Hell's Kitchen USA

Meet the eighteen chefs who will be competing for a head chef position at BLT Steak, located in Bally’s Las Vegas.

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.

Chef Ramsay gives each chef a jacket with a recipe on the back to improve their communication skills.

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.

The two teams are taken to grocery store, where they rearrange shopping carts with letters on them to find out what six ingredients the chefs will use. They are then given one minute to find a personal ingredient.

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 entrees and two beef entrees.

After treating the chefs to a performance by guitarist Steve Vai, Chef Ramsay gives them their challenge: the teams must create five dishes comprised of seven, six, five, four and three ingredients.

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 30 minutes, the teams have to make vegetarian, sweet, meat and seafood breakfast dishes.

The teams have only five minutes to gather ingredients for a rack of lamb, sea bass and chicken.

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 Chef Ramsay at Animo Venice Charter High School, where he surprises them with high school photos of themselves.

The three contestants have 40 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 entrees, 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.