Top Chef Masters features established, award-winning chefs— a contrast from Top Chef, which features chefs that have been called relative "culinary amateurs."

FormatEdit

Like Top Chef, each episode of Top Chef Masters holds two challenges for the chefs. The first is a Quickfire Challenge which tests their basic abilities. Each quickfire challenge will be judged by a blind taste test and a five-star system, similar to fine dining reviews.

The second challenge is a more involved Elimination Challenge designed to test the versatility and invention of the chefs as they take on unique culinary trials such as working with unusual and exotic foods or catering for demanding clients. The food will be tasted and evaluated by the judges and a wide range of tasters for whom the challenge is aimed, whether it is patrons at a five-star restaurant or a room full of hungry kids – the food has to appeal to the diner as well as the critics if the chef is to survive.

JudgesEdit

• Curtis Stone (Host)
• Gael Greene (Head Judge)
• James Oseland (Judge)
• Jay Rayner (Judge)

SeasonsEdit

Top Chef Masters Season 1 Aired: June 10 - August 19, 2009
The winner of this season was Rick Bayless.

• Top Chef series judge Gail Simmons also served as a judge this season on Top Chef Masters.

Top Chef Masters Season 2 Aired: April 7 - June 9, 2010
The winner of this season was Marcus Samuelsson.

Top Chef Masters Season 3 This will be the third season of the spin-off show for Top Chef. Celebrity chef and TV personality Curtis Stone replaces Kelly Choi as the host.