Hungry for It

The finalists level up childhood favourites and cater for a celebrity party attended by Michael Dapaah and AJ Tracey with the help of the eliminated cooks.

For the semi-final, it’s social media week. The cooks must level up basic biscuits into Insta-worthy desserts and create a street food menu that would wow on socials.

It’s fast food week, and the temperature is turning up in the kitchen as the final five battle for a place in the semi-final.

Halfway through the contest the 6 remaining cooks level up tinned food, the Service Challenge is pasta - but no traditional Italian dishes are allowed. The bottom 2 cooks make churros with salted caramel sauce in the Knives Out challenge.

In Veggie Week, the contestants level up vegetarian junk food, create a menu of meat alternatives for a packed out hub in the Service Challenge. The Knives Out challenge asks the bottom 2 cooks to make a frying pan pizza from scratch.

In Waste Week, the remaining cooks Level Up the basic meal deal, creating 3 elements to wow the judges. The Service Challenge sees them create a menu based on leftovers. The week ends in another nail-biting Knives Out challenge.

It's Chicken Week, in the Level Up, the cooks have to create an extraordinary side dish to go with chicken. Those who impress land a spot in the restaurant kitchen, and are safe from elimination, the rest fight for survival in the pop-up.

The doors to the HFI hub are open. The 10 rookie cooks meet their mentors and face their 1st challenge creating party food that is 'levelled-up' from ordinary to extraordinary and then they dish up burgers to 100 hungry diners.