Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off - Episode Guide

Rachael Ray and Guy Fieri welcome eight celebrity contestants to the first ever Celebrity Cook-Off! The competition begins immediately with a signature sandwich challenge for Rachael and Guy to assess the abilities of each celebrity before picking teams. After teams are picked the heat is on! The celebrities must throw a food festival with everyone cooking an individual dish for 150 people! At the end of the festival the bottom two celebrities must compete in a sudden-death challenge with one celebrity going home!

This week, Rachael and Guy challenge the seven remaining celebrity contestants to make desserts! Each team must cook four desserts, including one with a secret savory ingredient, to be judged by 13 pastry students and instructors from a professional culinary institute. A surprising evaluation from the pastry chefs puts Rachael and Guy in a tough position picking the bottom two celebrities going head to head in the elimination challenge.

Rachael and Guy welcome Chopped judges Alex Guarnaschelli, Marcus Samuelsson, and Scott Conant to the Cook-Off kitchen to judge the remaining six celebrities in one-on-one battles, Chopped style! Each battle challenges the celebrities to cook their version of a judge's signature dish. The Chopped judges pick the winners of each challenge leaving two surprising front runners on the chopping block to be eliminated.

With five celebrity contestants remaining, Rachael and Guy lead their teams out to the street to reveal this week's challenge: lunch carts! Each team will operate their own curb-side lunch cart to serve over a hundred New York City pedestrians. The patrons fill out comment cards and a winning team is declared. The bottom two celebrities battle it out in a sudden-death elimination challenge to remain in the competition.

Things get personal this week when Rachael and Guy invite their closest friends and family over for an intimate supper club catered by the four remaining celebrity contestants. Each contestant prepares a family style meal for the table to be judged by their mentors' nearest and dearest. The winners are picked to go on to the finale and compete for the coveted prize of $50,000 for their charity. The bottom two contestants aren't out of the race as they battle in the "last chance challenge" to earn some last minute money for their charities.

In the finale episode of Rachael Vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off, the final two celebrity contestants face the toughest challenge yet, opening up their very own restaurant! The finalists create the menu, theme and décor with the help of surprise front of house partners all in one day! Each restaurant serves a packed restaurant full of hungry guests including Tim and Nina Zagat, founders of the Zagat Restaurant Guide! The winner is revealed by their Zagat rating earning the grand prize of $50,000 for their charity!

Rachael Ray and Guy Fieri meet the eight celebrity contestants as they prepare to pick their teams. The competition begins as both teams must cook a prix fixe tasting menu at a Los Angeles dinner theater, as well as perform a three minute skit for one hundred theater goers, including Rachael and Guy, and special guest judges, including writers from Entertainment Weekly. The judges and dinner guests will vote on the dishes, leaving the bottom two celebrities to compete in a sudden death challenge. At the end of the day, one celebrity is eliminated from the competition.

Team Rachael and Team Guy take to farming in this episode at Underwood Family Farm, as they gather produce and create fresh, farm-to-table dishes for the staff, family, and friends. It's a good, old-fashioned feast served family-style in the middle of a walnut grove. Underwood Family and their guests will vote on which team wins, with the bottom two celebrities on the losing team going head-to-head in a sudden death challenge to determine which one goes home.

The teams must revamp the menu of Mel's Diner on Sunset Boulevard by putting a new and unique spin on three classic diner foods. They will cook their dishes and then, in old-school, diner fashion, dress the part with outfits, roller skates, paper hats and hairnets to serve to customers inside the restaurant and in their cars. In the end, the customers decide the winners of the competition, leaving two celebrities to compete in the elimination challenge.

It's a battle of the sexes as the teams must throw a birthday party for one lucky girl and boy. The teams interview the birthday boy and girl to determine what food they would each like at their party, with each team having to cook and serve the meals to partygoers. Rico Rodriguez from Modern Family will help judge the celebrities, with the bottom two battling it out in a sudden death elimination.

With four celebrities remaining, Rachael and Guy explain the penultimate challenge, as two food trucks roll into the parking lot, one branded Team Rachael and the other Team Guy. The teams must choose a theme and come up with menu items for their truck. Season one winner Lou Diamond Phillips will guest judge a surprising double elimination to determine which celebrities go on to the finale.

The two remaining finalists must go out with a bang, as they host an elite Hollywood dinner party: They plan, cook and serve a three-course meal to surprise guests, including Kathy Griffin, Chef Nancy Silverton, Chef Suzanne Goin and their charity executives. These dinner guests help determine which celebrity will earn a $50,000 grand prize for their charity and bragging rights as winner of Celebrity Cook-Off.

The eight celebrities arrive in New York City as Rachael Ray and Guy Fieri select their teams. The celebrities get right to work for their first cook-off challenge as they have 90 minutes to prepare a Medieval Feast and then perform for a stadium full of hungry spectators. Rachael and Guy are joined by special guest judge, Chef Lee Anne Wong, who will decide which dish does not make the cut.

Rachael and Guy challenge the celebrities to make Hawaiian-inspired hors d'oeuvres and a team cocktail to serve 50 guests at a luau party in only 90 minutes. The guests fill out comment cards rating each team's dishes, as special guest judge Chef Marc Murphy ultimately chooses the winning team and which celebrity will be eliminated.

The remaining celebrities on must create, shop, cook and package their own signature food product that best reflects their personality. Each team then has to promote and sell their products to the public for tokens, and the celebrity with the most tokens from each team wins a cash prize for their charity and is safe from elimination. Guest judge Madison Cowan rates the quality of each team's products to decide which celebrity will not be moving on to the next challenge.

Team Rachael and Team Guy go head-to-head over two rounds to create the ultimate game day grub with guest judges Chef Alex Guarnaschelli and Josh Elliott of Good Morning America determining their fate. The first round is a head-to-head chicken wing cook-off, with each team's MVP winning immunity and a cash prize for their charity. In round two, the celebrities must create the best elevated game day dish by coming up with a unique team plate of nachos. The teams are judged on both dishes, with one celebrity taken out of the lineup leaving the remaining celebrities one step closer to winning the grand prize.

The remaining celebrities arrive at the iconic Coney Island where they face-off in a mini challenge to create their own twist on French fries to win an advantage in the main challenge. Next, the celebrities will make their own signature hot dog to serve to a boardwalk full of hungry customers. Guest judge Chef Amanda Freitag joins the crowd to decide who is top dog and who will be sent home.

In the final episode, the remaining celebrities from Team Rachael and Team Guy have to prepare a three-course dinner with a five-minute presentation aboard a dinner cruise ship to entertain a panel of judges including Sunny Anderson, Scott Conant, Todd English and Aarón Sánchez. Everything is on the line to win $50,000 for their charity and receive bragging rights as winner of the Celebrity Cook-Off!