Strongman Eddie Hall comes face to face with the grim reaper in Houston, Texas, when he takes on a two-pound crawfish challenge doused with hot sauce made from the mind-numbingly hot Carolina Reaper pepper. He also gets a chance to load up on some Southern comfort food and pull a 45,000-pound plane down an airport runway.
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the nine young bakers to get creative and colorful. Cakes in assigned flavors like chocolate, red velvet and coconut are splattered with color -- the brighter and crazier, the better!
Andrew Zimmern gets a whole new taste of Alaska when he visits the Inside Passage. From fresh sea cucumbers straight out of the ocean to fish heads that are buried on the beach before they're roasted over a fire, Andrew finds out that people in this part of Alaska are still making the most of the bounty that nature has provided.
Iron Chef Cat Cora is challenged by San Francisco based chef Charles Phan. Will Iron Chef Cora be able to hold her own against Chef Phan, or will she walk away from Kitchen Stadium defeated? Tune in to see whose cuisine reigns supreme!
Nothing says Texas like barbecue and that's exactly what Tiffani Thiessen brings to the table for her White Collar co-stars Sharif Atkins, Tim DeKay and Willie Garson. Tequila Peach Tea, Pimento Cheese Spread and fall-from-the-bone BBQ Ribs that have been rubbed and sauced go with Southern Greens done with bacon and a spicy vinaigrette. To finish off the meal, Tiffani brings in one of her favorite pecan pies to top with her Homemade Vanilla Bean Whipped Cream.
If a love for chocolate can be described as a religion, we have found the ultimate places of worship that claim devotion to little else. Atop the shrine to this beloved ingredient sits a collection of playful chocolate confections, a chocolate-doused brownie sundae, a molten chocolate tart unlike any you've ever seen and a chocolate cake that's known as the best in the world.
The bakers first compete in a speedy elimination round with mayonnaise as the mystery ingredient. The last two standing compete for $10,000 in an alien-themed cupcake showdown.
In the final test, the Thanksgiving-themed final episode is a knife-to-knife battle between the remaining two chefs to win the title of Next Iron Chef. Special judges include Bobby Flay and Masaharu Morimoto along with the regular panel of Simon Majumdar, Donatella Arapaia and Michael Symon.
Paying respect to his Italian roots, Michael Symon creates an entire Italian feast over coals using his outdoor grill, beginning with smoking fresh tomatoes for his Fettuccine with Smoked Tomato Sauce. His wife, Liz, mixes up creamy ricotta, lemon and herbs for Stuffed Squash Blossoms from their garden and fries them over the grill. For dessert, a decadent Lemon Upside-Down Cake is a sweet way to finish off the meal.
At the Wilson County Fair, nestled in Lebanon, Tenn., Noah Cappe bites into some classic Tennessee Hot Chicken, tastes authentic home cooking with Meme's Meatloaf Sammy, and samples a pair of sinfully sweet fusion treats: the Apple Pie Cheesecake and the Cotton Candy Cupcake. At the Pickaway County Fair in Circleville, Ohio, Noah huffs and puffs his way through the Three Little Pigs Melt, goes long with the Buffalo Chicken Stromboli and gets hog-wild for the Big PLT.