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.
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.