After a subpar dinner, Below Deck Mediterranean captain Sandy Yawn has called Chef Jono Shillingford to the bridge. She tells him that the primary, Gigi Fernandez, whom she is friends with, told her that the food had been too spicy and the eggs were cold during breakfast.
Jono explains that he was told breakfast was to be ready by 8:30 a.m. so he started preparing the food. However, the guests got up later than expected so cold eggs were to be had by all. Sandy tells him eggs should be made to order not prepared in advance, which is obvi.
“For a chef to say to me that he cooked the eggs when breakfast was supposed to start instead of cooking to order is a huge red flag,” Sandy tells the cameras. How about the fact that Jono had no formal training on his resumé?
However, Sandy acknowledges that he did okay the last charter so she’s going to give him another chance.
The Below Deck Mediterranean bosun is slacking
The crew is getting ready for the beach picnic. The bosun Iain Maclean is doing the bare minimum and helps deckhands Gael Cameron and Joe Bradley bring supplies ashore. They ask Iain for water for the crew and he just tells them to go ask someone like there’s a butler waiting around to serve them.
Gael and Joe haul gear back and forth and eventually get thirsty because they’re on an island and it’s hot. And there’s no butler to hand them water like Iain assumed. Meanwhile, he’s back on the boat chugging a nice cold beverage, enjoying the air conditioning.
Then, without warning Gael and Joe, Iain tells Chief Stew Aesha Scott that the guests can take the tender to the beach in five minutes. Meanwhile, the deck team is still scrambling to set up.
“It’s such a sh*t show,” Aesha says as she arrives. Thankfully, she distracts the guests with drinks while the crew runs around like headless chickens.
The last supper
Sandy is joining the charter guests for dinner so Jono needs to step it up. He’s making some seafood dish and gazpacho. They were happy with lunch and expect a repeat. So does Sandy.
While eating her soup, Gigi tastes some weird spice and asks Jono what he put in there. “Is there nutmeg?” she asks him. “No, no nutmeg,” he answers. “It was the first time I made it. I followed someone’s grandma’s recipe or something. It seemed authentic.” Dude, why would you admit that?
The next dish is a cacio e pepe pasta with seafood. Aside from the seafood, cacio e pepe is basically a cheese and pepper dish you can get at Olive Garden. Or make yourself when you’re drunk and need a late-night snack. Sandy asks Gigi how her food is and she tastes that weird spice again.
It’s dessert time and Jono has overcooked the lava cakes and they look like brown hockey pucks. He attempts to make them look better with some powdered sugar and ice cream. By the time they get to the guests, the ice cream is all melted.
Everyone’s quiet as they navigate their hard cakes and ice cream soup. They’re too polite to say anything bad but Sandy is BIG MAD.
Jono Shillingford is in hot water
The guests depart and Gigi praises the crew for a great time. However, she says, “The food was … okay. It was hit or miss. Some things were good, some things missed the mark.” She gives Sandy an envelope of cash that doesn’t look too thin.
Gigi and her group end up being pretty generous and give the crew $25,000, which amounts to $2,000 per person.
Sandy calls Jono to the bridge and asks him, “I’m curious, when you had the chef’s choice, why would you choose chicken when you can show them what you can do?”
“I was trying to see what I could serve that satisfied all their preferences,” he says. “Chicken was the only protein. Some of them didn’t want seafood. Some of them didn’t want red meat.”
Sandy says, “I don’t think chicken belongs on a plate on a yacht. You might have to make, to satisfy the seafood people, the epic seafood. And then the not seafood people, a different protein.”
She also tells him to work on his plating and points out that the ice cream was melted. He says, “I think the freezer isn’t working.” She does credit him for not losing his sh*t in the galley and gives him another chance. However, she calls for another chef just in case Jono messes up again.
The Below Deck Mediterranean stews fight over Joe Bradley
The “Below Deck Mediterranean” crew goes out for the night. Bri Muller is saucy and banters with Joe, which annoys Elena Dubaich.
“I’m not jealous of Bri flirting with Joe but she knows I’m attracted to him,” Elena says in a confessional. “I’ve said it to her multiple times. We’re roommates and as a general rule, working on a boat, you never want to go for the guy your supervisor is interested in.” Oof, playing the rank card.
During dinner, Elena announces she wants to go to a Berlin sex club. Joe says, “You can use your skills on me!” Bri whispers to Jono, “I am just annoyed because I want him.”
It’s dancing time and Elena has staked her claim on Joe. They shimmy shimmy together and Bri looks on jealously.
“I’m going for Joe. It’s going to be Joe and I,” Elena tells the cameras. “We’re getting it on. Not tonight, but pretty soon.”
Meanwhile, Bri is in the bathroom and Gael checks in on her. Bri vents to her that she wants to hook up with Joe but told Elena she didn’t care if she went for it. “If you’re interested, you’re interested,” Gael says. “We’re all stuck on a boat, it’s six weeks. Sometimes you need to f*ck.” Is she telling herself this or Bri?
Later, Joe asks Bri who she fancies and she tells him that she wants his *ahem* private parts. He looks intrigued. To be continued…
