America's Test Kitchen: The Next Generation

America’s Test Kitchen is an institution for home cooks everywhere, testing recipes to perfection and sharing those tasty results with the world. For the first time ever, 11 passionate home cooks compete in the job interview of a lifetime. The winner has a chance to join the ATK cast, author a cookbook, and earn $100,000! Hosted by Jeannie Mai Jenkins, this competition is about to be lit!

Now that the cooks have made a crucial first impression, the pressure ramps up in the ATK kitchen. For the Task Challenge, contestants choose a Dutch oven that contains a mystery side dish, which they’ll recreate down to the very last detail. Then, for the Test Challenge, each cook receives a protein and a specific cooking technique, which they’ll have to incorporate in their final dish.

The competition really starts to heat up, as the ten remaining home cooks battle it out to stay in the competition. For their Task Challenge, the contestants must create a gourmet appetizer that includes at least three frozen ingredients. Then, for the Test Challenge, things get even trickier, when the competitors must transform a difficult “fussy dish” into a weeknight recipe.

It’s the start of a search for the newest face of ATK. For the Task, 11 cooks are thrown into a media challenge. Then in the Test challenge, they must prepare a dish that made them fall in love with cooking. One cook will be sent home. Season 1 Winner, Antoinette Johnson, joins Dan Souza, Jack Bishop, Julia Collin Davison and Elle Simone Scott for the start of a fiercely battled competition.

It’s only week two in the test kitchen and the competition is fire! Head Judge Dan Souza is back with Cook’s Country’s Morgan Bolling and Jeannie Mae hosts. The Task examines the cooks' egg techniques. It’s no yolk! Then, the Test challenges the cooks to make comfort food with a twist! Baker and television personality, Bryan Ford, joins the kitchen as the guest judge.

It’s health week in the kitchen. First, the remaining nine cooks must create a 90-second solo demo with a blender and a mystery ingredient. Then in the Test challenge, the cooks must pick from one of ATK’s cookbooks and create a dish that could seamlessly fit in. Chef and model, Ronnie Woo guest judges.