Cooking Shows

Episode description Don’t Be Fooled Challenge: The chefs participated in a Hell’s Kitchen-themed Grand Prix with two minutes to race with carts to pick up ingredients with four stations, with one stop at each station. At the end of the time period, the chefs learned they actually shopped ingredients for a different chef. The chefs […]

Episode description And Then There Were Two Ryan, Johnathan, and Sammi arrived at the dining room. Shortly afterwards, Ramsay called them to the dining room to introduce their final challenge: design their own menu for Hell’s Kitchen, each with the help of a sous-chef. Johnathan got Jason at the dorm, Sammi got Christina at the […]

Episode description One Hell of an American Dream After Ryan and Johnathan prepared their teams, Ramsay summoned them individually into his office to spend time with their families. Ryan worked in the red kitchen and Johnathan worked in the blue kitchen. Ramsay gave Ryan and Johnathan their head chef’s jackets and thereby commenced the final […]

Episode description The Dream Begins Eighteen contestants arrive to Hell’s Kitchen and are welcomed inside; Oscar De La Hoya, Martina McBride, Dia Simms, and host Gordon Ramsay are all standing behind four opaque doors as voiceovers of their life and rise to fame are played, with the corresponding celebrity opening their door upon the voiceover’s […]

Episode description Tad Overwhelming Individual challenge: Ramsay revealed that each contestant had to prepare their very own scallop dish by shucking and cleaning scallops by hand. Each team had to nominate their three best dishes and Ramsay would pick the winner from each team. The red team voted for Sammi, Leigh, and Melissa’s dishes while […]

Episode description Citizens of Hell’s Kitchen Individual challenge: Each team was tasked with making crab cakes, omelets, chicken & waffles, and steak & eggs for a dining room full of recently naturalized U.S. citizens. On the red team, Raneisha undercooked chicken, but rebounded and had no further issues. On the blue team, Mattias undercooked two […]

Episode description Gimme an H! Individual challenge: One chef from each team was tasked with elevating a classic American comfort food. Melissa and Brad had cheeseburger, Mattias and Raneisha had pizza, Jason and Carmen had chicken wings, Ryan and Atoye had spaghetti & meatballs, Leigh and Dahmere had mac & cheese, Jermaine and Donya had […]

Episode description Just Bring the DARN Fish! Individual challenge: The chefs were tasked with identifying four surf and turf combinations (oysters and venison, crab and ostrich, halibut and veal, & monkfish and rabbit). The women fell behind in large part due to Sandra and Donya hesitating to make choices during their portion of the challenge; […]

Episode description Fusion Confusion Individual challenge: The chefs were greeted at a soccer field by Alexi Lalas as part of their next challenge, where they would have to pair up and kick soccer balls at targets placed in a soccer net to determine the two styles of fusion cuisine they would have to cook. Ramsay […]

Episode description All Up in Your Grills Individual challenge: Each team was tasked with grilling various proteins (flat iron steak, chicken breast, chicken thigh, swordfish, trout, and tri-tip steak) and elevating them to a gourmet level. Guest judge Aaron Franklin offered mostly favorable reviews to the chefs aside from minor criticisms about texture and appearance; […]

Episode description Cooking for Your Life Individual challenge: Each team was tasked with preparing five popular ethnic American dishes (Chinese, Mexican, Indian, Thai, and Italian). Every time 5 minutes passed, Ramsay would force a chef to leave the kitchen and verbally communicate directions to other chefs. Since the red team had six members while the […]

Episode description More Bang for Your Buck Team change: Since the blue team had 4 members while the red team had 6, Ramsay sent Atoye to the blue team to even out the numbers. Individual challenge: Each team was tasked with spending $100 at a grocery store to buy ingredients that would be used to […]

Episode description The Pastabilities Are Endless Individual challenge: Each team was tasked with making four pasta dishes using five ingredients per dish which are retrieved by balancing themselves on a narrow, curved beam suspended over a pool of marinara sauce (where falling nullifies the attempt entirely). Carmen notably struggled to cross the beam in a […]

Episode description A Hellish Food Fight Individual challenge: The teams faced the famed and highly anticipated Blind Taste Test, which was space-themed. Chefs who failed to correctly identify two ingredients caused one of their teammates to get covered in “messy space debris” first was “milky-way” milk. Further incorrect guesses caused dustings of sprinkles followed up […]

Episode description A Hell’s Kitchen Special Delivery Ramsay announced the final seven chefs would compete in a series of three challenges to determine which of them would get a Black Jacket. First challenge: The first challenge was a game of craps to determine the eight ingredients for the first dish to cook, which would then […]