Tue, Dec 22, 2015
Ted Allen looks back at past episodes, highlighting the most bizarre baskets, wildest mishaps and most creative cooking moments from the show. Included: insider tips for tackling the mandatory ingredients, beating the clock and impressing the judges.
Tue, Dec 17, 2019
Chefs will need to create elaborate dishes using basket ingredients that are humble and not fancy. A box of fish sticks is the big catch and the second round involves a lesson and putting the best foot forward when cooking with chicken feet. Each round presents a challenge for the chefs.
Tue, Sep 8, 2020
The competing chefs attack an appetizer basket that includes a classic Italian sauce and a simple sandwich. A popcorn product not available at movie theaters plays a starring role in round two, and the final two chefs attempt to make incredible final plates with the bouncy cake and sweet wine they find in the dessert basket.
Tue, Oct 27, 2020
The chefs open the first basket to find dressed beer, canned spinach, linzer cookies, and lamb T-bone steaks; cordyceps - a weird fungus - veal chops, yuzu kosho, and a peculiar pizza pot pie are the shockers in the entrée round. For dessert, chefs discover piggy custard dumplings, lemon balm, white melon, and cream-filled rainbow licorice.
Tue, Dec 29, 2020
The chefs are thrown off by the combination of beer battered seafood and a bizarre bouquet of pickles in the first basket. Then, the second basket fails the smell test with chocolate peanut butter French toast, Limburger cheese, acorn squash, and culotte steaks. The dessert basket contains rainbow crepes, passion fruit, giant candy sticks, and salted egg yolk cookies.
Tue, Mar 9, 2021
For compassionate nurses bring their tender loving care to the kitchen. The appetizer round includes canned bacon, mahi mahi fillets, kohlrabi, and life preserver candies. In the entrée round, the nurses must create tasty dishes featuring shrimp chips, beef tenderloin, kale, and onion juice. Finally, the dessert round must integrate basket ingredients of rambutan, nurse cake pops, cream cheese, and strawberry gelatin cups.
Tue, Mar 16, 2021
Hangry baskets are back for a battle; foods for the broken-hearted. In the first round, the chefs must incorporate fettucine alfredo with chicken, red onions, Cabernet, and chocolate. Chefs will find vanilla ice cream, yellow snack cakes, beef heart, and artichokes in their entrée baskets. The dessert round will feature divorce cake, cinnamon bun spread, pineapple, and dates.
Tue, Apr 6, 2021
In a boisterous battle, the chefs get baskets inspired by late-night cravings. The competitors must incorporate frozen pizza, french fries, maitake mushrooms, and meatballs in the first round. During the entrée round, chefs must cook with bowl of cereal, mac and cheese, arugula, and pork belly. For dessert, toaster pastry sandwiches, persimmons, whipped cream, and popcorn are used to create tantalizing treats.
Tue, Apr 20, 2021
Martha has some tricks up her sleeve regarding the timing of the rounds. Hasty pudding, garlic chives with blossoms, mussels, and whole grain mustard are ingredients for the appetizer round. Entrées must include Cornish hens, kale, walnuts, lobster roe, and an added surprise ingredient. The two remaining chefs must create delicious desserts featuring potato candy, white nectarines, spruce tips, and whipped coffee. Does Martha give the chefs enough time to complete their tasks?
Tue, May 11, 2021
Martha Stewart pulls out all the stops to make the road to $50,000 extra challenging. In the appetizer around, the chefs wonder what is up when they find gloves in the ingredient basket followed with an unconventional elimination. The entrée round allows chefs to choose their ingredients. The chefs are stunned to discover a buckets and a fresh "ingredient" in the dessert round.
Tue, Jun 22, 2021
Unusual ingredients are featured throughout this competition that were suggested by viewers. Bean sprouts, pasture raised eggs, spinach lasagna, and chicken in a can are used in the appetizer round. Blood soup, parsnips, venison osso buco, and a meal ready to eat (M.R.E.) are featured in the entrée round. Desserts are to be created using livermush pudding, pickled garlic, Bartlett pears, and tawny port.
Tue, Jun 29, 2021
Chefs will prepare tasty dishes using ingredients that were hand-selected by Alton Brown. Appetizers must include unique ingredients such as an English breakfast, chanterelle mushrooms, raspberry lambic beer, and very pungent surströmming. The entrée round features a ground beef apple pie, guinea hen legs, cardoons, and salty licorice. Bagel and lox cake, frozen cherries, mimolette cheese, and chitterlings are required in the dessert round.
Tue, Jul 6, 2021
Alton Brown has returned for round three and with more maniacal baskets. The appetizer round includes ingredients such as black radishes, tuna noodle casserole, pickle jelly beans, and lutefisk. BBQ cottage cheese salad, rack of elk, cauliflower leaves, and natto are featured in the entrée round. Desserts must be made using musk stick marshmallow tart, frozen rhubarb, rock candy, and black limes.
Tue, Jul 13, 2021
Through the help of his fans, Alton Brown once again chooses crazy ingredients for four chefs. In the appetizer round, chefs must create tasty dishes using blueberry waffles, head-on shrimp, asparagus, and canned haggis. Fermented banana peels, wild boar foreshanks, bitter melon, and shiokara are featured in the entrée round. The two remaining chefs are less than thrilled to cook using pork floss, grapefruit, pizza cookie cake, and wormwood liqueur.