Ramsay returns: ‘Next Level Chef’ heats things up with all-new episodes
The “next” evolution in cooking competitions, Gordon Ramsay’s “Next Level Chef” returns with an all-new season, beginning with a special episode airing Sunday, Jan. 28, on Fox.
This series — which was renewed for both a third and fourth season in May 2023 — follows competing chefs, divided into teams, as they tackle a series of cooking challenges. During this one-of-a-kind culinary gauntlet, Ramsay’s contestants find themselves on the iconic “Next Level Chef” stage, split up across three stories, with each team randomly assigned one of three stunningly different, stacked (and stocked) kitchens — how stocked each kitchen is, however, depends on which level the team has been assigned, with the highest level kitchen equipped with a wide range of modern tools and devices, the middle offering a standard commercial kitchen, and the bottom level containing a limited collection of lower-quality equipment.
In their kitchens, the chefs are then given a short time to collect ingredients before they must prepare, cook and plate their dishes — incorporating any surprise ingredients that may be delivered to them — within a tight, 45-minute period. After presenting their finished concoctions, one member each from the top two teams will be sent up to the top kitchen, where they will compete in a 30-minute, head-to-head challenge that determines who “takes the cake.”
During this latest season (Season 3), Ramsay is joined by chefs Nyesha Arrington (“The Taste”) and Richard Blais (“Reinventing the Meal”), as together the mentors leave no stone unturned, going out to recruit their own group of talented chefs to compete in the upcoming season, each hopeful of finding the next big name in the culinary game.
For the first time, “Next Level Chef” will also hold audition rounds, taking place over the first three episodes of the season. Professional, homebased and social media-loving chefs will all compete against one another for a chance to be drafted into the game, where they will be mentored by Ramsay, Arrington or Blais.
With the recipe for success in this competition calling for creativity, consistency and cunning, these chefs are willing to do what it takes to make it to the top and win a life-changing $250,000, truly taking themselves to the “next level.” A mouth-watering and jaw-dropping competition, Season 3 of “Next Level Chef” premieres Sunday, Jan. 28, on Fox.