The Kitchen is serving up summer sides! Sunny Anderson turns dinner favorite steak and potatoes into an Easy T-Bone Steak N' Potato Salad, and the hosts dress up delicious side dishes with Designer Dressings. Jeff Mauro Builds a Better Pasta Salad using rotisserie chicken, and side dish questions are answered on the Kitchen Helpline. Singer Jessie James Decker stops by to make fresh Summer Couscous Salad. The ladies of The Kitchen share a new way to add flavor to cocktails with Sorbet Cubes.
The recruits enter boot camp and find out that the theme is indulgence. Their first lesson is that salads can be indulgent, too, and the recruits play a game where salad elements are tossed into a bowl on their teammate's head. Alton Brown and Anne Burrell teach the recruits how to make fresh mozzarella for a salad, and for the main dish challenge, the recruits re-create their chef's craveable dish. The recruits who indulge their worst tendencies in the kitchen will be sent home.