Season 4 of the American competitive reality television series ''
Hell's Kitchen
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'' began airing on the
Fox Network
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starting on April 1, 2008.
The Futon Critic. The show was originally planned to air later in the season, but instead was aired as a replacement for shows that were affected by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.Christina Machamer
Christina Machamer (born March 13, 1982) is an American chef who won in the fourth season of Fox Network's reality cooking show ''Hell's Kitchen''. won the season and was awarded a "senior sous chef" position with a $250,000 salary at the Gordon Ramsay at The London restaurant in The London West Hollywood hotel
Production location
This season was filmed in the warehouse district in Culver City, California
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.
Sous chefs and Maître d'hôtel
* Sous chef
A sous-chef is a chef who is second in command in a kitchen; the person ranking next after the head chef, usually the more hands on manager with regards to training staff and organising the kitchen.
Duties and functions
The sous-chef has many re ...
s – Scott Leibfried
Scott Leibfried (born March 9, 1971) is an American chef and culinary consultant best known for his work hosting and participating in cooking-related competition programs ''Hell's Kitchen'' and the ''Food Network Challenge''. Leibfried was born i ...
and Gloria Félix
* Maître d'hôtel
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– Jean-Philippe Susilovic
Contestants
There were 15 chefs (eight men and seven women) who competed in season four. It is the first season to begin with an odd number of contestants, repeated in season 6
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with its total of 17 contestants (because of the addition of a contestant from the previous season).
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Contestant progress
Each week, the best member (as determined by Ramsay) from the losing team during the latest service period was asked to nominate two of their teammates for elimination; one of these two was sent home by Ramsay. In Episode 1, the teams selected captains for service, though Ramsay changed both captains during service.
Episodes
Notes
References
External links
''Hell's Kitchen''
official Fox.com
''Hell's Kitchen''
program description and commentary at the Internet Movie Database
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