Country of origin United States Original network Fox | No. of episodes 16 | |
Original release March 3 (2015-03-03) – June 9, 2015 (2015-06-09) | ||
Season 14 of the American competitive reality television series Hell's Kitchen premiered on March 3, 2015 on Fox. The prize is a head chef position at Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill in Caesars Atlantic City. Gordon Ramsay returned as head chef with Andi Van Willigan and James Avery returning as sous chefs for both their respective kitchens as well as Marino Monferrato as the maître d'. Executive chef Meghan Gill from Roanoke, Virginia, won the competition, thus becoming the fourteenth winner of Hell's Kitchen.
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This season, the blue team set a new record for the most number of dinner service wins by a team in a single season (discounting season finales and joint victories) with six. It surpassed the previous record of five set by the season 6 and 7 blue teams and the season 10 red team. The season also had only one joint dinner service loss between the red and blue teams, the least number of occurrences since season 4. This red team is also tied with the blue team from season 10 as the teams who have been kicked out of the kitchen at full capacity the most, happening five times throughout the season. Gill became the seventh winner of the series to avoid elimination nomination throughout the entire season. Meghan also beat season 11 second runner-up Jon Scallion, sixth and seventh place contestant Zach Womack, Anthony Rodriguez, season 12 second runner-up Melanie Finch and lastly season 13 second runner-up Sade Dancy's record of going through the most consecutive punishments, with nine punishments until she finally won the last challenge of the season, compared to their seven.
Despite being blue team, or a men's team (from Top 18 to Top 8) set a new record for the most number of dinner service wins by a team in a single season, this was the third season to feature two women in the finale (following seasons 2 and 11), the first season to have all women in the top three, and the second season that a winner/runner up combination was never nominated; the first being season 7. Sixth place chef Josh Trovato ties with season 12's Michael DeMarco (discounting the "Cook For Your Life" challenge) for the longest consecutive streak of nominations. In further extension, this is the first season since season 7 that did not have any episodes ending in cliffhanger before elimination.
Opening sequence
The intro featured the chefs in a kitchen-themed jungle, which was revealed at the end of the sequence that it all took place inside the pot.
Contestants
Eighteen chefs competed for the head chef position in season 14.
Contestant progress
U.S. Nielsen ratings
The fourteenth season premiere of Hell's Kitchen premiered to an audience of 4.09 million, 0.18 million lower than last season's premiere, but up 0.49 million from season 13's finale.