Episodes

Tim is heading to Hanover, the birthplace of his opponent Monika Fuchs. An emotional meal awaits him in a private and artistic setting. Tim has come up with a stroke of genius of a special kind.

Tim Mälzer is sent to Heidelberg by Björn Swanson. After Tim has survived a test of courage, his challenge follows: an ambitious star kitchen that, as expected, he can't do anything with! For the first time, Tim sends an enemy chef to one of his own restaurants, namely in 'Die Gute Botschaft' in Hamburg. Björn is served the soul and fast food classics of Japanese cuisine: okonomiyaki and karaage.

Tim Mälzer first has to cook a Yemeni beef pot over an open fire in Baden near Vienna. He can then ride his mountain bike through the beautiful landscape of the Salzkammergut before trying his hand at smoked lake trout in Traunkirchen. Haya Molcho has to prove herself at the chicken carousel in Mainz before she prepares a dish with snails in the deepest Black Forest.

Tim Mälzer is faced with a green challenge in a vegan restaurant in Zurich, dressed as a meat-eater. He then has to try his hand at a new interpretation of Alpine cuisine in Lech am Arlberg. Sven Wassmer has to recreate a Baden classic in Endingen am Kaiserstuhl - a plate of aspic. He then has to prepare a "Vincisgrassi", a special form of lasagne, in Munich.

Tim Mälzer is first taken to the British Embassy in Berlin-Mitte, where the black box is waiting for him. Then he has to not only create his own perfume in Paris, but also prepare a thyme lamb fillet with lemon confit. Victoria Fuchs is to recreate a dish by three-star chef Juan Amador in Vienna, before she has to prove herself in Hamburg with "Wu-Gok Taro", the supreme discipline of dim sum.

In Austria, Tim Mälzer is tasked with re-creating a dish from Alain Weissgerber's sister-in-law. In Ireland, a delicate task awaits him. Weissgerber has to prepare a vegetable millefeuille in France. Then Tim sends him to Italy.

Tim Mälzer is put on a surfboard in the Upper Engadine and then has to cook Capuns, a typical regional cabbage roll dish. He then has to prove how well he can cook Italian food in Modena.

Tim Mälzer is not only faced with a water cave in the Swabian Alb, but also with a "brutally regional" dish. Then he has to prove himself in Berlin with a dessert by René Frank - for which he also needs vegetables.

Tim Mälzer and Sepp Schollhorn have to recreate a potato hybrid, a mixture of chips and dumplings and a cordon bleu in Zurich and prepare a pizza in Copenhagen. Their opponents cook in Frankfurt and London.

Tim Raue sends his friends to Nuenen to see Soenil Bahadoer. Tim Mälzer sends Tim Raue and Max Strohe to South Tyrol. Tim Mälzer and Tim Raue are sent by Max Strohe to Portugal, where they recreate a dish by Hans Neuner.