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The Best Episodes of Top Chef Masters

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The Best Episodes of Top Chef Masters

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...

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  1. Background image for 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for My Life as a Chef
    8.6/10(8 votes)

    #2 - My Life as a Chef

    S3:E10

    No description available

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    Director:Unknown
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  3. Background image for A Soldier's Story
    8.4/10(11 votes)

    #3 - A Soldier's Story

    S3:E9

    A celebration of returning soldiers.

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    Director:Unknown
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  4. Background image for 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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  5. Background image for 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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  6. Background image for 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?

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    Director:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Masters Get Schooled
    7.7/10(20 votes)

    #7 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  9. Background image for Top Chef Master
    7.6/10(13 votes)

    #8 - Top Chef Master

    S1:E10

    No description available

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  10. Background image for Champions Round Begins
    7.5/10(13 votes)

    #9 - Champions Round Begins

    S1:E7

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

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  11. Background image for Trick in a Box
    7.4/10(13 votes)

    #10 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  12. Background image for The Lost Supper
    7.2/10(17 votes)

    #11 - 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.

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  13. Background image for Offal Tasty
    7.2/10(15 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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  14. Background image for First Date Dinner
    7.2/10(14 votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. Background image for Tailgating
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #14 - 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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  16. Background image for Scary Surf & Turf
    7.1/10(12 votes)

    #15 - Scary Surf & Turf

    S2:E6

    The chefs are asked to create Quickfire dishes inspired by Simpsons characters who then judge them, and then they must turn their skills toward making offal tasty in a surf & turf presentation.

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  17. Background image for Food of the Gods
    7.1/10(11 votes)

    #16 - Food of the Gods

    S2:E8

    The Masters are challenged to create a divine dish inspired by a Greek God. The blind taste test returns with the "Name That Ingredient" Quickfire, and then the chefs look to Greece and the ancient gods as inspiration for their elimination dishes.

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  18. Background image for Magic Chef
    7.0/10(15 votes)

    #17 - Magic Chef

    S1:E4

    In the Quickfire, the four chefs take a page from season three's special "4 Star All Stars" when they find themselves manually challenged when they must cook an egg with one hand tied behind their backs- literally! Then it's on to a magically themed Elimination with Neil Patrick Harris as guest judge.

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  19. Background image for Pub Food
    7.0/10(12 votes)

    #18 - Pub Food

    S2:E3

    Convincing high-brow clients of pub grub's merits is tonight's seemingly impossible challenge for the chefs as they try to show that flair and flavor can be found in other than haute cuisine. Competing chefs, Graham Elliot Bowles, Jonathan Waxman, Ludo Lefebvre, Mark Peel, Rick Moonen and Wylie Dufresne are tasked to reimagine old-school pub grub.

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  20. Background image for Cast and Crew Meal
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #19 - Cast and Crew Meal

    S2:E4

    op Chef Masters Season Two there are only five chefs left to compete in the first level for the final two spots in the champion round. Susur Lee, Rick Tramanto, Maria Hines, Debbie Gold, and Jody Adams. All but Susur have been awarded a James Beard. The chefs dabble in craft service as they prepare meals for the cast and crew of ABC's Modern Family.

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  21. Background image for Blinded Me With Science
    7.0/10(12 votes)

    #20 - Blinded Me With Science

    S3:E8

    The ace culinarians delve into science and technology by utilizing modern-day kitchen gadgetry to whip up breakfast. Later, they tap into old-school chemistry at a science fair to render culinary creations.

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  22. Background image for Everything Old is New Again
    6.9/10(14 votes)

    #21 - Everything Old is New Again

    S3:E2

    The masters are in for a treat this week when two high-profile celebrities visit the top chef kitchen. Pop Star and trained chef, Kelis, drops by to judge a very meaty quickfire challenge and then Mad Men actress, Christina Hendricks and her husband, actor Geoffry Arend, enlist the help of the cheftestants in a special '60s-themed Elimination Challenge.

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  23. Background image for It's My Party
    6.8/10(13 votes)

    #22 - It's My Party

    S2:E2

    The chefs cater a celebrity birthday party. This time it’s Mekhi Phifer and he’s requesting a soul food-themed feast for his birthday party. The chef’testants up to bat tonight are David Burke, Marcus Samuelsson, Monica Pope, Thierry Rautureau and Carmen Gonzalez.

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    6.8/10(12 votes)

    #23 - Wedding Wars

    S2:E5

    Top Chef's brutal tag team relay begins the first champions round Quickfire, followed by the dreaded wedding elimination challenge—the first time the master chefs have seen this particular trial—and this time there's no cheats: the person with the lowest score packs their knives, so everyone must put his or her best dish forward… even if it is a wedding cake.

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  25. Background image for Restaurant Wars
    6.7/10(15 votes)

    #24 - Restaurant Wars

    S3:E1

    Top Chef Masters is back with a brand new host, new judge and a new format -- so why not start the competition off with something familiar, the most notorious of all Top Chef challenges, Restaurant Wars? These master chefs have opened their share of award-winning restaurants, but nothing could have prepared them for the pressure that’s on now. With their egos on the line, the knives come out right out of the gate.

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  26. Background image for Diners to Donors
    6.7/10(13 votes)

    #25 - Diners to Donors

    S3:E3

    Crickets, nightcrawlers and beetles, oh my! These master chefs are used to cooking with the finest ingredients, but in this week's Quickfire they’re forced to make a delicious dish out of some horrifying creatures. The Elimination Challenge however, makes it all worthwhile when the chefs compete to sell their dishes for $100 a plate at a charity fundraiser. For every plate they sell, the money they receive goes directly to their charity of choice and these chefs are in to win it.

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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".