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So last night was the 2 hour season finale of Hell’s Kitchen Season 6 and it was H-O-T!!!

From the beginning I had a feeling it would come down to the two chefs who were injured early in the competition. Kevin rolled both his ankles and Dave severely broke his wrist, which he struggled with endlessly. They both grinned through the pain to the bitter end and found themselves facing a very proud and almost emotional Gordon Ramsay.

Throughout the season, both chefs displayed an amazing talent in preparing their individual dishes, they showed consistency in challenges and exhibited leadership during dinner services.

At first I thought Kevin would take it, since in my opinion, he was the most consistent chef of this season. In fact I think one of the only times he screwed up was in last night’s challenge, where the 3 remaining chefs had to make a dish using ingredients from a specific county taking part in the 2010 winter games in Vancouver. Kevin had to prepare a dish using ingredients from Mexico, I think there’s even a sound bite of him saying “Mexico, everybody’s made Mexican food, this will be the easiest dish ever. Unfortunately Kevin forgot one of his key ingredients, the mole sauce, when presenting to the 3 top chefs representing their respective countries. Dave was thrown a curve ball when he was challenged to make Indian food. Dave had never eaten or cooked with such ingredients, but as usual he took it with stride and prepared what he thought would please the chefs. Unfortunately Dave though he was being clever when he deduced, that since cows are sacred in India, he better cook with pork… SORRY WRONG ANSWER!!! Thankfully the Indian chef wasn’t too offended, ’cause Dave more than made up for the mistake with his superior quality dish.

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As anticipated, the final dinner service not only brought back interesting characters like Van and Robert who cooked up a storm for their respective chefs, but served up one of the tightest and most intense Hell’s Kitchen finale ever.

Now in case you didn’t see it, here’s the spoiler… Dave won!!!

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But let me give you my rationale for why I think he won and why Kevin did not. Again, this is my opinion, please feel free to comment with your own theories…

DAVE WAS ON DRUGS - Throughout the season he seemed very mellow, never raising his voice or a fist (not that he could even if he wanted to). Kevin on the other hand, although consistent, was not shy about “Ramsaying” up himself in the kitchen while on his own station or even worse, on the pass as we saw in last night’s final dinner service, he almost blew it before he even got started, Amanda or no Amanda.

Dave stayed cool, calm and collected from beginning to end… Something tells me it was from all the pain killers he was probably taking : )

Now that the competition is over and real life kicks in, does Dave have what it takes to run the Araxi Restaurant in Whistler B.C. for the 2010 Winter Olympics?

I would say, he could do it with one arm tied behind his back.