It's a rough reunion with the Chopped kitchen when the returning champs find a diabolical set of ingredients in their first basket. In round two, a giant fish and a sweet space food get the chefs thinking creatively. The final two champs wrestle to make sense of a salad cake as time ticks away in the dessert round, which sends one chef on to the $50,000 finale.
Comfort food king, fried chicken, gets the royal Chopped treatment for three rounds! A weird syrup and a savory pancake are two of the ingredients that the chefs must use in their fried bird appetizers. The poultry party continues in round two with fried chicken entrees that have to include peach cobbler, and what will be expected from the chefs in a fried chicken-themed dessert round?
Host Jonathan Bennett challenges the three remaining teams of cake and sugar artists to show how Santa celebrates the off-season with a side job. Judges Shinmin Li and Jason Smith decide which two teams will move on to the finale to compete for the $25,000 grand prize.
Two former winners of Food Network Star, Jeff Mauro and Justin Warner, turn the tables on Bobby as they bring in two fantastic chefs to beat him. Bobby has his work cut out for him with sweet, but fiery, Chef Daniela D'Ambrosio and eager-to-prove-himself Chef Malcolm Mitchell fight for the right to show what they've got.
The Kitchen's Sunny Anderson and Chopped's Ted Allen have Bobby Flay in their sights and are calling in two contenders to finish the job. Chef and grill-master Victor Albisu takes on competition-junkie Chef Eddie Tancredi, but who will have what it takes to face Bobby?
Chop chop Mr. Flay! Food Network's Ted Allen is turning the tables in Bobby Flay's kitchen and he's got the Chopped dream team to back him up. Tonight's contenders, chefs Amanda Freitag and Marc Murphy, know a thing or two about getting their friend Bobby beat.