History EpicFail / Chopped

* The 2017 dumplings-themed episode. Three younger chefs and one older chef. Young chefs are up and coming, working for smaller restaurants. Older chef is the second-generation owner and executive chef of one of the most famous French bistros in the country. The young chefs all had trouble (raw dough, filling spilled out of the dumpling, odd flavor combination), but the older chef everyone found so intimidating? Got ''absolutely nothing'' on the plate in time.

* The appetizer round (Gooseberries, Darjeeling Tea, Ricotta Salata, Calf's Liver) from the episode "Worst things First", every chef made some major error or slip up. The first one served his liver undercooked and on a bed of raw red onions, the second one didn't get everything on all her plates and continued plating after time was called, the third one served improperly cleaned liver, and the fourth one accidentally covered her last plate so it only got one of the four ingredients on it.

* In one episode, a chef made a point of bringing up the fact that the hectic nature of the competition and the strict time pressure made making a proper risotto almost impossible, resulting in nearly every chef who's tried being chopped...so guess what he proceeded to do, because he wanted to "prove that it could be done?" [[spoiler: He made risotto. It was soupy and the judges hated it. And proving that it really ''can't'' be done, he was chopped.]]

* Chef Syrena in the episode, "Champs Throwdown: Battle 1", [[IdiotBall threw butter that was actively on fire in a trash can without attempting to put it out and successfully caused a greasy garbage fire]]. Naturally, it stunk up the entire kitchen with "eau de garbage", as one of the judges put it. Chef Syrena then also served one of the basket ingredients, smelt, raw in a ceviche, which is a problem because freshwater fish such as smelt can carry parasites that humans can get and need to be cooked in order not to be a food poisoning risk. She unsurprizingly got chopped and did not get to the entree round.

* Chef Syrena in the episode, "Champs Throwdown: Battle 1", [[IdiotBall threw butter that was actively on fire in a trash can without attempting to put it out and successfully caused a greasy garbage fire]]. Naturally, it stunk up the entire kitchen with "ode de garbage", as one of the judges put it. Chef Syrena then also served one of the basket ingredients, smelt, raw in a ceviche, which is a problem because freshwater fish such as smelt can carry parasites that humans can get and need to be cooked in order not to be a food poisoning risk. She unsurprizingly got chopped and did not get to the entree round.

* Chef Syrena in the episode, "Champs Throwdown: Battle 1",[[IdiotBall threw butter that was actively on fire in a trash can without attempting to put it out and successfully caused a greasy garbage fire]]. Naturally, it stunk up the entire kitchen. She then also served one of the basket ingredients, smelt, raw in a ceviche, which is a problem because freshwater fish such as smelt can carry parasites that humans can get and are a food poisoning risk. The judges, as a result, couldn't even taste her dish. She unsurprizingly got chopped and did not get to the entree round.

- Chef Syrena in the episode, "Champs Throwdown: Battle 1",[[IdiotBall threw butter that was actively on fire in a trash can without attempting to put it out and successfully caused a greasy garbage fire]]. Naturally, it stunk up the entire kitchen. She then also served one of the basket ingredients, smelt, raw in a ceviche, which is a problem because freshwater fish such as smelt can carry parasites that humans can get and are a food poisoning risk. The judges, as a result, couldn't even taste her dish. She unsurprizingly got chopped and did not get to the entree round.

(Cut to judges' extremely shocked expressions.)

* The fourth ''Chopped: Teen Tournament'' episode started the day with one. Two of the teen chefs had undercooked the chicken (even ''raw'' in one case!), one chef had overcooked chicken, and the other chef put three of the four ingredients in a crostini that had no place on the plate. Then, in the second round, one chef so severely cut herself that she lost 7:30 of time.

* During the ''Sweets'' episode "Bejeweled and Bedazzled" during the first round (candied) nearly every chef ran into problems when it came to plating ingredients. Chef Monica forgot to add silverleaf to her dessert, Chef Libby tried making churros but they came out undercooked when she took them out of the oven and she also forgot that the ring candy was in the oven after time was called. The one who had the hardest time though, was Chef Lito, who cracked every candy dome he made, and also spilled his honeydew mix that he was planning on making into a sorbet, forcing him to make a completely new dessert on the spot. The only chef who managed to plate all four ingredients was pastry chef and owner Vanessa. This was so bad the host called them all out saying that none of the dishes they put forward met the expectations of the show, reminding them that the show was a competition and they did not follow the bejeweled theme. In the end, while the forgotten ingredients was a running theme, the judges chopped Lito for having nothing candied or bejeweled on his plate.

* During the ''Sweets'' episode "Bejeweled and Bedazzled", nearly every chef ran into problems when it came to plating ingredients. Chef Monica forgot to add silverleaf to her dessert, Chef Libby tried making churros but they came out undercooked when she took them out of the oven and she also forgot that the ring candy was in the oven after time was called. The one who had the hardest time though, was Chef Lito, who cracked every candy dome he made, and also spilled his honeydew mix that he was planning on making into a sorbet, forcing him to make a completely new dessert on the spot. The only chef who managed to plate all four ingredients was pastry chef and owner Vanessa. This was so bad the host called them all out saying that none of the dishes they put forward met the expectations of the show, reminding them that the show was a competition and they did not follow the bejeweled theme.

