Chopped (2009)

The chefs get a special tool in the basket to help them bust apart a challenging ingredient: a giant jawbreaker. The judges hope the shards…

Four talented teenaged chefs bring their energy and ambition to the Chopped Kitchen! With a $40,000 scholarship on the line, the young comp…

Time to shake things up in a big/small way as the chefs find out that this competition has a tapas theme. In the first round, the baskets c…

The chefs must make use of ingredients that are usually thrown out, for being imperfect, overripe or stale. For example, the first basket i…

Chopped: The firefighter competitors get the meal started with some hearty meat-and-cheese appetizers that would be a hit back at their fir…

When the clock starts ticking down from 20 minutes, the chefs must rush to make appetizers with pickled pigs' feet and sweet potato chips.…

The chefs learn they will be expected to make a pizza perfect meal. In the first round one of the competitors takes a loose interpretation…

The chefs learn that they will be making hamburgers, in some shape or form, for every round, starting with veal burgers for appetizers. The…

With chocolate in every basket of this themed competition, the chefs must figure out how to make this perennial dessert favorite work in th…

The chefs get some great news before the cooking begins: bacon will be in every basket! In the first one, they find Mangalista bacon and ap…

Chefs are brewing up as all three rounds are devoted to beer. Chefs must make sausages work with toasted lager for appetizers and a tasty t…

Two starchy ingredients, Chinese dumplings and Middle Eastern noodles, are used in the appetizer round. Later, one chef burns two of the my…

The competing chefs are forced to cook with the so-called "100-year-old egg" in the appetizer round; find mango pudding in their entrée bas…