Kitchen Impossible Episode Rating Graph
Feb 2016 - present

Feb 2016 - present
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Browse episode ratings trends for Kitchen Impossible. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of Kitchen Impossible's 78 episodes.

S4 Ep7
9.5
17th Mar 2019
Tim Mälzer sends Tim Raue to the small village of Caimari on Mallorca and to the beautiful town of Sarzana in Italy. In this episode, Tim Raue sends his opponent to his hometown of Berlin and to Zurich.
S5 Ep7
8.9
22nd Mar 2020
While this time the box is waiting for Tim Mälzer in Bad Zwischenahn (Germany) and San Francisco (USA), Steffen Henssler is served a dish to cook at home on the Côte d'Azur (France) and in Gifu (Japan).

S10 Ep8
8.8
22nd Jun 2025
To mark the anniversary, Tim Mälzer and Tim Raue meet in Brazil for a duel. In São Paulo, Mälzer explores the city, while Raue serves a dish by Alex Atala. Mälzer must identify the flavors and recreate them.

S10 Ep7
8.7
15th Jun 2025
Tim Mälzer and Jamie Oliver compete in a culinary TV duel in London. Jamie challenges Tim with Beef Wellington, a British classic he associates with his childhood. Tim cooks at Jamie's headquarters.
S5 Ep3
8.7
23rd Feb 2020
While this time the black box awaits Tim Mälzer in Kleinschenk (Romania) and Jerusalem (Israel), Haya Molcho is served a dish to cook at home in Münstertal (Germany) and Norwich (Great Britain).

S10 Ep3
8.7
11th May 2025
Tim Mälzer and Martin Klein face off again. Mälzer won the first duel in 2020. If he wins, he'll be allowed to work as a guest chef in Hangar 7. Martin tries to distract him with a helicopter ride.

S9 Ep6
8.7
7th Apr 2024
Tim Mälzer invites Edi Frauneder to his hometown of Hamburg to cook in "Mälzer's City - Mälzer's Rules". The points from the first two challenges are counted straight away, making for an exciting and emotional episode.
S5 Ep6
8.7
15th Mar 2020
The next level of escalation: While this time the black box awaits Tim Mälzer in Bangkok (Thailand) and Kaysersberg (France), Martin Klein is served a meal in Rome (Italy) and Seville (Spain).

S7 Ep6
8.6
6th Mar 2022
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.

S6 Ep3
8.6
28th Feb 2021
When it comes to cooking in the Wulf family, only one name comes up: Luba. No one cooks Kazakh dishes as faithfully and authentically as she does. Alexander Wulf sends Tim Mälzer to the closest family circle in Erkelenz.

S2 Ep7
8.6
12th Mar 2017
Tim Mälzer sends Tim Raue to the small village of Caimari on Mallorca. Here Tim Raue has to cook two dishes that, just like this place on the Germans' favorite island, have a very special meaning for Tim Mälzer.

S9 Ep2
8.5
3rd Mar 2024
Tim Mälzer in Munich (Germany): Tim goes to the Bavarian capital Munich, where he gets a “makeover” from his opponent Hans Jörg Bachmeier at the beginning. Tim Mälzer's joy about the traditional Bavarian costume is limited and his mood gets even worse. Because an absolutely mammoth task awaits him in the black box: Rumohr sweetbreads with Albufera sauce, developed by Eckart Witzigmann himself. In the legendary restaurant “Tantris DNA”, the old place of work of Hans Jörg Bachmeier and in front of the eyes of the French chef Virginie Protat, Tim Mälzer has to prove whether he can recreate a classic by the great Eckart Witzigmann.

S8 Ep8
8.5
2nd Apr 2023
Tim Mälzer vs. Hans Neuner: Crete/Greece | Tim Raue vs. Hans Neuner: Munich/Germany | Tim Mälzer vs. Tim Raue: Spangereid/Norway

S8 Ep5
8.5
12th Mar 2023
Philipp Vogel sends Tim Mälzer to Scotland, where he is expected to prepare the difficult Moorhuhn. Tim asks the listeners of his podcast for restaurant suggestions on Philipp's behalf. The decision: Norway!

S8 Ep4
8.5
5th Mar 2023
Tim Mälzer is sent to London by Elif Oskan and Markus Stöckle, where he is tasked with creating a tricky dessert without any clues. His second trip takes him to the Allgäu, where he is tasked with cooking traditional Bavarian food.

S1 Ep5
8.5
6th Mar 2016
While Tim Mälzer is struggling to prepare fish bladder and sea cucumber in Hong Kong, Tim Raue's preparations for the Scottish national dish Haggis are causing the local butcher to shake his head.
S5 Ep1
8.4
9th Feb 2020
While this time the black box awaits Tim Mälzer in Bad Ragaz (Switzerland) and Munich (Germany), Christoph Kunz is served a dish to cook at home in Vienna (Austria) and Essaouira (Morocco).

