Hell's Kitchen

I watched the show Hell's Kitchen the other night - no I didn't actually watch it but my roommate rented some season on Net Flix and I got sucked in to watch 2 episodes. At first I was fascinated at how any one could watch this crap but then I realized that the ridiculous drama of these amateur cooks was kind of entertaining. I hate to write another blog entry relating to cooking but I could not hold back; especially after the real drama from my cooking class as of late.

Two classes ago we had a mentally handicapped kid who was supposed to come with his sister as an aid. Of course she doesn't show up and who ever dropped him off said he would be fine and he could use knives. Sure enough, a few minutes in to the class he cuts himself and starts bleeding everywhere. He doesn't go for help he just keeps cooking bleeding all over the ingredients. When the teacher finally gets him to bandage it, he decides he doesn't feel like wearing the bandage and takes it off a few minutes later and continues to bleed. As you can imagine, everyone was freaking out and things finally ended with this kid being kicked out of the class and the screaming aid threatening to sue for prejudice against the handicapped.

Also not surprisingly, the class size dropped dramatically for the last two classes even with this kid gone (I guess people didn't like the idea of blood in their food) but tonight we lost yet again another student. This time, a girl in the class who has constantly complained about how bad the instructor is (in all fairness she is pretty bad) got fed up with the teacher as the teacher kept grabbing her pan and cooking it the way she saw was best rather than instructing her how to cook differently. It happened three times to the same girl before she lost it and screamed: "YOU KNOW WHAT? I HATE THIS CLASS AND YOU ARE A TERRIBLE TEACHER AND I"VE HAD ENOUGH, I"M OUT!!!" IT was easily the most dramatic exit I've seen in awhile and it left every body else (all 5 of us) frozen not knowing what to say. It truly did seem like a scene from the show Hell's Kitchen.

On a side note, out of nowhere there finally appeared a hot girl but with all this drama she almost just seemed like a side show.

So I'm off for my second business trip. First, I'm going to D.C. for Memorial day week end to visit friends and from there to Phili. for a week of business. Until next time...