Kardea Brown fires up the grill for an old-fashioned backyard barbecue and invites her family over to enjoy some of her charbroiled dishes. On the grill are Pimento Cheese-Stuffed Burgers and Grilled Sea Island Wings, and she whips up quick Southern Pickles and Okra to have on the side. For dessert, there's nothing better in the summer than a Grilled Peach Crumble.
Kardea hosts an intimate traveling supper club in her hometown of Charleston, S.C. She creates a Southern-inspired menu of Low Country Spatchcocked Chicken served with traditional Gullah Red Rice and a Warm Asparagus Salad. For a sweet end to a beautiful dinner, there's Grandma's Cinnamon Raisin Bread Pudding.
Kardea Brown invites her sweetest friends over for a dessert party! The star of the dessert table is a beautiful Dressed-Up Carrot Cake made extra special with apples, raisins, pineapple and a caramel drizzle. Kardea adds her Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies, Chocolate-Topped Pralines and Homemade Buttery Fingers to make it the sweetest party of all time.
Kardea Brown invites her family over to celebrate her baby nephew's first birthday, but just because it's a kid's party doesn't mean the adults can't love the food, too! Kardea cooks up a perfect party menu that all her guests -- young and old -- will love. She serves a variety of Sheet Pan Pizzas, Buffalo Chicken Meatballs, Homemade Chef's Salad and a Vanilla Celebration Cake with a mini version for her nephew to smash!
The Chopped Kitchen is taken over by food truck chefs, steering toward success! The first basket contains ingredients from Chinese and Greek cuisines, while a classic American street food meets a fun-to-say Korean dish in the entree basket. The two food truck chefs facing off in the dessert round work with unripe fruit and a much-loved sweet spread.
Four chefs are challenged to create light dishes from baskets full of nutritious surprises. In the first round, the competitors must make tasty fish dishes that include an unusual alternative carb, and two of the chefs suffer from serious time-management issues. In the entree round, a grain and a green noodle are part of the culinary puzzle, and moderation is key in a dessert round that forces the chefs to use butter and sugar in smarter, minimal ways.
The competitors face off in a protein-packed battle, even featuring some fierce ingredients that are too big for the baskets. In a fast and loud appetizer round, the blenders are booming as the chefs try to make meaty appetizers with a creative touch. Then, the chefs get to choose what part of an imposing whole animal to use in their second dish. The final chefs must rise to the challenge in order to make marvelously piggy desserts.
From kitschy classics to artisanal designer doughnuts, the chefs get a taste of it all as they celebrate delicious rings of joy in every round and feel the pressure of performing well for a demanding doughnut connoisseur, judge Martha Stewart. A box of doughnuts and a jar of a particular condiment challenge the competitors in the first round. A wild doughnut creation is the centerpiece of the entree round, and the two chefs who advance to the doughnut dessert round must make Martha proud using her own doughnut dough recipe.
Getting piggy with it for Halloween, the chefs have to cook with snouts in the first round. Then with fear in their Halloween-loving hearts, the competitors open up the second basket to find a dangerously hot ingredient and popping candy. The judges are in for a main course that is both frightening and delightfully surprising. The finalists pull out all the stops to make lollipops and cereal bars into devilishly delicious desserts.
The chefs gear up for an epic hot dog battle in a nonstop celebration of the phenomenal frankfurter. In the appetizer basket, they discover a hot dog creation that takes the prized piece of Americana to another level. A state fair treat with a twist awaits the three contenders in the entree round, and an intriguing dessert basket contains the mysterious "wieners in a quilt."
Is pickle pizza dill-ightful or frightful? Four chefs must sort out what to do with the unusual pie in the appetizer round. An egg-flavored snack in the second basket leads to some novel ideas for the entree plates, and there's hardly time to stop and smell the rose latte in a speedy dessert round.
Chef Richard Blais recruits TV personality Laura Vitale to try to knock Bobby Flay down a peg or two. They enlist the help of global food enthusiasts Chef Reza Setayesh and Chef Andy Gaynor to make Bobby's world spin.
