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Season 4 of Hell's Kitchen aired on Fox between April 1 and July 8, 2008. Culinary student Christina Machamer, from St. Louis, Missouri, was the winner of that season and became Senior Sous Chef at Gordon Ramsay's London West Hollywood in Los Angeles, with a $250,000 salary.
Contestants[]
15 contestants competed during this season. The teams were divided by gender, male contestants in the blue team and female contestants in the red team. Those contestants were (in alphabetical order):
Contestant | Age | Occupation | Hometown |
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Bobby Anderson | 37 | Executive Chef | Niagara Falls, NY |
Ben Caylor | 29 | Electrician & Former Chef | Charlotte, NC |
Dominic DiFrancesco | 43 | Stay-at-Home Dad | Catawba, SC |
Corey Earling | 25 | Private Chef | Brooklyn, NY |
Louross Edralin | 24 | Hotel Cook | Las Vegas, NV |
Rosann Fama | 33 | Law Office Receptionist & Former Cook | Staten Island, NY |
Jen Gavin | 24 | Garde Manger | Chicago, IL |
Vanessa Gunnell | 31 | Line Cook | Bozeman, MT |
Christina Machamer | 25 | Culinary Student | St. Louis, MO |
Louis Petrozza | 47 | Catering Director | Charlotte, NC |
Craig Schneider | 30 | Sous Chef | Coram, NY |
Matt Sigel | 35 | Pine Hill, NJ | |
Sharon Stewart | 31 | Room Service Chef | Las Vegas, NV |
Jason Underwood | 29 | Sous Chef | Youngstown, OH |
Shayna Zadok | 28 | Catering Company Owner | Buffalo, NY |
Contestant progress[]
At the end of each episode, one chef from the losing team is eliminated by Ramsay, after being picked by the "Best of the Worst", determined by Ramsay after the last dinner service.
# | Chef | Original Teams | First Switch |
Second Switch |
Black Jackets | Finals | ||||||||||||
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401 | 402 | 403 | 404 | 405 | 406 | 407 | 408 | 409 | 410 | 411 | 412 | 413 | 414/415 | |||||
1 | Christina | NOM | BoW | NOM | NOM[1] | NOM | BoW | NOM | WINNER | |||||||||
2 | Petrozza | BoW | NOM[2] | BoW | RUNNER-UP | |||||||||||||
3 | Corey | BoW | BoW | NOM[1] | NOM | OUT | ||||||||||||
4 | Jen | NOM | NOM | NOM | OUT | |||||||||||||
5 | Bobby | NOM | BoW | OUT | ||||||||||||||
6 | Matt | NOM | NOM | NOM | OUT | |||||||||||||
7 | Louross | BoW | NOM | NOM | OUT | |||||||||||||
8 | Rosann | NOM[1] | OUT | |||||||||||||||
9 | Ben | NOM[1] | OUT | |||||||||||||||
10 | Shayna | OUT | ||||||||||||||||
11 | Vanessa | NOM | LEFT | |||||||||||||||
12 | Craig | OUT | ||||||||||||||||
13 | Jason | OUT | ||||||||||||||||
14 | Sharon | OUT[3] | ||||||||||||||||
15 | Dominic | OUT |
Final Service Brigades | |
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Petrozza | Christina |
Bobby | Corey |
Ben | Louross |
Jen | Matt |
Color Legend | ||||
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NOM | Regular Nomination | Ramsay Nomination | Voided Nomination | |
OUT | Regular Elimination | Ramsay Nomination | Without Nomination | |
MISC | Ejected during service | Quit or Hospitalized | Best of the Best/Worst |
Episodes[]
Here is the list of the episodes of that season, with links to detailed pages.
