100 Cooks (2026–present)
Plot
It is the biggest home cook competition of all time. Actor, television host and former pro football player Terry Crews hosts as 100 of America's elite home cooks enter the stadium kitchen arena where they will be challenged to the most unpredictable, professional-chef level cooking competition ever. As the competition begins, chefs are selected at random to come to the floor to compete while the "Challenge Mixer" dictates the challenges they will face ranging from fast-paced trivia contests to 30-minute do-or-die cooking battles. Top culinary content creator Nick DiGiovanni and chef and NYT best-selling cookbook author Alex Guarnaschelli are the judges that determine who stays and who goes. Each round's winner will be given a chance to take the cash or add it to the ever-growing grand prize pot, which starts at $100,000...so as the number of cooks goes down, the grand prize goes up. In the end, 99 chefs will be eliminated, and one talented home cook will prove they are the best of the best with a chance to win up to $250,000.
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Highest-rated episodes all ranked
- 01Give It 100 Part 1 & 2In the supersized season premiere, host Terry Crews welcomes 100 of the best home cooks in America to the food world's most unpredictable cooking competition. In this episode, over 50 cooks compete in five different challenges to impress judges Nick DiGiovanni and Alex Guarnaschelli. The challenges include best noodle dish battle, a rotisserie chicken face-off, an egg challenge, and best party bite competition. More than 20 cooks will be sent home, and the remaining amateur chefs will continue to compete for a life-changing amount of money.
- 0271 Cooks RemainHost Terry Crews invites the 71 remaining cooks to compete over the course of four challenges: a true/false culinary trivia challenge, a spicy weeknight dinner battle, best sandwich, and a mystery basket challenge. Judges Alex Guarnaschelli and Nick DiGiovanni will send six cooks home.
- 0365 Cooks to GoHost Terry Crews selects 18 of the remaining 65 home cooks to compete in three challenges: a bake sale, an at-home takeout battle, and best steak-night dinner. Alex Guarnaschelli and Nick DiGiovanni judge which eight cooks will be headed home.
Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01Season's bestGive It 100 Part 1 & 2June 7, 2026In the supersized season premiere, host Terry Crews welcomes 100 of the best home cooks in America to the food world's most unpredictable co
- S01E0271 Cooks RemainJune 14, 2026Host Terry Crews invites the 71 remaining cooks to compete over the course of four challenges: a true/false culinary trivia challenge, a spi
- S01E0365 Cooks to GoJune 21, 2026Host Terry Crews selects 18 of the remaining 65 home cooks to compete in three challenges: a bake sale, an at-home takeout battle, and best
- S01E0455 Cooks Still StandingJune 21, 2026Host Terry Crews challenges 26 of the remaining 55 cooks to make a Sunday breakfast, a perfect scallop, and the best one-pot dish to impress
- S01E05Only 41 Cooks LeftJune 28, 2026—Terry Crews hosts as 19 of the remaining 41 home cooks take on a best burger battle, an equipment trivia challenge, and a holiday sweets com
- S01E0632 Cooks PersistJune 28, 2026—Host Terry Crews challenges 31 of the remaining 32 home cooks with a gameday grub competition and a cook's choice battle. Judges Alex Guarna
- S01E0718 Cooks SurviveJuly 5, 2026—Fifteen cooks compete, and host Terry Crews starts them off with a team challenge. Then, the competitors face off in a taco night throwdown
- S01E08The Last 14July 12, 2026—Host Terry Crews invites all remaining 14 cooks to compete over the course of three challenges: a luxury dinner battle, a pizza faceoff, and
- S01E098 Cooks Down to 1July 19, 2026—
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