Just as a prefix, I love watching Gordon Ramsay. Whether it's Hell's Kitchen or Kitchen Nightmares, or even the rare times he's hosting Masterchef, he's always a treat to watch and listen to. I more or less started watching his stuff when I remembered several videos of swearing compilations on YouTube, and it just spiralled out of control from there. I'll have one linked with this rant just so you could see for yourself.
So with that said, why is it that people think he's an asshole? I understand being intimidated by him due to his infamous short temper, but just hating him for nonsensical reasons? That's a little overboard.
I guess I could go down the short list of the reasons why people who don't watch him also don't like him, starting with the obvious; his swearing.
Look, I'll keep this one short; it 20-fucking-18. We live in an age where Donald "Grab 'em by the pussy" Trump is inexcusably still in office and is practically supporting racism and fascism. If you are somehow still offended by someone swearing of all things instead of the actually offensive and morally repugnant bullshit, then take your overly sensitive, shit-launching anal-cannon and get the fuck off of the internet. If anything, if you're gonna criticise Ramsay for swearing, then why not criticise the contestants on Hell's Kitchen for swearing, or the delusional restaurant owners who are just as vulgar in their language as Ramsay? A little consistency is all I ask for, dipshit.
Anyway, onto reason number 2 people seem to dislike him; the way he treats his contestants on Hell's Kitchen.
Now, this one I will still defend until my dying breath, as I feel Ramsay is justified in this case. Whenever people bring up the way Ramsay talks to his contestants, they say that all he does is yell and swear at them while also saying offensive things about them. "Walking around like a toilet brush", "stupid, thick bitch". "you're a first class cunt", "fat useless sack of fucking yankee dankie doodle shite", etc. However, that's often when they take those insults out of context as a means of making Ramsay look like an awful person, when he isn't. Yes, in any other context, those aforementioned remarks would come off as offensive to whoever it's being said to. But in the context of the scenario, Ramsay is saying that to them because they're fucking up on something so relatively simple.
Whenever a contestant goes onto Hell's Kitchen claiming to be a professional chef, or if a restaurant owner in Kitchen Nightmare's is asking for his help, Ramsay is expecting them to act like adults and do what they claim they can do. Due to his training, Ramsay has a high standard and if you tell him you're a professional chef, he will expect you to fucking act like one. If you make that claim, and yet continuously serve him shit food or talk to him with a childish attitude, then he's gonna tear you down and prove that you're not just a shit chef, but an awful one. Basic mistakes like overcooking the garnish or giving a risotto with no seasoning or flavour is bad enough. But to go the extra mile and do something amazingly incompetent, such as fire 3 Sole dishes before they're even needed or serve raw meat/fish to a pregnant women, is what puts you up on Ramsay's chopping block, and thus justifying anything that Ramsay says to you because you were just caught out as a delusional, egocentric asshole.
Hell, I can actually count a few times where Ramsay was the calm one in the scenario. Remember when, in the early UK Hell's Kitchen days, a woman tried to slap him after stopping during service to complain about being tired?
Or when Joseph in Hell's Kitchen Season 6 tried to pick a fight with him, despite not answering two very basic questions?
Or how about in Kitchen Nightmares where co-owners Amy and Samy refuse to listen to constructive criticism, forcing Ramsay to leave before he could help them in fixing the issues with the restaurant?
In all of these instances, Ramsay was not the one who instigated the yelling and swearing. He was the one trying to act calmly and rationally before realising these people were beyond hope, especially Amy and Samy with how their restaurant is the only one in the history of Kitchen Nightmares that Ramsay had no choice but to leave. If you're seriously gonna watch all of this and still claim that Ramsay was acting out of line, then I think you need a fucking new prescription for your glasses. And if your not wearing glasses, then put down that hash, as that's the only way you could still be thinking like that.
And I suppose the final reason for why there's a hatedom for Ramsay is this; he's prejudiced.
No. No he isn't. He may use some of the contestants characteristics to insult them if they do a shit job at cooking a scallop, but that's different from being prejudiced. Prejudice is the idea of non-acceptance, where you refuse to accept something that's different from what you perceive as normal, be it race, gender, sexuality, etc. However, Ramsay doesn't care about any of that; like I said, he only cares if you can live up to your self-proclamations of being a professional chef who could cook just about anything. If you can't do that, he's completely in the right to call you out on it. There may have been legitimate douchebags on Hell's Kitchen:
But Ramsay sure as Hell isn't one of them. Again, every time their selfish and judgemental attitudes came up, Ramsay put them in their place and booted them off when the time was right. Keep in mind, this is just what Matt Hearn had said and done during his time as a contestant in Season 16.
After watching all of that, are you really gonna tell me that Ramsay is the douchebag?
Look, I get if you don't watch stuff like Hell's Kitchen or other cooking shows. But don't try to claim that Gordon Ramsay is something when he clearly isn't.
With that finally done, I'm glad that I could finally bring back Random Rants. If you like what you saw..., well, good for you.
Til next time, this is Callum Lewis, the Media Man, signing off...
...fucking donkeys.
