The chefs purchase fresh seafood in Italy, as tensions grow; Alex and Gabe make the captains choose one teammate to join them as they visit an Italian butcher shop that inspires a fiery grilling challenge.
A pizza festival sends the chefs scrambling to make enough pies to feed 50 hungry guests and a pizzaiolo; Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini challenge the chefs to make three dishes featuring charcuterie board ingredients.
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.
Judges Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini challenge the six remaining chefs to make three dishes featuring charcuterie board ingredients and one must be a dessert.
The two team captains must choose their teammates before they are given the details of judges Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini's challenge.
The final four chefs are shocked when judges Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini challenge them to create a three-course menu using only five ingredients per dish.
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."
Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini welcome 10 chefs to the Tuscan villa where they will live, cook and prove their skills with Italian cuisine.
Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini introduce the chefs to authentic Italian nonnas, who showcase how to make handmade pasta from scratch.
The chefs travel to a Tuscan vineyard where judges Alex and Gabe challenge them to create a three-course menu incorporating truffles and wine pairings; alliances form, personalities grate and one more chefs must leave the villa.
The seven chefs meet a butcher whose family business is over three centuries old; Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini task two teams with creating a menu based around the prized Bistecca alla Fiorentina.
Two team captains join Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini on a visit to a 1,000-year-old cheese cave; after an invaluable cheese tasting, the two leaders purchase their main ingredients before they are given the details of the challenge.
Alex and Gabe inform the four remaining chefs that two of them will be going home after a wild boar challenge.
The two remaining chefs' finale plans are turned upside down when hosts and judges Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini invite some former contestants back to the villa for one last chance at redemption.