The remaining contestants participate in a physical challenge. Each team has five minutes to climb a wall and retrieve as many lobsters as possible.
In the second part of the season opener, the twenty contestants settle into their dorms and prepare their first dinner service, which goes poorly with incomplete and undercooked dishes being served.
This season opens with twenty aspiring chefs presenting signature dishes in Las Vegas, where they split into two teams and attempt to impress Chef Ramsay.
The two budding chefs are placed in separate teams made up of contestants eliminated from the competition prior to the finale and must prepare one last dinner service for Chef Ramsay.
In hour one, the final two contestants prepare five entrées that are judged by five legendary chefs, including Wolfgang Puck.
The teams submit to the annual blind taste test challenge. The winners spend a day at a water park while the losers make deliveries, grind peppercorn, change the oil in the fryers and peel potatoes.
For this episode's challenge, all of the chefs roll a twelve-sided dice to determine their ingredients. Each team produces one dish using all the ingredients named.
The chefs continue to compete at Gordon Ramsay Steak at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, but personal conflicts distract from their work.
The contestants must prepare a thirty-minute meal in which a slot machine randomly determines the ingredients that they can use. The winners go on a shopping spree for kitchenware and utensils.
For the dinner service, the remaining contestants must serve Tito Ortiz and Sugar Ray Leonard protein-packed dishes that'll knock their socks off.
The runway show dinner proves distracting for some, while other contestants succeed despite the pressure to time the service perfectly with the show.
Fashion and food mix when the contestants prepare an haute couture-inspired menu for designers. The winners get new wardrobes while the losers prepare a dinner service.
The remaining contestants tackle Mexican cuisine in a challenge judged by executive chefs John Sedlar and Thomas Ortega. The winners dine at one of the judge's gourmet restaurants for lunch.
In this episode's challenge, each chef must create something special from Alaskan salmon. The winner gets a helicopter ride and lunch at LA's Water Grill. The losers prep fish for the dinner service.
For the first time in "Hell's Kitchen" history, chefs from prior seasons return to compete with the remaining competitors.
The teams must prepare three dishes. The catch? One must be made in thirty minutes, one in twenty and the last in only ten minutes.
The seven remaining competitors visit New York City, where they tour BLT Steak. When they return to Hell's Kitchen, their challenge is to prepare ethnic dishes.
The remaining chefs are put to a blind taste test. The winners ride horses in the Hollywood Hills while the losers peel grapes.
Contestants need to be at their sweetest when Chef Ramsay gives them a dessert challenge. The winning team flies to Sin City while the losers prep the kitchen for Hell's Kitchen's "Date Night.”
The ten budding chefs prepare comfort foods, with Wolfgang Puck judging them. The winners attend a show at L.A.'s Laugh Factory and take a ride in a convertible, while the losers have to clean the dorms.