpkin) Oh, (bleep) me...
Narrator: ...Or are they?
Gordon: What in the (bleep)? Happy Halloween?
Petrozza: (interview) People ask me what my speciality is. But, you know, I don't have a speciality; I can cook anything.
Gordon: What is that?
Petrozza: There's a Cornish hen inside, Chef.
Gordon: A Cornish hen? What'd you do to it to get it in there?
Petrozza: It got in there-- I got it in-- I got it in there.
Gordon: Holy (bleep). (removes the pumpkin) These are potatoes?
Petrozza: Yes, sir.
Gordon: In how much grease and fat and oil did you fry 'em?
Petrozza: There's some butter in there.
Gordon: (holding up the potatoes, letting a ton of grease run off his arm) Some butter in that?
Petrozza: That's a lot of butter.
Gordon: Well, just stop there. That goes in there. (scrapes the potatoes into the bin) And let's see what we got for trick-or-treat, shall we?
Petrozza: Okay.
Gordon: (removes the top of the pumpkin,) Oh, my god... How do you get in there and eat it? I mean, am I missing a trick?
Petrozza: It's plated tableside.
Gordon: Oh.
Petrozza: It's- it's presented like that.
Gordon: Alright, off you go. (Petrozza splits the pumpkin open, revealing a greasy blob of food.) Oh, my god. Okay, stop right there. I don't think I'll get through that, do you?
Petrozza: Okay, no.
Gordon: So, what's the, uh... dish called?
Petrozza: "Hen in a Pumpkin."
Gordon: Right now, looking at that mess, I'd like to stick your (bleep) head in there,

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[Petrozza is performing tableside flambés in the dining room.]
Gordon: Petrozza, don't set the room on fire you donkey.

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Gordon: Bobby, I'm looking for someone to take control of this disgusting, embarrassing mess. He (Jason) doesn't give a (bleep). He's (Dominic) dreaming. He's (Matt) standing there, pissing his pants and looking for his tartare, caviar and white chocolate crap. And he's (Louross) just running around like a toilet brush. IS ANYONE GOING TO TAKE CONTROL?!!
Dominic: Jump in there, Bobby. Jump in there, baby.
Bobby: I don't wanna jump in! You guys, you guys got it over there! It's gonna make so much confusion if I get in over there. You've got six sets of hands over there, you don't need eight sets. I don't wanna join the chaos.
Craig: (interview) He's the captain. I mean, to just be like, "Yeah, uh, I don't wanna get in this chaos," that's like saying "(bleep) you, I quit!"

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[After yet another failed attempt by the blue team to serve their first appetizers]
Gordon: (with some bland sauce) Come here! Taste it! Run Dominic! You lazy (bleep)! And you put your fingers in there. Oh my god! (takes a spoonful out) Look, snot. (tosses the sauce away.) Oh (bleep) off. (kicks the bins) USELESS (bleep) PIECES OF (bleep)!! You all know it's crap, yet not one of you's got the (bleep) to do anything about it!
Jason: I haven't tasted it yet.
Louross: Guys, it's just simple! Go man, come on, just redo it! Season it with a bit of salt and pepper, that's all. (interview) I didn't see anyone taste their food today. You just need to get into your groove, as if you're making love to the kitchen.
Gordon: (to Bobby) Hey, you, take that badge off, give it to that little (bleep) over there! Thank god someone's got a set of (bleep)!
Bobby: (interview) I'm not the type to be like, "Oh my god, I'm a bad chef now." No, no, not at all! Louross can have that captain's position. I'm still a general. To me, he's still a private.

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Narrator: As Louross tries to whip the blue team into shape. The red team has served appetizers to three more tables.
Rosann: Are we ready now with that beef?
Corey: We're ready.
Narrator: And are starting their first entrees.
Gordon: Who cooked this chicken?
Corey: I did chef.
Gordon: Come here! Let's get all together now. You hold the chicken.
Rosann: Yes sir. Oh (bleep).
Gordon: Pass it around.
Corey: (interview) I thought a pan was going to get thrown, a glass was going to get shattered. Someone was getting hurt.
Gordon: Throw me the ball. (Sharon throws the chicken to Gordon) Let's (bleep)...(Throws the chicken hard against the oven) plate around us!
Corey: (interview) It happened to be the chicken so, sorry to the chicken.
Gordon: It's rubber! Plastic dry (bleep)!

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[Gordon makes everyone dig into the garbage for all the food that the chefs wasted the night before.]
Gordon: You should be ashamed of yourselves. We're not talking about a couple hundred dollars, we're in for thousands of dollars there just carelessly put in the trash as if no one gives a (bleep). You all better start giving a damn. Now go and get showered and meet me in the kitchen. You stink!

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Bobby: (interview) I've never been on a yacht before. The only boat I've gotten close to was The Love Boat on TV.

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Gordon: Is it really too much to know the menu inside and out? Eat, drink, sleep, breathe it? I've got 3,000 dishes between my ears. Pathetic.

