Season 1 Episode 10 - Top Chef Master
The final three chefs are challenged to create a meal from memory of their past, before the winner of Season 1 is announced.
The final three chefs are challenged to create a meal from memory of their past, before the winner of Season 1 is announced.
All eyes are on the remaining four food fighters when they whip up meals while blindfolded. Afterward, the chefs' teaching and leadership talents are put to the test when they cater an event. The catch: They are forbidden to handle the food.
The remaining five chefs will be showing us the beef as they cook up some burgers. Later, actress Zooey Deschanel hosts a celebrity event in which the chefs will be serving the lunch fare
The six winning chefs advance to the first installment of the Champions Round, where they must whip up their signature dishes. In a culinary twist, they then re-create their competitors' distinctive meals.
Chef's Roy Yamaguchi, Art Smith, Michael Cimarusti and Jonathan Waxman take on a grocery-store challenge known as "Aisle Trial." Later, the chef's will be cooking a meal using only the items from a mystery box.
Chefs Michael Chiarello, Rick Moonen, Nils Noren and Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson are challenged to reinvent classic junk-food. They next work hard over creating perfect three-course mini-meals.
Chief chefs Anita Lo, Douglas Rodriguez, John Besh and Mark Peel are all tied up. That is, they must cook an egg with one hand tied behind their back. Later, they conjure up culinary magic to impress notable guests, including actor Neil Patrick Harris.
Crack cooks Rick Bayless, Cindy Pawlcyn, Wilo Benet and Ludovic Lefebvre create color-themed cuisine. Later, they hit the streets of Los Angeles to serve food fare to pedestrians.
Notable chefs Wylie Dufresne, Suzanne Tracht, Graham Elliot Bowles and Elizabeth Falkner get lost. That is, they whip up island-flavored fare inspired by the TV series "Lost." Appearing: "Lost" executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof.
The first group of four chefs – Christopher Lee, Tim Love, Hubert Keller and Michael Schlow – compete tonight. First up is a twist on Top Chef season four's "Improv" Quickfire challenge where they must make the best dessert they can, followed by an elimination challenge where only one will move forward.