'Hell's Kitchen' finale

[Food Network Fan]

'Hell's Kitchen' finale: Live-blogging the results

by Vicki Hyman/The Star-Ledger Thursday May 14, 2009, 10:00 PM


FOXFinalists Paula DaSilva and Danny Veltri consult with chef Gordon Ramsay in the finale of the fifth season of 'Hell's Kitchen.'
"Hell's Kitchen" finalists Danny Veltri and Paula DaSilva waited out the results of the fifth season at the Borgata, where one of them will become head chef at the high-end Atlantic City resort's newest restaurant, the regional Italian eatery Fornelletto. Chef Gordon Ramsay wasn't there, but several of their vanquished competitors were: Andrea Heinly, Ben Walanka, Robert Hesse, Charlie McKay, Colleen Cleek, Ji-Hyun Cha, and Seth Levine, plus season four winner Christine Machamer, and a few of her season four cohorts.
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[Food Network Fan]

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[ibcheft]

I have yet to see a runner up go home empty handed, Paula will receive job offers from lots of places, she is a good chef, was really surprised that she did not win, but than Ramsay sees stuff we do not get to see, and Danny's growth was the thing that pulled him through, but I also think he had a lot of natural talent.

[Food Network Fan]

I actually watched this year. I thought all the females were too backstabbing and vindictive. I was glad Danny won he seemed more focused on promoting himself and showing what he could do. I never saw him even once blame someone else for anything he did. All the women and a couple of the men blamed others constantly.

[BerryBaby]

I started to watch it one time, but the negative energy and comments were a bit too much for me.

I like him on talk shows, where he shows his 'softer' side.

[Myrna P. Klaassen]

Hell's Kitchen is like a "comedy of errors". The constant bitching about the other contestant' Chef G. Ramsey's puking in the garbage can . A chef forgeting to salt a dish??? Raw sea food. Overcooked scallops. The finger-touch of a Wellington's to check how cold it is in the center. and the "nice" vocabulary of an irate head chef is laughable. Then everyone go to the patio to smoke a cigarret...
PRICELESS!

[Food Network Fan]

I think every single one of them smoked. I always thought chefs would want to keep a fine sense of smell and taste. If you talk to anyone who has smoked and quit they always talk about how they never realized how many scents and tastes they were missing before. When they did the blindfolded taste test you could see how many of them were way off the mark.

[Myrna P. Klaassen]

I smoked for over 30 years and those sences were not affected. Their smoking, I think, is due to their feelings of release from a very stressful situation. I have not smoked for over a year now, and I do not feel any different in taste or smell...hungry? OMG! YES!!!

[Food Network Fan]

Well, I have never smoked personally. But I have had a few friends put on a lot of weight saying everything tasted so much better when they quit. I did find that blindfold test interesting, some of them were way off on a lot of things. I guess as with anything it depends on the individual.

[Pluff Mudder]

I watched the show one time and that was enough. Didn't care for all the hollering and cussing. I want to watch TV for enjoyment, and this show (to me) wasn't enjoyment.

I've never smoked, but one of my employees did. When she stopped, she said that food tasted so much better and she also didn't realized how much smoking stuck everything up.