Christina Machamer Speaks on Hell's Kitchen Victory

It may not seem that way, but there actually is reality TV news outside of DeAnna Pappas and Jesse Csincsak these days.

For example, Christina Machamer was crowned the winner of Hell's Kitchen earlier this week. She recently spoke to BuddyTV about the series and the honor. Here are excerpts of that interview:

What would you say you learned on Hell's Kitchen that you wouldn't have learned in culinary school?
There are a ton of things I learned on Hell's Kitchen. Not only working with somebody of Chef Ramsay's caliber, but being in that high stress situation where you're constantly challenged and forced to work with people who maybe you don't want to at the time. Those kind of things you don't learn in culinary school, because culinary school is all about the basics and cooking under the best circumstances. Hell's Kitchen's just the opposite.

Was your restaurant design and your menu something you had thought about for a long time, or did you just make it up at the end?
Oh gosh, I was thinking about this for years. Not necessarily in this aspect, but it's always been a dream of mine to have my own restaurant. Of course you have those daydreaming moments where you're like, in my own restaurant, I would want to have this. You don't get to do everything you would ever want to do on this show, but you do have a designer, and basically access to any food products you want. It's really a ton of fun.

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