Top Chef Masters

Top Chef Masters flips the judges' table to find out who can handle the heat. Top Chef Masters will put 24 world-renowned chefs against each other, four in each of episode.

Master Wylie Dufresne (wd-50), Suzanne Tracht (Jar), Graham Elliot Bowles( Graham Elliot Restaurant), and Elizabeth Falkner (Orson) find themselves "lost" as they are challenged to make a meal inspired by the hit TV show.

Rick Bayless (Frontera Grill), Cindy Pawcyn (Mustards Grill), Wilo Benet (pikayo), and Ludo Lefebvre (Ludo Bites) set out to cook the most appealing treat for Los Angeles pedestrians.

Anita Lo (Annisa), Douglas Rodriguez (Alma de Cuba), John Besh (Restaurant August) and Mark Peel (Campanile). The Masters find their hands tied in the quickfire challenge.

For this week's quickfire: junkfood, Michael Chiarello (Bottega Restaurant), Rick Moonen (Rick Moonen's RM Seafood at Mandalay Bay), Nils Noren (French Culinary Institute) and Lachlan McKinnon Patterson (Frasco Food & Wine) are put on the spot.

Master chef's Roy Yamaguchi (Roy's Restaurants), Art Smith (Table Fifty-Two), Michael Cimarusti (Providence), and Jonathan Waxman (Barbuto) pass the quickfire round and are faced with a mystery box.

They now must face-off for the ultimate title of Top Chef Master. Each is asked to produce their signature dish, only to find they must then re-create their competitor's unique dish.

The five remaining chefs' strive to create an American classic. In the elimination challenge, the Master's must prepare the perfect meal for an exclusive celebrity lunch thrown by actress and singer-song-writer Zooey Deschanel.

The elimination round presents the Chef's with the goal of catering a large event - only they are not allowed to touch the food. Each Master must use his or her leadership, teaching, and directing skills.

The creation of a four-course meal sounds Simple enough, but each course must be inspired by a certain memory from their past.