Chopped: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Chopped Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Dream'n of Redeem'n
Jul 20, 2010
Past runners-up return in a quest to redeem themselves. They must use a pungent English condiment in their appetizers; cookies and fish in their entrées; and blueberry jelly beans
Wok This Way
Jul 27, 2010
The chefs must incorporate trout and white chocolate in their appetizers; whole coconuts in entrées; and two Japanese ingredients in their desserts..
Squashed
Aug 10, 2010
Four female chefs compete. Featured ingredients include kabocha squash and sardines.
$50,000 Tournament: Round One
Aug 31, 2010
Bring on the Champions for the $50,000 prize! Four previous winners return to compete in the first leg of an extraordinary, five-part Chopped event. A repeat win gets a berth in th
$50,000 Tournament: Round Two
Sep 7, 2010
Ready to repeat?! Four new returning champs compete for one of the prized spots in the $50,000 Grand Finale fight. Feeling the pressure of this potentially life-changing opportunit
$50,000 Tournament: Round Three
Sep 14, 2010
Four previously unbeatable chefs compete to see who will win the chance to return to fight for $50,000! But in the appetizer round, will the sweetbreads be the not-so-sweet surpris
$50,000 Tournament: Round Four
Sep 21, 2010
One spot left!! Four returning champs compete to see who can secure the very last place in the Grand Finale champions' contest. With their minds on the $50,000 grand prize, the che
$50,000 Tournament: Grand Finale
Sep 28, 2010
Who is the unstoppable, un-"choppable" champion? Four tenacious repeat winners fight it out for the three-peat and the biggest cash prize in Chopped history! Ready for anything, th
Spouting Off
Oct 5, 2010
A chef spills beer during the appetizer round; the entrée round features an ancient grain; and global ingredients are used for the desserts.
When Octopuses Attack
Oct 12, 2010
The chefs must use octopus in their appetizers; flank steak and granola bars in their entrées; and Greek and Japanese ingredients in their desserts.
Fright Bites
Oct 19, 2010
A Halloween-theme challenge has the chefs cooking with creepy ingredients, including a very daunting piece of meat.
Cornuchopia
Nov 16, 2010
The chefs must make a Thanksgiving meal, using assorted cheeses, a bitter vegetable, mushrooms and a Chinese condiment.
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Chopping Block
Nov 28, 2010
Holiday dishes are made using non-traditional ingredients, such as gingerbread oysters and a sweet jarred fruit.