# | Image | Title | Airdate | |
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01 | Episode 401 - 15 Chefs Compete | April 1, 2008 | ||
Episode Rundown: The contestants arrived in Hell's Kitchen with a big surprise, a captain for each team is chosen, and one contestant is given a reality check at elimination. | ||||
02 | Episode 402 - 14 Chefs Compete | April 8, 2008 | ||
Episode Rundown: The first team challenge occurred, and a surprise elimination nobody saw coming. | ||||
03 | Episode 403 - 13 Chefs Compete | April 15, 2008 | ||
Episode Rundown: A scary wakening happened, a sweaty punishment, and a very satisfying elimination of the most hated chef of the season at that moment. | ||||
04 | Episode 404 - 12 Chefs Compete | April 22, 2008 | ||
Episode Rundown: The very first Family Night service happened, one chef suffered a serious injury, and a meltdown by another lead to a hilarious elimination. | ||||
05 | Episode 405 - 11 Chefs Compete | April 29, 2008 | ||
Episode Rundown: The very first pizza delivery occurred, an emotional withdrawal happened, and an unusual strategy to get the food out. | ||||
06 | Episode 406 - 10 Chefs Compete | May 6, 2008 | ||
Episode Rundown: The very first Sweet 16 party in Hell's Kitchen occurred, Jean-Philippe encountered somebody he did not wish to see any longer, and one chef turned the birthday girl into a vegetarian. | ||||
07 | Episode 407 - 9 Chefs Compete | May 13, 2008 | ||
Episode Rundown: The annual Blind Taste Test occurred, one chef made an unlikely comeback, and one of the early favorites was shown the door. | ||||
08 | Episode 408 - 8 Chefs Compete | May 20, 2008 | ||
Episode Rundown: A red chef became a blue chef, there was bullying on one team, but that same team managed to bounce back at dinner service. | ||||
09 | Episode 409 - 7 Chefs Compete | May 27, 2008 | ||
Episode Rundown: Both teams created their own menus, and while Ramsay made a shocking move at elimination, one chef made an even more shocking one. | ||||
10 | Episode 410 - 6 Chefs Compete | June 3, 2008 | ||
Episode Rundown: The remaining chefs were given black jackets, a former Hell's Kitchen winner made a cameo, and one chef totally lost it and had the mother of all meltdowns. | ||||
11 | Episode 411 - 5 Chefs Compete | June 10, 2008 | ||
Episode Rundown: The first cooking school opened in Hell's Kitchen, one chef was mystified by their student, and a fan favorite is sent home. | ||||
12 | Episode 412 - 4 Chefs Compete | June 17, 2008 | ||
Episode Rundown: 80 hidden customers also ate with their hosts during the challenge, one chef made an unforgivable mistake twice at dinner service, and a disrespectful loud-mouth was finally eliminated. | ||||
13 | Episode 413 - 3 Chefs Compete | June 24, 2008 | ||
Episode Rundown: The Taste It Now Make It Challenge, the three finalists ran the hot plate one at a time, and two of them became the finalists of Hell's Kitchen. | ||||
14 | Episode 414 - 2 Chefs Compete | July 1, 2008 | ||
Episode Rundown: Christina and Petrozza redesigned their own restaurant, competed in their final challenge, and selected their brigades for the final service. | ||||
15 | Episode 415 - Winner Announced | July 8, 2008 | ||
Episode Rundown: Christina and Petrozza competed during the final service, and one of them is declared the winner of Hell's Kitchen. |
Trivia[]
- This is the only season to date to begin with an odd number of contestants with 15.
- As such, this is the first and currently only season where the teams are unbalanced at the start.
- This is also the first season with a number of contestants that is not 12.
- Season 6 would also have an odd number of contestant with 17, but initially started with 16, as Robert Hesse would rejoin the competition after participating in Season 5.
- This is the only season to date when a chef was called up by Ramsay as a nominee despite being on the winning team.
- This marked as the only season to this date where one contestant from each team are picked as a captain for their team in several dinner services.
- This is also the only season where Ramsay asked each team which menu was featured on that night's dinner services for some occasions.
- This is the first season where the red team won the opening night service.
- Consequently, this is also the first season where the blue team lost the opening night service.
- This is also the first season where a male contestant got eliminated on opening night.
- This is the first season where the blue team won the first team challenge.
- Consequently, this is also the first season where the red team lost the first team challenge.
- This is the first season where both teams won a dinner service.
- This seasons red team holds the record for the most consecutive dinner service wins out of every red team with four, including joint-wins.
- This is the first season to have two team switches.
- This season was originally planned to air later in the year, but was pushed earlier as a placeholder for shows affected by the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America Strike.
- This is the last season to date where Ramsay asked black jacket contestants who they nominate before he pick who goes to the finale.
- This is the first season to have six black jackets instead of five.
- This is the first season where contestants were eliminated walking to the front door, instead to the loading dock.
- Future Reappearances:
- Christina would return in Season 5 to welcome the recently crowned winner, and in Season 6 to welcome the challenge winners in the first black jackets challenge. She would then return in Season 8 along with Seasons 3, 5 and 7 winners Rock Harper, Danny Veltri and Holli Ugalde as V.I.P. guests for the 100th Hell's Kitchen dinner service. Season 11 along with a team of returning winners to compete against the black jackets, and in Season 16 along with Season 12 winner Scott Commings to greet the Signature Dish Challenge winners.
- Jen would return in Season 18 to compete as part of the veterans team, Matt could've done the same when he was invited to return but turned it down because his wife was pregnant at the time.