We showed you some instances where Gordon Ramsay didn't live up to his firm posture
and his extremely intimidating perfectionism.
We dug a little deeper and came back with 10 more moments where Gordon badly embarrassed
himself on screen.
When Gordon got busted
You know how Gordon likes to go in disguise as different characters so he can run a survey,
fool his staff or carry out whatever other schemes he might have on his mind?
This time Gordon went after another celebrity chef, Jean-Christophe Novelli.
Novelli held a cooking class that Gordon wanted to infiltrate.
After putting on a disguise using a mask, some fake hair, and glasses Gordon thought
he was in perfect masquerade.
He went on his way to sneak into that cooking class but little did he know, all his cunning
schemes would not fool the French chef for a minute.
The moment Novelli came in and greeted the participants until he reached Gordon, just
a slight look in the eye told him something was fishy.
The guy is constantly all hyped up and obviously could not maintain a subtle posture for a
few seconds without giving himself away.
Gordon's voice is too easily recognizable too.
Anyone who has heard him speak just a couple of times can make that pitch out of a crowd
in no time.
How did he think that he could possibly pull that off?
The Crab Cake Disaster
Bon Appétit magazine runs this segment called ‘Back-to-Back Chef’ on their YouTube channel
He and Shane were supposed to end up with two nice crab cakes on each plate.
Gordon had the crab cakes done impeccably as expected, but the master chef totally failed
to get Shane anywhere close to that.
At the same time, Shane was cramming up unmixed piles of the recipe's ingredients into circle
cutters.
Now, neither of them should have looked behind him while they were working, but even the
sneak peeks didn't let Gordon realize that a disaster was in the making.
Since when do Americans know metric?
Even while appalled by the plate's saddening presentation, Gordon thought it was well seasoned.
Still, seeing as how Gordon puts presentation at the top of his priorities, this was a complete
fail at being a teacher.
The Totally Failed Rescue
When Gordon visited the Priory, a carvery that Scott had bought only two months earlier,
it was a total disaster.
Their only customers were seniors who were only coming in because they were getting 50%
off vouchers out of their local newspapers.
But Gordon's attempt to fix that situation only blew up in his face.
He gave their kitchen a total makeover and had 6,000 pounds worth of top-tier grill kits.
What he came to realize was that Scott wasn't ready to pay.
When Gordon excitedly presented the new kitchen to the owner, he only got an ungrateful and
irritated straight face that surprised and disappointed the Masterchef.
The place didn't even become a grill like Gordon intended but instead remained as a
carvery, and it wasn't long before the Priory shut down altogether.
Knowing how Gordon sees himself as the benevolent restaurant rescuer, this must have felt like
one of the worst fails of his TV career.
The Unimpressed Chef Who Turned Down Gordon’s Food
There's probably nothing more insulting to a professional chef than someone who wouldn't
even bother tasting their food.
For someone with Gordon Ramsay's larger than life ego, that would be worse than a punch
right in the face.
That's the treatment Gordon got while he was trying to help this restaurant's two chefs,
Doug and Charles, to get their kitchen up and running again after having spent a lot
of effort trying to resuscitate their establishment.
While testing his fish steak with the restaurant's owners, he offered Doug, who was the head
chef, a taste of it, but was turned down over and over again.
That's when Gordon totally lost it.
He definitely didn't take that lightly, especially that even Charles, the sous chef, wasn't himself
any more impressed by Gordon's bossing them around.
Gordon obviously took that personally, and would not rest until he got both Doug and
Charles fired from the restaurant.
But at least he didn't fail to do that.
When Gordon Was the Kitchen Rookie
"You need practice" is not the type of remark that you would often see Gordon Ramsay getting,
is it?
Being at the top of his game, he's the one who gets to give away such advice.
Well, when he tries to play another game, Gordon was back in the rookie seat.
This time he visited an Indian restaurant, one of the best in London, to learn at the
hands of its tough head chef.
He was first taught to make Tandoori Kebab, and unlike his tutor, he couldn't get a smooth
piece on the stick.
It was all bumpy and messed up.
Ironically it kind of looked like what Shane did in with the whole crab cake fiasco.
Gordon was also too wary around the 400-degrees oven, but Jazz, the head chef, was acting
like it was no big deal.
When Gordon screwed up with the naan bread, it fell from him inside the oven as he pulled
his hand back quickly away from the heat.
