About this season
In this exhilarating cooking competition series, The Taste puts 16 culinary competitors -- who range from home cooks and professional chefs to everything in between -- in the kitchen, where four of the world’s most notable masters of the food world judge their creations based on a blind taste. In this pressure-packed contest, a single spoonful can catapult a contender to the top or send them packing.
Episodes (8)
1. Auditions (1)
Aired 22 January 2013 • 42 min
Brian Malarkey, Ludovic Lefebvre, Anthony Bourdain and Nigella Lawson audition 29 professional and home cooks through a series of blind taste tests were a single spoonful will decide whether they make it past the audition round of the competition.
2. Auditions (2)
Aired 29 January 2013 • 42 min
The auditions continue as the four mentors choose more contestants to join their teams based only on a spoonful of their food.
3. Comfort Food
Aired 5 February 2013 • 42 min
The teams take on their first challenge alongside their mentors as they are set a comfort food themed challenge before two of them are eliminated.
4. Daring Pairings
Aired 12 February 2013 • 42 min
Each team must use five unique ingredients as it tries to create the best dish; each contestant has to prepare a dish that pairs best with a selected wine.
5. The Art of the Sandwich
Aired 19 February 2013 • 42 min
As the contestants are tasked with creating the perfect sandwich, tensions rise among the judges; chefs Rich Torrisi and Mario Carbone serve as guest judges.
6. Nose to Tail
Aired 26 February 2013 • 42 min
The contestants are pushed out of their culinary comfort zones when asked to not waste any parts of an animal; Greg Morin and David McMillan serve as guest judges.
7. Seduction
Aired 5 March 2013 • 42 min
The seven semi-finalists must seduce the judges with a single, sumptuous spoonful of their latest dish; three cooks are eliminated.
8. Finale: Triple Threat
Aired 12 March 2013 • 42 min
The final four contestants each present three dishes to the judges; after an elimination, the remaining contestants must prepare their most decadent dish in hope of wowing the judges and claiming the grand prize.