Season 1 |
| 1 :01x01 - Day 1 (May/30/2005) | | Biting British chef Gordon Ramsay tutors and tortures 12 aspiring restaurateurs vying for their own eatery. In the opener, the hopefuls are split into two teams for an opening-night challenge that becomes a nightmare for the customers. | |
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| 2 :01x02 - Day 2 (Jun/06/2005) | | The teams compete in a squid-cleaning race for a dinner with---and cooked by---Gordon before enduring a day of training for the restaurant's second night. Unfortunately, the chef's lessons leave the patrons disgusted enough to take matters into their own hands. | |
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| 3 :01x03 - Day 3 (Jun/13/2005) | | The remaining chefs face their third night in the kitchen, which turns out to be someone's last stand after the pressure---and Gordon's goading---prove to be too much to handle. After that, a second wannabe is cut from the roster. | |
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| 4 :01x04 - Day 4 (Jun/20/2005) | | The players attempt to re-create Gordon's signature dishes for a discerning crowd at an L.A. eatery. | |
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| 5 :01x05 - Day 5 (Jun/27/2005) | | Tensions in the kitchen rise during an all-Italian night at the restaurant, where one of the teams plays dirtier than Ramsey's mouth and another makes a move that throws everyone for a loop. | |
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| 6 :01x06 - Day 6 (Jul/11/2005) | | The two teams must create their own menus for their sixth night at the restaurant, which ends with one more of the wannabes getting the boot. After that, a power failure adds to the tension as the teams are broken up for a night of preparing desserts in front of the diners. | |
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| 7 :01x07 - Day 7 (Jul/11/2005) | | The final four have to create a haute-cuisine meal made entirely of leftovers from the previous night's dinner service. The winner gets to cook alongside Ramsay on a national TV show, which raises the temperature in the kitchen even higher. | |
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| 8 :01x08 - Day 8 (Jul/18/2005) | | Gordon orders his final three hopefuls to serve their signature dishes to a dining room packed with their family members, which proves a little too daunting for one overworked contestant. | |
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| 9 :01x09 - Day 9 (Jul/25/2005) | | In the finale, Gordon's final two competitors try to impress the chef during a simulation that tests their ability to run a restaurant, including the kitchen, a staff and the front of the house. In addition, the eliminated wannabes return to play a part in the challenge. And perhaps wreak some havoc. | |
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Season 2 |
| 11 :02x01 - 10 Chefs (Jun/12/2006) | | A former pro-soccer-player-turned-Michelin-starred-chef, Ramsay has conquered London's haute cuisine scene. Now he's crossing the Pond again, to discover or create America's next culinary star. The heat is on and the stakes are high as the contestants endure Ramsay's hellishly intense culinary boot camp for a chance to win the ultimate culinary prize the coveted title of Executive Chef of a luxurious fine-dining restaurant at the brand-new Red Rock Casino Resort Spa in Las Vegas. In addition, the winner will be eligible to receive a financial interest in the restaurant and assist in the design of the eatery. | |
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| 12 :02x02 - 9 Chefs (Jun/12/2006) | | After a disastrous opening night, the women deal with their defeat while the men prepare for their next challenge. But when the pressure is on, both teams face setbacks as the stress cracks one wannabe chef for good while another gets pulled from the kitchen. Per Ramsay's request, the contestants learn that a good restaurant is not just about food but also about service, and they get a taste of what it's like to be a waiter at a restaurant. With Ramsay up in smoke, two are put on the chopping block and one is forced to leave. | |
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| 13 :02x03 - 8 Chefs (Jun/19/2006) | | After another frustrating dinner service, Ramsay teaches the group a lesson in communication and timing, which are key to a successful restaurant. But when gender roles are challenged, Ramsay isn't the only one frustrated with the wannabe chefs as each team works harder to prove the opposite sex wrong. The third night's goal is to have a complete dinner service, but find out who can't cut it and is kicked out of the kitchen. | |
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| 14 :02x04 - 8 Chefs (Jun/26/2006) | | The battle of the sexes is over as wannabes are moved around to even up the teams. On the menu: lunch---for children. | |
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| 15 :02x05 - 7 Chefs (Jul/10/2006) | | With seven chefs remaining, Chef Ramsay's hoping for complete dinner services from the teams. He gets half his wish. | |
