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“Hell’s Kitchen: Young Guns” chef-testants Samuel Garman and Antonio Ruiz had an agreement going into their final judgment before Gordon Ramsay: neither would say a bad word about the other, and they’d let their track records be the sole determining factor of who went home. Sounds good on paper, right? When Gordon asked Sam who was the weakest link on the Red Team, Sam honored his buddy by refusing to answer. But that only angered the renowned British chef more and more. He then turned to Antonio and asked the same question, and Antonio fired back a one-word death shot: “Sam.”

Chef Ramsay immediately took Sam’s jacket, making this 23-year-old executive chef from Fleetwood, Pennsylvania the 11th person eliminated from Season 20.

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“Your effort is 100%,” Gordon told Sam, who was coming off a disastrous night on dinner service in which he couldn’t properly cook chicken. “I can’t ask for a more passionate young man. But when I ask you a question, give me a f***ing answer. That is it, young man. Head up. Continue climbing the ladder and one day you’re gonna get there.”

Sam sulked out of the restaurant and expressed his disappointment over his [former] buddy on the Red Team. “I’m definitely pissed,” he grumbled. “Antonio really f***ed me over this night. That really honestly was my demise. He’s the person that should be standing here. But I’m not the type to push blame around, I’m the type to own it and learn from it. Little mistakes are what kills you and that is what happened tonight.”

Gordon later addressed his Final 7 contestants like a general on the battlefield. “Being a great chef is not only determined by what you do when things are going well,” he started. “I’m looking to see how you perform when things are going poorly. Because Red Team tonight, you could have prevented that situation from happening if somebody took control. Is that clear?”

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In a private confessional, Antonio defended his choice to throw Sam under the bus. He said, “Ultimately Sam was the worst cook. It’s true. I didn’t lie. At the end of the day, he could have said my name, but he didn’t do that.” Antonio was nominated by his teammates for repeatedly messing up on the salmon and for trying to hide from a heavy workload by cooking asparagus.

Next week, Antonio, Brynn Gibson, Kiya Willhelm, Emily Hersh, Megan Gill, Steve Glenn and Trenton Garvey compete for black jackets with only five of these seven competitors earning the coveted honor. Who are YOU rooting for to receive black jackets?

Brace yourself for creative insults: the latest season of Gordon Ramsay's "Hell's Kitchen" kicks off May 31 on Fox. Subtitled "Young Guns," the newest installment of the popular cooking competition features a cast of 18 young chefs, ages 24 and under (via Gold Derby).

This season's contestants are drawn from all over the country. Representing San Antonio, Texas is Antonio Ruiz, currently a head chef at the New American restaurant Texas Bistro. As My San Antonio has reported in a recent profile, Ruiz grew up on the South Side of San Antonio, attended high school in the Alamo City, and went on to train at the local Culinary Institute of America (via San Antonio Current). Before landing a spot in the "Hell's Kitchen" class of 2021, Ruiz worked in the kitchens of a number of prestigious Texas hotels, getting his start as a line cook before becoming executive sous chef and then executive head chef at The Riverhouse Gruene in 2017, per his LinkedIn profile. By 2019, Ruiz was executive chef at The Bevy Hotel. Along the way, he received training from top-ranking chefs, including Masaharu Morimoto of "Iron Chef" and San Antonio restaurateur Johnny Hernandez.

"Hell's Kitchen: Young Guns" has been two years in the making

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As Gold Derby confirms, the latest season of "Hell's Kitchen" was actually filmed back in 2019, so Ruiz was presumably tapped for the show during his tenure at The Bevy Hotel. Ruiz seemed to be referencing this delayed release in a recent Instagram post, in which he described "Young Guns" as "2 years in the making." Similar to season 19, "Young Guns" was filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada — at the Gordon Ramsay Hell's Kitchen in Caesars Palace. True to the "Hell's Kitchen" formula, contestants were divided into two teams: women and men. From the trailers released so far — in which Gordon Ramsay is shown in full "Hell's Kitchen"-mode, throwing food at contestants, yelling at them, and generally tormenting them — fans of the show can look forward to plenty of drama, both inside and outside of the kitchen (via YouTube).

This time around, the first prize for the show is the title of Head Chef at Gordon Ramsay Steak at Paris Las Vegas, according to Fox 21. If subsequent employment is any indication of success in "Hell's Kitchen," we can expect a strong performance from Ruiz, who currently holds not only a top position at Texas Bistro, but a deal with the popular cooking app Manna.