Meet The Worst Hell’s Kitchen Chef To Ever Compete On The Show

Over the course of its 16 seasons, Hell’s Kitchen has had its fair share of great and terrible competitors. Only one chef, however, could possibly take the title of the worst Hell’s Kitchen chef. This competitor couldn’t deal with Gordon Ramsay and really didn’t have a clue how to operate in a kitchen. Despite that, we got a whole lot of laughs out of watching them try.

I’m talking about season 8’s Raj Brandston. This 49-year-old personal chef from Queens was out of his league from the start. Somehow, he got through three episodes before Chef Ramsay took his jacket. While that surprised viewers for sure, we didn’t complain about the humorous clips we can still watch years after Raj left the show.

Raj began his Hell’s Kitchen career by unveiling one of the worst signature dishes of all time. His “pancake that pisses,” as Gordon refers to it in the video above, definitely did not impress. From there, his dinner service performances didn’t do him any favors, either.

He struggled trying to work with a teammate trying to make a basic pizza, annoying his whole team and Gordon Ramsay.

When flustered, he would stick his head in the fridge to cool off.

To make matters worse, Raj appeared to actually believe that he was the best chef in the talent pool. His ego definitely got in the way of his efforts on multiple occasions, including when he tried to sauce up some salmon for Gordon Ramsay.

However, his behavior also got him into trouble alot. His team was fed up with him to the point where they called him out multiple times on the show. During one service, his teammate Vinnie even told customers to avoid ordering sides because Raj was working that station.

Raj’s fall from the show finally began with his third dinner service. There, his quirky behavior and culinary struggles fully surfaced. While Chef Ramsay was rejecting dishes left and right, Raj took rejected pieces of fish and quickly gobbled them up. That definitely didn’t sit well with his teammates or with Gordon.

Additionally, Raj prepped too many Dover Sole ahead of time, causing the kitchen to run out. He then protested to Chef Ramsay when ordered to go explain to the customers what happened. As we all already know, you don’t wanna even try to stand up to Gordon Ramsay.

After that service, despite the blue team winning, Gordon decided that he couldn’t go “an inch further” and eliminated Raj from the competition. His teammates considered it as an additional reward, adding insult to injury for this private chef.

For a full compilation of his best moments on the show, peep the video below.

Following Hell’s Kitchen, Raj apparently returned to his career as a private chef. To be fair to him, the show is an intense environment where sabotage is suspected to occur. Raj could have merely succumbed to the pressure, especially considering the personal chef life is very different from the kitchen brigade of a top restaurant, which is what Hell’s Kitchen mimics on set.

Nonetheless, we wish Raj the best in his continuing career as we look over his time with Gordon Ramsay. His experiences definitely created some hilarious TV.