Hell's Kitchen USA

Chef Ramsay splits up the contestants into two teams. For the season's first challenge, the budding chefs prepare their signature dishes.

Each team must retrieve 25 crabs from the ocean. Splitting into pairs, the teams then have to make ten crab cakes for Chef Ramsay.

In this episode's challenge, the teams have to match fish heads to their particular bodies and then prepare dishes to impress guest judge Michael Cimarusti.

The contestants prepare American comfort food for a panel of judges comprised of Chef Ramsay, Chef Suzanne Goin and Chef David Burke. The winners sip cocktails aboard the American Pride in Long Beach.

The remaining aspiring chefs participate in a cheese challenge. The winners go jet skiing in Marina Del Ray while the losers grate parmesan after breaking pieces off a cheese wheel.

The teams cook lunch for current and retired firefighters, who are in the midst of their charity ride commemorating their friends. The winners head to Malibu, dine at a vineyard, and sip wine with Ramsay.

The remaining chefs are treated to live Greek dancing. Afterwards, they must choose a protein to cook a Greek dish with. The winners race go-karts while the losers clean the kitchens for the night's dinner service.

Each team must create a dish using either beer, wine or liquor that will then be judged by Ramsay and guest bartender John Ratzenberger.

The remaining chefs must cook with exotic proteins, including alligator, ostrich and wild boar to impress Chef Ramsay and the owners of the restaurant Animal.

The chefs cook a Mardi Gras-themed homecoming dinner for Calabasas High School. Both teams have 35 minutes to create three meals — one seafood appetizer, one chicken entrée and one beef entrée — for the homecoming committee.

The teams participate in the annual blind taste test challenge. The winners go on a shopping spree, take a trip to Petrossian and sample caviar. The losers make sangria and lug tabletops into the dining room for the night's dinner service.

The chefs rifle through a big pile of keys to find the one that would open lockers containing sundry cuts of steak. After cooking their dishes, they present them to Chef Ramsay in a game of king of the hill.

The chefs participate in the annual "taste it, now make it" challenge.

Given 45 minutes, the remaining contestants must make small dishes for the guests at a private concert featuring the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music orchestra.

Chef Ramsay brings the final four to a supermarket where each chef receives $25 and ten minutes to find ingredients for a delicious vegetarian dish.

The finalists have one hour to devise five dishes — one hot appetizer, one fish entrée, one chicken entrée and one beef entrée — that will be judged by an array of top chefs.