Chef Ramsay orders each chef, one by one, to enter a grocery store in complete darkness. They must use the sense of touch to collect five ingredients.
The chefs must match eight cuts of pork with their corresponding parts on the body of a pig. The winners get to choose which cut of pork they will use in the next challenge.
Chef Ramsay brings the teams to his eatery and has them prepare the restaurant's signature dishes. Members of the losing team face Ramsay's wrath and are susceptible to elimination.
Given only thirty minutes, both teams must create a meal with surprise ingredients presented to them every few minutes. The winners are treated to a lunch at the beach.
The teams cook sampler dishes for guests at an event honoring the 160th anniversary of the Phi Mu sorority. Each team must serve a chicken, seafood and beef entrée.
The teams cook gourmet pizza that will be judged by Chef Ramsay and Wolfgang Puck. The winners spend the day at a rooftop swimming pool and enjoy a session with a yoga instructor.
Forgoing a challenge this episode, Chef Ramsay asks both teams to choose a captain for the dinner service, testing the aspiring chefs' communication, cooperation and leadership skills.
The remaining contestants must match side dishes with four different types of protein. The winners spend a day at Laguna Beach while the losers prep honey taffy from scratch.
The remaining four contestants split into two teams. Each team has thirty minutes to replicate the sample dish using only taste, touch and sight.
The budding chefs create ten gourmet burgers, which are then evaluated by Chef Ramsay, Jean-Philippe and a row of judges associated with some of the finest restaurants in the country.
Chef Ramsay devises a team of former "Hell's Kitchen" winners to challenge the remaining contestants. The two teams must wow Chef Ramsay with their signature dishes.
Each chef has 45 minutes to use a pressure cooker to make a meal using one of five cheap cuts of meat — each hidden in a pressure cooker — and fashion the dish as a five-star entrée.
Chef Ramsay tests the remaining contestants' abilities to communicate with one another in a three-entrée relay race. The winners tour LA by helicopter and visit the King Gillette Ranch.
Chef Ramsay rewards the chef who has made the greatest stride in the competition with immunity from elimination during the next dinner service, in which the contestants try to impress the judges.
The remaining chefs participate in a challenge that tests their skills at identifying foods merely by touch. The winners eat seafood at Malibu's Nobu restaurant.
The teams must create an ethnic dish in 45 minutes including a protein of their choice. The winners go on a shopping spree at a boutique and receive a set of copper-clad cookware.
Dinner service comes to a halt when Jean-Philippe requests help in the dining room. When one contestant from each team helps the wait staff, Ramsay discovers that both draw illegible checks.
Chef Ramsay orders the remaining contestants to identify the particular protein used in five meat dishes. The fastest team to guess all five proteins wins a day at the beach in Malibu.
The two teams must create a healthy meal for Olympians Maurice Greene, Natalie Coughlin and Danell Leyva after a 3,000m run. The winners jet off to California's Temecula Valley Wine Country.
The remaining contestants participate in a physical challenge. Each team has five minutes to climb a wall and retrieve as many lobsters as possible.