Cutthroat Kitchen: 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 Cutthroat Kitchen 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
Crabs of Steel
Sep 21, 2014 · 60 min
One chef has to step up their game when they're forced to work on a traditional Japanese tea table, while another chef becomes crabby when forced to make a crab cake with a toy cra
Tos-Ta-Da
Sep 28, 2014 · 60 min
One chef is brought back to their childhood when they cook in a high chair. Alton's new magic hobby forces two chefs to share a giant saw, then a chef has all of their cooking vess
SaBOOOtage
Oct 5, 2014 · 60 min
In this special Halloween episode, one chef pays a heavy price for a deal with the devil. Later, a chef digs themselves out of their own grave while another does all their cooking
Superstar Sabotage: Heat One
Oct 8, 2014 · 60 min
Chefs Susan Feniger, Jeff Mauro, Michael Psilakis and Aarti Sequeira face off in the first heat of the Cutthroat Kitchen Superstar Sabotage. The chefs will face sabotages including
Here's Looking at You, Squid
Oct 12, 2014 · 60 min
Elbows are the perfect pastas for macaroni, so one chef uses a metal plumbing elbow to do all of their cooking. One chef must play ring toss for their calamari rings while another
Superstar Sabotage: Heat Two
Oct 15, 2014 · 60 min
Chefs Nadia G., Brian Malarkey, Marcel Vigneron and Justin Warner face sabotages including a very high prep table, cooking in a popcorn machine and getting a hand stuck in a cookie
Chip Off the Ol' Baklava
Oct 19, 2014 · 60 min
The chefs have to rummage through boxes to get their cookware in the first challenge. Later, kitchen tools are replaced with tortilla chips; and ingredients must be harvested out o
Superstar Sabotage: Heat Three
Oct 22, 2014 · 60 min
Chefs Anne Burrell, Eric Greenspan, Johnny Iuzzini and Damaris Phillips battle each other and sabotages such as a floating prep station, holding hands with another chef around the
The Undertater
Oct 26, 2014 · 60 min
One chef tries to outrun a giant boulder of aluminum foil while two chefs put aside their differences and cook for each other. Finally, a chef loses all of their ingredients and mu
Superstar Sabotage: Heat Four
Oct 29, 2014 · 60 min
There's only one more spot in the Superstar Sabotage finale and chefs Melissa d'Arabian, Elizabeth Falkner, Alex Guarnaschelli and Fabio Viviani each think they have what it takes
With a Chariot on Top
Nov 2, 2014 · 60 min
One chef rides a chariot in a culinary fight for the ages and then the South rises again in a Civil War-inspired sabotage. Finally, one chef makes an ice cream sandwich out of sand
Superstar Sabotage: Finale
Nov 5, 2014 · 60 min
The chefs make: Meatballs Fish and chips Candy Judged by: Simon Majumdar
Empanada Chance
Nov 9, 2014 · 60 min
The chefs make: Waffle breakfast Empanada Lemon meringue pie Judged by: Antonia Lofaso