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| 16 :02x06 - 6 Chefs (Jul/17/2006) | | Inspiration is Ramsay's next lesson as the two teams battle it out with original dishes to win a night out in the town. With the stakes even higher, Ramsay gives them the opportunity to create their own menu for the night's dinner service. But even with the freedom of cooking up the meal of their choice, one wannabe chef can't stand the heat and gets cooked for good. | |
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| 17 :02x07 - 5 Chefs (Jul/24/2006) | | With only five remaining contestants, Ramsay turns up the heat as the two teams merge and the wannabe chefs compete for the first time as individuals. While some take a trip to Las Vegas with Ramsay and get a taste of what it's like to own a restaurant at the Red Rock Casino Resort, others let jealousy eat away at them. As the show opens its eighth night, the group must complete the dinner service together, but teamwork doesn't come easy for these competing chefs and one is put on the chopping block. | |
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| 18 :02x08 - 4 Chefs (Jul/31/2006) | | Dinner service begins nicely for the final four, but it doesn't end that way. When the dishes are cleared, three chefs are left. | |
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| 19 :02x09 - 3 Chefs (Aug/07/2006) | | After a surprising elimination round, the remaining three contestants realize that no one is ever safe in the kitchen and tension amounts as they each strive to be the last one standing. With the finals approaching, Ramsay tests their leadership skills and gives them each a chance to run the kitchen. But his job is not as easy as it seems and one wannabe chef learns that it takes more than good cooking to win it all. | |
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| 20 :02x10 - 2 Chefs/Winner (Aug/14/2006) | | It's soup to nuts (not to mention decor design, waitstaff management and everything else) as the two finalists are each in charge of a restaurant. Then it's toques off to the winner, who'll also be off to Las Vegas to run a real restaurant. | |
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Season 3 |
| 21 :03x01 - 12 Chefs Compete (Jun/04/2007) | | Raucous British chef Gordon Ramsay returns for a third summer to both tutor and torture culinary wannabes, who will be divided into two teams (men vs. women) in this season opener. A job as a Las Vegas head chef for the winner lies ahead, but surviving Ramsay is a dubious task. The first contestant will be eliminated at the show's end. | | Director: Brad Kreisberg | |
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| 22 :03x02 - 11 Chefs Compete (Jun/11/2007) | | This weeks food prep challenge winner will get the chance to spend time with Chef Ramsey outside of the kitchen. The end of the day will see ten players remaining. | | Director: Brad Kreisberg | |
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| 23 :03x03 - 10 Chefs Compete (Jun/18/2007) | | The remaining 10 competitors will be challenged to cook breakfast for a group of visiting service men and women. The winning team will receive a day of rest while the losers get clean up duty. During dinner prep, one members meal goes wrong and may be potentially poisonous. The next challenger is dismissed. | | Director: Brad Kreisberg | |
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| 24 :03x04 - 9 Chefs Compete (Jun/25/2007) | | The remaining chefs compete in a blindfolded taste test. The losers must then taste items that are somewhat less than appetizing while the winners dine with Chef Ramsay. At the dinner service, the dishes are critiqued and rated by the diners. | | Director: Brad Kreisberg | |
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| 25 :03x05 - 8 Chefs Compete (Jul/02/2007) | | The seven remaining chefs must purchase and prepare food for a wedding reception. The bride and groom must approve, and one presentation goes very badly. Later, a kitchen power struggle mars the dinner service | | Director: Brad Kreisberg | |
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| 26 :03x06 - 7 Chefs Compete (Jul/09/2007) | | In an effort to foster gender equality, Melissa joins the men's team as it vies with the women to see which team can prepare better lobster dishes. But first they must kill the lobsters. At that evening's dinner service, one team has its worst night yet. | | Director: Brad Kreisberg | |
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| 27 :03x07 - 6 Chefs Compete (Jul/16/2007) | | The first challenge facing the six remaining contestants: make appetizers and entrÃĐes from leftovers. Then the teams must come up with their own menus for the evening's dinner service. The diners definitely prefer one team's menu, but that's not necessarily a good thing since devising selections and executing them are two different things. | |
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| 28 :03x08 - 5 Chefs Compete (Jul/23/2007) | The five remaining chefs are combined into one team and compete head-to-head to impress 100 hungry high school students. The winning chef wins a trip with Chef Ramsay and one other of their choice to the Green Valley Ranch resort.
