Season 18 (2013)

No Pain, No Shame
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November 26, 2013

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

Teen Talent
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December 10, 2013

Four talented teenaged chefs bring their energy and ambition to the Chopped Kitchen! With a $40,000 scholarship on the line, the y...Read more

Tapas Time
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December 17, 2013

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 ...Read more

Waste Not
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January 5, 2014

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

Firefighter Chefs
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January 12, 2014

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

Hoofin' It!
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January 16, 2014

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

Pizza Perfect
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January 21, 2014

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

All-Burger Meal!
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February 9, 2014

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

Chocolate Competition
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February 11, 2014

With chocolate in every basket of this themed competition, the chefs must figure out how to make this perennial dessert favorite w...Read more

Bacon Baskets!
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February 16, 2014

The chefs get some great news before the cooking begins: bacon will be in every basket! In the first one, they find Mangalista bac...Read more

Beer Here!
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February 23, 2014

Chefs are brewing up as all three rounds are devoted to beer. Chefs must make sausages work with toasted lager for appetizers and ...Read more

Burn For The Worse
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April 7, 2014

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

An Egg Up
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May 13, 2014

The competing chefs are forced to cook with the so-called "100-year-old egg" in the appetizer round; find mango pudding in their e...Read more