Season 5 · Episode 8 — $50,000 Tournament: Grand Finale
Who is the unstoppable, un-"choppable" champion? Four tenacious repeat winners fight it out for the three-peat and the biggest cash prize in Chopped history! Ready for anything, the chefs open the appetizer baskets to find an over-sized sea creature and a scoop-shop treat. Then a wild combination in the entrée basket makes an intense round even more outrageously difficult. And when the two remaining champions find champagne in their baskets, just whose victory the judges will be toasting is the $50,000 question.
Season 5 episodes
E1Past runners-up return in a quest to redeem themselves. They must use a pungent English condiment in their appetizers; cookies and fish in…
E2The chefs must incorporate trout and white chocolate in their appetizers; whole coconuts in entrées; and two Japanese ingredients in their…
E3Four female chefs compete. Featured ingredients include kabocha squash and sardines.
E4Bring on the Champions for the $50,000 prize! Four previous winners return to compete in the first leg of an extraordinary, five-part Chopp…
E5Ready to repeat?! Four new returning champs compete for one of the prized spots in the $50,000 Grand Finale fight. Feeling the pressure of…
E6Four previously unbeatable chefs compete to see who will win the chance to return to fight for $50,000! But in the appetizer round, will th…
E7One spot left!! Four returning champs compete to see who can secure the very last place in the Grand Finale champions' contest. With their…
E8Who is the unstoppable, un-"choppable" champion? Four tenacious repeat winners fight it out for the three-peat and the biggest cash prize i…
E9A chef spills beer during the appetizer round; the entrée round features an ancient grain; and global ingredients are used for the desserts.
E10The chefs must use octopus in their appetizers; flank steak and granola bars in their entrées; and Greek and Japanese ingredients in their…
E11A Halloween-theme challenge has the chefs cooking with creepy ingredients, including a very daunting piece of meat.
E12The chefs must make a Thanksgiving meal, using assorted cheeses, a bitter vegetable, mushrooms and a Chinese condiment.
E13Holiday dishes are made using non-traditional ingredients, such as gingerbread oysters and a sweet jarred fruit.