Food Network Star alum Melissa d'Arabian challenges the finalists to use a Kellogg's product to create sophisticated and impressive hors d'oeuvres for a surprise guest. Paula Deen makes a surprise visit to the Food Star Kitchen. At the Star Challenge, the finalists go Hollywood as they team up to feed the cast and crew of the hit show Cougar Town.
After tasting dishes that their parents may have had as kids, like salmon mousse and ambrosia, the kids choose one retro dish to modernize. In the Main Challenge, the kids will be asked to create a classic Southern barbecue, using ingredients that the other team picks for them. Chef G. Garvin comes to the kitchen to judge the kids on their barbecues and Camera Challenges!
The American bakers take the Paris farmers market by storm as hosts Stephanie Boswell and Ludo Lefebvre send them through a rainbow of bountiful produce to create crepe cakes with fruit. Back in the kitchen, the bakers get a lesson in ingredient philosophy from creative pastry chef Nina Metayer. Finally, the competitors tackle an unexpected farmers market dessert using produce that isn't typically found among the sweets.
The judges grapple with how to chop champions when four talented winners return to the Chopped Kitchen for a shot at $50,000. In the first basket, the chefs face a delicacy from the sea. A fancy sauce and a plain vanilla treat are two of the ingredients in the mix in round two, and a giant, chocolaty surprise awaits the chefs who make it to the dessert round.
Host Sabin Lomac guides elite backyard grillers through three rounds of tricky cooking challenges: an on-the-go meal, street hot dogs and their take on international street food. Chefs Susie Bulloch and Tregaye Fraser join Sabin on the judging throne to decide who has what it takes to win the ultimate prize: a pristine, state-of-the-art outdoor kitchen.
Four fan-favorite kid bakers return for a Halloween-themed competition and battle it out for a baker's dream prize package that includes a blast chiller. The kids enter the kitchen to find Duff Goldman stuck in a spider web! After that initial surprise, he and Valerie Bertinelli challenge the bakers to embrace seemingly scary arachnids in the form of spider web desserts.
Join us as host Marc Summers breaks out the cookie sheet and hits the kitchen for some cutting edge info about cookies. First, we go to Grandmas, but this isn t your grannys cookie factory! Next, keep your eyes on the ball, as we head to the Cooperstown Cookie Company. Then, find out what makes Flathaus Fine Snaps so snappy.
The Kitchen's Katie Lee and Jeff Mauro join the Academy as guest professors, where the subject is math and the group test is a numbers game: they'll be split in two groups of three to create an appetizer trio featuring one main ingredient! The trio sent to the elimination test must create a dish using only seven ingredients from the pantry, plus a surprise ingredient from the opposing team's mentor.