Chopped: Volume 1

The chefs get an unusual wake-up call in the appetizer basket: gummy fried eggs. Then a sweet-and-sour surprise in the entree round sends the chefs running to the pantry to find suitable complementary ingredients.

The chefs need to have guts when they discover poultry intestines and red miso in the first basket. The ingredients are less daunting for the entree round, but some big technical flaws are disappointing to the judges.

It's a chocolate lover's dream competition: Chocolate in every course! When the chefs are given a molded chocolate novelty item in the dessert round, they battle to prove who can finish strong.

Four chefs from the Big Easy take on the challenge of excelling in the Chopped Kitchen. In the first basket, half of the ingredients are very familiar, while the other mystery items just might throw the competitors off their game.

It's a special All-American Chopped! Fierce competition is a matter of national and personal pride as four chefs face off to see who will be the champ.

Three of the chefs go in a very similar direction with the first course, and yet the judges find creativity in the variety of flavors in their seafood sausage appetizers. One competitor's dessert round plans fall apart.

Winners of the hit series Food Network Star compete to see who can beam brightest in the Chopped Kitchen.

In this first-of-its-kind Chopped tournament event, the competition goes West for a fierce, five-part showdown, where the greatest griller of them all will walk away with $50,000.

Four new master grillers step up to the challenge, fighting for a chance to compete in the $50,000 finale.

Four masters of the open flame compete for a chance to make it to the $50,000 finale fight.

Four grill masters face off for the last slot in the $50,000 finale.

The champions of the first four Chopped Grill Masters competitions return to compete for $50,000.

When the chefs open the first basket, their expertise with tuna belly comes into play. With cayenne pepper and canned pumpkin desserts in the works, one chef has some difficulties and races to get everything onto the plate.

The chefs find carrot cake in the first basket, along with an unusual seafood product. Will they be able to pull together cohesive appetizers? The competitors take three different approaches to entrees with a familiar protein.

The judges are pleased to see duck confit in the first basket. But when it comes time to taste, they're disappointed that they must consider a competitor's very minimal use of one of the other ingredients.

The competitors get a jolt of energy in the form of espresso powder, which they must pair with flank steak for their entree dish.

A pink candy surprise in the appetizer basket prompts the chefs to make some very creative choices. Then in the entree round, the chefs have to hop to it with a chocolate bunny and an imposing cut of meat as ingredients.

With pluck aplenty, four chefs charge into the competition. But will spaghetti in a can spell trouble for them in the first round?

Ostrich tenderloin appetizers are on the menu for the judges after a dramatic first round of cooking. And then, for creativity's sake, the chefs must work hard to make terrific entrees with sablefish and sake.