At dinner service, two contestants vie for power, which makes Chef Ramsay lose his cool and send someone home during dinner. | |
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| 29 :03x09 - 3 Chefs Compete (Jul/30/2007) | | The three remaining chefs prepare fine-dining versions of classic American dishes for outside judges---their mothers, who don't know whose plates they're sampling. Then each contestant gets to run Hell's Kitchen during dinner service. They must watch for subtle traps set for them by sous chefs MaryAnn and Scott. | |
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| 30 :03x10 - 2 Chefs (Aug/06/2007) | | In the next-to-last episode of the season, the two remaining contestants take on a final challenge, and it involves more than just cooking. They must design restaurants of their own---the decor as well as the menus---then manage them. | |
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| 31 :03x11 - Winner Announced (Aug/13/2007) | | In the third-season finale, tempers flare as the two finalists prepare one last dinner service at Hell's Kitchen before Chef Ramsay picks a winner, who earns a job running a restaurant at a Las Vegas casino-resort. | |
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Season 4 |
| 32 :04x01 - 15 Chefs Compete (Apr/01/2008) | | Season four begins with 15 hopefuls playing to win a job as a chef along side Gordon Ramsey in his L.A. restaurant. The contestants will be divided into teams of 'men vs. women' after preparing their signature dish. Gordon will be impressed by most of the entries, but one will make him retch. | |
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| 32 :04x02 - 14 Chefs Compete (Apr/08/2008) | | The season's first challenge finds the contestants slicing halibut into thin 6 ounce fillets. One member of each team must serve as a maitre d' during the dining service, and one contestant will be eliminated at the shows conclusion. | |
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| 32 :04x03 - 13 Chefs Compete (Apr/15/2008) | | Live chickens awaken the contestants, followed by a challenge of plucking their morning "wake up callers" and creating a family styled dinner out of them. | |
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| 32 :04x04 - 12 Chefs Compete (Apr/22/2008) | | The two teams must compete to see who can prepare the most pasta for the evening dinner service, with a trip to Santa Monica for the winners. One contestant winds up in the hospital after an accident in the kitchen. | |
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| 32 :04x05 - 11 Chefs Compete (Apr/29/2008) | | The chefs receive their first challenge, create a gourmet pizza. The winning team will head to Santa Barbara for a gourmet meal, while the losers will be sentenced to taking pizza orders during dinner service and then deliver them, at which one contestant is rushed to the hospital after suffering an accident. | |
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| 33 :04x06 - 10 Chefs Compete (May/06/2008) | | This episode finds the chefs challenged to satisfy a picky teen as they cook up a meal for her birthday party. The winners will be chosen by the teen by picking the menu theme she prefers, while the losers are stuck with a perky party planner to help with the party decisions. | |
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| 34 :04x07 - 9 Chefs Compete (May/13/2008) | | The nine remaining chefs are challenged to compete in a taste test, with the winner receiving a day at the spa and the losers sent to clean the dorm. Once the dinner ervice is completed, Chef Ramsay must decide on which tastes worse, raw food or a lack or communication within the kitchen. | |
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| 35 :04x08 - 8 Chefs Compete (May/20/2008) | | The group dynamics are drastically changed when Chef Ramsey asks for a volunteer to switch sides. This week's challenge consists of creating 4 new dishes from 20 ingredients. One chef requires a medic after injuring himself during the challenge. | |
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| 36 :04x09 - 7 Chefs Compete (May/27/2008) | | The opening challenged for the seven remaining chefs is to prepare dishes in a relay race, with the winners receiving surfing lessons and the losers being forced to clean the restaurant. The dinner service finds the teams creating their own menus. Following the difficulty for one team is a most unusual elimination ceremony. | |
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| 37 :04x10 - 6 Chefs Compete (Jun/03/2008) | | Chef Ramsey hopes to inspire his wanna be chefs by bringing them to the restaurant of last years winner in London West Hollywood. Back in the kitchen, now with the teams merged each chef is given one main ingredient to uses in their dish. The dinner service finds one chef burning the rice and another scorching their hand. | |
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| 38 :04x11 - 5 Chefs Compete (Jun/10/2008) | | Chef Ramsey challenges the five remaining contestants to teach cooking impaired housewives how to prepare a gourmet meal, with a winner receiving personal lessons from Chefs Mark Peel and Ben Ford. The dinner service finds all the chefs struggling with a dozen of appetizers, main courses and desserts. | |
