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“Where’s the lamb sauce?! WHERE’S THE LAMB SAAAAUCE!!!”

Contestants wearing sweatbands scurry around stovetops as a red-faced Gordon Ramsay barks out a fusillade of demands for duck, foie gras, and cabbage. When the vital lamb sauce arrives in an early episode of Hell’s Kitchen , Ramsay thanks the delivering cook: “Fuck off, you fat, useless sack of fucking Yankee-danky-doo shite.”

Fortunately for Waco, Texas–based chef Alejandro Najar, Ramsay’s most violent tantrums on the high-stress cooking contest appear slightly more controlled these days. By the time Najar arrived on set 19 seasons after that episode, in 2022, Ramsay reproved his undercooked—then overco

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