Ian Ziering
Himself - Host
Food Network Challenge (2000)
Season 3
Food Network Challenge is a competitive cooking television series that currently airs on the Food Network. Each episode, professional chefs compete in a timed competition in their professional specialty. The winner receives a check for $10,000 and a gold medal.
Released Oct. 12, 2000
Episode 45 min
2+
Genres: Reality, Reality TV
Keywords: imdb.non-fiction, imdb.food, imdb.competition
Watch Providers: Discovery +, Discovery+ Amazon Channel, Philo
Production Companies: High Noon Entertainment
Network: Food Network
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S3E1 - Sugar Showdown
Nov. 5, 2006, midnight
S3E2 - Challenge: Sugar Showdown
Four top sugar artists meet in Beaver Creek to create an amazing four-foot tall sugar showpiece. The theme? The great outdoors. The twist? This is an elimination competition. There are three rounds and competitors must demonstrate specific skills such as sugar pulling and sugar blowing. The challenger who doesn't impress the judges after each round will be eliminated. At the end of the day, only two of our sugar artists will be left standing. And only one of those will go home with $10,000 in their pocket.
March 25, 2007, midnight
S3E3 - Celebration Cakes
Ten chefs, all strangers, pair up in five teams of two. For the first part of the competition, they work separately. Then, in the final two hours, the teams get to work together. Their challenge: to come up with a cake that's worthy of $10,000. Only there's a twist...and it's a big one. The competitors won't find out until minutes before the competition WHO their partners are and WHAT the theme is. This is a competition that tests creativity and cooperation, all under a ticking clock.
June 6, 2007, midnight
S3E4 - Challenge: Bartender Battle
This challenge takes six amazing bartenders out of the bar and puts them on the beach. South Beach, that is. This show highlights the best of bartending--the best recipes, the fastest pours and the most incredible routines. Watch as our bartenders flip, twirl, pour and spin their way to $10,000.
Aug. 6, 2006, midnight
S3E5 - Challenge: Hot Chefs
Five of America's hottest young chefs face off in one of America's hottest locales, South Beach, Miami during the South Beach Food and Wine Festival. Our chefs have to prepare an appetizer and an entree, both reflecting the culinary heritage of Miami. They have only 40 minutes for the appetizer and an hour for the entree. A panel of all-star judges decides who goes home with $10,000.
Jan. 21, 2007, midnight
S3E6 - Challenge: Cookies
Five home cooks compete with cookies for the grand prize of $10,000. Chocolate chip, spice, fruit and the unique signature cookie push our cooks to their creative limits as they challenge themselves and the clock in a quest to win the big money.
Sept. 10, 2006, midnight
S3E7 - Big Island Cook Off
S3E8 - Candy Castles
Oct. 29, 2006, midnight
S3E9 - Challenge: Candy Castles
Chocolate bridges over sugar moats, ice cream cone towers rising from cake-filled castles--and that's just a taste of what you'll see when four confectionary architects joust for the Challenge crown and $10,000! But sugar and chocolate aren't stable like steel and stone, so as walls crumble and sugar shatters, the clock becomes the enemy as the competitors race to bring their fairy-tale fortresses to life.
Sept. 24, 2006, midnight
S3E10 - Challenge: Cereal Skylines
See skylines as you've never seen them before. Three pastry artists and one ice carver take on breakfast cereal and get architectural. Each chef must bring to life a city skyline, and it needs to be made out of stuff usually found in a bowl. New York, Las Vegas, SoHo and Baltimore get the cereal treatment, and one chef goes home $10,000 richer.
Oct. 12, 2006, midnight
S3E11 - Challenge: Pizza Champions
Four world champion pizza acrobats battle it out at Mall of America, attempting to toss, roll and spin their way into the Guinness Book of World Records. A fourth competition tests their pizza-making skills, as they each have 10 minutes to put together a gourmet pizza using none of America's top 10 ingredients. $10,000 goes to the pizziola with the most points at the end of the day.
Oct. 9, 2006, midnight
S3E12 - Challenge: Sugar Skyscrapers
Sugar showpieces go bigger than they ever have before. At Mall of America in Minneapolis, three top pastry chefs compete for a Guinness World Record for the Tallest Sugar Showpiece. Made entirely out of sugar, the chefs' pieces are modeled after well-known skyscrapers, and whoever tops out with the tallest piece will make Guinness history.
S3E13 - Flying Knives
America’s top Teppanyaki chefs have come to Hawaii to slice and dice their way through two rounds of competition. The speed round is a blur of steel, fire and steam as the competitors cook a surf and turf dinner in the time it usually takes to order a meal. In the signature round anything goes as the competitors attempt to entertain a tough panel of judges using everything from magic to juggling, all while creating a mind-blowing meal. Be careful. This show is dangerous!
S3E14 - The Great Steak Cook-Off
S3E15 - World Pastry Cup: Sweet Rewards
S3E16 - Gingerbread Challenge
Network: Food Network
Episode Runtime: 45 min.
Season Runtime: 45 min.
Released: Oct. 12, 2000
Last Air Date: Jan. 27, 2020, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-G / 2+
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