| Premiere date | Location | Teams | Exceptional Ingredient Challenge | Take-Over Challenge | Most Valuable Chef | Eliminated | U.S. viewers
(millions) |
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Episode 1: London Calling |
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| May 9, 2012 | London, England | - Black
- Avery, Chaz, Keven, Liz, Nick, Sai
- Red
- Clara, Gary, Jenna, John, Nicole, Nookie
| The teams are given maps of three pubs and must visit each one offering food and drinks. The first team to finish wins. - Reward: Use of potatoes in their dishes
- Winners:Red Team
| Each team will take over one of the pubs and create two authentic gastro-pub dishes while replicating the three dishes they ate during the pub crawl. | Chaz | Clara | 0.79 [4] |
Episode 2: Forget Paris |
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| May 16, 2012 | Lyon, France | - Black
- Avery, Chaz, Gary, Keven, Nookie
- Red
- Jenna, John, Liz, Nick, Nicole, Sai
| The teams navigate through France and do several sheep-themed challenges. First, two teammates must correctly identify six sheep cheeses. Next, each team must herd four sheep into a pen without touching the animals. The final challenge is to taste wines and match them up to their ingredients. - Reward: Meeting Chef Joseph about typical Lyonnese menu.
- Winners: Black Team
| Each team will be taking over a restaurant, making four dishes a piece. Both teams must also craft a quenelle to be served. | Avery | Sai | 0.64 [5] |
Episode 3: Something Smells Fishy |
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| May 23, 2012 | Barcelona, Spain | - Black
- Avery, Jenna, Liz, Nicole, Nookie
- Red
- Chaz, Gary, John, Keven, Nick
| The teams sort and prepare three different types of seafood: monkfish, merluza, and sepia. Each type of seafood is worth a different amount of money. By the time the delivery truck arrives, whoever makes the most money wins. - Reward: Use of red prawn in their dishes.
- Winners: Red Team
| Each team will share a restaurant, each creating a three course seafood menu based on the seafood they prepared in the previous challenge. | Nookie | Keven | 0.55 [6] |
Episode 4: In and Out of Africa |
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| May 30, 2012 | Marrakesh, Morocco | - White
- Gary, Chaz, Nick
- Black
- Nookie, Avery, John
- Red
- Jenna, Liz, Nicole
| Find the Ben Boubker spice shop within the Medina. Pour glasses of Mint Tea in the traditional Moroccan style. - Reward: $15,000 and a guide
to help them
navigate the Medina - Winners: Black Team
| Each team will share a restaurant, each creating a tagine in addition to two other dishes. | Liz | Chaz | 0.78 [7] |
Episode 5: Tale of Two Villas |
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| June 6, 2012 | Florence, Italy | - Black
- Nick, Nookie, Avery, Nicole
- Red
- Jenna, Gary, Liz, John
| In Florence, the Course starts with a scavenger hunt where the chefs get
firsthand experience on the traditions of the local cuisine. - Reward: $10,000 and cooking lessons from a nonna (grandmother).
- Winners: Black Team
| With their new knowledge, they head to beautiful villas in the rolling hills of Tuscany to create Tuscan cuisine for the Takeover. One chef causes a disaster in the middle of the night and must confess to his fellow chefs. | Nicole | Gary | 0.76 [8] |
Episode 6: Ciao Down |
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| June 13, 2012 | Bologna, Italy | - Black
- Nick, Nookie, Avery, Nicole
- Red
- Jenna, Liz, John
| The chefs shift gears and head north to Bologna where they tackle the local favorite, tortellini. - Reward: $10,000 and extra hour to cook.
- Winners:Red Team
| Tempers flare between two chefs over past grievances and one of the contestants is intent on taking a teammate down. | John | Nick | 0.70 [9] |
Episode 7: Thai Breaker |
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| June 20, 2012 | Chiang Mai, Thailand | - White
- Avery, Jenna
- Black
- John, Nookie
- Red
- Liz, Nicole
| Find and transport two baskets of coconuts, then grate five pounds worth. Plant 20 rows of rice in a traditional paddy. - Reward:$10,000, plus a double shopping budget and the chance to serve two dishes instead of one
- Winners: Black Team
| Each team runs a Thai street food cart, with the goal of earning the most money. | John
(wins $5000 instead of immunity) | Jenna | 0.83 [10] |
Episode 8: Feeding the Demon |
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| June 27, 2012 | Hong Kong, China | - Black
- John, Nookie
- Red
- Avery, Liz, Nicole
| Retrieve an envelope from a statue of Buddha, then bundle 10 hairy crabs, then fill 7 steamer baskets with dumplings. - Reward: Hour with a local sous chef.
- Winners: Black Team
| The chefs compete as individuals to cook a five-course meal at a restaurant that offers "X-Treme Chinese Cuisine" for Alvin Leung. | Avery | Nicole | 0.83 [11] |
Episode 9: Cry for Me Argentina |
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| July 11, 2012 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | - Black
- John, Liz
- Red
- Avery, Nookie
| The chefs have to make 80 empanadas to then sell in a local park and earn 150 pesos. - Reward: Roast goat, a local delicacy.
- Winners:Red Team
| The teams takeover a local parrilla (grill house) and create a menu featuring two appetizers and two meat dishes. | Liz | John | 0.76 [12] |
Episode 10: A Winner Comes Home |
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| July 18, 2012 | Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay | - Black
- Avery, Jenna, Nick
- Red
- Liz, Chaz, John
| Go to three different shops for ingredients for, and then prepare, a traditional Uruguayan dish of each chef's choice - Reward: The power to eliminate one chef (Nookie)
- Winners: Avery
| Create a three-dish menu inspired by three of the chefs' previous destinations throughout the competition, with the help of two past contestants as sous chefs | Avery | Liz | 0.83 [13] |
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