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During all of the dinner services, they hardly ever show Petroza. Go back and watch the episodes, you will hardly ever see him.
I think that Chef Ramsey wants a good cook that he can mold. Petroza is 47 and runs a catering company, so he already has a specific way of cooking. That isn't going to change, and Chef Ramsey is only going to get about 13 years out of him, then he is 60 and has to retire.
Plus he screwed up because they ran out of ingredients for two appetizers.
But Christina is 25 or something and she is still learning. She can make good food if she takes her time, but she screws up when she has to make lots of dishes under pressure. So she has lots of potential and Chef Ramsey can mold her to cook the way he wants her to. And she has good attention to detail - she noticed that there was the wrong herb in the mashed potatoes, and she re-created Chef Ramsey's dish during the challenge. And she won other challenges.
Making more complicated dishes doesn't necessarily make you a better chef, especially since neither Petroza nor Christina were doing any actual cooking during the dinner service.
Even if Chef Ramsey made the wrong decision, his cognitive dissonance will force him to convince himself that he did good picking Christina.
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