Food Network Star Episodes
Season 7, Episode 1
Lights, Camera, Cook
Fifteen eager Food Network Star Finalists arrive at Hollywood's famous Grauman's Chinese Theater where they meet each other for the first time and are welcomed by Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis. For their first Camera Challenge, the finalists must create a breakfast dish that reflects their personality and culinary point of view. Their first Star Challenge finds them shooting promos for their shows as well as cooking for a panel of Hollywood's press, including Mario Lopez from T.V.'s Extra. The first finalist is sent packing.
Season 7, Episode 2
In the Line of Fire
The 14 remaining finalists must create a pizza that reflects their culinary point of view. A surprise elimination shocks the finalists. The pressure is really on for the group during the Star Challenge when they have to cook in front of a panel of Food Network Superstars!
Season 7, Episode 3
Dueling Desserts
The finalists have their work cut out for them during the Camera Challenge when they must use a sweet Hershey's product to turn dessert into dinner. Special guests Duff Goldman and Robert Irvine challenge the finalists to create a Dueling Desserts party. When the finalists are split into two teams, tension mounts as they struggle to work together to beat their opponents and save themselves from elimination.
Season 7, Episode 4
Cougar Town and Paula Deen
Food Star alum Melissa d'Arabian challenges the finalists to use a Kellogg's product to create a sophisticated and impressive hors d'oeuvres for a surprise guest. Paula Deen makes a surprise visit to the Food Star Kitchen. At the Star Challenge, the finalists go Hollywood as they team up to feed the cast and crew of the hit show Cougar Town.
Season 7, Episode 5
Diners, Drive-Ins and 4th of July
Guy Fieri rolls up in his classic red Camaro to guide the finalists through a segment of Diner's Drive-ins and Dives. Then the finalists head out to a 4th of July bash where they must re-create American classic dishes AND perform their first cooking demo on stage.
Season 7, Episode 6
Food Truck Face-Off
It's Food Truck time! Tyler Florence splits the finalists into three teams. In addition to agreeing on a menu for their food trucks, each team must create a commercial to drive up the sales.
Season 7, Episode 7
Dinner Party for Wolfgang Puck
For their mid-term cooking challenge, the finalists have to cook their signature dish for the judges. Adding to the pressure, they also must incorporate everything they've learned up to this point. Next, Wolfgang Puck shows up for dinner at the finalist's house and one finalist gets an impromptu cooking lesson from the master.
Season 7, Episode 8
Ina Garten & Rachael Ray
Who better to judge a cupcake challenge than The Barefoot Contessa? Ina Garten is the guest judge for a challenge which throws all of the finalists into a baking frenzy. Then Food Network Star returns to the Rachael Ray show for the ultimate pressure-cooker: a live-audience cooking demo.
Season 7, Episode 9
Comedy Roast
For the first time on Food Network Star, the finalists will try their hand at Best Thing I Ever Ate, with Bobby Flay showing them the ropes. Then the joke is on the finalists as they are subjected to a roast by an All-Star line-up of top comedians; Louie Anderson, Gilbert Gottfried, Aubrey Plaza, Anthony Anderson and Judy Gold.
Season 7, Episode 10
Iron Chef
In the ultimate Food Star challenge, the finalists face off in the Iron Chef Kitchen Arena. Alton Brown hosts the showdown while guest judge and Iron Chef Michael Symon lends his palate to the panel.
Season 7, Episode 11
Cook For Your Life & Pilots
The three remaining finalists think they are all making a pilot, but are shocked to find out there is one challenge left. It's time to "Cook For Your Life" and everyone must pull out all the stops to create their ultimate dish. After one finalist is sent packing, it's down to the final two. Guy Fieri returns to direct them in their pilots, and in a surprise twist, all of the eliminated finalists return as the focus group who will help decide who will win the ultimate prize -- their own show on Food Network.
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