Dylan Duffy from Hell's Kitchen with another delicious dish!

Red team, blue team, everybody ready to play beer pong? Yes, chef! Good. In today's beer pong challenge, a member from one team will choose a chef from the opposing team they want to do battle with. Georgiana? Johnny G. Johnny G! I could take him down. I love it. That chef will select which protein they want to cook with. Ooh, a new episode of Hell's Kitchen premieres on Fox tonight, and you just saw a sneak peek. Milwaukee chef and contestant on this season Dylan Duffy is with us once again in his studio Dylan, this is so exciting getting to watch you week after week on the new season oh yeah i mean what has the reaction just been like from the community so far um it's been really great honestly everybody um that i've you know spoken to and uh watched the show with everybody seems to really really enjoy it um it's a it's a really fun season i think um it's a season of first they say, 25th season, silver season. And it's really enjoyable. The cast is great. We all got along really well. And I think it's been hilarious. It's awesome. It's been cool to see. It's this whole idea of like a new generation of chefs. So all of the contestants are under the age of 25. And it's just been really cool to see, you know, the caliber of talent even at such a young age. But you guys are going back to school this week. Yes. Yeah. Back to Hell's Kitchen University with the beer pong challenge tonight. Looking forward to that. Cooking with booze. It's going to be a lot of fun. I'm really excited to see how it all turns out. Yeah. Was there anything that surprised you the most about the filming process? I know you said you did it back in May. Oh, yeah. I mean, it was really fun, but it's really crazy to see how much does not make it onto the episode. There is so much work behind the scenes. Really, yeah. It's really wild. You probably film a lot and then it gets edited down to an hour of course so imagine yeah a lot does get kind of left on the cutting room floor there and you were saying i mean you're a busy guy because you're not just watching these episodes every week you also have your job at a nearby restaurant tell me more yeah il ponte a brand new italian restaurant right in the middle of downtown milwaukee um owned by adam siegel the chef of Lupi and Iris so um it's it's brand new we've only been open for a month um and and you know, I brought a few items to showcase here. A couple of things, something from our lunch menu and then some tasty desserts. It's about to be lunchtime. It is. So this is, yeah, I wanted to give a little preview. We open for lunch in, you know, 45 minutes. And so I decided to bring along a little caprese sandwich with some chicken. Really, really delicious, really fresh mozzarella tomato pesto arugula. And then I also brought a little cheesecake with us and our cookie plate here. Very cool. I mean, these are gorgeous desserts, by the way, for your restaurant. Do you have a favorite item on the menu that you think if we go, we have to try it? Favorite item, I'd say for savory is the chicken parm sandwich. That's a favorite of mine. And then as far as dessert goes, really anything, but I really love the gelato. It's amazing. We make it in-house. It's delicious. And how has it been going this past month since opening? Pretty busy. We've been slammed almost every night and um which is a lot of fun i mean we're we're going and going the team is really great everybody's got such a great attitude that um it really doesn't feel nearly as uh difficult as it could be you know it's been really smooth is there anything that you learned throughout the process of filming hell's kitchen which i'm imagining is an intense process uh you're under the lights you're being filmed you want to win that's really helped you out in in this job now as a chef? I think one thing that I really like try to take away from the show is finding a voice. I think that that's really, really important, especially with Hell's Kitchen and Chef Ramsay. You know, that's what he's looking for. He's looking for that new head chef. So that kind of pressure really puts you into a position where you have to show yourself and be a leader. Yeah. OK, so let's talk about Chef Ramsay. Is he as intimidating in real life as he can come off on tv oh i mean he's terrifying okay i feel like i always i love seeing him interact with children versus adults because i feel like it's two different gordon ramses you know i think we got like kind of a middle ground okay um this season uh definitely not the worst that i've seen i mean uh growing up like watching the show you see how intense and crazy he is so when when you're face to face with him it's it's like you're expecting it um but also you know if he says something like it's raw then everything is like oh you said the line right right not to laugh oh that's too good it's really good yeah and i mean just for you again i mean you are representing milwaukee right now on this season how does that feel for you it feels really great i'm i'm actually incredibly grateful for the opportunity um and and i feel really great being out there showing represent 414 it's it's really really fun yeah well we can't wait to get to tune in once again to cheer you on tonight dylan as you go back to school and we really appreciate you stopping in once again here thank you so much yes and go grab lunch at his restaurant it looks delicious rob i feel like if people ask me about you oh just for fun i would be like oh yeah he's really scary yeah that's right he calls me a donkey all the time yeah just like chef i was an idiot