I just watched old episodes of Hell's Kitchen

[cthulhu_waves]

And I realized how much food (overcooked or otherwise) they must waste every season. I wince whenever they throw away that undercooked Beef Wellington or that overcooked turbot. Can they just place it back to the oven, or put in temporary storage and the give the "wasted" food to charity? I mean what Gordon Ramsey finds unfit to serve on his restaurant is sufficient enough to feed a homeless person.

[Evil Chris]

Shut it down!

[Harmon]

I wish that guy was on one of the 9/11 flights.

[Failed]

One of my favorite shows to watch is Kitchen Nightmares. Gordon is a straight shooter, but really helps people turn their businesses and lives around.

Anyway, he has another show on BBC America called the The F Word where chef's compete against one another in his kitchen where a massive amount of food is thrown away as well. I also wince, even get a little angry, at the waste. It makes me think about when I was younger and working in a Kraft food warehouse where if a case of food was damaged in some way, the entire case was thrown into the garbage. Such as a case of lunchables, with one lunchable package damaged inside the case, this would be enough to toss the entire case with 10 packages even though 9 were undamaged. There were truck loads of good food that got wasted weekly.

[Evil Chris]

I watched the F word too.

I got tired of Hell's Kitchen after a few seasons. I like Ramsay, but their choice of "chefs" got weak. It was also becoming way too predictable.

[Alex69]

Originally Posted by cthulhu_waves

And I realized how much food (overcooked or otherwise) they must waste every season. I wince whenever they throw away that undercooked Beef Wellington or that overcooked turbot. Can they just place it back to the oven, or put in temporary storage and the give the "wasted" food to charity? I mean what Gordon Ramsey finds unfit to serve on his restaurant is sufficient enough to feed a homeless person.

not really, restaurants give leftovers to pig farms - so it is all recycled

[PR_Glen]

hells kitchen has always been stupid.. nightmares and f word are much better. can actually learn some stuff from those shows.

[geedub]

I watched some road trip show of his recently and watching him interact with normal humans versus ones he is bossing around was a blast. The guy is a complete douche if you ask me. I always thought he was bad ass until I seen this road trip show of his. When he is not telling someones food/restaurant to go fuck itself, he's not that cool.

[ottopottomouse]

Originally Posted by Alex69

not really, restaurants give leftovers to pig farms - so it is all recycled

Same as leftover school dinners

[Tom_PM]

It's easy to nail down the contestants on hells kitchen..

First of all, they nearly all have to be heavy smokers. At least 1 has to have a full body of tattoo work and/or piercings beyond just ears. Every other word has to be bleeped. At least one person has to be a total bitch/dick who everyone hates each episode, but will make it nearly to the end. One overweight male contestant will be a whiny, sweating slab of dead weight until he cries and quits.

That should make for a good season. It has for x number of seasons so far.

[cthulhu_waves]

Originally Posted by Alex69

not really, restaurants give leftovers to pig farms - so it is all recycled

Yes, leftovers are okay for pigs. But I mean rejected plated food that are good enough to be given to people just because they're just overcooked or undercooked. They just need to be either placed back to the oven or made slightly more palatable.

[MattPIVO]

Most of the Ramsay shows on TV are solid. I find the average person either loves his style, or absolutely hates it. At the end of the day he produces Michelin Stars and that is all that counts.

[2012]

you call this risotto ? fuck off .........

[alias]

He is a rather captivating limey prick.