The second season of Hell’s Kitchen is set to premiere June 12 on FOX and it couldn’t be any sooner after the season finale of Bravo’s watered-down Top Chef. Twelve aspiring chefs will compete for the opportunity to operate their own restaurant at the Red Rock Casino Resort Spa in Las Vegas.

Last season’s winner was Michael Wray, a 27-year-old chef who…oh who are we kidding, no one really cares about the cast of anonymous punching bags disguised as contestants. The truth is, those of us who tune into Hell’s Kitchen do so for its brutally honest host, British chef Gordon Ramsay. He makes American Idol’s Simon Cowell seem like Mr. Rogers.

Watching the fury Chef Ramsay unleashes upon the contestants is somewhat like watching a Weather Channel documentary on tornados. You’re appalled at the carnage and destruction, but at the same time you just can’t look away. Most of all you’re relieved that it isn’t happening to you and that is what makes Hell’s Kitchen damn good television.