The chefs receive their first challenge, create a gourmet pizza. The winning team will head to Santa Barbara for a gourmet meal, while the losers will be sentenced to taking pizza orders during dinner service and then deliver them, at which one contestant is rushed to the hospital after suffering an accident.

Chef Ramsay tests the teams' taste-buds by doing a blindfold taste-test challenge. Find out who knows their pork from their chicken and their potatoes from their polenta. Those who impress Chef Ramsay get to enjoy being pampered at the spa, while the losing team is forced to clean the dorms. During dinner service when one team tries to serve raw food and the other team fails to communicate with one another, Gordon loses his cool. Will the teams be able survive his wrath in the "9 Chefs Compete" episode.