what's going on guys i'm flynn masters and welcome to my ranking of the top 10 non-black jacket chefs
in hell's kitchen history so yeah my last video i rank the top 10 worst black jacket chefs so kind
of doing the opposite now and give praise to the best chefs to not earn a prestigious black jacket
so yeah the way i'm going to go about ranking these chefs one i'm obviously gonna look at
how talented they were especially compared to the chefs who did earn a black jacket over them
now again to be honest i don't really remember anything challenge related and i don't remember
like every little mistake these chefs make but i do have a pretty good general idea of their
performance i'm also going to take into account the great chefs who got screwed out of a black
jacket due to either dumb eliminations by ramsay to keep around better tv characters or if they're
eliminated in the black jacket lounge challenge and i know a lot of people like that challenge
as it really is intense and can spice things up even putting the best chefs in danger but that's
the thing hell's kitchen eliminations are almost always about how chef does in a dinner service
you know save those cook for your life challenges for masterchef or like in seasons 12 and 14 where
the teams picked a weak chef you know that's more fair to me it's stupid that a chef can be great
all season in the services and then go home due to a challenge you know when like in every other
season before season 16 when ramsay introduced the black jacket lounge challenge these chefs
would be a lock to make it to blackjackets so yeah expect a good portion of the eliminated chefs from
that challenge to be on the list and finally i'll be looking at other basic things like cast size
and talent you know so don't expect anyone from really bad seasons to be on here since they had
no competition but with all that said let's get this list started with number 10. we'll start off
the list with someone who is pretty forgettable but a large part of that is due to her just
simply being an overall good chef who definitely deserved a black jacket and that is elizabeth from
hell's kitchen season 9. now there's really not much i have to say about elizabeth here
as she was never put up for elimination all season and was very consistent however she didn't really
have any standout performances especially compared to the likes of elise and jennifer and she started
to have her flaws show in the last couple of services so i can understand why she went home
now i do think she should have obviously made it over elise but you know i mean ramsay was never
gonna let that happen so even though elizabeth wasn't anything outstanding we've seen plenty
of chefs who are either worse than elizabeth or flat out bad who did make the black jackets so i
definitely think elizabeth's performance warranted a black jacket and is good enough to earn her spot
in my top 10. at number nine is fernando cruz from hell's kitchen season 13. now fernando is a bit of
an interesting one here as he got off to a rough start was in consideration to be the first boot
of the season and then got nominated in episode 2 after another bad performance but after that
he straight up dominated the season and here's the thing about fernando it wasn't like he was
a standout leader or anything like that it's just that the way he went about his performance was so
amazing like i don't know tell me if you guys agree because i remember very clearly watching
this live and people went crazy after he got eliminated and for the audience to go crazy
over losing a less than exciting character like fernando i think it just goes to show just how
precise he was and everything he did i mean ramsay even said it himself the way he plates his dishes
and how smooth he is during service is quite remarkable but speaking of ramsay his decision
to eliminate fernando here i mean it's just simply decision to keep sterling around for just a bit
longer i mean simple as that and i'm sorry guys but i think we can all agree that sterling was
the weakest out of the four nominated that night and had the worst overall performance that night
as well plus you could argue that fernando should have been spared over row so yeah a decision where
ramsay simply wanted to keep around good tv for as long as possible and unfortunately fernando picked
the wrong knight to have a bad night which to be fair it wasn't even that bad of a night for him
as the final eight was the charity knight service and fernando simply fell two plays
short on the risotto but immediately got the final two plates and served the table on time
so again how does that performance combined with his amazing performance all season
caused him to be the boot here so after his slow start fernando was absolutely amazing all season
defining his dishes to a tee and should have easily made it past the final eight round
which more than likely would have landed him a black jacket so because of all that
he lands here at number nine at number eight is the lowest ranked chef placement-wise on the list
and while this person might not have made it to black jackets even if he was given a second chance
his elimination was absolute bs as he was great all season and that is adam [ __ ] from season 19.
