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.
For today's challenge, the chefs take a trip to Bristol Farms supermarket and have ten minutes to spend fifteen dollars on ingredients. The chefs must cook a dish with the groceries they bought.
The chefs must teach five Miss Teen USA winners how to cook a chicken parmesan dish using only words for guidance. The winner enjoys a gourmet Italian lunch and kayaking in the Venice canals.
The contestants taste Chef Lefebvre and Chef Hatfield's dishes. This leads to a challenge in which the chefs must distinguish the ingredients in the meals and reproduce it in thirty minutes.
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.
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.
The aspiring chefs create four different lamb dishes. The winners spend a day at the horse races while the losers first wash paint off the sheep, then clean the kitchens for the dinner service.
The two teams must cook a meal for sixty newly naturalized U.S. citizens. The winners go on a safari trip in San Diego while the losers do manual labor at the Ballona Wetlands.
The chefs remove scallops from a mound of ice and seaweed before cooking them to Chef Ramsay's standards. The first team to make six plates of five scallops wins a day of yacht cruising.
Eighteen chefs vie for a head chef position at Gordon Ramsay Steak at the Paris Las Vegas hotel and casino. Ramsay splits up the contestants into two teams.
While wearing new white dinner jackets, the final contestants prepare a menu consisting of four appetizers, four entrees and three desserts.
The final four chefs eat a dish prepared by Chef Ramsay. For their challenge, they must recreate it in 35 minutes. The winner goes to a baseball game while the losers move furniture out of the dorms.
The chefs prepare five dishes that must include at least one type of beer. The winners attend the Long Beach Grand Prix IndyCar race while the losers unload kegs of beer and bags of ice.
The contestants prepare Hawaiian dishes for a high school's twentieth reunion. The winners spend the day on a yacht while the losers transform Hell's Kitchen to look Hawaiian.