8.8/1012 votes#1 - Crabs of Steel
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/2014
One chef has to step up their game when they're forced to work on a traditional Japanese tea table, while another chef becomes crabby when forced to make a crab cake with a toy crab claw in one hand. Finally, a chef looks for a little R and R as they prepare all their food in a hammock.
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- 8.1/1015 votes
#2 - Tos-Ta-Da
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/2014
One chef is brought back to their childhood when they cook in a high chair. Alton's new magic hobby forces two chefs to share a giant saw, then a chef has all of their cooking vessels replaced with corn husks.
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- 9.0/1017 votes
#3 - SaBOOOtage
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/2014
In this special Halloween episode, one chef pays a heavy price for a deal with the devil. Later, a chef digs themselves out of their own grave while another does all their cooking over a hell flame.
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- 9.0/1012 votes
#4 - Superstar Sabotage: Heat One
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/2014
Chefs Susan Feniger, Jeff Mauro, Michael Psilakis and Aarti Sequeira face off in the first heat of the Cutthroat Kitchen Superstar Sabotage. The chefs will face sabotages including a treadmill station, a hammer carnival game and cooking in a conveyor toaster.
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- 7.8/1013 votes
#5 - Here's Looking at You, Squid
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/2014
Elbows are the perfect pastas for macaroni, so one chef uses a metal plumbing elbow to do all of their cooking. One chef must play ring toss for their calamari rings while another chef gets the jitters trying to use a coffee maker to make coffee cake.
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- 8.4/1017 votes
#6 - Superstar Sabotage: Heat Two
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/2014
Chefs Nadia G., Brian Malarkey, Marcel Vigneron and Justin Warner face sabotages including a very high prep table, cooking in a popcorn machine and getting a hand stuck in a cookie jar.
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- 8.4/1012 votes
#7 - Chip Off the Ol' Baklava
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/2014
The chefs have to rummage through boxes to get their cookware in the first challenge. Later, kitchen tools are replaced with tortilla chips; and ingredients must be harvested out of a pot of honey.
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- 9.2/1014 votes
#8 - Superstar Sabotage: Heat Three
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 10/22/2014
Chefs Anne Burrell, Eric Greenspan, Johnny Iuzzini and Damaris Phillips battle each other and sabotages such as a floating prep station, holding hands with another chef around the kitchen and having their mixing and cooking vessels replaced by lemons.
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- 8.0/1011 votes
#9 - The Undertater
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 10/26/2014
One chef tries to outrun a giant boulder of aluminum foil while two chefs put aside their differences and cook for each other. Finally, a chef loses all of their ingredients and must play a memory game to get them back.
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- 8.3/1017 votes
#10 - Superstar Sabotage: Heat Four
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 10/29/2014
There's only one more spot in the Superstar Sabotage finale and chefs Melissa d'Arabian, Elizabeth Falkner, Alex Guarnaschelli and Fabio Viviani each think they have what it takes to get there. But first, they'll be faced with sabotages including hitting the slots for ingredients, harvesting cheese from a giant cheese block and cooking in banana leaves.
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- NaN/100 votes
#11 - With a Chariot on Top
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/2/2014
One chef rides a chariot in a culinary fight for the ages and then the South rises again in a Civil War-inspired sabotage. Finally, one chef makes an ice cream sandwich out of sandwich ingredients.
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- NaN/100 votes
#12 - Superstar Sabotage: Finale
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 11/5/2014
The chefs make: Meatballs Fish and chips Candy Judged by: Simon Majumdar
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- NaN/100 votes
#13 - Empanada Chance
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 11/9/2014
The chefs make: Waffle breakfast Empanada Lemon meringue pie Judged by: Antonia Lofaso
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Crabs of Steel" is the best rated episode of "Cutthroat Kitchen" season 5. It scored 8.8/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/21/2014. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Tos-Ta-Da".