When Jazz, the real master in that kitchen, came to rescue the bread, he just casually
stuck his hand into the oven and pulled it out of there all torn up as if it was ravaged
by a dog.
The Turkish Chef Who Had No Idea Who Gordon Was
Here's another incident where Gordon went to receive some kitchen lessons but ended
up failing badly.
This time it was at ‘Kazan’, one of London's high-end Turkish restaurants that received
customers by the dozens on a daily basis.
He was taken to the restaurant's high-maintenance head chef, who wasn't just unimpressed about
getting to meet Gordon Ramsay.
The impatient chef walked Gordon through the items he was supposed to be cooking and chose
some of the toughest in Turkish cuisine – dolma and burek.
The dolma that regularly took the chefs 10 seconds to make, took Gordon two whole minutes.
Even with that much time they weren't even coming out in good shape.
When he started making the burek, the chef gave Gordon the same impatient tone that Gordon
is a master at daunting people with.
Gordon, the
anointed Turkish cuisine novice, was all nerves trying to make a single symmetric burek but
simply couldn't.
If the chef wasn't impressed with him at first, he was now sure that Gordon didn't know his
way around a kitchen.
When Gordon Couldn’t Hide His Love For Tommy Walton
We've seen Gordon being nice every now and then with one of his contestants on ‘MasterChef’.
But Tommy Walton who appeared on the show's 6th season brought out a side of Gordon that
we've never seen before.
Sure, Tommy was such an eccentrically flamboyant character who caught the attention of everybody
on the show for better or for worse and who was always throwing around vibes of
self-confidence and sophistication, but the majority on the show loved his exuberance.
Gordon was more captivated by Tommy than anyone else though - maybe a little too much.
What got him really smitten with Tommy was when he presented his food.
The guy was a fashion designer, so he had enough taste to give a good presentation,
but the taste equally impressed Gordon.
Gordon intended on saying was… but it came out like this…
Gordon’s Embarrassing Noodle Pulling Skills
Fresh noodle pulling is a 4000-year-old art that takes years to be mastered and there
are very few places that still do it instead of just buying the noodles, but since Gordon
is not the type to be patient about his students' failures, seeing that foul-mouthed beast himself
being trash-talked for messing up on a cooking lesson will always be delightful.
This time Gordon visited a Chinese establishment that was one of very few in London that still
made their noodles the ancient way.
He was hoping to learn the art from their chef.
Needless to say, it was a total disaster.
Every time, they kept snapping in his hands because he didn't know how to master the technique.
The Chinese chef was a bit frustrated with Gordon's failure at it too.
Gordon himself became frustrated for not being able to get the hang of it, and he kept throwing
the dough at the glass every time he ruined it.
Not as bad as Gordon's own slurs at the people he teaches to cook, or maybe the translator
wasn’t entirely accurate.
Gordon’s Unpaid Employees
When your name is so huge worldwide from trash-talking people about their inability to run a restaurant
properly, you should expect your own business to be under the microscope when you make even
the slightest of mess-ups.
In 2013, a group of former employees at Gordon's LA restaurant, ‘The Fat Cow’, filed a
class action lawsuit against him, saying that they weren't paid their minimum wage consistently,
were denied overtime pay.
Ironic, since Gordon once shunned a manager on Kitchen Nightmares for that particular
reason.
The story even went big enough to get a word out of his spokesperson who blamed it on bad
management.
A year after this incident, the restaurant shut down, and a few months after that, his
business partner in the restaurant filed a lawsuit against him for $10 million!
The Bartender Who Thought Gordon Ruined His Bar
On an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon visited ‘Barefoot Bob's’, an old-school
pub that was facing a downfall.
He decided that the only way out of that situation was a much needed complete revamp.
He transformed every inch of the place to fit its new ambiance.
He totally revived the menu with a multitude of top-notch dishes from New England's iconic
cuisine.
Robbie, however, had a whole different opinion about the change.
He was devastated by the change of character, saying that he didn't see ‘Barefoot Bob's’
vibe anymore.
After seeing what had happened with the bar that he used to manage, Robbie quit, saying
that Gordon simply knew nothing about what he was doing.
It's true that Gordon is a total expert when it comes to serving a certain segment, but
wouldn't be the best to get the essence of a sports bar.
It’s always fun to watch that notoriously critical Masterchef take a fall every now
and then, isn’t it?
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