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Cyril Sneer posted:What is it with early reality shows and that misty-soap-opera lighting? You could spot it easily in those early clips they showed. Most of them weren't shooting in HD at that point and the majority were capturing footage on MiniDV or DVCAM, which has a rather distinctive soft look to it.
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Timby posted:Most of them weren't shooting in HD at that point and the majority were capturing footage on MiniDV or DVCAM, which has a rather distinctive soft look to it. Interesting. It's weird how I don't remember them looking like that at all.
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Cyril Sneer posted:Interesting. It's weird how I don't remember them looking like that at all. You had a lovely old TV in 2007 OP
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Iron Crowned posted:You had a lovely old TV in 2007 OP Jokes on you, I'm still using that tv 
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loving lol at that moron sneaking in a digital thermometer.
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Kwatz posted:loving lol at that moron sneaking in a digital thermometer. yeah, it's up there with the donut from Full Metal Jacket
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Kwatz posted:loving lol at that moron sneaking in a digital thermometer. And then leaving it behind. Right Mastermind, he is.
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Kwatz posted:loving lol at that moron sneaking in a digital thermometer. snuck it in and still couldn't get the meat right
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Honestly, in the post-COVID world, I'd rather they use a probe ( ) than rub their dickbeaters all over my entrée.
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Masterchef Legends. A third of the hopefuls get to audition for Emeril Lagasse, another 3rd get Curtis Stone... The last third, Paula "Butter on everything & N word" Dean... Seems like the last third got the short straw...
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Yeah, gently caress Paula Deen and MasterChef being involved in any sort of “redemption tour” for her. But I shouldn’t be surprised, Joe has been back hosting for a few years and he’s a scumbag too.
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Kwatz posted:But I shouldn’t be surprised, Joe has been back hosting for a few years and he’s a scumbag too. It's probably easier to name restaurant empire owners who aren't complete pieces of poo poo.
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Ramsay, for example.
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Popoto posted:Ramsay, for example. He's a very sweet man and it's well-known that the Hell's Kitchen / Kitchen Nightmares persona is an affectation, but there are some stories out there about him turbofucking his restaurant employees, largely due to gross financial mismanagement of his restaurant empire. One of the reasons Fox crammed out like 4 seasons of Hell's Kitchen in just under two years a while back was because Ramsay was almost broke and leveraged up to his gills and desperately needed the money.
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Iirc it wasn't directly his mismanagement, his father-in-law was in charge of the finances and it turned out he was embezzling a ton? Something like that
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Timby posted:It's probably easier to name restaurant empire owners who aren't complete pieces of poo poo. You’re correct, and as a former service industry member, it’s not limited to empire owners.
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Kwatz posted:You’re correct, and as a former service industry member, it’s not limited to empire owners. I worked both BOH and FOH for nearly a decade. I know.
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For as many restaurants as Ramsay has opened it's a pretty high closure rate, most of them seem to be in London or Las Vegas at this point, and chains at that
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I remember back in the day when this thread was busy and every new season of Hell's Kitchen came with a contest.
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:For as many restaurants as Ramsay has opened it's a pretty high closure rate, most of them seem to be in London or Las Vegas at this point, and chains at that I think that’s because sometime in the last decade he went from being a chef/restauranteur to being a media brand.
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Kwatz posted:I think that’s because sometime in the last decade he went from being a chef/restauranteur to being a media brand. it was especially funny watching boiling point and having him deny being a "celebrity chef" and wanting to be one.
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So Curtis Stone is being promoted for some reason, he's appeared on Hell's Kitchen, MasterChef, and Crime Scene Kitchen in the last tree weeks.
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Possibly, though these last two seasons of Hell Kitchen were filmed over two years ago IIRC.
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Ajaxify posted:Possibly, though these last two seasons of Hell Kitchen were filmed over two years ago IIRC. And Masterchef was filming at the start of last year. Curtis Stone's takeover of Fox prime time seems to just be a weird coincidence from covid scheduling delays.
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Granted I haven’t watched the earlier seasons in a while, but is this the most lopsided the teams have been? Like did they pull these dudes out of a target food court?
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A talking coyote posted:Granted I haven’t watched the earlier seasons in a while, but is this the most lopsided the teams have been? Like did they pull these dudes out of a target food court? I feel like the last few seasons I’ve watched all start with women destroying the men’s team for like the first six episodes. My explanation: egos. Women are better at setting aside their ego/frustration to just work. Men can’t. They keep trying to be TOP DOG. Then, when the real awful guys are kicked from the team, they can get things a little more under control and the pendulum swings the other way.
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Mordiceius posted:I feel like the last few seasons I’ve watched all start with women destroying the men’s team for like the first six episodes. This seems like actual lack of talent more than the usual bullshit infighting the dudes usually trip over though.
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Mordiceius posted:I feel like the last few seasons I’ve watched all start with women destroying the men’s team for like the first six episodes. In contrast to the Hells Bitches phenomenon of earlier seasons, where the red team would eat itself alive from the inside out starting in the second or third week.
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A talking coyote posted:This seems like actual lack of talent more than the usual bullshit infighting the dudes usually trip over though. They're all sub-25 years old, it's to be expected
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Iron Crowned posted:They're all sub-25 years old, it's to be expected This also is why so many of them are terrible cooks. They’re still quite young and just don’t have the experience yet. That being said, this season does seem to lack talent.
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A talking coyote posted:Granted I haven’t watched the earlier seasons in a while, but is this the most lopsided the teams have been? Like did they pull these dudes out of a target food court? I don't know, I haven't rewatched anything. But it's almost just typical Hell's Kitchen, the women come in strong for the first few weeks while the men are unable to do anything. Then the women fall apart and start fighting and the men come together and start working together... And then we all wonder why after 20 seasons and in 2021 do they still divide the teams by sex anyway?
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:I don't know, I haven't rewatched anything. But it's almost just typical Hell's Kitchen, the women come in strong for the first few weeks while the men are unable to do anything. Then the women fall apart and start fighting and the men come together and start working together... And then we all wonder why after 20 seasons and in 2021 do they still divide the teams by sex anyway? They divided the teams by ethnicity one time but Fox got cold feet and decided not to air it despite filming the entire season
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I could be wrong but I swear I remember on some seasons, once the men's team loses enough and a woman is forced to switch sides in order to level out the teams - that's when the men's team stop sucking all the time and they actually get poo poo done
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Scrotum Modem posted:I could be wrong but I swear I remember on some seasons, once the men's team loses enough and a woman is forced to switch sides in order to level out the teams - that's when the men's team stop sucking all the time and they actually get poo poo done Yeah I just got through season 18 and after they give up on rookies v veterans after a few eps, they split the teams into men and women again. Then after the men lose like half their team the send over Mia and finally get their poo poo together. A lot of those people seemed like they knew what they were doing though, they just sucked at team work. This batch of guys just flat out seem like they’ve never cooked before. I know some of it is an age thing but that doesn’t seem to be holding back the women too much.
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Scrotum Modem posted:I could be wrong but I swear I remember on some seasons, once the men's team loses enough and a woman is forced to switch sides in order to level out the teams - that's when the men's team stop sucking all the time and they actually get poo poo done
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A talking coyote posted:Granted I haven’t watched the earlier seasons in a while, but is this the most lopsided the teams have been? Like did they pull these dudes out of a target food court? lol Antonio. Gotta love anyone who's like "We got this, we got this guys *completely fucks up everything* alright rebound guys, on to the next one guys, we can do it, let's go!" Team spirit. Also I was loving howling at the "I'll nominate myself"/"I never said that!"  rear end gaslighting
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