Chopped

The chefs must bid on their fourth ingredients in an auction; in the entrée round, a bidding war breaks out over a premium item.

The chefs get only three items in each basket and must bid in a live auction for a fourth ingredient. The entrée round auction includes an unusual protein that gets big bids from more than one chef.

Four competitors are given baskets with just three items, and a live auction determines what each chef scores as their fourth ingredient. One chef raises expectations by spending a ton of money to secure a favourite ingredient for his appetiser dish.

In the tournament finale, the chefs are given a larger sum of money to bid on their fourth ingredient. In a fierce first round, all the items that the chefs win at auction seem challenging in their own way, and the judges' expectations are sky-high.

Four chefs cook Thai-inspired meals, starting with chicken feet in the first basket. A colourful entrée basket includes some pretty purple dumplings. Then, in the dessert round, a competitor must juggle two simultaneous snafus.

Four chefs are eager to impress as they race to make appetisers with mizuna and a weird pizza, but first round jitters are a real problem. A deep-fried oddity is part of the challenge for the competitors in the second round.