Hell's Kitchen: Season 21

Season 21 overview

The chefs begin with signature dishes and a chicken wing challenge. The teams then face their first dinner service and a timed lobster test.

Key story beats

  1. Signature Dish Ratings — Each chef cooks a signature dish, which is rated on a scale of one to five.
  2. Chicken Wing Challenge — Contestants are challenged to make their best chicken wings.
  3. First Dinner Service — The teams take on their first dinner service of the season.
  4. Lobster Cooking Test — After watching Gordon demonstrate, each team has ten minutes to shell and cook a lobster.
  5. Water Park Slider Challenge — Contestants slide into a pool of ingredients and then create dishes based on four types of sliders.
  6. First Responders Breakfast — Both teams serve breakfast to first responders, firefighters, and EMTs. The winning team celebrates while the losing team sorts trash from a dumpster.
  7. Wedding Menu Challenge — The contestants are challenged to create a wedding menu for Season 20 winner Trenton Garvey and his soon-to-be wife, Macee.
  8. Obscure Ingredient Wok Test — Gordon and guest chef Stephanie Izard challenge the chefs to make a dish with obscure ingredients using only a wok.
  9. Ingredient Game Show — Chefs compete one-on-one in an ingredient game show, where winners can choose an ingredient's fate or sabotage the other team.
  10. Carnival Advantage Contest — One chef from each team competes in carnival games to gain an advantage in the challenge.
  11. Elevated Taco Challenge — The final nine chefs create elevated tacos with various proteins, which Danny Trejo joins Gordon to judge.
  12. Blind Taste Test — Chefs face the 21st annual blind taste test, testing their individual palates.
  13. Black Jacket Selection — The final seven chefs compete in several challenges to earn black jackets, and two chefs are eliminated.
  14. Final Two Showdown — Previously eliminated contestants return to help the final two compete for the Head Chef position, a $250,000 prize, and the season title.

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Content sources

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