America's Culinary Cup

At the halfway point of the competition, the final eight competitors must each create two desserts, one heavenly and one devilish, using a shocking forbidden ingredient chosen by their rivals. Chefs must vote who's most likely to win and who's most likely to lose which shakes up the competition and causes tempers to simmer.

The commandment of culinary science and technology not only pushes the chefs to merge food and science, but battle in the most strategic cook off yet. The chefs will showcase different molecular gastronomy techniques while creating as many dishes as they can in five hours, begging the questions: Who will win an advantage in the next commandment? Who will go home? And how many dishes can the judges eat?

The commandments have always kept the chefs on their toes, but this week it's time to stay consistent. Whipping up 30 identical fish dishes may be a team effort, but when push comes to shove, it's every chef for themselves as they scramble to deliver what the judges are looking for in record time – and one competitor isn't egg-actly successful.

Three hours. Three dishes. Three different nations. And the remaining five chefs must prepare a global cuisine to impress a table of judges so intimidating, even the coolest of chefs start to crack under the pressure. At the end, one chef will stand alone at the top of the world, and another is sent on a one-way trip home.