Hell's Kitchen (U.S.)

Meet the eighteen chefs who will be competing for a head chef position at BLT Steak located in Bally's Las Vegas. For their first challenge, the contestants have 45 minutes to prepare their signature dishes for a discerning Chef Ramsay. The winners attend Drai's Nightclub as VIP guests while the losers peel shrimp and make 1,000 pounds of truffle mashed potatoes.

The chefs have twenty minutes to make baskets of shrimp dumplings. The winners take a helicopter to Malibu for lunch with Ramsay at Geoffrey's while the losers prep mushrooms and corn for the dinner service's table-side appetizer.

To improve their communication skills, Chef Ramsay gives them a challenge in which each chef receives a jacket with a recipe on the back. The teammates must relay the recipes to one another. The winners head to Santa Barbara for foot messages and mojitos while the losers eat fish head soup and prep bass for the dinner service.

Each chef gathers five rubber ducks with ingredients on them, which they then use to make a duck dish. The winners spend the afternoon riding on a yacht to a Santa Monica penthouse to dine with Chef Ramsay. The losers eat duck feet sandwiches.

The two teams create a holiday platter comprised of three dishes for three major holidays: Fourth of July, Cinco de Mayo and Mardi Gras. The winners get a wine mixing lesson while the losers prep candy and cake pops for the dinner service.

Taken to a grocery store, the two teams rearrange shopping carts with letters on them into six ingredients that the whole team will use, then are given one minute to find a personal ingredient. The winners fly over Los Angeles in stunt planes while the losers peel apples, coconuts and grapes for Spanish sangria.

After welcoming newlywed and sous chef Andi Van Willigan back to Hell's Kitchen with her husband Brice, Chef Ramsay requests that both teams make six dishes that include: two seafood appetizers, two chicken entrées and two beef entrées. Andi and Brice will choose the winning dishes to be served during their wedding reception the following night.

After treating the chefs to a performance by guitarist Steve Vai, Ramsay gives them their challenge: the teams must create five dishes comprised of seven, six, five, four and three ingredients. The winners play paintball while the losers prep the kitchens and make food deliveries.

The chefs compete by cooking bison with an international flair. The winners meet and feed animal actors while the losers make bread and butter from scratch for the dinner service.

Given only thirty minutes, the teams have to make vegetarian, sweet, meat and seafood breakfast dishes. The winners head to Palm Springs in a private plane to ride all-terrain vehicles. The losers clean both kitchens and hand-squeeze oranges for mimosas in the next service's brunch special.

The teams have only five minutes to gather ingredients for a rack of lamb, sea bass and chicken. The chefs then take turns cooking the ingredients for one of the proteins before being replaced by a teammate. The winners visit the Santa Anita horse racetrack while the losers unload two hundred-pound lambs into the kitchen and prep them for service.

The remaining chefs compete in the annual blind taste test challenge. The winners go on a shopping spree at Roland Products while the losers prepare the foul-smelling durian fruit for a dessert served during the dinner service.

Members of the chefs' families visit Hell's Kitchen. For the challenge, Chef Ramsay has the contestants wear straitjackets and help their loved ones as they recreate Chef Ramsay's branzino dish.

The final five contestants meet Ramsay at Animo Venice Charter High School where he surprises them with high school photos of themselves. For their challenge, they must cook a unique dish in forty minutes and serve it to the students. The winner meets and has dinner with NFL football players Dwight Clark and Guy McIntyre. The losers sort out the trash at the high school.

The three contestants have forty minutes to cook a steak and two sides. The winner dines at Beverly Hills' CUT while the losers clean the truck and motorbikes used to drive from Hell's Kitchen to Las Vegas.

In the season finale, the final two chefs create three main entrées, one cold appetizer and one hot appetizer on board the USS Iowa. The winner gets first pick in creating a team using previously eliminated chefs for the dinner service.