One chef has to prep their biscuits and gravy on a tiny bed they wear on their head; two chefs have to make linguine and clams while holding a noodle in their mouths between them.

Three chefs have to work in a drum circle while they make a kale salad; two chefs have to play air hockey to get their ingredients for poutine; one chef has to make their red velvet cupcakes behind a red velvet curtain.

Two chefs must make their coffee and pastry dishes at a crowded coffee shop table; two chefs have to make an omelet while walking around the kitchen on balance beams.

Two chefs have to play beer pong for their Greek salad ingredients; one chef has to cook a surf and turf dish using only a branding iron.

Two chefs make pesto dishes while working in a personal pine forest; one chef has to make shaking beef on a shaking prep station; one chef has to hit home runs while making Boston cream pie.

Mother and daughter teams are driven around the kitchen in a minivan while they make breakfast in bed; one team has to make lasagna while carrying a bun in an oven; chocolate-covered dessert from a giant magazine cover.

Two chefs are tasked with silently make each other's dishes of pain perdu; two chefs have to make meatloaf while walking around in meatloafers; raspberry dart game.

Two chefs have to hold grill grates for each other as they make hamburgers; two chefs are strapped together in one grilling apron as they make a grilled chicken dinner; making a grilled dessert on top of a bouncing trampoline.

Three of the judges have to make a poached egg breakfast on a bench press prep station; one judge has to make a grain bowl while working backwards; one judge enters a soundproof chamber so they cannot hear what dessert they have to make.

One chef has to get their dim sum ingredients by solving pictographs; one chef has to boil penne pasta in flaming vodka.