These Are The Worst Dishes To Ever Come Out Of Hell's Kitchen

Your excitement is tangible. Why? Because you have dinner guests coming over and absolutely cannot wait to dazzle them with a slew of new dishes. Dinner parties aren't anything new to you. In fact, you take every opportunity you can to tantalize taste buds and leave hungry friends and family members in awe of your culinary prowess. But, tonight's different. You splurged on some very special ingredients to crank the night up from 10 to 11. You're ready to rock when suddenly a wrench is hurled into your meticulously laid plans. One of your guests is bringing a good friend along. That friend just happens to be a Michelin-rated chef who just can't wait to see what you have in store. Cue nauseating anxiety.

That's a pretty terrifying situation, huh? Well, that's exactly how the contestants on Hell's Kitchen must feel every time they approach the grimacing face of chef Gordon Ramsay with a dish. Sure, they signed up for this experience. There are 18 seasons of Hell's Kitchen, after all, so everyone knows what they're getting into by now. Contestants might even feel pretty confident the taste of their food is next-level. Yet, Ramsay's palate, not to mention his knack for totally eviscerating contestants' self-esteem, is legendary. 

Occasionally Ramsay does toss an unexpected compliment someone's way. However, the dishes on this list could not have received a more opposite reaction. Check your appetites at the door, folks. These are the worst dishes to come out of Hell's Kitchen.

Butterfly shrimp, on their own, can be an absolute delight. Few people need convincing that chocolate sauce is a splendid accompaniment to any post-dinner treat, too. However, when you mix seafood with chocolate, you're walking a fine line between a unique dish that might just play out exactly how you want or an absolutely disastrous combination of flavors that don't belong on the same plate. Unfortunately, one contestant named Rachel found herself experiencing the latter situation. In his classic style, Ramsay didn't hold back when it came time to let her know.

It's never good when the first words out of Ramsay's mouth upon seeing a dish are eye-widening curse words, but that's exactly what he muttered when he unveiled Rachel's shrimp and chocolate creation. However, to Rachel's credit, Ramsay admitted the shrimp was actually cooked quite nicely. However, the addition of the overpowering chocolate drizzle completely "obliterated" the flavor, which, in the end, made the dish "very weird." One of the biggest moments of irony during the segment was noticing the word "SINNER" written on the back of Rachel's shirt. She certainly committed a cardinal sin by mixing and matching two ingredients that Ramsay clearly thought were best left apart.

There are several moving parts to a kitchen that get pretty wild when a restaurant is running full-force during a lunch or dinner rush. One of those parts is the garde manger, which, according to The Spruce Eats, is the area of the kitchen that cranks out salads, charcuterie boards, and other dishes that don't require any cooking. One contestant, Jen, tried to offer chef Ramsay a Dungeness crab, corn risotto, and lobster tail dish, which, obviously, required cooking, However, the "pizzazz" Jen thought she brought to the dish was immediately crushed by Ramsay, who complained the whole thing tasted as if had come out of the garde manger station. It clearly wasn't cooked.

Risotto can be a tough dish to make even when Gordon Ramsay isn't waiting to rip it apart. It requires patience and precision to get the consistency just right. Ramsay knows this, and he wasn't fooled for a second when he took his first bite. Immediately spitting out the food, he told Jen that "the rice is raw," telling her, simply, "you can't cook." Ouch. Not something you want to hear on a show that literally requires you to do nothing but cook. Jen said of Ramsay's brutal opinion, "There's a difference between constructive criticism and someone just being a butthead." Ramsay clearly doesn't mind being a butthead.

When you think of diners you don't necessarily think of fine dining. But, this doesn't take away from the importance or satisfaction of them one bit, as many hungry patrons clearly enjoy them every day. However, when you're facing a Michelin-rated chef, having more than just diner experience is typically necessary if you want to impress them. Contestant Louie, who had roughly 25 years of diner cooking experience, succumbed to the wrath of chef Ramsay, who made it clear the biscuits and gravy Louie was slinging just didn't cut it on Hell's Kitchen.

Biscuits and gravy is a classic comfort stick-to-your-ribs dish that warms the heart and nestles against the soul. Sure, it also does a little artery-clogging, but we can just forget about that minor detail for now. Yet, on Hell's Kitchen, before Ramsay even took a bite, Louie told Ramsay he sold "about five gallons" of his sausage gravy a week. Ramsay quickly and sardonically replied, asking "What, you sell it to pigs?" Louie, clearly confident in the dish, watched as Ramsay took a bite, chewed a few times, and then violently spit it out into the trash next to him. When Louie asked the chef why he didn't like it, Ramsay bluntly replied, "It tastes like gunk." Five gallons is a lot of "gunk" to sell every week, Louie.

There are few crazier parties than Mardi Gras. If you want to get totally insane and leave all your inhibitions behind, you need to head to New Orleans during this celebration. When line cook Antonia approached Ramsay with a bowl of her Mardi Gras gumbo, she was prepared for the host to celebrate the eclectic flavors partying inside his mouth. However, the party Ramsay was invited to was not the epic fiesta the name implied. In fact, the Devil himself wouldn't have even RSVP'd to this abysmal gathering.

Antonia, standing in front of Ramsay with anxiety presumably coursing through her veins, lifted the lid off her dish. Ramsay's reaction to the look of the dish could not have been worse. He rather graphically asked if it normally looked like a plate of liquid human waste. Whoa. Nevertheless, Ramsay took a bite. His reaction, based on the unsettling visual comparison he made, was exactly what you'd expect: Ramsay gagged and spit the offending mouthful right into the trash. To make Antonia feel even worse about her bowl of liquid... eh, gumbo, Ramsay invited several of the other contestants to taste it. They all had the same response. One guy even said it tasted like "a cat sh** in my mouth." Needless to say, Antonia walked away feeling like she was in the wrong line of work.

Everyone shows up to Hell's Kitchen with something to prove. Whether they come from less-than-ideal upbringings or perhaps have overcome serious tragedies, they want chef Ramsay to know they mean business when it comes to cuisine. A sous chef named Tiffany arrived on the set with the intention of proving that she wasn't just some ditzy blonde who landed a television gig out of sheer luck. She was confident in her ability to become a professional in the culinary landscape, cooking lamb schnitzel with a rosemary-infused maple gloss to flex her meal-time muscles. The only problem was, she didn't seem to have too many muscles worth flexing.

There are many things to which you don't want someone comparing the texture of your food. Surely, a wet diaper tops the list. That's exactly what Ramsay said about Tiffany's lamb dish. He asked her to poke it with her finger right before making the disgusting comparison. The actual lamb was cooked properly, but Tiffany made a huge mistake by completely dredging the cut of meat in the thick maple gloss, rendering it soggy and, well, diaper-esque. This surely is not the avenue to travel if one wants to arrive at a professional career in food.