Hell's Kitchen (season 7)

Season 7 of the American competitive reality television series Hell's Kitchen aired on the Fox Network from June 1, 2010 to August 10, 2010. Gordon Ramsay returned as host, as well as Maître d' Jean-Philippe Susilovic and Blue Team Sous chef Scott Leibfried. Andi Van Willigan, a chef from Santa Monica, California became the sous chef for the Red Team.

This is the first season to featured the double elimination before the finals, and continued as a tradition on later seasons, except season 15 to 17, which return with normally single elimination before finals from the past six seasons.

The winner of this season was Julia Hanner.

This season was preceded by season six and followed by season eight.

Chefs
16 contestants started the competition, divided by gender.

Contestant progress
Each week, the best member from the losing team during the latest service period ("least bad" as determined by Ramsay) is asked to nominate two of their teammates for elimination; one of these two is sent home by Gordon Ramsay.