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.
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.
The two teams must prepare three dishes from the regular Hell's Kitchen menu in a tag-team race. Chef Ramsay judges the dishes on completeness, appearance and taste.
A Southern gospel choir sings a rendition of "This Little Light of Mine" to the remaining contestants. The teams must put a modern spin on a traditional southern dish in thirty minutes.
The remaining chefs create their own menus in the toughest challenge yet. Chef Ramsay relies on diner comment cards for his brutally honest criticism.
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.
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.
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 get a demonstration in dessert preparation using sound waves and liquid nitrogen, then must steam, poach or boil protein-based dishes.