From finger food to full on entrees, four amateur and adventurous cooks bring party food to the Showdown. In the signature round, the cooks have an hour and a half to impress the judges with their original party food recipe. In the speed round, the cooks only have thirty minutes to serve up a second dish. Highest scoring recipe at the end of the competition will earn someone $25,000.
Four amateur cooks come to the URS arena to show what hometown cooking is all about by whipping up local favorites. In the signature round, the cooks have one hour to create their down home masterpieces. The competition heats up in the speed round, where the contestants only have thirty minutes to crank out another hometown dish. Highest scoring recipe at the end of the competition will earn someone $25,000.
The heat is on for four of the country's best home cooks in this fiery competition. In the signature round, the contestants have one hour to serve up a hot and spicy dish. The cooks have to up their game in the speed round, where they will have just thirty minutes to bang out a second hot and spicy creation. The highest scoring recipe from either round will earn one contestant $25,000.
Four great home cooks give their personal take on comfort food in this URS installation. In the signature round, the contestants have an hour and a half to cook up a feel-good dish. They don't have the luxury of time in the speed round, where they have to kick it to serve an equally delicious comfort food dish in just thirty minutes. Highest scoring recipe at the end of the competition will earn someone $25,000.
The Kitchen hosts celebrate a Southern culinary tradition by serving up a delicious plate of food with meat and three yummy sides. To get things started, Geoffrey Zakarian makes his porch-worthy Bourbon Peach Iced Tea, and Katie Lee Biegel uses that tea in her family's recipe for Classic Sweet Tea Oven Fried Chicken. Then, GZ makes his version of Squash Casserole with an herby breadcrumb topping, and Jeff Mauro honors his mother-in-law's Kentucky roots by sharing her recipe for Skillet Cornbread with Pepper Relish Honey Butter. Finishing off this Southern meal, Sunny Anderson puts her twist on mac and cheese with an Easy Paccheri and Cheese.
Laila Ali invites four chefs to resolve fiery recipe rivalries in explosive back-to-back battles. First, longtime Cuban chef Mika Leon squares off against competing Miami influencer chef Brad Delgado, accusing him of stealing her recipes and copying her content to surpass her online superiority. Then, witness an epic showdown between baller burger chefs Tommy Jobst and area newcomer Chris Lombardi to decide, once and for all, who builds the absolute best burgers in the college town of Davis, California. With $10,000 on the line and customer counts at stake, judges Jet Tila and Claudette Zepeda decide which chefs will walk away victorious.