Chopped: Volume 1

Someone's bound to get Chopped with ingredients like sea urchin and fennel.

An unusually salty vegetable presents the chefs with a quandary in the appetizer round.

There is some sloppy work in the appetizer round when the contestants must work with whole calamari.

For their entrees, the chefs must devise big plans for some miniature produce and a whole flounder.

Chefs seek to represent their cultural heritage with duck appetizers.

The judges get an earful of philosophy and a mouthful of piquillo peppers.

Chefs are challenged by edamame, shrimp and problems with time management.

With liquor in the entree basket, the flames fly high.

The chefs use buckwheat flour to make crepes, crusts and fritters.

Previous Chopped champions return to compete again in the first of a four-part series.

Four Chopped champs return to battle for superiority in the kitchen.

Previous Chopped winners as well as the reigning champ return to compete.

Chopped champions face off for a chance to reclaim the title.