He's an excellent Chef as far as Chef is concerned. I don't think he yells like that in real life. I mean, would you?
Yes he may seem like he treats his staffs like shit. But hey, when you're trained under an excellent coach, will your coach tell you what you WANT to hear or tell you what you HAVE to hear? You decide man. This is a Gay website. Pussies, please stand aside.
On the plus side, Gordon Ramsey is a very successful Chef in terms of Michelin Stars, franchising his success into different restaurants, cook books, tv shows, etc. His energy is incredible.
He's great at marketing himself with various strategies, including throwing critics out and inflaming publicity worthy fights.
He's also great at focusing on essentials in running a high end restaurants, great ingredients, lack of pretention in the food, etc.
On the negative side, a number of reality shows suggest he is a complete bully and shit to staff, who mess up. He justifies this by claiming that he is a perfectionist, that he's doing it for their own good, that he has a heart of gold....all the usual abuser stuff. And he was similarly abused by his own mentor. His success would be much more impressive without the abuse.
Again from the reality shows I seen, he's a workaholic and totally self-absorbed to the extent of neglecting his young family and even making his best friend's wedding all about Gordon Ramsey.
I also don't like what I see as his dishonesty. In one episode, he took a fee to promote one kind of apple and then revealed that, for whatever reason, he'd actually used another kind. In another episode, he's sweetness and light to one critic to her face and then swears about her behind her back but to the tv camera so she'll feel a fool for being nice to him.
His commercial success is interesting to me, but he really is dismal human being. Nothing new there then.
Except for the occasional episodes, I haven't been watching Hell's Kitchen, but it's hardly surprising that the finalists are two of the best looking contestants. It's all self-inflated showmanship and kinda boring.
