The Taste UK

Hosts Nigella Lawson, Ludo Lefebvre and Anthony Bourdain sample the cooking of 25 hopefuls.

Richard Corrigan judges a challenge where the mentors coach their cooks to create a prawn cocktail.

A comfort food challenge, ranging from ginger and black pepper rice pudding to posh cheese on toast.

It's hot in the kitchen as cooks prepare some spiced sweet dishes for guest chef Yotam Ottolenghi.

The cooks prepare recipes passed down through the generations for Anthony, Ludo and Nigella.

The cooks are challenged to produce sensational sweet and savory spoonfuls that contain chocolate.

Using ingredients from fish heads to wine dregs, the chefs must make tasty spoonfuls out of scraps.

Six cooks remain, all hoping to prove that they can produce the best-tasting food in Britain.

The competition reaches the semifinal stage, but only four cooks can progress to the final.

The final challenge for the remaining cooks is all about champagne; guest chef Pierre Koffman.