I was grossed out when that guy was showing everyone his kidney stones.

When he presented his soup dish to Ramsey, I expected him to say "...and garnished with kidney stones."

Hot water that is near the boiling point evaporates a lot faster than cold water. As some of this water evaporates, there is less water left behind to freeze, so it won't take as long.

But equally important, evaporation requires energy, which comes from the water. As the hot water is evaporating, it is cooling the water that's left behind.

I am enjoying this show but....

I'm thinking more and more that it is staged. The lady puking last night. C'mon...

Thought the same thing, most of this is setup - even getting people who can be yelled at and they know that that person will run out the door.

Of course there are many variables affecting this, such as what is considered hot, and what is considered cold? Does a temperature difference of .1 degree separate them? What has been done to the water before hand? Has the hot water been deaerated and not the cold? That hardly makes the test equal. You may as well add a pinch of salt to the cold water as well. And so on.

Only under rare conditions can warmer water occasionally freeze faster than colder water, such as you stated when considering the rather unfair advantage of losing mass due to evaporation. The loss of heat due to evaporation makes the water cool faster initially, but slows as it cools. So the hot water appears to gain on, but never catches the cold. It is also obvioulsy much less efficient (consumes much more energy) to freeze hot water.

Bottom line: If you put an ice tray of hot tap water and one of cold tap water in your freezer at home, the cold water will freeze first 100% of the time.

"this is a tough decision because both of you are crap"

Ramsay in hot water after scuffle on the set of US show

JONATHAN LESSWARE

HE IS famous across Britain for his foul-mouthed outbursts - but award-winning chef Gordon Ramsay has now revealed his notorious temper to a new audience in the United States.
The Michelin-starred cook has landed himself in the soup after clashing with a contestant on the US version of his hit show, Hell's Kitchen.
Ramsay, 37, whose four-letter tirades have turned him into a household name, is said to have scuffled with the man on set. The American sprained his ankle after he fell to the floor during the incident and was left needing hospital treatment.
Ramsay has been in Los Angeles for two weeks filming the US version of the programme for Fox TV.
It is believed the chef, who is being paid £1 million for the show, became embroiled in a shoving match after a contestant roused his notorious temper. Ramsay is reported to have spent much of Friday in discussions with lawyers over how to avoid a legal action from the contestant. The incident happened last week and is thought to have been caught on camera.
A spokeswoman for Ramsay said: "One cast member did hurt his ankle on set and was taken to hospital, where it was diagnosed as a sprain. He was advised to rest and therefore taken off the show.
"This is a minor matter and will not interfere with the rest of the production timetable. This is all we are advised to say at this moment."
Ramsay is understood to have told a colleague about the incident, saying: "It's a disaster. A guy on set p***ed me off. We got into a shoving match and fell down and did his ankle. Everyone is really p***ed off with me.
"I've been in constant meetings with lawyers trying to avoid a lawsuit. My people in the UK know about it and they're really angry with me.
"The people at Fox are frightened there is going to be a massive lawsuit. The guy wound me up and I got angry. He hurt his ankle when he fell. It wasn't intentional. I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile. But I didn't mean to hurt the guy."
The chef, a former Glasgow Rangers footballer, has been filming the American version of the show - which features members of the public rather than celebrities - in Los Angeles since the beginning of the month. He is due back in Britain in the next few weeks. Ramsay's wife Tana flew back to Britain on Friday after a short stay with her husband.
The chef's rise to fame has been as much about his colourful language as the quality of his cooking. His first TV appearance in 1998 was in a fly-on-the-wall documentary at his £100-a-head Chelsea restaurant where his staff were frequently on the wrong end of his verbal tirades.
After one confrontation with pastry chef Nathan Thomas over his banana parfait a complaint was made to the police accusing Ramsay of assault. He denied this but the programme showed another worker cycling away in tears because they were so upset by their treatment.
Ramsay ordered food critic AA Gill and guest Joan Collins out of his restaurant because Gill had once been rude to him. He was seen regularly criticising colleagues on Channel 4's Kitchen Nightmares, and on one occasion was asked to go outside for a fight by a Lake District restaurateur.
Ramsay also rarely held his tongue with contestants on ITV's Hell's Kitchen which was aired this summer. His use of the F-word while giving his celebrity contestants the 'hair dryer treatment' earned ITV1 a slap on the wrists from television watchdog Ofcom.
In the show's most memorable scene Coronation Street actress Amanda Barrie walked out after lashing out at the chef with a kitchen utensil. But he saved his most vicious attacks for former Tory MP Edwina Currie branding her "diseased", "poisonous" and a "pathetic bitch".
Ramsay also made a series of jibes about Mrs Currie's affair with former Prime Minister John Major. He said: "One minute you are s******g the Prime Minister and now you are trying to s**g me from behind."
He vowed never to make another series and branded the celebrity participants a bunch of whingers.

I don't quite understand what happened here. . .they had already been filming the show for 2 weeks when this happened. Did they start the show over with someone else to replace this contestant who left? The way it was televised, there was no one who suddenly "went missing" for suspicious reasons. . .

Doesn't each show only cover two days if they had been filming for two weeks then they would have taped six or seven episodes.

Yeah, there's a bunch of episodes left yet. But this one should be coming up soon. And it ought to be a doozy.

Also, without having seen it, I would like to point out that busy kitchen floors are notoriously slippery, and there has already been several contestants who fell down all on their own. So it wouldn't take much of a shoving match to put someone on their ass.

That being said, anyone want to venture a guess as to who it is? Mine is

Does anyone know of a site with a good synopsis of the episodes? My DVR took a storm/power hit while I was out of town on business and it missed this week's episode. Something with video highlights would be even better.

I would guess either

I think I'm the only one still watching this show :lol:

I actually just started watching it this week when it was on for 2 hours. I enjoyed it, and will watch it through to the end. Looks like there is only a few episodes left though.

Yes, chef!

I'm still watching it but I can't say it's all that interesting. Every episode is the same. They screw up and Chef Gordon goes postal on their asses. Not exactly the best way to relax on an evening watching TV.

I'm still watching, and think it's gotten a lot better (less insane, yelling Ramsey). Actually, this show convinced me to watch Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares on BBCA (imo a better show). On that show he goes to restaurants that are failing and tries to turn them around, and it's really interesting to see what a complex mix of marketing, cooking, managing etc that being a head chef is all about.

I don't really care who wins this, but I do hope it isn't Michael.

I started watching, too.

I think Ralph is going to win Hell's kitchen.

Ive actually stopped watching HK and started watching Kitchen Nightmares as well. IMO, a much better show, as it is more realistic and Ramsey is more himself. Just as abrasive, but just more honest, and actually somewhat likeable persona.

Did we ever figure out who twisted their ankle?

I'm still watching right till the end :thumbsup:

NOW GET BACK IN YOUR SECTION!!!

Yes, chef!

Aaaah, you would have been eliminated! Now all of a sudden he likes people who fight back, hehe.

That didn't make sense. She didn't really fight back. He did and yet he still got the boot.

I love this show. Ramsay is always captivating to watch. I love RKN/RKNR as well. I wish I could see Boiling Point/Beyond Boiling Point in their entirety. Also, the BBC carried a version of Hell's Kitchen using England's version of B-list "celebrities," sort of a merging of Surreal Life and Hell's Kitchen. I hear it got extremely intense and was very entertaining as well.

Kinda what I thought. He started talking back and realized it wasn't worth it, so just shut his mouth, while she was just being a sassy little bitch.