Episode 1 | Auditions #1

The contestants have one hour to cook one dish.

Episode 2 | Auditions #2

The contestants have one hour to cook one dish.

Episode 3 | Top 14 Revealed

The contestants take 2 basic skills tests: 1st to chop onions and continue until judges tells them to stop, the judges dissect the chopped onions, if they don't meet the judge's standards, they are eliminated.The 2nd was to cook o...

Episode 4 | 14 Chefs Compete

For their first mystery box challenge the contestants had 45 minutes to create a dish using a double cut pork chop with other ingredients.

Episode 5 | Top 11 Compete

For their second team challenge, the contestants cook burgers for one hundred hungry truck drivers. Winners are chosen by trucker votes.

Episode 6 | Top 9 Compete

Teams are chosen to cater food for 230 guests at a wedding. And someone goes home in tears after a judge throws a dish in a garbage can.

Episode 7 | Top 6 Compete

Some contestants are sent home for failing miserably.

Episode 8 | Winner Revealed

The contestants were given sixty minutes to prepare a dish using a live Dungeness crab.

Episode 9 | Top 6 Compete, Part 2

In their first individual challenge, the contestants are required to cook fresh Sculpin fish for professional food critics Jeffrey Steingarten, Tanya Steel, and Barbara Fairchild.