Jess Mahoney

The seven chefs meet a butcher whose family business is over three centuries old! Alex and Gabe task two teams with creating a menu based around the prized Bistecca alla Fiorentina, which tests their skills like never before.

The two team captains must choose their teammates before they are given the details of judges Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini's challenge.

Two team captains choose one teammate each to visit an Italian butcher shop that goes back generations. Then, judges Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini challenge the chefs to create a menu using the grill as their only heat source.

Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini welcome 12 talented chefs to Puglia, Italy; they live and cook together, fusing their own culinary styles with Italian cuisine; one chef's journey ends when their own team votes them out of the villa.

The two remaining chefs are stunned when some unwelcome guests arrive at the villa; Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini choose the winner of 'Ciao House.'

Judges Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini inform the seven chefs they will be hosting the first 'Ciao House' pizza festival, where they must make enough pies to feed 50 hungry guests and a pizzaiolo.