History Awesome / CutthroatKitchen

** In the heat, he breezes through the first two rounds without even ''bidding'' on a sabotage. Then, he goes up against Johnny Iuzzini in the final round. The challenge is lemon bars. Iuzzini is a pastry chef. Greenspan has never made a lemon bar. Greenspan has never eaten a lemon bar. Greenspan wins and walks out with $24,600. Granted, it was helped by Iuzzini's reckless bidding in round 2 -- [[WhatAnIdiot Dude had $100 left, the absolute lowest anyone can possibly go in Cutthroat Kitchen while still having money]] -- but still an awesome performance in every sense of the word.

* Anyone who leaves Cutthroat Kitchen with over $20,000, which has rarely been done. The two tend to go hand in hand given the nature of the game. The Ultimate Moment Of Awesome would be winning $25,000, a FlawlessVictory '''and''' a PacifistRun. [[spoiler:FINALLY accomplished by Chef Kyle in "The Cone Ranger", 2014's last episode. And then again by Chef Mikery in "The Chefshank Redemption", 2016's last episode.]]

** On top of that, Greenspan moved on to the finale, where [[spoiler:the stakes were doubled ($50,000 for each chef to work with), and won the finale and an additional $45,000, bringing the total amount of his winnings for charity to $69,600!]]

** Antonia Lofaso was having a hard time determining the winner, but she gave the win to [[spoiler:Chef Fabio because Chef Elizabeth failed to take advantage of the banana peels to make an extract, which could've given her the banana flavor she was missing.]] This has to rank as one of the top 4 episodes in Cutthroat Kitchen.

* The final dessert battle of the Evilicious Tournament crossed this with SugarWiki/FunnyMoments. Asked to make coconut macaroons, the second sabotage is to give up all the dried, sweetened coconut and then harvest and use fresh coconut hanging from a fake palm tree. The sabotaged chef, Yaku, ([[TheBigGuy who is almost seven feet tall and built like a weightlifter]]), tosses the puny stick for spearing them, plucks the coconut, and ''smashes'' them open with his bare hands to harvest the meat out for his cookies with barely any time wasted. [[spoiler: He lost by a razor thin margin because he decided to bake one and fry the other, which didn't sit well with the judge]]

* In "Meanwhile, Back on The Huevos Rancheros", Chef Bobby comes out of the pantry without pasta for a pasta primavera challenge. Then a sabotage comes up with the option to harvest pasta from a statue. When Chef Stew wins it, [[BriarPatching Bobby puts on a convincing act of not wanting to be stuck with the sabotage.]] And Bobby gets stuck with it. [[spoiler: Leading Bobby to survive the round.]]

** The second-round challenge is carne asada. Craig gets targeted by each of his two remaining adversaries as he is forced to dig his ingredients out of a giant burrito. In addition, he has to do all his prep, cooking, and presentation using extending arms while standing roughly six feet above his work station. As was the previous case, Craig delivers the best dish while the chef who avoided every sabotages in the round is eliminated.

* In Season 4, a contestant legitimately misheard "biscuits and gravy" as "brisket and gravy". English wasn't his first language. As a result, the judge judged it ''as'' "brisket and gravy", rather than immediately failing him for having the wrong dish. He not only survived the round but his brisket was highly praised. Additionally this changed the format of the show with Alton always making sure he makes the expected ingredients and preparation methods very clear.

* In the Season 12 judges' episode, "Judge's Dread," Simon Majumdar in the third round is forced to sit in a soundproof chamber while Alton briefs Antonia Lofaso on the round's dish (brownie sundae). Majumdar is taking careful notes on Lofaso's technique and adjusting his dish accordingly, while Lofaso baked several ingredients for a fruit tart to throw him off the scent while surreptitiously preparing the ingredients for her brownie sundae, leaving Majumdar to realize he'd been had in the final minutes as she threw together the ingredients for her microwave brownie and completing her ice cream with the liquid nitrogen. Unable to prepare his own brownie in time, Majumdar made the best of the situation, doctoring up the ''spectacularly'' beautiful fruit tart he'd made with enough chocolate shavings (and the ice cream he'd already started) and giving guest judge Eric Greenspan a ''very'' hard time deciding if his dish was close enough to a brownie sundae to eke out the win. Lofaso won the round, because she'd delivered a brownie sundae and Majumdar hadn't, but what a finish.

** Later on, Air Force Chef Bella has to trade in her ingredients for a box full of food that gets ''blown up'' right in front of everyone. Alton gets hit by some of the fallout, even though he's taken cover in the pantry, and barely even blinks. Of course, Alton is a ''{{Series/Mythbusters}}'' alumni, and you don't come away from that show without some explosion resistance.

