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The Best Episodes of Top Chef Masters

Every episode of Top Chef Masters ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Top Chef Masters!

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Top Chef Masters is an American reality competition series that airs on the cable television network Bravo, and premiered June 10, 2009. It is a spinoff of Bravo's hit show Top Chef. In the series,

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    Top Chef Masters Season 1 Episode 9 - Masters of Disaster
    8.7/10(14 votes)

    #1 - Masters of Disaster

    S1:E9

    The four remaining chefs are challenge to identify ingredients blindfolded. Afterward, the chefs will be tested on their leadership talents and teaching skills when they cater an event.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Top Chef Masters Season 3 Episode 10 - My Life as a Chef
    8.6/10(8 votes)

    #2 - My Life as a Chef

    S3:E10

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Top Chef Masters Season 3 Episode 9 - A Soldier's Story
    8.4/10(11 votes)

    #3 - A Soldier's Story

    S3:E9

    A celebration of returning soldiers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Top Chef Masters Season 1 Episode 8 - Dietary Restrictions
    8.1/10(16 votes)

    #4 - Dietary Restrictions

    S1:E8

    The five remaining chefs engage in a battle of burgers; guests actress Zooey Deschanel and filmmaker Morgan Spurlock.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Top Chef Masters Season 1 Episode 5 - Miniaturize Me
    7.8/10(14 votes)

    #5 - Miniaturize Me

    S1:E5

    The chefs are challenged to turn classic junk food items into fine-dining cuisine. The cast of Flipping Out are the diners for this challenge. Then, the chefs are challenged to create a mini 3-course "meal" for 100 people, without any help whatsoever. The meal must be based on an appetizer, an entree, and a dessert.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Top Chef Masters Season 3 Episode 7 - Date Night
    7.8/10(14 votes)

    #6 - Date Night

    S3:E7

    In this week’s Quickfire Challenge the chefs must use each of their five senses to identify mystery ingredients -- however they can only use one of their senses at time. In the Elimination Challenge, the masters help a man propose to his unsuspecting girlfriend on her favorite show, Top Chef Masters. In a six-course meal, the chefs must create dishes that reflect different stages of the couple’s relationship, but could one bad dish ruin the whole plan?

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Top Chef Masters Season 4 Episode 10 - Finale
    7.8/10(8 votes)

    #7 - Finale

    S4:E10

    The winning chef is named in the Season 4 finale. Before that, the final two culinarians battle it out by creating a dish with the help of staffers from their own restaurants back home.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Top Chef Masters Season 1 Episode 1 - Masters Get Schooled
    7.7/10(20 votes)

    #8 - Masters Get Schooled

    S1:E1

    In the premiere episode of "Top Chef Masters," Hubert Keller (Fleur de Lys), Christopher Lee (Aureole), Michael Schlow (Radius Restaurant), and Tim Love (The Lonesome Dove Western Bistro) are the first four chefs to draw knives and kick off a whole new level of culinary competition. The Master chefs are tasked with cooking dessert for a tough crowd of judges, Girl Scouts, and in the elimination challenge the acclaimed chefs must cook a three course meal in a college dorm room.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Top Chef Masters Season 5 Episode 6 - Mindy Kaling and Yo Gabba Gabba
    7.7/10(16 votes)

    #9 - Mindy Kaling and Yo Gabba Gabba

    S5:E6

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    Director:Unknown
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  10. Top Chef Masters Season 1 Episode 10 - Top Chef Master
    7.6/10(13 votes)

    #10 - Top Chef Master

    S1:E10

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  11. Top Chef Masters Season 4 Episode 7 - Culinary Knock Out
    7.6/10(10 votes)

    #11 - Culinary Knock Out

    S4:E7

    This week the chefs will battle it out -- facing off in a boxing ring to serve our critics and boxing champ, Sugar Ray Leonard. The winner of the first match will compete against the winner from the second match in a third match for the win and $10,000. The losers from the first and second match will face off one last time to determine who will be sent packing. Special guest judge is Sugar Ray Leonard.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Top Chef Masters Season 5 Episode 9 - Teacher Tribute
    7.6/10(14 votes)

    #12 - Teacher Tribute

    S5:E9

    The chefs serve up their version of a burger for a surprise guest critic. Also: The culinarians pay tribute to teachers through food; and three contestants advance to the finale.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Top Chef Masters Season 1 Episode 7 - Champions Round Begins
    7.5/10(13 votes)

    #13 - Champions Round Begins

    S1:E7

    The top six chefs get a surprise as they prepare to cook their signature dishes.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Top Chef Masters Season 4 Episode 9 - Old School, New School
    7.5/10(8 votes)

