Raucous British chef Gordon Ramsay returns for a third summer to both tutor and torture culinary wannabes, who will be divided into two teams (men vs. women) in this season opener. A job as a Las Vegas head chef for the winner lies ahead, but surviving Ramsay is a dubious task. The first contestant will be eliminated at the show’s end.

This weeks food prep challenge winner will get the chance to spend time with Chef Ramsey outside of the kitchen. The end of the day will see ten players remaining.

The remaining 10 competitors will be challenged to cook breakfast for a group of visiting service men and women. The winning team will receive a day of rest while the losers get clean up duty. During dinner prep, one members meal goes wrong and may be potentially poisonous. The next challenger is dismissed.

The remaining chefs compete in a blindfolded taste test. The losers must then taste items that are somewhat less than appetizing while the winners dine with Chef Ramsay. At the dinner service, the dishes are critiqued and rated by the diners.

The seven remaining chefs must purchase and prepare food for a wedding reception. The bride and groom must approve, and one presentation goes very badly. Later, a kitchen power struggle mars the dinner service

In an effort to foster gender equality, Melissa joins the men’s team as it vies with the women to see which team can prepare better lobster dishes. But first they must kill the lobsters. At that evening’s dinner service, one team has its worst night yet.

The first challenge facing the six remaining contestants: make appetizers and entrA©es from leftovers. Then the teams must come up with their own menus for the evening’s dinner service. The diners definitely prefer one team’s menu, but that’s not necessarily a good thing since devising selections and executing them are two different things.

The five remaining chefs are combined into one team and compete head-to-head to impress 100 hungry high school students. The winning chef wins a trip with Chef Ramsay and one other of their choice to the Green Valley Ranch resort. At dinner service, two contestants vie for power, which makes Chef Ramsay lose his cool and send someone home during dinner.

The three remaining chefs prepare fine-dining versions of classic American dishes for outside judges---their mothers, who don’t know whose plates they’re sampling. Then each contestant gets to run Hell’s Kitchen during dinner service. They must watch for subtle traps set for them by sous chefs MaryAnn and Scott.

In the next-to-last episode of the season, the two remaining contestants take on a final challenge, and it involves more than just cooking. They must design restaurants of their own---the decor as well as the menus---then manage them.

In the third-season finale, tempers flare as the two finalists prepare one last dinner service at Hell’s Kitchen before Chef Ramsay picks a winner, who earns a job running a restaurant at a Las Vegas casino-resort.