Gordon Ramsay can be downright terrifying most of the time.
But Gordon is not always that monster.
The man can be pretty compassionate and sweet beyond imagination.
We dug deeper and found even more instances where Gordon was an absolute teddy bear.
Passion for Making Young Chefs Smile
Gordon Ramsay's face, when a child's cooking goes wrong, is nothing compared to when he’s
dealing with the failures of grown-up chefs.
While we get to hear him more often than not screaming, cursing, and brutally bashing adults'
self-esteem for the slightest mistakes in the kitchen, Gordon turns into a goldmine
of patience and compassion when dealing with the young chefs' mess-ups.
Gordon thinks young chefs are brilliant and that unlike the clumsy and indifferent adults
he gets to deal with, they are pretty genuine about their love for cooking.
On the first episode of season 2 of Masterchef Junior, young Coco broke out in tears because
she felt like she had messed up her mashed potatoes badly.
The moment Gordon saw her from across the room he rushed over to her stall to see what
was wrong with the young chef.
He tasted her mashed potatoes, comforted her about how good they were and then he coaxed
a smile on Coco's face.
He told her that like with his daughters, Holly, Megan, and Matilda, Gordon wasn't going
to leave her without getting a laugh out of her.
The look he had on his face while leaning over to get the smile out of Coco was absolutely
heartwarming - a look from Gordon the father, and not the master chef.
When Riley brought out Gordon’s Fatherly Pride
Gordon can be soul-stirringly nice and compassionate with a young chef in distress just for the
sake of putting them in high spirits.
These are the moments when the instinct of fatherly Gordon over.
When one of the young kids managed to strike a chord with both the father and the demanding
chef inside of Gordon, there is no look of pride and affection that can come out of Gordon
comparable to that one.
That's what Riley, the 8-year old chef who was the youngest contestant on Masterchef
Junior, managed to do.
As the competitors lined up for the tasting, Riley who had already won Gordon's heart with
his confidence during the show, walked up to the judges with his magnificent dish of
seared steak.
Gordon was taken aback by how unexpectedly good the kid's cooking was.
He couldn't contain his compassion and pride for Riley.
He stood there looking at the young chef like he saw a younger version of himself in him
and started giving Riley the praise he deserved for his amazing skills - and that wasn't Gordon
being nice out of necessity to make the boy feel good about himself.
Riley was, in fact, a talented culinary genius.
He saw unbounded potential in Riley and if there is anything that can bring out the loving
side of Gordon Ramsay, it is a chef who takes cooking seriously no matter their age.
Gordon Completely Changed Gabriel’s Life
Gabriel Lewis from Oklahoma obviously had the hearts of everyone on the show he competed
with on the 8th season of Masterchef.
When the time came for a necessary elimination, Gordon announced that Gabriel was the one
to go.
The 19-year-old chef at the time was working at a fast food joint, and he saw this competition
as a way out of his family's struggles.
When Gordon decided he was out of the competition, he did not take that dream away.
Gordon Ramsay doesn't neglect a true talent like that.
As all of the people on the show teared up, Gordon announced that he was going to pay
out of his own pocket to send Gabriel to culinary school so he can later pursue his dream as
a chef.
At that moment, the whole studio was shaking with tears of joy.
It is still probably the most emotional scene that happened on the show since it started.
Gabriel is actually studying now at Johnson & Wales University in Denver and is set to
graduate in 2019.
Nice is an understatement for that action from Gordon.
He gave the young aspiring chef another chance to hold on to his dream and went through with
it just because he saw true potential in him.
Gordon Revived Hotel Chester
Gordon's soft side doesn't only reveal itself when he witnesses young people with potential
though.
For Gordon, potential doesn't need to come with a certain age range to deserve nurturing.
Although he might be quite the toughie on adults who are failing out of their own clumsiness.
When Gordon saw that this struggling couple who owned a failing hotel in Mississippi were
really genuine about trying to make it out of their gloomy situation, he decided to pull
them out himself once and for all.
Gordon didn't only go out of his way to solve their business complications but rather decided
to transform their lives altogether.
He first went for a near complete makeover for Hotel Chester.
He turned it into a place that everyone would notice from the street and that could really
attract customers.
Gordon even hired them a chef to manage their kitchen and take the load off Suki, whose
salary he would pay out of his own pocket and designed a menu for them that could turn
their hotel into a Mississippi must-go destination.
He turned their beer garden into a place that could handle an awesome party atmosphere.
Because Gordon understood what their bleak living conditions could have done to their
relationship together, Gordon rented them a fully furnished apartment completely paid
for 6 months in advance.
This was an opportunity for the couple to live in a place that give them the escape
they needed from their business in order to live comfortably while their business would
remain their business and not their home as well.
Good Cop Gordon
When Gordon visited The Grasshopper, he found the place in total shambles.
The restaurant was losing money fast and the kitchen was painted wall to wall in all the
reasons to why it was such a failure.
There were slimy pieces of chicken stored without proper freezing, raw meat lying around
in very close proximity to cooked meat and a restaurant owner not totally aware of how
awful the disaster was.
After Gordon found himself faced with a seemingly hopeless case, he unleashed his typical Gordon
terror and after crushing the owners and their staff for not knowing much about what they
were doing, he decided there was no way out of having to shut the place down.