* During the ''Sweets'' episode "Bejeweled and Bedazzled", nearly every chef ran into problems when it came to plating ingredients. Chef Monica forgot to add silverleaf to her dessert, Chef Libby tried making churros but they came out undercooked when she took them out of the oven and she also forgot that the ring candy was in the oven after time was called. The one who had the hardest time though, Chef Lito, who cracked every candy dome he made, and also spilled his honeydew mix that he was planning on making into a sorbet, forcing him to make a completely new dessert on the spot. The only chef who managed to plate all four ingredients was pastry chef and owner Vanessa. This was so bad the host called them all out saying that none of the dishes they put forward met the expectations of the show, reminding them that the show was a competition and they did not follow the bejeweled theme.

* During the ''Sweets'' episode "Bejeweled and Bedazzled", nearly every chef ran into problems when it came to plating ingredients. Freelance pastry chef Monica forgot to add silverleaf to her dessert, pastry chef and owner Libby tried making churros but they came out undercooked when she took them out of the oven and she also forgot that the ring candy was in the oven after time was called. The one who had the hardest time though, was executive chef Lito, who cracked every candy dome he made, and also spilled his honeydew mix that he was planning on making into a sorbet, forcing him to make a completely new dessert on the spot. The only chef who managed to plate all four ingredients was pastry chef and owner Vanessa.

* During the ''Sweets'' episode "Bejeweled and Bedazzled", nearly every chef ran into problems when it came to plating ingredients. Freelance pastry chef Monica forgot to add silverleaf to her dessert, pastry chef and owner Libby Ryan tried making churros but they came out undercooked when she took them out of the oven and she also forgot that the ring candy was in the oven after time was called. The one who had the hardest time though, was executive chef Lito Morin, who cracked every candy dome he made, and also spilled his honeydew mix that he was planning on making into a sorbet, forcing him to make a completely new dessert on the spot. The only person who managed to plate all four ingredients was pastry chef and owner Vanessa Parish.

* In the episode “Dread and Breakfast”, Chef Brandon Frohne accidentally cuts himself while running across the kitchen with a knife. Knife accidents occur frequently on Chopped, but a few things set this cut apart- first, it was so deep the medics wanted him to withdraw and go get stitches, and the judges all agreed it’s the worst Chopped cut they’ve seen. Second, ''Brandon only had three fingers on his other hand and couldn’t lift most things with it''. He severely injured his only fully functional hand, and while he refused to drop out and go to the hospital, it didn’t matter because he was chopped that round anyways.

* In the episode “Dread and Breakfast”, Chef Brandon Frohne accidentally cuts himself while running across the kitchen with a knife. Happens frequently on Chopped, but a few things set this cut apart- first, it was so deep the medics wanted him to withdraw and go get stitches, and the judges all agreed it’s the worst Chopped cut they’ve seen. Second, ''Brandon only had three fingers on his other hand and couldn’t lift most things with it''. He severely injured his only fully functional hand, and while he refused to drop out and go to the hospital, it didn’t matter because he was chopped that round anyways.

* In the episode “Dread and Breakfast”, Chef Brandon Frohne accidentally cuts himself while running across the kitchen with a knife. Happens frequently on Chopped, but a few things set this cut apart- first, it was so deep the medics wanted him to withdraw and go get stitches, and the judges unanimously agree it’s the worst Chopped cut they’ve seen. Second, ''Brandon only had three fingers on his other hand and couldn’t lift most things with it''. He severely injured his only fully functional hand, and while he refused to drop out and go to the hospital, it didn’t matter because he was chopped that round anyways.

* During one preliminary heat in the "Alton's Challenge" tournament of 2017, Alton Brown was so disgusted with the losing chef's dish in the final round that he threw the serving dish cover at the chef's feet. Alton compared it to an early incident in the career of jazz legend Music/CharlieParker, in which Jo Jones threw a cymbal at his feet to run him off the stage after he made a fool of himself during a jam session.

* The "Rachael vs. Guy Stars" episode of the 2014 ''All-Stars'' tournament was just as full of EpicFail as the 2011 "Cornish Mess" episode. Lou Diamond Phillips somehow managed to forget one ingredient for ''both'' his entrée and dessert dishes. [[spoiler:He made it to the dessert round only because Penn Jillette had thoroughly messed up his own entrée, but lost to Carnie Wilson in the final round.]] Not only that, but in that same episode, during the entrée round, [[spoiler:Penn frittered away time just standing around that he could have used, as one of the judges noted, to redo a burnt component of his dish.]] And on top of that, Penn dropped his wooden spoon into a blender ''and'' Coolio sneaked a lemon from Carnie Wilson's station to squeeze into his dish during the appetizer round -- after time had been called.

* During one preliminary heat in the "Alton's Challenge" tournament of 2017, Alton Brown was so disgusted with the losing chef's dish in the final round that he threw the serving dish cover at the chef's feet. Alton compared it to an early incident in the career of jazz legend Music/CharlieParker, in which a drummer threw a cymbal at his feet to run him off the stage after he made a fool of himself during a jam session.