Hell's Kitchen

In the season premiere, 16 chefs vie for the position of head chef at the luxurious downtown L.A. Market. The contestants meet the new maitre d' and prepare their signature dishes for Chef Ramsay.

Chef Ramsay brings in world-renowned chef Masaharu Morimoto for a demonstration, then challenges the aspiring chefs to recreate his dish to exacting standards.

The thirteen contestants must prepare breakfast for fifty hungry EMTs. The winning team enjoy a poolside lunch and a trip to trapeze school while the losers are on cleaning duty.

Chef Ramsay challenges the aspiring chefs to create their own ravioli dishes using ingredients of their choice, then asks both teams to rank their dishes from one to six.

To shake things up, Chef Ramsay swaps out members from both teams. For the episode's challenge, each chef must create a unique salad. The team with the most favored salad wins.

The contestants must name the ingredients that are labelled on a spinning roulette wheel. Chef Ramsay then asks them to prepare dishes using the ingredients that they named.

The teams must shop on a budget and prepare elegant dishes for four judges. The winners go sailing and dancing while the losers fumigate Hell's Kitchen.

Chef Ramsay tests the contestants' palates by having them taste fast food items disguised as five-star hotel cuisine. He then challenges them to a blind taste test.

To test their teamwork skills, Chef Ramsay challenges the contestants to cook three appetizers in thirty minutes with only minimal communication in between every dish.

Each chef has thirty minutes to create five servings of an amuse-bouche to be judged by five notable Los Angeles chefs.

The remaining contestants must serve their signature dish out of a food truck to a group of businesspeople.

Using only their eyesight, their noses and their taste buds, the four remaining chefs must re-create a dish without a recipe.

The chefs must create fusion dishes by mixing cuisines from two different countries. The winner has a dinner date with Chef Ramsay and their family while the losers participate in "moving day".

The remaining contestants prepare five-course meals that are judged by five L.A. top chefs and food service executives. Who will be offered the head chef position at Los Angeles' L.A. Market?