Hell's Kitchen is an American reality competition cooking show hosted by

celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, who created and appeared in the British series of
the same name. The series notably features Ramsay's explosive anger towards
contestants, which in reality is heavily dramatized for the benefit of the
audience.
Hell's Kitchen is a reality television show that uses a progressive elimination
format to narrow down a field of 20 to 12 aspiring chefs to one single winner
over the course of one season. At the start of each season, Gordon Ramsay
breaks the chefs into two teams. When only five or six chefs remain, they are
brought into a single common team. From this point onward, they compete
individually during challenges and work together during services to be one of
the final two.
In challenges, the teams or individual is tasked with a cooking challenge by
Ramsay. The type of challenges are varied, including ingredient preparation,
meal preparation and taste tests. The first challenge of each season is a signature
dish cook-off, giving the chefs an opportunity to show Ramsay their cooking.
The winning team or chef receives a reward (a recreational activity away from
Hell's Kitchen and other potential prizes), while the losing team or chefs are
forced to do a mundane task, such as cleaning the kitchens, preparing a specific
ingredient for the following dinner, having to prepare the food for both kitchens,
and sometimes eating something unsavory (such as food waste blended into a
smoothie) for lunch.
In the finale, the final two chefs are each given the opportunity to develop
their own menus and lead a brigade of former competitors through a full dinner
service on their own. Prior to the dinner service, the two chefs compete in a
challenge to prepare their menus, and the winner will earn the advantage of
picking their brigade of chefs first. Ramsay will ensure that all menu items meet
his standards for high cuisine prior to service, and he and his sous chefs will
oversee the service to make sure that his high quality standards are retained.
Ramsay uses his own observations and those from the diners and other sources
to decide who is the winning chef. The winning chef receives two prizes
including the opportunity to work as the head chef or executive chef at a
restaurant of Ramsay's choosing, as well as a cash prize of $250,000. In
addition, the winner hangs a picture of themselves alongside the previous
winners that is seen at the restaurant's front entrance.