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Jean-Philippe: (to a customer) It's raw? Okay, we'll do another one for you. (brings the dish to the pass)
Gordon: Oh, (bleep) off...
Jean-Philippe: That's Table 31, Chef. This is not cooked.
Gordon: Blue? Come here, you!! Oy, all of you, come here!! [to Sharon] You've stopped, [to Christina] you've given up, [to Matt] you're setting the place on fire, [to Jason] and you're sending me raw fish, that's (bleep) cold and (bleep) raw!
Jason: It's not mine.
Gordon: "It's not mine." How dare you. It's just come back from the table!!
Jason: Oh, okay.
Gordon: SHUT IT DOWN!! [to Jean-Philippe] GET THE (BLEEP) OUT!!!

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Gordon: Sharon clearly showed great attention to detail. Unfortunately, it wasn't for her cooking. It was for her makeup.

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Gordon: Jason, you're on desserts. Don't eat any.

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Narrator: While General Bobby feeds his troops in the Blue dining room, customers on the Red side are sending out distress signals.

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Narrator: ...But the diners aren't the only ones in need of rescue.

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Gordon: Oh, no. Oh, no, come on. Stop. Stop. Stop! Stand back! Stand back! Stand BACK!! [removes the meat from the pan] There's cooking, in this (bleep) bonfire-- STAND BACK!! Same (bleep), different day. [throws the pan in the sink, where the fire blows up, then dies.] This is (bleep) embarrassing!!
Rosann: (interview) My mind is racing, my heart is pounding...
Gordon: That's not a (bleep) saute pan, that's a FURNACE!!! LOOK AT THE MEAT!!!
Rosann: (interview) I blew four pieces of meat on there. It was just really horrible for me. I'm hopin' I'm never gonna have that happen again.
Gordon: IT'S SCORCHED!!! Cooking, my ass!!

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Narrator: As the Red team, once again, starts over on their entrees, Jason starts preparing his first desserts.
Jason: Is this the right way to do it? I hope it is.
Jason: (interview) I don't have a clue on this earth what I'm doing. I hate desserts! They're tedious! Women can make desserts, y'know? It ain't my thing.
Jason: [to Louross] ...5 minutes for the creme brulee, so I have two of those in.
Louross: Your creme brulee's done already!
Jason: No, it's not. That's not cooked.
Louross: That's cooked!
Jason: (bleep).
Jason: (interview) The souffles looked like muffins in a cup! I don't know what was wrong, 'cause I don't know desserts, but I know they would not come up for nothing!
Gordon: Jason!
Jason: Yes?
Gordon: What's happening with the desserts?
Jason: The souffles are not coming out at all; they're sticking!
Gordon: Come here a minute.
Jason: Okay. (goes over to Gordon) I cannot get them to come up, they're sticking really bad, they look like (bleep), they look like muffins.
Gordon: (in a fast tone) So, are we gonna take it off the menu, are we gonna do something constructive, are we gonna do anything about it...
Jason: I'm, I'm trying something new. I'm gonna take some sugar and rub it around the rim, and try to get that... and... that's what I'm trying to do right now.
Gordon: You're gonna get some sugar and rub it around the rim?
Jason: Sugar- no, no--sugar, butter, and the cocoa powder, and see if that keeps them from sticking. (Gordon walks over to the hotplate and starts banging his head on the counter.)

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[After another disasterous dinner service]
Gordon: (to the blue team) Get in there! (the red kitchen) Let's put one (bleep) mess with another (bleep) mess! Get in there! There you go, join forces. We've gone backwards! And you're (Vanessa) just all over the place! And you're (Jason) just hopeless! And you (Ben) don't care! Pathetic! And then you look at me gaumless like the salmon's raw when it was requested medium. And what did you say?
Ben: Different techniques.
Gordon: (Bleep) OFF! Not good enough! I'm not going to continue this any longer. Winning team? Forget it! What the (bleep) is so complicated?! Christina, you made an effort to get all the appetizers out. Thank god! Unfortunately, we got screwed when it came to the first entree. You've got to go upstairs and nominate one individual that's leaving here.
Christina: Yes chef.
Gordon: Petrozza, you stayed with it. Your mind was clear. The attitude was strong. Get upstairs and think about who you are going to nominate. One from the blue and one from the red. Now GET OUT! (Bobby waves to some ladies that he served tableside.) Bob come here. Yeah I wouldn't go around looking for applauders right now. Right now is the wrong (bleep) time! GET OUT!!!
Bobby: Okay chef.
Gordon: Jackass waving at them! What do we have to wave about?! I don't care! GET OUT!!!

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Narrator: As the men go off for a day of hard labor, Chef Ramsay and the women are off to the Sunset Strip. Little does Chef know...
Gordon: Okay. Off we go.
Narrator: One of Hell's Kitchen's former chefs is a regular at the Saddle Ranch.

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