The BEST episodes of Cutthroat Kitchen season 5

Every episode of Cutthroat Kitchen season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Cutthroat Kitchen season 5!

Just how far is a chef willing to go to win a cooking competition? Cutthroat Kitchen hands four chefs each $25,000 and the opportunity to spend that money on helping themselves or sabotaging their competitors. Ingredients will be thieved, utensils destroyed and valuable time on the clock lost when the chefs compete to cook delicious dishes while also having to outplot the competition. With Alton Brown as the devilish provocateur, nothing is out of bounds when money changes hands and we see just how far chefs will go to ensure they have the winning dish.

Last Updated: 8/27/2024Network: Food NetworkStatus: Ended
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7.74
31 votes

#1 - Superstar Sabotage: Heat One

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/2014

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 a treadmill station, a hammer carnival game and cooking in a conveyor toaster.

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7.68
28 votes

#2 - The Undertater

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/26/2014

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 must play a memory game to get them back.

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7.56
39 votes

#3 - SaBOOOtage

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/2014

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 over a hell flame.

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7.53
30 votes

#4 - Superstar Sabotage: Heat Two

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/2014

Chefs Nadia G., Brian Malarkey, Marcel Vigneron, and Justin Warner face sabotages.

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7.51
49 votes

#5 - Crabs of Steel

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/2014

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 crab claw in one hand. Finally, a chef looks for a little R and R as they prepare all their food in a hammock.

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7.47
32 votes

#6 - Tos-ta-da

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/2014

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 vessels replaced with corn husks.

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7.42
31 votes

#7 - Chip Off The Ol' Baklava

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/2014

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 of a pot of honey.

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7.40
25 votes

#8 - Superstar Sabotage: Heat Four

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/29/2014

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 to get there. But first, they'll be faced with sabotages including hitting the slots for ingredients, harvesting cheese from a giant cheese block and cooking in banana leaves.

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7.33
27 votes

#9 - Superstar Sabotage: Heat Three

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/22/2014

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 kitchen and having their mixing and cooking vessels replaced by lemons.

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7.14
29 votes

#10 - Here's Looking at You, Squid

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/2014

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 chef gets the jitters trying to use a coffee maker to make coffee cake.

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