E12 • The Cheesier the Better

E1 • First Impressions

For their first challenge, chefs combine their favourite ingredients into one cohesive dish. Contestants must also create a dish featuring one of Portland's iconic local birds.

53m • 2021

For their first challenge, chefs combine their favourite ingredients into one cohesive dish. Contestants must also create a dish featuring one of Portland's iconic local birds.

E2 • Trouble Brewing

The chefs enter the kitchen to find Padma and seven hungry all-star chefs, and find they have 30 minutes to serve eight plates of breakfast.

52m • 2021

The chefs enter the kitchen to find Padma and seven hungry all-star chefs, and find they have 30 minutes to serve eight plates of breakfast.

E3 • Pan African Portland

The pressure is laid on the chefs in the Quickfire Challenge as they are tasked to make a layered dessert; Gregory and Kwame take the chefs on a tour of restaurants that feature food from the African diaspora.

42m • 2021

The pressure is laid on the chefs in the Quickfire Challenge as they are tasked to make a layered dessert; Gregory and Kwame take the chefs on a tour of restaurants that feature food from the African diaspora.

E4 • Thrown for a Loop

The chefs must create a dish featuring Campbell's soup for Padma and Dale Talde.

42m • 2021

The chefs must create a dish featuring Campbell's soup for Padma and Dale Talde.

E5 • Meet You at the Drive-In

The chefs are tasked to create a dish featuring roses or rose products, inspired by the mother figure in their lives.

53m • 2021

The chefs are tasked to create a dish featuring roses or rose products, inspired by the mother figure in their lives.

E6 • Stumptown U.S.A.

The chefs are transported into a magical kitchen forest for the week's Quickfire Challenge where they make a dish featuring mushrooms; the cheftestants will be paired up to create a surf and turf dish featuring local fish and game.

42m • 2021

The chefs are transported into a magical kitchen forest for the week's Quickfire Challenge where they make a dish featuring mushrooms; the cheftestants will be paired up to create a surf and turf dish featuring local fish and game.

E7 • Feeding the Frontlines

Chef José Andrés calls in to recruit the chefs to join World Central Kitchen, tasking the chefs with delivering over 500 meals to frontline workers at three local hospitals in Portland.

42m • 2021

Chef José Andrés calls in to recruit the chefs to join World Central Kitchen, tasking the chefs with delivering over 500 meals to frontline workers at three local hospitals in Portland.

E8 • Restaurant Wars Supersized

The eight remaining chefs split into teams and are tasked with creating a Chef's Table restaurant concept, where they must serve a seven-course, high-end tasting menu to the judges and all-star panel.

52m • 2021

The eight remaining chefs split into teams and are tasked with creating a Chef's Table restaurant concept, where they must serve a seven-course, high-end tasting menu to the judges and all-star panel.

E9 • Portland-ia

Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein from the comedy series "Portlandia" task the chefs with creating a dish with hipster ingredients using only old vintage appliances and equipment; the chefs must develop and create a recipe fit for the home cook.

42m • 2021

Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein from the comedy series "Portlandia" task the chefs with creating a dish with hipster ingredients using only old vintage appliances and equipment; the chefs must develop and create a recipe fit for the home cook.

E10 • Tournament of Tofu

Ed Lee enters the kitchen and tells the chefs they will be competing tournament style; the chefs duke it out at the Portland Japanese Gardens, where they must create dishes featuring various textures of tofu.

42m • 2021

Ed Lee enters the kitchen and tells the chefs they will be competing tournament style; the chefs duke it out at the Portland Japanese Gardens, where they must create dishes featuring various textures of tofu.

E11 • Blind Ambitions

In teams of two, the chefs each take a turn entering the box where they blindly taste a dish created by guest judge Gabriel Rucker and then must try to re-create it.

42m • 2021

In teams of two, the chefs each take a turn entering the box where they blindly taste a dish created by guest judge Gabriel Rucker and then must try to re-create it.

E12 • The Cheesier the Better

The final four chefs near the end of their journey in Portland, Padma; popular chef and special guest Massimo Bottura has the chefs pull inspiration from his famous parmigiano reggiano dish.

42m • 2021

The final four chefs near the end of their journey in Portland, Padma; popular chef and special guest Massimo Bottura has the chefs pull inspiration from his famous parmigiano reggiano dish.

E13 • Shellfishly Delicious

The remaining chefs get an early wake-up call from Padma to go meet Brooke and dig for clams.

53m • 2021

The remaining chefs get an early wake-up call from Padma to go meet Brooke and dig for clams.

E14 • The Next Top Chef Is

After 13 grueling weeks of competition, the chefs must create the best four-course meal of their lives for their final challenge and serve it to a table of esteemed guests, including Padma, Tom and Gail, the season's all-star dining panel and more.

42m • 2021

After 13 grueling weeks of competition, the chefs must create the best four-course meal of their lives for their final challenge and serve it to a table of esteemed guests, including Padma, Tom and Gail, the season's all-star dining panel and more.