Things get shrewd when Iron Chef's Alex Guarnaschelli and Alton Brown join forces. It's up to partners in business and in life, chefs Lisa Carlson and Carrie Summer, to outsmart the one and only Bobby Flay!
Two chefs from out west head to the big city for a grill-off against the grill master himself. Chefs Mark Henry and Larry Delgado hope to leave a grill mark on Bobby Flay's record, while Chef Josh Capon and TV host Laura Vitale try to help smoke Bobby out of his own kitchen.
Actor Joseph Sikora of the series Power joins Michael Symon to bring the muscle into Bobby Flay's kitchen. They recruit superchefs Ian Rynecki and Ruth Wigman to put the squeeze on Bobby as they try to best him with a win.
Robert Irvine ventures to the remote forests of Mackinaw City, Mich., for a seemingly impossible two-part challenge: Create a Paul Bunyan-sized dinner to feed 50 lumberjacks, and cook a logging camp-inspired dish for 250 timber show guests, all in a matter of hours. With a makeshift kitchen in the woods, stoves from the 1800s and a wood-burning fire pit, Robert must conquer a giant menu of hearty dishes. And the only way he's getting help is by sawing, chopping and log-rolling his way to the finish.
Chopped's Geoffrey Zakarian and Amanda Freitag enlist Jimmy Buffett's private chef Dante Giannini and Telluride's Eliza Gavin to edge out the win and wipe out Bobby Flay.
Chopped comes a knockin' at Beat Bobby Flay's door when host Ted Allen and resident judge Marc Murphy come to town. They're bringing Chopped Champions Seis Kamimura and Demetrio Zavala for another shot at beating Bobby.
Two chefs from out west head to the big city for a grill-off against the grill master himself. Chefs Mark Henry and Larry Delgado hope to leave a grill mark on Bobby Flay's record, while Chef Josh Capon and TV host Laura Vitale try to help smoke Bobby out of his own kitchen.
Actor Joseph Sikora of the series Power joins Michael Symon to bring the muscle into Bobby Flay's kitchen. They recruit superchefs Ian Rynecki and Ruth Wigman to put the squeeze on Bobby as they try to best him with a win.
Robert Irvine ventures to the remote forests of Mackinaw City, Mich., for a seemingly impossible two-part challenge: Create a Paul Bunyan-sized dinner to feed 50 lumberjacks, and cook a logging camp-inspired dish for 250 timber show guests, all in a matter of hours. With a makeshift kitchen in the woods, stoves from the 1800s and a wood-burning fire pit, Robert must conquer a giant menu of hearty dishes. And the only way he's getting help is by sawing, chopping and log-rolling his way to the finish.
Chopped's Geoffrey Zakarian and Amanda Freitag enlist Jimmy Buffett's private chef Dante Giannini and Telluride's Eliza Gavin to edge out the win and wipe out Bobby Flay.
Chopped comes a knockin' at Beat Bobby Flay's door when host Ted Allen and resident judge Marc Murphy come to town. They're bringing Chopped Champions Seis Kamimura and Demetrio Zavala for another shot at beating Bobby.
Chef Richard Blais recruits TV personality Laura Vitale to try to knock Bobby Flay down a peg or two. They enlist the help of global food enthusiasts Chef Reza Setayesh and Chef Andy Gaynor to make Bobby's world spin.
Things get shrewd when Iron Chef's Alex Guarnaschelli and Alton Brown join forces. It's up to partners in business and in life, chefs Lisa Carlson and Carrie Summer, to outsmart the one and only Bobby Flay!
When the junior chefs unpack pickle-flavored cotton candy in their appetizer baskets, it's anyone's guess how the round will unfold. In the second round, they must dip into cookie jars to discover sweet ingredients for their entrees and impress the judges, including guest Nikki Bella. Finally, a stinky soda and a crunchy treat await the feisty final competitors in the dessert round.
