History EpicFail / HellsKitchen

* The first service of the season was deemed the worst one of the series to date, as no dishes left '''either''' kitchen!! The final straw for both teams was overcooked scallops, resulting in team wide ejections. The second service had no dishes leave either kitchen also.

* One challenge had the chefs each cutting up a chicken into eight separate parts. Craig's chicken only had two parts meeting Ramsay's approval and more unacceptable pieces than every chef on the Red Team ''combined'', single-handedly costing the Blue Team the challenge (the women had only served up four bad pieces as a team). What made it worse was that Craig was a Sous Chef with 13 years experience, and finished the challenge just as Ramsay called time. Needless to say, his teammates were not pleased.

* The Blue Team's performance in the Blind Taste Test. Petrozza was only able to identify the "dry-ass chicken" he was fed, while neither Louross nor Bobby were able to identify so much as ''one'' piece of food.

** Virginia's miserable night proved to be the final nail in the coffin as, despite Ramsay's favoritism, she was too out of her league compared to Heather and lost the finale. Although recently released behind-the-scenes footage has revealed that her performance wasn't "quite" as terrible as was initially believed, the difference between her performance and Heather's performance was still considerably wide.

* For his signature dish, Tad decided to make biscuits and sausage gravy. Not too bad right? Well that's before he added ''[[CordonBleughChef strawberry jam and lemon]]'' to it. Meanwhile, Dahmere had used boxed pasta (a big Ramsay no-no) and this dish was singled out as the worst of the night; Ramsay even admitted his score of one was generous.

---->'''Van:''' ''(ConfessionCam)'' What is a boiled coconut?

* Making Ramsay throw up is typically this. Because he is a professional chef, Ramsay has a much higher tolerance for poorly-made food than most people. As such, any contestant who somehow managed to make him throw up after eating their meal is a major sign they did [[{{Understatement}} an extremely poor job]].

* Making Ramsay throw up is typically this. Because he is a professional chef, Ramsay has a higher tolerance for poorly-made food than most people. As such, any contestant who somehow managed to make him throw up after eating their meal is a major sign they did a poor job.

* The Cook For Your Life Challenge was also this for the Blue Team. While the Red Team made the right choices of which chefs had the best dishes, the Blue Team allowed Antonio to steamroll them into picking his dish and [[FailedASpotCheck failed to notice that Matthew's chicken was raw]]. Those two dishes were chosen as the worst dishes from the challenge.

* The opening service had the Red Team not send a plate of appetizers for an ''hour and a half'' due to a combination of Polly's struggles on risotto and Sara's incorrect timing when she tried to help. Unsurprisingly, the Red Team lost, and Polly was the first one eliminated.

* Originally, Ramsay had to assign both a winning and losing team after each service, with only the losing team having to put up nominations (as is usual). Episode 4's dinner service however was such a complete ''disaster'' for both teams, with Sara deliberately sabotaging Virginia to make it appear as if she was lying to Ramsay, and Tom not only cooking the wrong order, but also nearly setting the kitchen ''on fire'' after burning a duck. The red team running out of wellingtons finally served as the tipping point, as Ramsay by that point have ''had ENOUGH'', angrily throwing off his apron towards Tom, and declaring ''BOTH'' teams as losers. Both teams being named losers would become more frequent in later seasons.

** Virginia's miserable night proved to be the final nail in the coffin as, despite Ramsay's favoritism, she was too out of her league compared to Heather and lost the finale.

** Sharon's performance on the meat station played a huge role in the Red Team's loss. She did so badly that her team lost despite the Blue Team (which managed to serve half of their entrées) having Jason and Petrozza struggling to work together, which ended up getting Sharon eliminated despite not being nominated for elimination.

* Craig's entire time on the season counts as one, and his thirteen years of experience really didn't translate into Gordon Ramsay's kitchen, where he was often inconsistent and communicated poorly with both Gordon and his teammates. His often poor attitude and Napoleon complex didn't help matters. Then there was his spectacularly failed response to Gordon when after the fourth service he was in the bottom three alongside Matt and Ben; Ben insisted he'd give "a hundred percent every day", and Matt followed that up with a promise of "a hundred and twenty-five percent". Craig's response of "[[TheDitz I don't know percentages]]" left Gordon so irritated that he finally showed him the door.

--->'''Ramsay:''' Look at all this fucking... Who's putting all this in the bin? How many portions are you putting in there?? ''How much is in the bin?!'' LOOK! '''''LOOK!!''''' ''What the fuck is this?!!''

** In the Blue Team, Louie made several mistakes with the lamb chops. He first put the meat in the oven without even searing the rack first, then he started doing the spinach garnish despite ''Joseph'' being the one in charge of garnish, and he ended up wasting the blue team's ''entire lamb supply'' by having uneven cuts and doing them point blue. The last mistake got him eliminated before the first service even ended.

* The Blind Taste was this for Sammi. While all of the other chefs were able to score at least one or two points, Sammi got none of her ingredients correct, effectively giving the Blue Team the win.

*** Ingredient: Kalamata olives. Sammi's guess: ''Kohlrabi''.

* Jermaine’s performance on the garnish station in the Episode 7 dinner service was this, as he couldn’t handle the station on his own despite the garnish station being considered easy, and needed to be helped by everyone except Devon, who was on the meat station. This led to Devon struggling on the meat station, got the Blue Team kicked out and ultimately led to Jermaine’s elimination.

