Christina Machamer Biography
Christina Machamer is an American chef who won the fourth season of Fox Network’s Hell’s Kitchen reality cooking show. She was hired as “senior sous chef” at Gordon Ramsay’s then-new restaurant at The London West Hollywood, where she earned a monthly salary of $250,000.
How old is Christina Machamer? – Age
She is 41 years old as of 13 March 2023. She was born in 1982 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
Christina Machamer Family – Education
Machamer is Rick and Leasa Machamer’s daughter. She graduated from Lafayette High School in 2000 and, after a few years in college, dropped out of pre-law to pursue her passion for cooking. In 2003, she began her formal education at Forest Park Community College. In the spring of 2006, she transferred to The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, where she graduated on February 29, 2008. She graduated first in her class from the Culinary Institute.
Christina Machamer Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Christina Machamer Hell’s Kitchen
After watching season 3, Machamer decided to apply to Hell’s Kitchen. She attended the Manhattan open audition and was invited back for a screening. She was deemed “hilarious” by the casting director. Machamer, a culinary student, was the contestant with the least amount of cooking experience. She was nominated for elimination five times, one of which came from Ramsay. This was mostly because of what her peers thought was childish behavior and threatening intelligence. One good example of this is at the beginning of the third episode when Jen was unable to calm down over her nomination and angrily scolded Corey for nominating her.
Despite this, she broke the record for the number What most dazzled Ramsay was her exceptional potential, something of which he didn’t see sufficiently in any of the different competitors. Machamer had the option of immediately accepting her $250,000 prize or using it to pay for a year’s work at Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant.
Christina Machamer Michelin Star
Ramsay’s restaurant, The London in West Hollywood, received a Michelin star in the 2009 Michelin Guide. Michelin Guides are a series of travel guidebooks issued by the French tyre firm Michelin since 1900. A few places receive up to three Michelin stars for excellence, according to the Guide. The addition or removal of a star or stars can have a significant impact on a restaurant’s success. Michelin also publishes the Green Guides, a collection of broad city, region, and country guides.
Christina Machamer Career
As the contestant who won, Machamer was given the position of senior sous chef under executive chef Andy Cook, despite being promised the position of executive chef at the new Gordon Ramsay at The London restaurant in The London West Hollywood hotel.
From there on, while she trusted that the show will air in the future so she could acquire consent to reveal her success, Machamer worked at Restoration, a café in St. Louis began by her guide, cook Cary McDowell. In addition, Machamer and Cory Lemieux founded BCBC Blends, a small national artisan spice company.
Machamer was the executive sous chef at the London West Hollywood restaurant at the beginning of 2009. She worked nearly 14 hours per day and was also in charge of supervising the various stations in the kitchen. After that, it was made public that Machamer would blog for BuddyTV.com following each Hell’s Kitchen season 5 episode. At that point, she additionally as of late finished her sommelier confirmation in wine administration.
Since being contributed with big name status from her Damnation’s Kitchen win, Machamer was welcome to various culinary occasions. She and the 2007 Damnation’s Kitchen champ Rock Harper contended in a cookoff, and both were among the people who introduced at the 2009 Scottsdale Culinary Celebration in Arizona.
Machamer went to Napa to study wine at CIA Greystone in St. Helena, California, after Gordon Ramsay’s The London in West Hollywood was sold back to LXR hotels. Not long after, she got back to Los Angeles to be essential for the initial group at Bouchon in Beverly Slopes for celebrated cook Thomas Keller.
In January 2009, she was highlighted as a host at the St. Louis Food and Wine Insight. In 2011, she migrated to the Napa Valley, where she tracked down another specialty, overcoming any issues among food and wine at the much-observed B Basements in Calistoga, California.
She also made an appearance in the eleventh season of Hell’s Kitchen in 2013 as part of a brigade of previous contestants to compete against the final five.
Machamer co-starred with Scott Commings, the winner of Hell’s Kitchen season 12, in the 2016 premiere of the show’s 16th season as a guest during the red team’s challenge reward, a dinner with Ramsay. She gave the ladies a few hints about working under tension in Damnation’s Kitchen. Christina owns Clandestine Table, a catering company in the Napa Valley, as of March 2023.