Hell’s Kitchen: Jason Gets On Chef’s Bad Side

I wish I would have stayed on Hell’s Kitchen longer. I wasn’t sure if I was going to win, but I expected to go a lot further.

When Chef was grilling me about the menu I cracked under the pressure and said I was “done.” I was tired of his crap. You know, I wasn’t sleeping much…it was a lot of things. I didn’t have many good moments; the bad moments outweighed them and it was weighing on me.

I knew the menu. I blanked out when he put me on the spot. I was like, “I know this. Come on, what is my problem?” As soon as I looked at Gordon Ramsay I lost it. I don’t know if it was the intimidation, the cameras, or what.

The episode didn’t actually show the whole conversation. I kind of broke up with him. (laughs) “It’s not you, it’s me. I just can’t deal with you. I’m done. I can’t take it any more.”

Chef Gordon Ramsay is just over the top. He never just explains. He never says nicely, “You don’t know what you’re doing.” He just goes off on you and it’s pretty rough.

The Hell’s Kitchen Side Of Chef Ramsay

People always ask, “Is Gordon Ramsay for real?” I think it’s half and half. I think obviously that’s the character he is on the show, but at the same time, the prize is to work in his restaurant, so he’s going to be hard on people. He’s not just shipping us off to go work somewhere else this time, so he was definitely harder on us than he was on other groups of people before us.

If he has a soft side, I didn’t really get to see that side.