That wasn't the whole side of it though.
Gordon knew that Maureen, the owner's wife and co-owner of The Grasshopper, was actually
completely aware of their problem and that she knew the reasons behind it.
When he got to know the aspects of their background and her husband's distress that were driving
the restaurant down the toilet, Gordon revealed his big heart and started seeing the problem
from a more compassionate perspective.
Chef Ramsay embarked on trying to solve the couple's personal life before the restaurant
could rise from the ashes.
Taking the Pressure off Dr. Una
When Gordon visited Dr. Una, a doctor who owned a restaurant that was less than a month
away from collapsing and who had a son that was utterly unconcerned with his mother's
burden, he saw a woman who lived her life to secure a good life for her children but
who wasn't getting any care in return.
Her breakdown crushed Gordon's heart and he was determined to lift that woman's self esteem
back up.
She was a former Olympian, a doctor responsible for a restaurant that was failing and whose
son and the manager of the restaurant was completely unreliable.
Gordon couldn't tolerate seeing that big of a burden all rely on just one person.
Besides cheering her up and making sure that she trusted him enough to open up to him after
years of bottling it up, Gordon went to sit with her son, Keone and reached out to the
compassionate son inside his guarded and proud exterior.
Gordon managed to help extract Keone’s long lost focus back to his family's struggling
business and gave him the motivation to step up and own up to the situation.
This was yet another moment where Gordon attempted to fix a restaurant, but ended up trying to
fix the shattered family that stood behind it.
Calling Jaimee’s Father to Show his Gratitude
On Masterchef, Gordon was particularly impressed by Jaimee.
She was showing great potential and the young chef was one of the very likeable competitors
on the show during Season 5.
When tasting time came, Gordon stood there baffled by Jaimee's amazing cooking.
He didn't think it was enough that he let Jaimee and everyone on the show know how impressed
he was.
When Gordon tasted her dish, he was incredulous.
Not only did he relentlessly praise her bonbon pasta, he had something a little extra for
her.
The dish she presented came straight from her father’s teachings, who taught her all
about cooking and who Gordon was filled with gratitude for because he brought to life such
a brilliant chef in his opinion.
He left her father a little surprise as a show of gratitude.
Gordon took out his phone and called Jaimee's father, left him a message telling him how
grateful he was for Jaimee and gave her father props for teaching her to cook with such brilliance.
Jaimee was visually starstruck for her father and never expected such a kind act from the
often brutally honest chef.
What more can a contestant in competition ask for?
These moments prove that Gordon’s icy exterior can often be melted away when he chooses to
show just how big his heart truly is.
The Cocky Chef that Won Gordon’s Heart
There is nothing that lights up Gordon's day like going back to a restaurant that he helped
pick up from a previous mess to find that all his efforts had paid off.
That was one of these cases where Gordon's time with the restaurant's chef really left
its mark on the place.
When Gordon had first visited La Lanterna, it was struggling with debt and its owner
was too confident in himself to realize that there was much room for improvement.
When Gordon was back, he found that the guy still had his confidence, but now it was justified.
Gordon was absolutely amazed to realize that he had understood the relationship a good
chef should have with his or her food.
He saw a man who was excited to up his game in the kitchen and to start cooking with passion
and not just focus on technique.
Gordon had the look in his eyes that a surgeon might get when his or her son is accepted
into medical school.
He was pretty proud and he didn't refrain one second from showing it.
Gordon is the first to tell a chef when they're doing an awful job, but the first also to
point out proper cooking.
Helping Paul Stay Off Drugs
On Gordon Behind Bars, Gordon met with an inmate named Paul, who he decided to give
a shot at redeeming himself.
Paul was a former addict, and seeing him, Gordon remembered his younger brother who
had also shared a long struggle with drug addiction.
This was one of the toughest parts of Gordon's life and it always tormented him seeing his
brother fall like that.
When he saw Paul, Gordon decided that he was not going to let him take the same fall back
into addiction.
Paul had started studying in college to become a chef after leaving school, but he later
dropped out and got caught up in his addiction before he was locked up.
Gordon's help for Paul was to give him a chance to have a go at working in a restaurant kitchen
where he would be able to work as soon as he would get released from prison.
Gordon only did that on the condition that Paul remained focused on his new career and
didn't go back to drug use.
When Gordon was Nice to Corden
Gordon has a history of dissing his long time friend, James Corden.
Corden appeared some years ago on The F Word and since then they have each appeared on
the one another's shows many times.
Ramsay's first time was to put Corden through hell when he made him eat up a fisheye delicacy
that Corden was disgusted by, based on the promise that he and his family can all eat
at one of Gordon's restaurant for free.
Gordon didn't even fulfill that promise, and ended up tasting Corden's revenge.
In this appearance of the two hecklers, however, Gordon decided to show James Corden some of
his friendliness by having a cook-off with him on The F Word.
Gordon kept the challenge funny, lighthearted and didn't even belittle Corden when he said
Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay's seemingly archrival, was the one who taught him how to cook.
Even while winning the challenge, Gordon stayed nice to his guest showing him some mercy in
James Corden’s defeat.
It’s always refreshing to see the sweet side of Gordon Ramsay, isn’t it?
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