Next Episode of 24 in 24: Last Chef Standing is
Season 3 / Episode 3 and airs on 11 May 2026 00:00
Food Network's most ambitious and grueling culinary competition to date. Featuring 24 talented and fearless chefs who take on 24 food challenges in 24 consecutive, non-stop hours, the 24-hour competition takes the chefs to the extreme, demanding they display the skills, creativity and stamina needed to be an elite chef. At the end of the 24 hours, there can be only one true master left standing - and it's one selected by expert judges. The chef who cooked the best, for the longest and outlasted the competition will take home $50,000 and win a trip of a lifetime.
There are five chefs and four challenges remaining in this epic competition of skill and stamina. In the final shift featuring elevation, co-hosts Michael Symon and Esther Choi give the five weary finalists a challenge that will be familiar to them. This sets the course for the final three challenges, which will require making an elevated breakfast, lunch and dinner for judges Antonia Lofaso, Graham Elliot and Jet Tila. But as these chefs have come to learn, these last challenges will not be quite what they expected.
After more than 20 nonstop hours, co-hosts Michael Symon and Esther Choi ask the elite and exhausted chefs to dig deep and create an elevated lunch and an elevated dinner as their final two challenges. Judges Antonia Lofaso, Graham Elliot and Jet Tila decide which chef will walk away with $75,000 and the title of Last Chef Standing.
In the supersized season premiere, hosts Michael Symon and Esther Choi welcome 24 of the country's best chefs to the most intense cooking competition ever devised: 24 challenges in 24 non-stop hours. In the first shift, the chefs learn this season is completely different from previous ones - from picking which challenge they do to a completely new way of judging, this competition will test the chefs in unexpected and devious ways. If they can impress guest judge Jet Tila in the strategy skills round, they will have a chance to continue the longest day of their professional lives.
Co-hosts Michael Symon and Esther Choi give the remaining chefs three challenges that test their ability to think and cook fast, starting with a team relay race. Later, the chefs have 15 minutes to cook a fast-food dish. Expert judge Judy Joo will send two chefs home, leaving 12 to continue the longest day of their professional lives.
Fatigue is setting in for the 12 remaining chefs as co-hosts Michael Symon and Esther Choi challenge them to craft a black-tie entree in 90 minutes using only five ingredients. The chefs will have to choose their fate as a triple elimination looms. The nine chefs that impress judge Eric Adjepong will survive, and the ones that don't will clock out.
Co-hosts Michael Symon and Esther Choi challenge the remaining chefs with constant twists and turns, and adaptability is the key to survival as they make their best noodle dish for judge Marcus Samuelsson. Then, the chefs must temporarily put individual ambition aside to battle in two teams of four to impress judges Brooke Williamson and Ayesha Nurdjaja, who send two chefs home.
Co-hosts Michael Symon and Esther Choi challenge the chefs to take risks and earn as many points possible when they prepare food for judge Marcel Vigneron. Then, the chefs have a very limited time to execute two exacting dishes, and judge Andrew Zimmern decides which chefs advance to the final shift.
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