i mean like i said adam was amazing all season now communication wise yes he wasn't great and
certainly didn't stand out as a leader on the blue team compared to chefs like cody and declan
but still i don't think the guy made one mistake his entire time in hell's kitchen
and even in his elimination episode he didn't make any mistakes he just simply didn't command the
kitchen like ramsay wanted him to and you know say like adam having struggling up until that point
you know i can understand in that scenario that you know ramsay would give him like one last shot
to you know have a breakout performance and in that case you know if he didn't you know stand out
i can understand sending him home but adam had been so good all season with some people even
saying he had a shot to make it to the finale and he gets sent home over mark after a below average
leadership performance at best at the final nine and again to be fair the competition in
season 19 was amazing so who knows if adam even gets to the final five after this but still he
was great all season had a somewhat bad night and got sent home because of that so while it
really was unfair to him he at least gets a spot on my top 10 list landing here at number eight at
number seven is one of the most lovable chefs in a recent hell's kitchen memory and another chef from
season 19 and that is nikki hannah now let's be real here she started off the season very badly
as she could have definitely gone home before the game even started on the signature dish challenge
and even though her nomination was voided in episode 3 she was still rocky out the gate and was
obviously really nervous and not confident in her abilities to perform in the kitchen again just not
a great look but my goodness after her rocky start she went on to have an amazing run having so many
standout dinner service and challenge performances and her confidence and overall performance got
better every single episode but unfortunately her great run ended not after a bad performance during
the service which is what the show is based around but after a masterchef like three challenge and
like i said to start the video a lot of chefs who were eliminated in these cooking challenges are
going to be on the list as it's just stupid to me that chefs like nikki can be so great all season
only to not even earn a black jacket due to a random 3 part challenge however the reason why
nicki is lower than some of the other chefs you'll see on the list who are eliminated in this fashion
is because while pretty much all the chefs above her i think were a lot to make it to black jackets
if it was a normal dinner service i'm not sure if nicki would have been a lock like i could see
nikki having a below average performance and ramsay sending her home you know cause let's be
real compared to chefs like mary lou and corey nicki was nowhere near ready to be a head chef
and that's another thing pretty much all the black jackets this season absolutely deserved it maybe
even more so than nicki with the only debatable one being amber but even amber i don't think is
a bad black jacket by any means and even though nikki grew so much throughout the season her bad
start and especially her lack of confidence is a big no-no for ramsay especially when it comes to
making business decisions so while nikki had an unbelievable run in hell's kitchen and had higher
highs than some other chefs above her her start to the season was awful and she wasn't screwed as
badly as some other chefs on the list so she lands here at number seven now at number six and i know
a lot of people are going to hate me for giving credit to this guy but at the end of the day
despite his terrible behavior he should have made it to the black jackets and that is andrew pierce
from hell's kitchen season 16. and yeah obviously andrew had a terrible personality and cheated on
his fiancee on tv but chef wise he was really good now when i did a re-watch of this season
i did notice that angel was a lot worse than he appeared you know i initially thought he pretty
much dominated the blue team and that was the reason why he never got nominated but no he did
have his fair share of mistakes got the blue team kicked out a couple times was a lot of times the
third option to go up for elimination you know so nothing major but not as dominant as some
other chefs on the list but the big thing when it comes to andrew that puts him so high on the list
is that again in pretty much any other season he makes the black jackets but season 16 was
literally the first season that ramsay introduced the now normal black jacket lounge competition i
mean flat out if this was any of the first 15 seasons andrew either makes it in because it's
the final six black jacket or paulie or kim go home before him so yeah barn like anoka level
bad performance andrew is almost a lock for black jackets if it is a service and since season 16 was
the first season to introduce this challenge he was even more unprepared for it and yes i know the
blue team sucked and the majority of the season 16 cast sucked but angie still was a top four chef
this season and absolutely deserved a black jacket so he lands here at number six now in number five
a chef that was overshadowed due to the amount of talent in season 14 and that is allison rivera
and to be honest because she was so overshadowed i really don't have much to say about allison
despite her being so high as i don't remember how many mistakes or stand-up performances she had
this season do the chefs like megan t and michelle taking up the spotlight but i mean the stats speak
for themselves allison was never nominated for elimination despite her being on the most
talented team of chefs in hell's kitchen history it really just goes to show how consistent she was
and how unlucky she got that she just so happened to be put on the most talented cast
in hell's kitchen history as i think she's almost a locked black jacket in every other season
and even in her elimination episode when she went home for josh i think most people would agree that
josh should have been the one to go home in that spy especially after being given so many chances
on the red team but i think ramsay just simply wanted that classic first black jacket underdog
elimination that we've seen over the years so when you combine her very consistent performance
being on the best team and cast in hell's kitchen history enters somewhat unfair elimination i think
allison is definitely an elite non-black jacket chef and she lands here at number five numbers
four and three are two more chefs screwed over by the black jacket launch challenge with the first
one being coney from hell's kitchen rookies versus veterans now to be honest the thing with kanae is
that similar to allison i really don't remember much about her like she didn't really stand out
to me like she did for other people as i've even seen people say she was the best chef this season
but nonetheless she came into hell's kitchen going up against some serious competition and she did
