This is Sandra Lee's biggest money-saving episode of the season! She is canceling her reservations and making some of her restaurant favorites at home at an incredible savings. Her restaurant inspired menu includes Smothered Pork Chops, Thai Chicken Wraps, a fantastic Grape Crush Cocktail and a delicious White Chocolate Mousse With Cranberry Syrup for dessert. Sandra will also show you how to make some of her delicious Round 2 Recipes using some of the leftovers from her entrees including her easy Pork Cabbage Wraps and an online R2R for Thai Chicken Spring Rolls.
Famed bakers Buddy Valastro and Duff Goldman talk about how their face-off competition came to be while revisiting some of their most-memorable challenges, favorite cakes and highs and lows over two seasons of battles. Buddy shares updates on his recovery following a gruesome hand injury, and Duff talks about being a new dad to his baby girl. The duo teases the upcoming season, which will have bigger, more-ambitious cakes than ever and a judging panel of 50 cake artists from across America.
To kick off the second season of Meat & Potatoes, Food Network chef Rahm Fama heads out across the nation in search of All American Meat. His culinary crusade takes him to unique eateries from coast to coast, as he sinks in incisors into some of the best meat in the country. To start, Rahm takes his carnivorous quest to Old Original Nick's Roast Beef, a 70-year old, Philadelphia institution serving up simple, succulent sandwiches that are so good the locals have developed their own language for ordering. Then he heads to Founding Farmers, a Washington D.C. eatery owned by 42,000 American family farmers. There, chef Al Nappo is using grass-fed, sustainable beef to create single servings of the Colonial classic, Yankee Pot Roast. To wrap up the episode, Rahm touches down in Los Angeles, where newcomer Chili Addiction is spooning out over 90 varieties of American's favorite one pot dish.
Today's Food Network Stars must have a multiplatform presence. In the Mentor Challenge, Bobby Flay tests the social-media acumen of the finalists by having them each create a behind-the-scenes video selfie in the Food Star Kitchen. For the Star Challenge, the finalists are teamed up to make an Internet marketing video for a Hershey's candy product. The videos are shot at YouTube's soundstages and judged by two YouTube executives. Whose video will have the judges wanting to hit "forward," and whose will have them "deleted" from the competition?
In the conclusion of this historic tournament, it's judges vs. champions! Two separate knockout rounds with the same basket will determine which genius judge and brilliant champ make it to the $100,000 title fight. The stakes are high as the competitors find an unusual seafood delicacy and a hot regional specialty in the first basket. Then, one champ and one judge will be left to duke it out. Who will score the biggest prize in Chopped history, and who will be chopped?
On their feet and at the stoves, the judges take on the same confounding ingredients as Chopped competitors! Everybody gets revved up for a food truck-themed round one, and Marcus Samuelsson devises a dish that's just odd enough to be brilliant. In round two, it's game on with Cornish game hen with positively yummy results. Round three finds the chefs revisiting a dessert basket from a Chopped grilling special and Ted Allen finds time to grill up snacks for his busy buds.