Fatigue is setting in for the 12 remaining chefs as co-hosts Michael Symon and Esther Choi challenge them to craft a black-tie entree in 90 minutes using only five ingredients. The chefs will have to choose their fate as a triple elimination looms. The nine chefs that impress judge Eric Adjepong will survive, and the ones that don't will clock out. 

Then, the chefs must temporarily put individual ambition aside to battle in two teams of four to impress judges Brooke Williamson and Ayesha Nurdjaja, who send two chefs home.