absolutely incredible again how dominant was she leadership wise i'm not sure as i feel like chefs
like mia and ariel were more so the standout chefs this season in that regard but still
she was not nominated one time all season she made only a couple mistakes throughout the season
and was eliminated not due to a bad service or not stepping up but due to a freaking challenge
i mean it's so stupid at this point and to be fair the other five chefs were serious competition so
it might have just taken you know one bad service to send her home or heck not even a bad service
or below average service but no matter what it doesn't take away from the fact that kane was
super consistent all season on an extremely talented season and probably makes the black
jacket in any other season so when you combine all these positives she lands here at number four now
at number three is in my opinion the person most screwed over by the black jacket lounge challenge
jennifer norman from hell's kitchen all stars now to be fair i almost forgot jennifer was on this
season as she really was invisible compared to the rest of the cast so i don't remember again
i don't remember any standout moments she may have had the amount of mistakes you know all
that but once again just look at the stats she was on an all-star season dealing with terrible
personalities non-stop and yet she was not put up for elimination one time all season with nick and
ben being the only other chefs this season not to be nominated obviously pretty good company
and like i've said multiple times now if this was a normal hell's kitchen season that had a
dinner service to determine the black jackets she's basically allowed to make it to the final
five in that case as not only would she make it in over elise and robin but i think she
would be even a bigger lock than millie and michelle and another reason why jennifer's so
high is that this was a two-person elimination challenge for the black jackets as opposed to
a one-person elimination challenge that we saw in season 16 18 and 19. and in that case i mean
we literally saw jennifer do better than elise and would have made it to the black jackets if
ramsay only decided to eliminate one person and oh man now just thinking about that my goodness
how fitting would that have been so jennifer was super consistent in an all-star season morden
likely makes it to a black jacket had it been an old school season like you know season 9 and also
makes a black jacket had only one person gone home in a three-part challenge instead of two so pretty
much a bunch of very unlucky circumstances caused jennifer to not be a black jacket even though she
absolutely deserved another one and so while she unfortunately isn't in the top tier of chefs who
earned a black jacket twice she did have a top tier non black jacket performance in my eyes
and she lands here at number three now at number two and this chef didn't go home for any bs reason
but he is this high simply because he just fought out as an unreal chef who went home
due to unfortunate circumstances and that is anton testino from hell's kitchen season 12.
and for me when it comes to anton the dude wasn't just a solid chef but he was a flat-out dominant
chef for not only the first couple of episodes but for basically the entire first half of the season
i mean he made like one mistake the entire first half was far and away the best leader on the blue
team even leading the blue team to their first dinner service win when they nominated him as
leader in episode 6. he was great in challenges and in general was the clear front-runner to win
up until the final 10. and even after the final 10 his quote downfall wasn't that bad like his final
okay his final 10 performance was pretty bad but after he got a second chance on the red team he
had two straight good performances and even in his elimination episode he didn't do anything terrible
he just got really unlucky that the blue team had won the best services ever he was standing next
to skye and in general season's 12 cast was really strong and just the simplest of downfalls causes a
chef like anton to stand out and that's the thing about anton his downfall isn't that bad it's just
two below average performances at worst but since he was so freaking dominant the first half of the
game i think these performances looked worse to ramsay than they actually were but no matter what
you think of anton's quote downfall you can't take away from his megan level of dominance the
first half of the season and that alone makes him top tier and he ultimately just misses out on the
top spot landing here at number two and at number one the best chef in hell's kitchen history to
not earn a black jacket and to this day it's still mind-boggling to me that he didn't make the black
jackets and that is anthony rodriguez from hell's kitchen season 11. now first and foremost the fact
that he was armed one of the worst blue teams ever is not a good look as obviously his leadership
abilities weren't top level enough to help the blue team actually win services and challenges but
still i mean how much can you really blame anthony there as there was only so much any person could
do to help the blue team of season 11. he made one mistake in the first service after being won the
last chef standing and after that i think he was pretty much flawless to rest of the competition
correct me if i'm wrong in the comments and even at the final seven when he did struggle
it wasn't really that bad of a surface especially to warn him getting eliminated
over zack and i think the reason why anthony went here is very clear the show had been hyping up the
blue team's suck storyline the entire season and ramsay really wanted to fit the narrative of how
bad the blue team had been by having only one man make the black jacket and he knew if he sent home
anthony here zack would be the obvious boot for the final six which would obviously leave jon
as the only black jacket male so to me that's even worse than when a good chef is eliminated
over someone just because ramsay knows the weaker chef makes for better tv you know this
was flat out a calculated decision by ramsey and you know for that matter all the producers
because they knew anthony was super talented and more than likely he and john wouldn't have
another bad service and both of them in the black jackets wouldn't fit the narrative of the season
and that's the reason why anthony is number one to me not only was he pretty much flawless throughout
the season but he was eliminated literally to fit a season narrative you know say what
you want about the other dumb eliminations on the list but i think this is the most obvious
example of ramsay making a terrible decision because this is reality tv and unfortunately
story lines make for the best television so between anthony's dominance over the season
and having easily the most unfair elimination out of everyone on the list to me that gives him the
crown as the best non-black jacket chef in hell's kitchen history so there you go guys my ranking of
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