Food Network Star (season 11)

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Food Network Star
Season 11
No. of contestants12
Winner Eddie Jackson
No. of episodes11
Release
Original network Food Network
Original releaseJune 7 (2015-06-07) –
August 16, 2015 (2015-08-16) [1]
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The eleventh season of the American reality television series Food Network Star premiered June 7, 2015 on Food Network. [1] Food Network chefs Bobby Flay and Giada de Laurentiis returned to the series as judges, with Alton Brown not returning for undisclosed reasons. [2] This season also continued the inclusion of Star Salvation, a six-week [3] webseries that featured the most recently eliminated contestant competing against the remaining previously eliminated contestants for a chance to re-enter the main Food Network Star competition.

Contents

This season also returned to the practice of the winner of the competition being chosen by the Food Network staff, rather than by viewers as in the three previous seasons. [4]

Contestants

Winner

Runners-up

Eliminated

(In order of elimination)

Contestant progress

Contestant1234567891011
Mentor
Challenge
Winner		——Dom—RueEddieJayAlexEddie——
EddieHIGHHIGHLOWWINHIGHHIGHLOWLOWHIGHLOWWINNER
JayHIGHINININHIGHHIGHHIGHHIGHHIGHHIGHRUNNER-UP
DomLOWINHIGHLOWLOWLOWLOWOUTINRUNNER-UP
ArnoldHIGHHIGHHIGHWINLOWINHIGHLOWLOWOUT
AlexINININWINHIGHLOWLOWHIGHOUT
MichelleININWINLOWLOWINQUIT
EmiliaINLOWININHIGHOUT
RueININININOUT
RosaININLOWOUT
SitaINLOWOUT
MatthewLOWOUT
ChristinaOUT
  (WINNER) The contestant won the competition and became the next "Food Network Star".
  (RUNNER-UP) The contestant made it to the finale, but did not win.
  (WIN) The contestant won the challenge for that week.
  (RETURNED) The contestant won Star Salvation and returned to the main competition.
  (HIGH) The contestant was one of the selection committee's favorites for that week.
  (IN) The contestant performed well enough to move on to the next week.
  (LOW) The contestant was one of the selection committee's three or four least favorites for that week, but was not eliminated.
  (OUT) The contestant was the selection committee's least favorite for that week, and was eliminated.
  (QUIT) The contestant voluntarily left the competition.

Star Salvation

This season of Star Salvation was hosted by Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli and season 7 winner Jeff Mauro. [3]

Contestant1234 1 56
DomINWIN
RueININININOUT
AlexOUT
EmiliaININOUT
MatthewINININOUT
ChristinaININOUT
RosaINOUT
SitaOUT

^Note 1 : Having withdrawn from the competition, Michelle did not compete in Star Salvation this week.

  (WIN) The chef won Star Salvation and returned to the main competition.
  (IN) The chef continued in the competition.
  (OUT) The chef lost in that week's Star Salvation and was eliminated from the competition.

Episodes

Week 1: Food Star Food Festival

Week 2: Savory Baking

Week 3: Trendy Dinner

Week 4: 4th of July Cookout

Week 5: The Perfect Match

Week 6: Improv

Week 7: Food Truck Throwdown

^Note 2 Michelle chose to withdraw from the competition to be with her family. She did not compete in Star Salvation.

Week 8: Lifestyle Brand

Week 9: Live TV

Week 10: Dish of a Lifetime and Pilots 3

^Note 3 Dom returned to the competition, having won Star Salvation.

Week 11: We Have a Winner

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