| Premiere date
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Location
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Teams
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Exceptional Ingredient Challenge
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Take-Over Challenge
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Most Valuable Chef
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Eliminated
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U.S. viewers
(millions)
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Episode 1: London Calling
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| May 9, 2012
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London, England
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- Black
- Avery, Chaz, Keven, Liz, Nick, Sai
- Red
- Clara, Gary, Jenna, John, Nicole, Nookie
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The teams are given maps of three pubs and must visit each one offering food and drinks. The first team to finish wins.
- Reward: Use of potatoes in their dishes
- Winners: Red Team
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Each team will take over one of the pubs and create two authentic gastro-pub dishes while replicating the three dishes they ate during the pub crawl.
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Chaz
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Clara
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Episode 2: Forget Paris
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| May 16, 2012
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Lyon, France
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- Black
- Avery, Chaz, Gary, Keven, Nookie
- Red
- Jenna, John, Liz, Nick, Nicole, Sai
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The teams navigate through France and do several sheep-themed challenges. First, two teammates must correctly identify six sheep cheeses. Next, each team must herd four sheep into a pen without touching the animals. The final challenge is to taste wines and match them up to their ingredients.
- Reward: Meeting Chef Joseph about typical Lyonnese menu.
- Winners: Black Team
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Each team will be taking over a restaurant, making four dishes a piece. Both teams must also craft a quenelle to be served.
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Avery
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Sai
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Episode 3: Something Smells Fishy
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| May 23, 2012
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Barcelona, Spain
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- Black
- Avery, Jenna, Liz, Nicole, Nookie
- Red
- Chaz, Gary, John, Keven, Nick
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The teams sort and prepare three different types of seafood: monkfish, merluza, and sepia. Each type of seafood is worth a different amount of money. By the time the delivery truck arrives, whoever makes the most money wins.
- Reward: Use of red prawn in their dishes.
- Winners: Red Team
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Each team will share a restaurant, each creating a three course seafood menu based on the seafood they prepared in the previous challenge.
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Nookie
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Keven
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Episode 4: In and Out of Africa
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| May 30, 2012
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Marrakesh, Morocco
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- White
- Gary, Chaz, Nick
- Black
- Nookie, Avery, John
- Red
- Jenna, Liz, Nicole
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Find the Ben Boubker spice shop within the Medina. Pour glasses of Mint Tea in the traditional Moroccan style.
- Reward: $15,000 and a guide
to help them
navigate the Medina
- Winners: Black Team
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Each team will share a restaurant, each creating a tagine in addition to two other dishes.
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Liz
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Chaz
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Episode 5: Tale of Two Villas
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| June 6, 2012
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Florence, Italy
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- Black
- Nick, Nookie, Avery, Nicole
- Red
- Jenna, Gary, Liz, John
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In Florence, the Course starts with a scavenger hunt where the chefs get
firsthand experience on the traditions of the local cuisine.
- Reward: $10,000 and cooking lessons from a nonna (grandmother).
- Winners: Black Team
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With their new knowledge, they head to beautiful villas in the rolling hills of Tuscany to create Tuscan cuisine for the Takeover. One chef causes a disaster in the middle of the night and must confess to his fellow chefs.
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Nicole
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Gary
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Episode 6: Ciao Down
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| June 13, 2012
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Bologna, Italy
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- Black
- Nick, Nookie, Avery, Nicole
- Red
- Jenna, Liz, John
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The chefs shift gears and head north to Bologna where they tackle the local favorite, tortellini.
- Reward: $10,000 and extra hour to cook.
- Winners: Red Team
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Tempers flare between two chefs over past grievances and one of the contestants is intent on taking a teammate down.
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John
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Nick
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Episode 7: Thai Breaker
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| June 20, 2012
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Chiang Mai, Thailand
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- White
- Avery, Jenna
- Black
- John, Nookie
- Red
- Liz, Nicole
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Find and transport two baskets of coconuts, then grate five pounds worth. Plant 20 rows of rice in a traditional paddy.
- Reward:$10,000, plus a double shopping budget and the chance to serve two dishes instead of one
- Winners: Black Team
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Each team runs a Thai street food cart, with the goal of earning the most money.
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John
(wins $5000 instead of immunity)
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Jenna
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Episode 8: Feeding the Demon
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| June 27, 2012
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Hong Kong, China
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- Black
- John, Nookie
- Red
- Avery, Liz, Nicole
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Retrieve an envelope from a statue of Buddha, then bundle 10 hairy crabs, then fill 7 steamer baskets with dumplings.
- Reward: Hour with a local sous chef.
- Winners: Black Team
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The chefs compete as individuals to cook a five-course meal at a restaurant that offers "X-Treme Chinese Cuisine" for Alvin Leung.
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Avery
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Nicole
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Episode 9: Cry for Me Argentina
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| July 11, 2012
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Black
- John, Liz
- Red
- Avery, Nookie
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The chefs have to make 80 empanadas to then sell in a local park and earn 150 pesos.
- Reward: Roast goat, a local delicacy.
- Winners: Red Team
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The teams takeover a local parrilla (grill house) and create a menu featuring two appetizers and two meat dishes.
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Liz
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John
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Episode 10: A Winner Comes Home
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| July 18, 2012
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Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay
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- Black
- Avery, Jenna, Nick
- Red
- Liz, Chaz, John
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Go to three different shops for ingredients for, and then prepare, a traditional Uruguayan dish of each chef's choice
- Reward: The power to eliminate one chef (Nookie)
- Winners: Avery
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Create a three-dish menu inspired by three of the chefs' previous destinations throughout the competition, with the help of two past contestants as sous chefs
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Avery
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Liz
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