Top Chef

Bike, Borrow, and Steal - The cheftestants have to compete in a pointless Amazing Race-type challenge and I wish they would just let them cook some food.

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The four chefs predict who will make it back into the Top Chef kitchen.

The Fifth Chef

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Pancakes and Pee Wee Herman!

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To the Alamo to Cook for Pee Wee

The chefs head to the Alamo with all of their ingredients while riding bikes.

Week 12

This week's challenge is the chefs have 30 minutes to create a dish worthy of the finale.

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Extended Judges' Table: Grows Together Goes Together

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An Interview With Pee-wee Herman

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Top Chef Texas: Who Will Win?

Top Chef Texas: Who Will Win?

We're expecting lots of beef challenges in this Texas installment. How will the seafood chefs fare?

Top Chef D.C.: Who Will Win?

Top Chef D.C.: Who Will Win?

This season has the most obvious winner in the show's history, but we'll still play along.

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RECAPS, WEECAPS, AND MORE

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I Know You Are, But What Am I?

Bike, Borrow, and Steal - The cheftestants have to compete in a pointless Amazing Race-type challenge and I wish they would just let them cook some food.

2012.02.01
2012.02.02
C

Kim

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Air/Pub'l

Grade

Author

9-12
Recap

A Game of Chicken

Block Party - The cheftestants get paired up to cook the same dish for a block party, with three ending up on top and three ending up on the bottom.

2012.01.25
2012.01.31
B

Kim

9-11
Recap

Snow White, Blood Red

Fit for an Evil Queen - A challenge based on an upcoming product-placed movie somehow ends up inspiring the best food of the season.

2012.01.18
2012.01.19
A

Kim

9-10
Recap

The War of Restaurants

Restaurant Wars - It's men versus women when the cheftestants have to open fake restaurants.

2012.01.11
2012.01.17
B

Kim

9-9
Recap

Salt Lick

Texas BBQ Wars - The cheftestants have to cook BBQ for three hundred people in scorching hot weather.

2012.01.04
2012.01.09
C+

Kim

9-8
Recap

Mom's Home Cooking

Tribute Dinner - The cheftestants have to cook a dish inspired by the person who taught them to cook. Some take that waaaay too literally.

2011.12.21
2011.12.28
B

Kim

9-7
Recap

Ugly Game

Game On - The cheftestants have to determine the bottom three in the challenge, and it gets ugly.

2011.12.14
2011.12.20
B

Kim

9-6
Recap

Who Shot JR?

Higher Steaks - The chefs work as a team to cook a really boring menu for a bunch of ranchers.

2011.12.07
2011.12.13
B

Kim

9-5
Recap

Progress

Don't Be Tardy for the Dinner Party - The cheftestants head to Big D, where they have to cook for a progressive dinner party.

2011.11.30
2011.12.06
B

Kim

9-4
Recap

Totally Chili

Red Hot Chili Cook Off - The cheftestants work in teams to create chili fit for a Texas cowboy, they hope.

2011.11.23
2011.11.29
B

Kim

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