Culinary Genius

The first challenge is slicing thin carrot strips. Then they must prepare squid, and the final three cooks create the ultimate squid dish to please judge Rosemary Shrager.

Nine home cooks compete in three intense culinary battles, starting with slicing up zucchini noodles. Then the cooks must extract the meat from a whole cooked crab, and the final challenge is to use crab in main dishes to impress judge Rosemary Shrager.

Nine home cooks compete in three intense culinary battles, and the first challenge is to slice avocados. Then the competitors must devein and butterfly Thai freshwater prawns before the finalists use their prawns in a dish for judge Phil Vickery.

The first challenge for the nine home cooks is carving a pineapple into a spiral. Then they must prepare rack of lamb with French-trimmed bones before the final three competitors make a lamb dish to impress judge Phil Vickery.

Nine home cooks compete in three culinary battles, starting with demonstrating their knife skills by slicing fennel. Then they must fillet and skin a whole cod before the final three create the ultimate cod dish to please judge Phil Vickery.

Nine home cooks face their first culinary challenge, trimming and prepping artichokes. Then they must prepare fresh scallops before the final three competitors create the ultimate scallop dish to please judge Jean-Christophe Novelli.