Where to watch Top Chef Season 18
Top Chef season 18 is streaming in Australia on Hayu (subscription). You can also buy it on Apple TV from $22.99. Season 18 was released on 30 March 2021.
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Top Chef Season 18 episodes
S18 E01
First Impressions
55 mins · Thu, 1 Apr 2021
Fifteen of the country's best chefs compete in Portland, Oregon. For their first challenge, chefs combine their favourite ingredients into one cohesive dish. Contestants must also create a dish featuring one of Portland's iconic local birds.
S18 E02
Trouble Brewing
55 mins · Thu, 8 Apr 2021
The chefs enter the kitchen to find Padma and seven hungry all-star chefs: Amar Santana, Melissa King, Kwame Onwuachi, Dale Talde, Gregory Gourdet, Carrie Baird and Richard Blais. The chefs have 30 minutes to serve up eight plates of breakfast.
S18 E03
Pan African Portland
44 mins · Thu, 15 Apr 2021
The pressure is laid on the chefs in the Quickfire Challenge as they are tasked to make a layered dessert; Gregory and Kwame take the chefs on a tour of restaurants that feature food from the African diaspora.
S18 E04
Thrown for a Loop
44 mins · Thu, 22 Apr 2021
The chefs must create a dish featuring Campbell's soup for Padma and Dale Talde; the cheftestants get thrown for a loop when they find out they won't be shopping for their Elimination Challenge.
S18 E05
Meet You at the Drive-In
55 mins · Thu, 29 Apr 2021
The chefs are tasked to create a dish featuring roses or rose products, inspired by the mother figure in their lives; the chefs will go head-to-head at the first-ever Top Chef Drive-In where each team must create dishes based on popular movie genres.
S18 E06
Stumptown U.S.A.
44 mins · Thu, 6 May 2021
The chefs are transported into a magical kitchen forest for the Quickfire Challenge where they make a dish featuring mushrooms; the cheftestants are paired up to create a surf and turf dish featuring local fish and game.
S18 E07
Feeding the Frontlines
44 mins · Thu, 13 May 2021
Chef José Andrés calls in to recruit the chefs to join World Central Kitchen, tasking the chefs with delivering over 500 meals to frontline workers at three local hospitals in Portland.
S18 E08
Restaurant Wars
55 mins · Thu, 20 May 2021
The eight remaining chefs split into teams and are tasked with creating a Chef's Table restaurant concept, where they must serve a seven-course, high-end tasting menu to the judges and All-Star panel.
S18 E09
Portland-ia
44 mins · Thu, 27 May 2021
Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein from the comedy series Portlandia task the chefs with creating a dish with hipster ingredients using only old vintage appliances and equipment. The chefs must develop and create a recipe fit for the home cook.
S18 E10
Tournament of Tofu
44 mins · Thu, 3 Jun 2021
Ed Lee enters the kitchen and tells the chefs they will be competing tournament style. The chefs duke it out at the Portland Japanese Gardens, where they must create dishes featuring various textures of tofu.
S18 E11
Blind Ambitions
44 mins · Thu, 10 Jun 2021
In teams of two, the chefs each take a turn entering the box where they blindly taste a dish created by guest judge Gabriel Rucker and then must try to recreate it.
S18 E12
The Cheesier the Better
44 mins · Thu, 17 Jun 2021
The final four chefs near the end of their journey in Portland, Padma; popular chef and special guest Massimo Bottura has the chefs pull inspiration from his famous parmigiano reggiano dish.
S18 E13
Shellfishly Delicious
55 mins · Thu, 24 Jun 2021
The chefs honour the area where James Beard spent his summers, creating both a hot dish and a cold dish with one of his favourite ingredients, Dungeness crab.
S18 E14
The Next Top Chef Is ...
44 mins · Thu, 1 Jul 2021
After 13 gruelling weeks of competition, the chefs must create the best four-course meal of their lives and serve it to an esteemed table of guests.