Chef Gordon Ramsay has had a number of shows on television. And it's not surprising. Not only is he a world-renowned chef with restaurants around the world that attract customers from all over, but he is also a captivating personality.
Two of his best-known and most popular series include reality cooking competition series Hell's Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares. Hells' Kitchen continues to air to this day, with the upcoming season set to be its 19th. Kitchen Nightmares, meanwhile, which saw him visit failing restaurants to investigate what was wrong and try to help them turn things around, aired for seven seasons from 2007-2014. In 2018, Ramsay revived the concept with Gordon's Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back that features a similar premise but much shorter timeline.
So which show of the two is the best?
11 Opportunity Of A Lifetime For Aspiring Chefs: Hell's Kitchen
Hell's Kitchen invites aspiring chefs from across the U.S., some with kitchen experience and others just amazing home cooks, to learn how to work in a real kitchen. Ramsay pushes them to their limits, helping them improve their cooking and learning how to handle a busy dinner service.
It's the type of training chefs would pay thousands of dollars to get so the opportunity is tremendous for someone looking to make a name for themselves in the culinary world. In fact, many past winners have done just that.
10 Potentially Saving a Business: Kitchen Nightmares
A lot of the show focuses on drama, whether it's a terribly dirty kitchen or hot-headed owner. But at the core is the idea that Ramsay has been called in to help a restaurant that is on the brink of bankruptcy, losing customers because of food quality, ownership, or other factors.
Seeing Ramsay do a complete restaurant renovation, train cooks on new dishes, and sometimes even provide new kitchen equipment and therapy, is great for small business.
9 So Many Restaurants From Kitchen Nightmares Have Gone Under Anyway: Hell's Kitchen
That said, despite good intentions, a large number of the restaurants Ramsay helped throughout the seven seasons of the show have gone under anyway. Some went back to their old ways which might be why. Others were just too far gone to be revived.
Some have survived and thrived under the same or new ownership. But for the majority, the show was clearly designed more for entertainment value than anything else.
8 Not As Repetitive Every Season: Kitchen Nightmares
It's no surprise that after 19 seasons, Hell's Kitchen has become really repetitive. I mean, how many times can you hear Chef Ramsay call someone a "donkey" or shout that the "scallops are raw!" Sure, he has some unique insults each time. But the way the show works is totally formulaic.
With Kitchen Nightmares, you get something different every time. The back story with what went wrong with the business is always unique. And he visits restaurants that serve everything from Italian to Mexican to Caribbean cuisine.
7 You Want To Eat At The Restaurant: Hell's Kitchen
The new season of Hell's Kitchen will be filmed in the New Hell's Kitchen restaurant in Las Vegas, which has become a popular destination for tourists who sometimes can't even get a reservation to eat there because it's so high in demand.
Those who get a table during filming know they might wait hours for food as Ramsay trains the cooks. But people still clamor for the chance to eat there because you know when the food comes out, it will be of the highest standards.
6 You Don't Want To Eat At The Restaurant: Kitchen Nightmares
While Ramsay clearly helps each restaurant's kitchen staff up their game, and makes sure that dirty kitchens are completely clean and sanitized, just seeing the moldy and expired food, animal droppings, and other things that were there before doesn't exactly give you confidence to want to go eat at that place.
Who knows how much was embellished and wasn't, nor if the staff kept up with the routine after Ramsay and his crew left. But do diners really want to find out?
5 You Can Learn A Lot About Cooking: Hell's Kitchen
Hell's Kitchen is educational for viewers at home, too, who can learn how to cook different dishes as well as different cooking techniques. The kitchen staff cooks everything from risotto to beef wellington, scallops to John Dory fish.
While Ramsay might be yelling and shouting at the cooks, there are segments where he shows them how to do things patiently and step-by-step, leading to winners who have gone on to do big things, including run his kitchens.
4 A Glimpse Of Restaurants Across The U.S.: Kitchen Nightmares
Kitchen Nightmares gives you a nice glimpse of different restaurants across the U.S. spanning every type of cuisine imaginable. You also get to see cool local hotspots, like boardwalks or entertainment districts that might spark the travel bug in you.
You can also experience lots of different décor, both dated and modern, and see how food is handled from across the U.S.
3 No Gross Scenes: Hell's Kitchen
There's plenty of foul language in Hell's Kitchen, food being thrown across the room because it isn’t cooked right, or images of raw chicken. But it's nothing like the gross scenes that appear in Kitchen Nightmares.
If you have a weak stomach, Hell's Kitchen is the better option to avoid scenes of moldy meat, rancid fish, and slimy chicken complete with rat dropping, flies, and Ramsay trying not to hurl at the smell.
2 Most Episodes Ends On A High Note: Kitchen Nightmares
For the most part, each episode of Kitchen Nightmares ends on a high note with the restaurant having been turned around and the owners happy as clams at the second chance to save their businesses.
Most follow-ups at the end revisit the restaurant a few months later and seeing them in good shape with packed kitchens makes you feel good.
1 Most Episodes End On A Negative Note: Hell's Kitchen
With Hell's Kitchen, on the other end, every episode ends on a sour note because one contestant is sent home and told they aren't good enough to continue. The rest of the contestants go back to their rooms, discussing the events of the evening, blaming one another, and fearing that they could be next.
From a dramatic standpoint, it's great. But you aren't left feeling happy for anyone but the person who was singled out as having done the best job during that shift.
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