Hell’s Kitchen, starring world-renowned chef Gordon Ramsay, is a televised competition for aspiring amateur chefs where the contestants create and cook their way to winning a six-figure salary and becoming head chef of one of Gordon Ramsay’s upscale restaurants.
Each contestant brings varying levels of culinary skills and their own unique flavor to the competition. The contestants are divided into two teams, the red team and the blue team. The members of the red team are women while the men make up the blue team.
The teams are given challenges to prepare food dishes that are served to dinner guests who evaluate the food and service. Winning a challenge usually gets the team a nice get-a-way or some other well deserved prize while the losing team must clean both kitchens, receive deliveries and prep both kitchens for the next meal challenge.
During the challenges Gordon Ramsay evokes fear in the contestants with his vulgarities, cursing, screaming and at times even throwing food, Ramsay’s way of sculpting the aspiring chefs to be the best they can be and in the end to make his final decision on the chef most deserving of the prize.
Chef Ramsay’s antics, at times, may seem devilish and insane but contrary to his self portrayal he is a kind hearted, successful, world-renowned chef affording a once in a lifetime opportunity to a talented but unknown chef.
Hell’s Kitchen and chef Ramsay bring reality television viewers into a chaotic kitchen of fierce competition, drama and culinary entertainment.