** For the Fusion Challenge, Raineisha makes a ''Poke Bowl'' (a Hawaiian dish) for a Japanese-French theme and thinks this is, somehow, a good idea. What baffles everyone in the room is that she thought [[CordonBleughChef infusing her rice with BRIE CHEESE and GRAPES]] was going to be great, with duck and langoustine as toppings. [[EpicFail It's not]]. Presentation-wise, the bowl was a lifeless brown and grey grub, which made the bizarre dish even more unappetizing.

** Come the actual service, Virginia showed to be too slow plating to Ramsay's liking and refused help from her brigade despite food being backed up. Also, because of the her bluntness earlier, most of the team had little morale to do the service and some even talked back to Virginia when she tried to call out orders. Piling on this failure was that some of the dishes were sent back and Virginia ran out of snapper, forcing her to send out desserts on tables that had no entrées served to them. As a result, Virginia holds the sole distinction of being the only finalist ever who is not able to serve all the entrees to everyone during the finale.

** Come the actual service, Virginia showed to be too slow plating to Ramsay's liking and refused help from her brigade despite food being backed up. Also, because of the her bluntness earlier, most of the team had little morale to do the service and some even talked back to Virginia when she tried to call out orders. Piling on this failure was that some of the dishes were sent back and Virginia ran out of snapper, forcing her to send out desserts on tables that had no entrées served to them.

* In Episode 5, the teams competed in the Protein Identification Challenge, which had a "Surf & Turf" theme to it, and similar to the Blue Team from Season 11, the Red Team this season took ''forever'' to get all the proteins correct, in large part due to Sandra and Donya second guessing themselves during their portion of the challenge, finishing with an accumulated time of ''13 minutes and 14 seconds''. By comparison, the Blue Team would get all the proteins right in a little over ''half'' the time[[note]]''6 minutes and 39 seconds'', to be exact[[/note]], giving them their third consecutive challenge win at that point.

** In an attempt to be innovative, Raneisha had the idea of deconstructing the pizza by making fried pizza dough chips and a pizza sauce dip. What didn't work was the exxagerated amount of cheese on top and the big chunks of toppings inside the dip (like whole slices of pepperoni).

* In Episode 5, the teams competed in the Protein Identification Challenge, which had a "Surf & Turf" theme to it, and similar to the Blue Team from Season 11, the Red Team this season took ''forever'' to get all the proteins correct, in large part due to Sandra and Donya second guessing themselves during their portion of the challenge, finishing with an accumulated time of ''13 minutes and 14 seconds''. By comparison, the Blue Team would get all the proteins right in a little over ''half'' the time[[note]]''6 minutes and 39 seconds''[[/note]], giving them their third consecutive challenge win at that point.

* In Episode 5, the teams competed in the Protein Identification Challenge, which had a "Surf & Turf" theme to it, and similar to the Blue Team from Season 11, the Red Team this season took ''forever'' to get all the proteins correct, in large part due to Sandra and Donya second guessing themselves during their portion of the challenge, finishing with an accumulated time of ''13 minutes and 14 seconds''. By comparison, the Blue Team would get all the proteins right in a little under ''half'' the time[[note]]They finished with ''6 minutes and 39 seconds'' remaining.[[/note]], giving them their third consecutive challenge win at that point.

* In Episode 5, the teams competed in the Protein Identification Challenge, which had a "Surf & Turf" theme to it, and similar to the Blue Team from Season 11, the Red Team this season took ''forever'' to get all the proteins correct, in large part due to Sandra and Donya second guessing themselves during their portion of the challenge, finishing with an accumulated time of ''13 minutes and 14 seconds''. By comparison, the Blue Team would get all the proteins right in a little under ''half'' the time[[note]]They finished with''6 minutes and 39 seconds'' remaining.[[/note]], giving them their third consecutive challenge win at that point.

* In Episode 5, the teams competed in the Protein Identification Challenge, which had a "Surf & Turf" theme to it, and similar to the Blue Team from Season 11, the Red Team this season took ''forever'' to get all the proteins correct, in large part due to Sandra and Donya second guessing themselves during their portion of the challenge, finishing with an accumulated time of ''13 minutes and 14 seconds''. By comparison, the Blue Team would get all the proteins right in a little over ''half'' the time[[note]]''6 minutes and 39 seconds''[[/note]], giving them their third consecutive challenge win at that point.

* In Episode 5, the teams competed in the Protein Identification Challenge, which had a "Surf & Turf" theme to it, and similar to the Blue Team from Season 11, the Red Team this season took ''forever'' to get all the proteins correct, in large part due to Sandra and Donya second guessing themselves during their portion of the challenge, finishing with an accumulated time of ''13 minutes and 14 seconds''. By comparison, the Blue Team would get all the proteins right in a little over''half'' the time[[note]]''6 minutes and 39 seconds''[[/note]], giving them their third consecutive challenge win at that point.

* In Episode 5, the teams competed in the Protein Identification Challenge, which had a "Surf & Turf" theme to it, and similar to the Blue Team from Season 11, the Red Team this season took ''forever'' to get all the proteins correct, in large part due to Sandra and Donya second guessing themselves during their portion of the challenge, finishing with an accumulated time of ''13 minutes and 14 seconds''. By comparison, the Blue Team would get all the proteins right in ''half'' the time[[note]]''6 minutes and 39 seconds''[[/note]], giving them their third consecutive challenge win at that point.

* In Episode 5, the teams competed in the Protein Identification Challenge, which had a "Surf & Turf" theme to it, and similar to the Blue Team from Season 11, the Red Team this season took ''forever'' to get all the proteins correct, in large part due to Sandra and Donya second guessing themselves during their portion of the challenge, finishing with an accumulated time of ''13 minutes and 14 seconds''. By comparison, the Blue Team would get all the proteins right in ''half'' the time, giving them their third consecutive challenge win at that point.