* "Crabs of Steel" has the first ''tie'' (of only one of two) in the history of CutthroatKitchen: with the final dish being pineapple upside-down cake, Chef Eric and Chef Alexis bring up their games, sabotages and all, being the first pair to bring Jet Tila to give them a tie (as Alexis hit the flavor perfectly and Eric did the technical points wonderfully; Jet even had to eat ''all their desserts'' to find a definitive winner but couldn't). Alton said in the "After Show" Webisode "This had to be the finest CutthroatKitchen round ever."

* In Season 4, a contestant legitimately misheard "biscuits and gravy" as "brisket and gravy". He not only survived the round but his brisket was highly praised. Additionally this changed the format of the show with Alton always making sure he makes the expected ingredients and preparation methods very clear.

* Anyone who leaves Cutthroat Kitchen with over $20,000, which has rarely been done. The two tend to go hand in hand given the nature of the game. The Ultimate Moment Of Awesome would be winning $25,000, a FlawlessVictory '''and''' a PacifistRun. [[spoiler:FINALLY accomplished by Chef Kyle in "The Cone Ranger", 2014's last episode. And then again by Chef Mikely in "The Chefshank Redemption", 2016's last episode.]]

* Anytime a chef makes awesome recovery from all the sabotages, intentional or unintentional.
* Anytime a chef manages to win the final round despite having both sabotages on them.
* Anyone who leaves Cutthroat Kitchen with over $20,000, which has been done very few times. The two tend to go hand in hand given the nature of the game. The Ultimate Moment Of Awesome would be winning $25,000, a FlawlessVictory '''and''' a PacifistRun. [[spoiler:FINALLY accomplished by Chef Kyle in "The Cone Ranger", 2014's last episode. And then again by Chef Mikely in "The Chefshank Redemption", 2016's last episode.]]

* Anytime a chef makes use of the tank of liquid nitrogen sitting in a corner to cool their food quickly. The stuff boils at -320 degrees Fahrenheit!

* In a ramen challenge during the 2015 Superstar Sabotage finale, Richard Blais is forced to give up all his ingredients and pick five items off a restaurant menu written entirely in Japanese. He ends up with lasagna, Chicago-style hot dogs, jalapeno poppers, meatloaf, and cioppino (seafood stew). Richard manages to cobble together a "Late-Night Leftover Ramen" from these odds and ends and survive the round, largely because it reminds Simon of a similar meal he ate during a visit to Japan.

* The Veteran's Day 2015 special. Army Chef Brad gets smacked with a sabotage in which he has to relay all cooking instructions to "Private Bob" and can't touch any food or equipment himself. He ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny plays it to the hilt]],'' shouting orders in an FCC-acceptable version of DrillSergeantNasty at the top of his lungs. His loud and obnoxious [[LargeHam hamming it up]] becomes a ''MASSIVE'' distraction to everyone else in the kitchen, so that the sabotage targeted at him ends up affecting the others as well. So noteworthy that it's been mentioned 3 times in these pages for being a noteworthy example of a trope, awesome, AND funny.

* The final dessert battle of the Evilicious Tournament crossed this with CrowningMomentOfFunny. Asked to make coconut macaroons, the second sabotage is to give up all the dried, sweetened coconut and then harvest and use fresh coconut hanging from a fake palm tree. The sabotaged chef, Yaku, ([[TheBigGuy who is almost seven feet tall and built like a weightlifter]]), tosses the puny stick for spearing them, plucks the coconut, and ''smashes'' them open with his bare hands to harvest the meat out for his cookies with barely any time wasted. [[spoiler: He lost by a razor thin margin because he decided to bake one and fry the other, which didn't sit well with the judge]]

---> '''Stew:''' ''(Confessional Cam)'' ...I feel like a jackass.

** The second was when Simon Majumdar declared a tie in "Domo Arigato, Mr. Gelato", btw.

* "Crabs of Steel" has the first (and currently the only) ''tie'' in the history of CutthroatKitchen: with the final dish being pineapple upside-down cake, Chef Eric and Chef Alexis bring up their games, sabotages and all, being the first pair to bring Jet Tila to give them a tie (as Alexis hit the flavor perfectly and Eric did the technical points wonderfully; Jet even had to eat ''all their desserts'' to find a definitive winner but couldn't). Alton said in the "After Show" Webisode "This had to be the finest CutthroatKitchen round ever."

* There's a "reason" winning the final round (and thus, the game) while taking both sabotages is listed at the top of the page: it's extremely difficult and, thus, rarely done. Kate Von Schledorn did it TWICE - once in her originally appearance and then repeating the feat in her Camp Cutthroat heat.