Wildcard Kitchen (2024)
Three chefs bring $5,000 each to play three hands of an underground culinary poker game, creating dishes based on the cards they are dealt and betting with their own money. With unpredictable challenges and wildcard elements, chefs must rely on their instincts to impress mystery guest judges through blind taste tests and win cash from their fellow competitors.
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Episode 1 - Vegas Rivalry
Release Date: 2025-01-07Eric Adjepong has a $30K mega-battle on his hands as chefs Jet Tila, Bryan Voltaggio and Michael Voltaggio bet big and cook even bigger, serving up delectable dishes with a hearty helping of brotherly smack talk on the side. These three chefs will stop at nothing to take home the biggest pot in Wildcard Kitchen history and be crowned king of this high-stakes kitchen
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Episode 2 - Battle of the Legends
Release Date: 2025-01-14Eric Adjepong welcomes three legendary chefs to his late-night culinary poker game. The stakes are doubled to $10,000 as Alex Guarnaschelli, Rocco DiSpirito and Andrew Zimmern lay their own cash on the line for a chance to walk away with big money and bragging rights. It all comes down to an "anything goes" global mash-up challenge to see who walks out of the Food Network kitchen on top of the world
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Episode 3 - James Beard Brawl
Release Date: 2025-01-21Eric Adjepong invites three winners of the highest honor in food, the James Beard award, to prove why they're top-tier chefs and settle some old scores. Stephanie Izard, Jonathon Sawyer and Karen Akunowicz slug it out in a high-paced culinary poker showdown and face some of the most diabolical wildcards to win bragging rights and cold hard cash
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Episode 4 - Chopped Battle
Release Date: 2025-01-28Eric Adjepong welcomes three icons from Food Network's Chopped to battle it out for ultimate bragging rights. With $15,000 on the line, Amanda Freitag, Tiffani Faison and the OG himself, Geoffrey Zakarian, lay down their own stacks of cash in this Chopped judge showdown. When the judges become the judged, who will prevail?
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Episode 5 - Titans of 24
Release Date: 2025-02-04Get ready for betting, bluffing, and backstabbing in Eric Adjepong's late-night culinary poker face-off as "24 in 24" hosts Michael Symon and Esther Choi face season one champion Marcel Vigneron for glory and green. With $15,000 of their own money on the line, who will fall prey to Eric's deliciously deceptive wildcards, and whose extraordinary plate will sweep the pot?
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Episode 6 - Clash of the Restaurant Queens
Release Date: 2025-02-11Chef Antonia Lofaso returns for another wild night at Eric Adjepong's high-stakes culinary poker showdown! This time, she's betting against her best buddies and acclaimed restaurateurs Ayesha Nurdjaja and Claudette Zepeda. As loyalties are tested and tensions boil over, culinary chaos is just a shuffle away
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Episode 7 - Winning High Rollers
Release Date: 2025-02-18Eric Adjepong brings back three former champions who are hungry for a repeat victory. With $30,000 of their own hard-earned cash on the line, chefs Maneet Chauhan and Tiffani Faison will need their boldest dishes and savviest strategies to stop Chris Oh's hot streak. These three chefs are ready to go all in to win this clash of the champion card sharks!
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Episode 8 - Frenemies
Release Date: 2025-02-25Eric Adjepong welcomes chefs Kelsey Barnard Clark, Carlos Anthony and Crista Luedtke, who set their friendships aside for a cutthroat culinary competition with an impressive $15,000 pot of their cold, hard cash on the line. Throughout each battle, underdog Carlos tries to prove he belongs in the kitchen with two of the fiercest chefs in the Food Network universe, until one of these frenemy chefs emerges to take home the win.
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Episode 9 - Comfort Food Connoisseurs
Release Date: 2025-03-04Eric Adjepong invites comfort food connoisseurs Eddie Jackson, Molly Yeh and Damaris Phillips to risk $5,000 of their own money in an intense game of skill and chance. It all comes down to a late-night snack cook-off to see who goes home the big winner -- and whose bank account takes a big hit.
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Episode 10 - Competition Sharks
Release Date: 2025-03-11Eric Adjepong's late-night culinary poker game heats up when chefs Mei Lin, Tiffany Derry and Brian Malarkey put $15,000 of their own money on the line. Get ready for big flavors and even bigger bets, because these competition sharks never back down from a challenge -- with one chef going all in!