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Top Chef Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 2008 - 2008
Episode 1
Anything You Can Cook I Can Cook Better
Wed, Mar 12, 200844 mins
Quick fire challenge: Contestants must make their own twist on deep-dish pizza. Elimination challenge: The low scoring contestants face off over traditional dishes.
Episode 2
Zoo Food
Wed, Mar 19, 200844 mins
Quick Fire Challenge: Create a dish using five ingredients from the Green City outdoor market. Elimination Challenge: Cater a party for 200 people at the Lincoln Park Zoo.
Episode 3
Block Party
Wed, Mar 26, 200844 mins
Quick Fire Challenge: Make a fine dining experience out of a taco. Elimination challenge: Create dishes for a block party, using ingredients taken from homes in the neighborhood.
Episode 4
Film Food
Wed, Apr 2, 200844 mins
Quick Fire Challenge: Make a vegetable plate using three techniques. Elimination challenge: Create a six course dinner for 12, in which each course is inspired by a favorite film.
Episode 5
The Elements
Wed, Apr 9, 200844 mins
Quick Fire Challenge: Chef Ming Tsai tested competitors' abilities to distinguish between high-end and average ingredients in a blindfolded taste test. Elimination challenge: Create a first course for the Meals on Wheels Chicago Celebrity Chef Ball incorporating aspects of the four elements: earth, air, fire and water.
Episode 6
Tailgating
Wed, Apr 16, 200844 mins
Quick Fire challenge: Create a dish that goes well with beer. Elimination challenge: Create tailgating dishes for a Bears game.
Episode 7
Improv
Wed, Apr 23, 200844 mins
This quick-fire is short and sweet. The chefs must create a dessert that will satisfy the sweet-tooth of renowned pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini.
Episode 8
Common Threads
Wed, Apr 30, 200864 mins
When life gives the chefs lemons, they must make lemonade?using one ingredient and making it into a healthy meal ? with only a microwave.
Episode 9
Wedding Wars
Wed, May 7, 200844 mins
Can the chefs cut it...with speed? It?s a culinary relay race in this week's quickfire challenge that requires expert shucking, chopping and whipping ? putting the chefs' knife skills to the ultimate test.
Episode 10
Serve and Protect
Wed, May 14, 200844 mins
The chefs must bring sexy back ? to the salad. They are challenged to reinvent the salad by making it sexier and more modern in the quick fire challenge.
Episode 11
Restaurant Wars
Wed, May 21, 200844 mins
If you can?t take the heat, get out of the kitchen. For the quick-fire challenge the chefs are forced to work the line at a busy, greasy spoon during breakfast rush, handling hundreds of orders.
Episode 12
High Steaks
Wed, May 28, 200844 mins
The chefs are given a slab of meat they must clean and butcher in their quick-fire challenge. Then, itÂ's a blast from the past in the elimination challenge, and one chef is history.
Episode 13
Puerto Rico
Wed, Jun 4, 200844 mins
The four remaining chefs travel to Puerto Rico to compete in the finale and for the final three spots.
Episode 14
Finale: Part II
Wed, Jun 11, 200844 mins
The final three battle it out to cook the best meal of their lives and earn the prestigious title of Bravo's "Top Chef."
Episode 15
Reunion
Sun, Jun 1, 200844 mins
It's a "dish" unlike any other on Bravo's "Top Chef: Watch What Happens Special". Bravo's programming executive Andy Cohen hosts a candid gathering of season four's chef'testants and judges ? host Padma Lakshmi, head judge Tom Colicchio, judge Gail Simmons and culinary expert Ted Allen. Cohen will answer viewers' burning questions and dish on season four's good, bad and overcooked. The winner of Bravo's "Fan Favorite" will also be announced during the reunion special.