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| 39 :04x12 - 4 Chefs Compete (Jun/17/2008) | | The final four contestants are challenged to cook a meal for 80 expectant moms. A $1,000 shopping spree is awaiting the chosen winner, while the others will be left to clean up after the luncheon. Chef Ramsey's hand is burned during the dinner service by one careless contestant, angering him. | |
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| 40 :04x13 - 3 Chefs Compete (Jun/24/2008) | | Chef Ramsay creates a breakfast for the 3 remaining contestants and a few chosen guests and then challenges them to recreate what they have just ate. Ramsay sabotages the dinner service as a way to see how the contestants will react to this adversity. | |
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| 41 :04x14 - 2 Chefs Compete (Jul/01/2008) | | The two finalists are prepared to be judged by chef Ramsey's executive chefs from around the world, as they visit Gordon Ramsey's New York restaurant to create their signature dishes. Back in Los Angeles, they will be challenged to design and run their own restaurant. | | Guest Stars: Whoopi Goldberg as Herself | |
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| 42 :04x15 - Winner Announced (Jul/08/2008) | | The final two contestants are tested in their last dinner service before Chef Ramsey makes his choice over who will run his L.A. restaurant. | |
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Season 5 |
| 43 :05x01 - 16 Chefs Compete (Jan/29/2009) | | Season five begins with Chef Ramsey ordering each contestant to cook up their best dish. But all does not go well. The show has the most ever chefs this season with 16, and is unwieldy, which makes one member of each team responsible for busing tables. And for one, it is a disaster. The kitchen proves to be worse. The winner gets a executive-chef position with an Atlantic City, hotel. | |
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| 44 :05x02 - 15 Chefs Compete (Feb/05/2009) | | Chef Ramsey puts the Red and Blue teams in a new challenge, which causes tempers to flare and will result in the dismissal of one more contestant. | |
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| 45 :05x03 - 14 Chefs Compete (Feb/19/2009) | | Chef Ramsey has the remaining 14 chefs make a visit to the meat locker to learn about every cut of beef, then gives them a challenge by declaring the kitchen a steak house for the night. | |
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| 46 :05x04 - 13 Chefs Compete (Feb/26/2009) | | 50 young football players and cheerleaders will be served breakfast by the 13 remaining chefs. One team runs short on eggs, and 1 more chef is released. | |
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| 48 :05x06 - 11 Chefs Compete (Mar/12/2009) | | The remaining 11 chefs are challenged to cook variations of the three favorite foods of the honoree for his Bar Mitzvah. The dinner service seems to go well, but not for one contestant. | |
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| 49 :05x07 - 10 Chefs Compete (Mar/19/2009) | | The remaining 10 chefs are challenged to use leftovers to create tapas-styled dishes (aka, small plates). Both teams are nearly derailed at dinner by one chef's mistake, and the lack of cohesion within the blue team steams chef Ramsey. | |
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| 50 :05x08 - 9 Chefs Compete (Mar/26/2009) | | The nine remaining chefs feel the pressure with the presence of guest diners Eric McCormack and Robert Patrick, plus they also face a taste-test competition. | |
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| 51 :05x09 - 8 Chefs Compete (Apr/02/2009) | | The remaining 8 chefs will be working with king crab, and each team will show Chef Ramsey their strongest presentation. Dinner service will find the teams creating a menu. | |
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| 52 :05x10 - 7 Chefs Compete (Apr/09/2009) | | The six remaining chefs are on their own now that Chef Ramsey has dissolved the teams. This week's challenge is for the chefs to use 14 simple ingredients in a dish. Later, the chefs will once again need to work as one for dinner service, but things heat up and one chef finds themselves in need of medical attention. | |
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| 53 :05x11 - 6 Chefs Compete (Apr/16/2009) | | The remaining six chefs head to the Borgata Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, where the show's winner will be named a top chef, and are challenged to create a signature dish in which would be served at the Borgata. | |
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| 54 :05x12 - 5 Chefs Compete (Apr/23/2009) | | The four remaining chefs have a meal cooked for them by Chef Ramsey, then are challenged to recreate what he had prepared. Later, a surprise proposal is planned for the dinner service's desert course. | |
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| 55 :05x13 - 3 Chefs Compete (Apr/30/2009) | | The remaining three chefs will be cooking up a meal for the 100 top chefs in L.A. The winner will make an appearance on FOX's local morning show, while the losers must clean and iron the Hell's Kitchen's linens and watch the winner on TV. At dinner service, each of the three must "run the pass," a test which only two can pass. | |
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| 56 :05x14 - 2 Chefs Compete (May/07/2009) | | It's back to Atlantic City for the final 2 chefs as they discuss their possible menus with the chief operating officer of the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa. But first they must discuss their space designs at the restaurant with an architect for the final dinner service competition. | |
