Chopped Season 1
A high energy, fast paced cooking competition that challenges four up-and-coming chefs to turn a selection of everyday ingredients into an extraordinary three-course meal. After each course, a contestant gets “chopped” by our panel of esteemed culinary luminaries until the last man or woman left standing claims victory.
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Chopped Season 1 Full Episode Guide
The chefs must work with strawberries, turkey and gummi bears.
Chocolate, figs and mussels are among the featured ingredients.
The chefs must use apples, shrimp and peanut butter in their appetizers; pickled peppers and pepperoni in their entrées; and cereal in their desserts.
The chefs must use string cheese in their appetizers, jicama in their entrées and gingersnaps in their desserts.
Macaroni-and-cheese, cola and bacon are among the featured ingredients.
The chefs must use coconut in their appetizers, calamari in their entrées and donuts with smoked Gouda in their desserts.
The chefs must use quail in their appetizers, arctic char in their entrées, and beer in their desserts.
Featured ingredients include canned peaches (appetizers); fruit punch and rice cakes (entrée); and beets, goat cheese and oatmeal (final course).
The chefs must work with yucca, watermelon and tortillas in three rounds of competition.
The chefs must work with bananas, collard greens and grits.
The chefs must work with avocado, cantaloupe, pecans, bran flakes and brioche bread.
Featured ingredients include tofu, blueberries and oysters.
In the series opener, four chefs must use octopus, duck and animal crackers to make an extraordinary three-course meal in three rounds of competition. A panel of culinary experts determines which chef's dishes deserve the $10,000 prize. Hosted by Ted Allen.
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