About this season
Food Network Challenge is a competitive cooking television series that currently airs on the Food Network. Each episode, professional chefs compete in a timed competition in their professional specialty. The winner receives a check for $10,000 and a gold medal.
Episodes (24)
1. Challenge: American Pie Festival
Aired 17 August 2008 • 60 min
Some of the country's greatest amateur bakers descend on Celebration, Fla., to find out once and for all who has the best pie in the land. The "best in show" winner takes home bragging rights and great cash prize.
2. Challenge: Big Bash Caterers
Aired 24 August 2008 • 60 min
3. Challenge: Ice Cream Clash
Aired 7 September 2008 • 60 min
Four top pastry chefs square off in competition to see who has the best ice cream skills. There are three rounds of competition: ice cream sundae, ice cream cake and ice cream specialty. The winner takes home $10,000 and a gold
4. Challenge: Tag Team Cakes
Aired 21 September 2008 • 60 min
All bets are off in this Challenge, as eight top pastry chefs decorate cakes in teams of two. The only thing is, the chefs won't know who their partners are until moments before the competition begins. The winning team shares a $10,000 prize and gold medals.
5. The Great American Seafood Cook-Off II
6. Challenge: The Next Great Chef
7. Challenge: Big City Cakes
Four of the country's best cake artists square off to build four American city skylines out of cake in just eight hours. Can Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh and Seattle be built in a day? The winner takes home $10,000 and a gold medal.
8. Challenge: Cereal Bridges
Four top pastry chefs compete to build four famous bridges with rice cereal treats. Can these pastry chefs replicate some of the world's greatest architectural feats? Or will their bridges collapse? The winner earns a gold medal and a $10,000 prize.
9. Challenge: Texas Steak Cook-Off
Awesome amateur grillers from all over the country descend on Hico, Texas to put their steak recipes on the line. Best ribeye gets a gold medal and $2500 grand prize.
10. Battle of the Brides
Four cake artists are in for a surprise when they learn they'll be designing wedding cakes for brides they've just met, and the brides will actually be assisting them. Will these novice bridezillas help or hurt them in their quest to create the perfect wedding cake? The stakes are high, since the winning chef gets $10,000 and the winning bride assistant gets to have her dream cake recreated at her wedding.
11. Build a Better Burger III
12. Chocolate Masterpieces
Four master chocolatiers will try to replicate world-famous sculptures using only chocolate. Will a twelve-hundred pound chocolate sculpture make it to the judge's table without crashing to the floor? If so, its creator has a shot at the $10,000 prize.
13. Challenge: Italian Family Feast
Three top Italian chefs face off for a $10K prize to put a new twist on the Italian family recipes that they grew up with. What these chefs don't know is that their families have come to help them cook.