Hell's Kitchen

For the season's first challenge, the hopeful chefs prepare their signature dishes. The winners ride a hummer to Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach to meet William Shatner ("Star Trek").

Each team must retrieve 25 crabs from the ocean. After splitting into pairs, each team must make ten crab cakes for Chef Ramsay. The winners dine at Talavera.

The contestants prepare American comfort food for the judges: Chef Ramsay, Chef Suzanne Goin and Chef David Burke. The winners sip cocktails aboard the American Pride in Long Beach.

The remaining contestants participate in a cheese challenge. The winners go jet skiing in Marina Del Ray while the losers spend the day grating parmesan.

The teams cook lunch for firefighters who are in the midst of a charity ride. The winners head to Malibu, dine at a vineyard and sip wine with Ramsay.

The remaining chefs are treated to live Greek dancing. Afterwards, they must choose a protein to cook a Greek dish with. The winners race go-karts while the losers clean the kitchens.

Each team must create a dish using either beer, wine or liquor. “Cheers” star John Ratzenberger appears as a guest judge.

The remaining chefs must cook with exotic proteins, including ostrich and wild boar, to impress Chef Ramsay and the owners of the restaurant Animal.

The chefs cook a Mardi Gras-themed homecoming dinner for Calabasas High School. Both teams have 35 minutes to create three meals for the homecoming committee.

The teams participate in the annual blind taste test. The winners go on a shopping spree and sample caviar. The losers make sangria and lug tabletops into the dining room.

The chefs must rifle through a pile of keys to find the one that opens a locker full of steak cuts. After cooking their dishes, they present them to Chef Ramsay.

The chefs participate in the annual "taste it, now make it" challenge. The winners spend the day on the RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach while the losers sort the recycling.

The remaining contestants are given just 45 minutes to make small dishes for the guests at a private concert featuring the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music orchestra.

Chef Ramsay gives each of the final four $25 and ten minutes to find ingredients for a vegetarian dish. The winner gets a dinner at Studio in Laguna Beach.

The finalists have one hour to devise five dishes — one hot appetizer, one fish entrée, one chicken entrée and one beef entrée — that will be judged by an array of top chefs.