Episode
Hell's Kitchen: 14 Chefs Compete
Overview
An ocean adventure is up for grabs as the teams try to impress chef Gordon Ramsay during a cheese challenge. Later, emotions are elevated as the 14 remaining contestants work to avoid elimination and complete a star-studded dinner service.
Details
- Series
- Hell's Kitchen
- Season
- Season 14
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2015-03-31
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
14 Chefs Compete is Episode 5 in Season 14 of Hell's Kitchen. It aired on 2015-03-31. The runtime is 44 min.
Previous / Next
Episode 4: 15 Chefs Compete
The teams present traditional American dishes to celebrity judges, with one team winning a journey aboard a three-masted schooner; the teams run a family-style dinner service.
Episode 6: 13 Chefs Compete
The 13 remaining contestants prepare a special lunch for two charitable organizations involving active and retired firefighters in Los Angeles. Later, dinner service becomes tense and multiple chefs are ordered to leave the kitchen.
More episodes from this season
Episode 3: 16 Chefs Compete
The teams compete to match the heads and tails of popular fish in order to win an advantage; guest judge Michael Cimarusti joins one team on an outing to the beach; Ramsay ends one team's dinner service early.
Episode 7: 12 Chefs Compete
The contestants compete to create Greek-inspired dishes, with the winners getting a trip to the go-kart track; chef Michael Psilakis guest judges; Ramsay kicks one team out during dinner service, leaving the other to cover.
Episode 2: 17 Chefs Compete
The teams must retrieve crabs from the ocean and create crab cake dishes, with the first team to come up with 10 dishes winning a trip to Arizona for horseback riding and dinner; during dinner service, one team struggles with the seafood.
Episode 8: 11 Chefs Compete
John Ratzenberger judges the contestants' food pairings; while the challenge winners spend the day at a famous roller rink and go on a beer tasting, the losers prepare linens for dinner service; gastropub night doesn't go smoothly.
Episode 1: 18 Chefs Compete
Episode 9: 9 Chefs Compete
A challenge involving exotic proteins, including alligator, ostrich and wild boar, is followed by chef Ramsay giving the remaining nine contestants one-on-one evaluations and sending one of the weakest team members home.
Episode 10: 8 Chefs Compete
The teams present three Mardi Gras-themed courses to a high school homecoming committee; the team with the best dishes gets to go on a pirate adventure.
Episode 11: 8 Chefs Compete Again
Gordon conducts a blind taste test; and the remaining eight contestants must serve a five-course dinner to guests of a major charity event.
Episode 12: 7 Chefs Compete
Seven contestants remain to prepare a premiere dish using various cuts of steak in less than 35 minutes.
Episode 13: 6 Chefs Compete
Six chefs compete in pairs during the "Taste It and Make It" challenge for the chance to win a visit aboard the Queen Mary ocean liner.