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| 57 :05x15 - 2 Chefs to Winner (May/14/2009) | | The season 5 finale finds the remaining two chefs competing in their final dinner service competition. The winner will be named head-chef at a new restaurant at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City. | |
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Season 6 |
| 58 :06x01 - 16 Chefs compete (Jul/21/2009) | | Season six returns with one change. Instead of working alone, now the red and blue teams work will be a team effort. The first dinner service (which is a predictable disaster) comes next before the first chef is eliminated, but an old friend shows up. Dinner service 2 winds up being an even bigger disaster. | |
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| 60 :06x03 - 14 Chefs compete (Jul/28/2009) | | The remaining 14 chefs get a surprise awakening in the middle of the night to make a spaghetti dinner for a group of hungry firefighters. The winner will be determined by which team can serve first, and the losers must wax the firetrucks. later, two contestants are rushed to the hospital after suffering injuries. | |
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| 61 :06x04 - 13 Chefs compete (Aug/04/2009) | | The remaining 14 chefs are challenged to create perfectly proportioned 6-inch sausages. The dinner service will include Drew Lachey, John O'Hurley, Tom Green, Melinda Clarke, Chris "Kid" Reid and Kristy Swanson are among those being served cold and salty meal. Chef Ramsey is unhappy. | |
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| 62 :06x05 - 12 Chefs compete (Aug/11/2009) | | The remaining 12 chefs have the honor of creating a welcome back home dinner for a returning U.S. marine, where the losers will be left in charge of cleaning and decorating the dinning room for a party under the watchful eye of Gordon Ramsey's wife, Tana. Later, chef Ramsey gets heated up during dinner service over cold food. | |
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| 63 :06x06 - 11 Chefs compete (Aug/18/2009) | | The remaining 11 chefs are challenged to create a full three-course meal which only totals up to 700 calories. The winning team gets a day at the beach and volleyball pointers from 2000 Olympian Annette Davis, while the losers must prep both kitchens. One chef snaps back at Chef Ramsey, while another is taken to the hospital's emergency room. | |
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| 64 :06x07 - 10 Chefs compete (Aug/25/2009) | | The remaining ten chefs are rolling the dice to see what ingredients they can use in their challenge dish, with the winners earning a trip to Las Vegas. Later, chefs from Gordon Ramsey's own restaurants help out in the dinner service, which is interrupted by repeating mistakes and one bossy teammate. | |
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| 65 :06x08 - 9 Chefs compete (Sep/01/2009) | | The remaining nine chefs are given a blind taste test. The winners will receive a dinner with chef Ramsay...in a darkened dinning room where they'll have no idea what they are eating. Later, the dinner service is ruined by meat and potatoes. | |
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| 66 :06x09 - 8 Chefs compete (Sep/08/2009) | | The remaining eight chefs are asked to make crepes, where the winners receiving a night out dining at a French restaurant and the losers creating a French-themed dinner service. During the prep time one contestant is injured, and the other three can't make it through the service. | |
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| 67 :06x10 - 7 Chefs compete (Sep/22/2009) | | Winter Olympic medalists Sasha Cohen and Jonny Moseley will serve as judges of the meals created by the contestants using ingredients brought in from Whistler, B.C., site of the restaurant in which the winner will be stationed. | |
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| 68 :06x11 - 6 Chefs compete (Sep/22/2009) | | The teams may merge now that there are six, as they re-create foods they've tasted. A frustrated Chef Ramsey storms out during dinner service. | |
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| 69 :06x12 - 5 Chefs compete (Sep/29/2009) | | The five remaining chefs are challenged to create as pretty as it tastes. A winner will be chosen by experts from Bon Apetite magazine and will win a dinner with Chef Ramsay and Bon Apetite editor Barbara Fairchild at a luxury hotel in Santa Monica. | |
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| 70 :06x13 - 4 Chefs compete (Oct/06/2009) | | The remaining four chefs meet British child actor-impressionist Felix Wright, a diminutive version of Chef Ramsey, then meet 80 other youngsters, who they will feed without serving any meat. Two chefs have a bad night at dinner service and one is let go. | |
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| 71 :06x14 - 3 Chefs compete (Oct/13/2009) | | The three finalists will create dishes from various parts of the world, which will be judged by international culinary experts. The final two chefs will battle it out in the final challenge and dinner service. Chef Gordon Ramsay will then choose the winner. | |
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