Chopped - Season 40 (2019)

Firefighter cooks take over the Chopped stoves in this special competition, proving that they're cool under pressure and thrive when the heat is on! The dessert basket reveals a flaming surprise for the two finalists.

All manner of spooky fun is found in the first basket, including a scary sight in a martini glass and macaroni and cheese in a clever package. A witch's cauldron holds a green, savory surprise in the entree basket, and it's demolition day at the haunted gingerbread house as the final two chefs make their desserts.

Four Chopped champions are back in pursuit of $50,000. The appetizer round is as exciting as they come, and a fire extinguisher is used for the first time in Chopped history. The dessert basket gets a "wow" from everyone.

Four Chopped champs come back fiercer than ever and create wildly different appetizers from a basket that includes black garlic. A novelty candy in the second basket requires a hammer and some culinary imagination.

The judges grapple with how to chop champions when four talented winners return to the Chopped Kitchen. The chefs face a delicacy from the sea, a plain vanilla treat and a giant, chocolaty surprise.

Chopped champs compete for a chance to make it to the grand finale to fight for $50,000. Red snapper in the entree basket must be filleted in a snap, and pastries and pops in the dessert basket challenge the remaining competitors.

Four repeat champs are back for the chance to win $50,000. The first basket has a seafood delicacy that requires thoughtfulness, and the two remaining chefs face off in a dessert round with a basket that is fittingly difficult.

For the first time ever, host Ted Allen and his sister -- plus three judges and their siblings -- crowd the kitchen for a wild Thanksgiving competition!

Four grandmas give the judges a holiday dining experience to remember with candy canes in the first round, a gilded surprise in the second and holiday cookies in the final basket.