    #14 - Old School, New School

    S4:E9

    The ace chefs instruct a mystery guest to make a dish in the penultimate Season 4 episode. Later, they mentor culinary students.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Top Chef Masters Season 1 Episode 6 - Trick in a Box
    7.4/10(13 votes)

    #15 - Trick in a Box

    S1:E6

    The chefs are challenged to create a dish using items found in only one aisle of the grocery store, Whole Foods, with each chef drawing knives to determine their aisle. However, they only have a budget of $20. The diners for this challenge are workers at Whole Foods. Then, the chefs are challenged to make a meal using ingredients one of their fellow chefs have chosen for them with each chef drawing knives to see who they get paired with.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Top Chef Masters Season 5 Episode 1 - Sous Chefs and Skydives
    7.4/10(19 votes)

    #16 - Sous Chefs and Skydives

    S5:E1

    Thirteen chefs arrive in Los Angeles to participate in culinary heats in the Season 5 opener. Here, the foodies take flight by cooking outdoors for a professional skydiving team and are given the opportunity to dive from the sky themselves. In Season 5, the chefs also have sous-chefs who will compete in their own online competition.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Top Chef Masters Season 5 Episode 3 - Sex, Greed and Murder
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    #17 - Sex, Greed and Murder

    S5:E3

    Soap-opera themes inspire culinary creations. Appearing: the cast of "Days of Our Lives.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Top Chef Masters Season 5 Episode 7 - Catch of the Day
    7.3/10(13 votes)

    #18 - Catch of the Day

    S5:E7

    Special guest judge actress Ali Larter challenges the chefs to elevate nachos for their Quickfire. Then the chefs get totally tubular as they cook up the catch of the day for Malibu locals. Divided in to pairs, they have to create a dish with a hot and cold preparation of the same fish, and hope that the critics’ response is better than lukewarm.

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  19. Top Chef Masters Season 5 Episode 8 - Lucha Vavoom
    7.3/10(13 votes)

    #19 - Lucha Vavoom

    S5:E8

    The winner of this week’s Battle of the Sous Chefs challenge, along with their Top Chef Master, get to create today’s Quickfire. Then, the chefs face a culinary body slam, as they create dishes with a Mexican flair for the wrestlers of Lucha Vavoom.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Top Chef Masters Season 5 Episode 10 - Finale
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    #20 - Finale

    S5:E10

    Season 5 comes to a close with the final three master chefs creating memorable dishes from their personal and professional lives, after which the winner is revealed.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Top Chef Masters Season 1 Episode 2 - The Lost Supper
    7.2/10(17 votes)

    #21 - The Lost Supper

    S1:E2

    Top Chef season two's "Less is More" influences tonight's quickfire challenge, but there won't be any Cheetos in melted chocolate bars tonight as the next four chefs are asked to create an elegant amuse-bouche from vending machine fare. Then it's on to the elimination challenge where the show Lost acts the muse.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Top Chef Masters Season 1 Episode 3 - Offal Tasty
    7.2/10(15 votes)

    #22 - Offal Tasty

    S1:E3

    Tonight's quickfire challenge for the next group of four chefs comes from season four's "Seven", asking them to make a dish using color. Then they must sell upmarket street food using offal as the base ingredients.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Top Chef Masters Season 2 Episode 1 - First Date Dinner
    7.2/10(14 votes)

    #23 - First Date Dinner

    S2:E1

    The chefs are tasked with using aphrodisiac ingredients while creating dinners that would be appropriate for a first date.

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  24. Top Chef Masters Season 2 Episode 7 - Tailgating
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #24 - Tailgating

    S2:E7

    It's a Quickfire with a very specific focus: the leg. Once the chefs have butchered and prepared their dishes, they must then turn their skills to an even bigger challenge, preparing a tailgate feast for college football fans.

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  25. Top Chef Masters Season 5 Episode 4 - Curtis Surprise Party
    7.2/10(12 votes)

    #25 - Curtis Surprise Party

    S5:E4

    As every chef knows, curry is difficult to hurry, but the chefs are challenged with making their version of curry in 30 minutes for this week’s Quickfire Challenge. Host Curtis Stone is not easy to surprise, but the tables are turned on him this week as fiancée Lindsay Price and the chefs team up to throw Curtis a surprise engagement party he won’t forget.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Masters of Disaster" is the best rated episode of "Top Chef Masters". It scored 8.7/10 based on 14 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/12/2009. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "My Life as a Chef".