Culinary Genius

In today's episode, contestants must fillet a whole salmon into 10 even portions. Later, the final three must create a salmon dish to please judge Gordon Ramsay.

After being tested on their ability to core apples and debone pork loin, the final three contestants must create a perfect pork dish for judge Gordon Ramsay.

In today's challenge, contestants test their knife skills with fresh herbs and prepare chicken with precision.

After finely dicing cucumbers and scoring duck breasts, the final three attempt to craft their most divine duck dish.

In today's test, the cooks slice cabbage into elegant ribbons and present whole lobsters. The final three must then create a dish to please their rigorous judge, Gordon Ramsay.

Contestants must joint and prepare a whole guinea fowl before the final three create the ultimate dish to please their exacting judge, Rosemary Shrager.

Today's contestants work with potatoes in the knife skill challenge and rainbow trout in the precision prep round.

Queen of haute cuisine Rosemary Shrager challenges cooks to chop the thinnest carrot strips they can. In the precision prep round, contestants must prepare squid.

Today's home cooks must slice pears in the knife skill challenge and French trim pork chops in the precision prep round.

Today's knife skill challenge involves zucchini. In the precision prep round, contestants must extract the white and brown meat from a whole cooked crab.

Today's ingredient for the knife skill challenge is butternut squash. In the precision prep round, the contestants must joint a whole chicken into eight pieces and debone the thighs.

Today's contestants are asked to devein and butterfly Thai freshwater prawns in the precision prep round. Later, the final three create dishes fit to please their exacting judge, Phil Vickery.

Today's ingredient for the knife skill challenge is pineapple. Later, contestants must French trim a rack of lamb in the precision prep round.

Nine hopeful contestants must slice fennel in the knife skill challenge, then fillet a whole cod in the precision prep round. Later, the final three go on to create the ultimate dish for judge Phil Vickery.

Today's contestants are tasked with finely pureeing garlic and preparing a loin of venison from a rack.

Contestants prepare côte de boeuf in hopes of moving on to the final round, where they must impress exacting judge Jean-Christophe Novelli.

Nine hopeful cooks must trim artichoke hearts in the knife skill challenge, then present white meat and coral from scallops in the precision prep round.

Contestants work with pink grapefruit in the knife skill challenge before filleting mackerel in the precision prep round. The final three go on to create the ultimate dish to please their exacting judge.

Today's home cooks must finely dice shallots in the knife skill challenge, then spatchcock poussin in the precision prep round. The final three will aim to please exacting judge Jean-Christophe Novelli.

As the series draws to a close, French celebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli challenges contestants to cut sweet potatoes into thin matchsticks.