S9 Ep8
8.4
21st Apr 2024
Culinary highlights await viewers in the season finale of “Kitchen Impossible”. In the "Best Friends Edition" Tim Mälzer and two top chefs compete in a very personal competition and push themselves to the limit to get the right taste. The Viennese two-star chef Lukas Mraz makes his friends Tim Mälzer and Juan Amador sweat with the name of one of the most successful chefs of today: Massimo Bottura is an Italian three-star chef who makes both Tim Mälzer and Juan Amador nervous with admiration become.

S7 Ep10
8.4
3rd Apr 2022
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.

S4 Ep6
8.4
10th Mar 2019
In Crete, Tim Mälzer first has to make pottery before he can prepare vinegar sausage with beans outdoors. In Azerbaijan, Max Strohe has to bake Shah Plov, a type of rice cake with a crust made of flatbread.

S4 Ep4
8.4
24th Feb 2019
While the "Kitchen Impossible" box awaits Tim Mälzer in Wingen-sur-Moder (France) and Lima (Peru), Klaus Erfort is served an unknown dish to cook in Gradiska (Bosnia & Herzegovina) and Rome (Italy).
S5 Ep2
8.4
16th Feb 2020
The next stage of escalation: While the black box is waiting for Tim Mälzer in Cyprus and Rust, Franz Keller is served a dish to cook at home in Nuits-Saint-Georges (France) and Alicante (Spain).

S4 Ep3
8.3
17th Feb 2019
While the "Kitchen Impossible" box is waiting for Tim Mälzer in Zwolle (Netherlands) and Copenhagen (Denmark), Lukas Mraz is served an unknown dish to cook in Piane di Montegiorgio (Italy) and Medellin (Colombia).
S5 Ep5
6.3
8th Mar 2020
The next stage of escalation: This time, Tim Mälzer will be presented with a box in Wigoltingen (Switzerland) and Vienna (Austria), while Jan Hartwig will be served a dish to cook at home in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and Värska (Estonia).

S6 Ep5
6.4
14th Mar 2021
Tim Mälzer has only had to recreate the dish of a chef with the highest award of three Michelin stars in two shows. In this respect, it is not surprising that his rival chef would send him to a highly starred colleague.

S7 Ep8
6.8
20th Mar 2022
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.

S4 Ep2
7.0
10th Feb 2019
While the "Kitchen Impossible" box awaits Tim Mälzer in Murska Sobota (Slovenia) and Gornji Podgradci (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Max Stiegl is served an unknown dish to cook in Berlin and New York (USA).

S7 Ep1
7.0
12th Dec 2021
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.

S6 Ep6
7.1
21st Mar 2021
In this Kitchen Impossible "Best Friends Edition", Tim Mälzer, Tim Raue and Alexander Herrmann compete against each other to find out face to face who is the best among them.

S2 Ep3
7.1
12th Feb 2017
In Escholzmatt in Switzerland, Tim Raue is faced with a difficult task: he has to recreate a dish by Stefan Wiesner, a star chef who is also known as "the Sorcerer". And that's not all: Tim has to prepare the delicacies in the great outdoors. The second location of the challenge is also outdoors: the largest market place in Marrakesh. Here the top chef has to recreate a lamb tagine with couscous. In Lithuania, a genuine national dish awaits Meta Hiltebrand: cold beetroot soup. This task doesn't scare her, but the Lithuanian Baumkuchen does. Stop number two is South Korea. There she has to prepare abalone and sea urchin, two dishes by Jung Sik Yim, the best chef in the country and also a good friend of "Kitchen Impossible" opponent Tim Raue.

S3 Ep4
7.1
25th Feb 2018
This time, Tim Mälzer and Tohru Nakamura will compete against each other in the cooking competition. While Tim Mälzer will be traveling to Tokyo and Cadzand in the Netherlands, Tohru Nakamura will be traveling to Kirchheim an der Weinstraße and Madrid.

S7 Ep9
7.2
27th Mar 2022
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.

S9 Ep5
7.3
24th Mar 2024
In the Baltic Edition of Kitchen Impossible, Tim Mälzer and two-Michelin-starred chef Matthias Diether travel through the capitals of the Baltic countries to take on culinary challenges.

S1 Ep2
7.3
14th Feb 2016
The style of North African cuisine in Paris is not at all Tim's world. Analyzing the dishes is difficult. Meta, who is known for her love of meat, is in for a nasty surprise in Vienna: vegan gourmet snacks await her.

S3 Ep5
7.3
4th Mar 2018
This time, Tim Mälzer and Johannes King are competing against each other in the cooking competition. While Mälzer is heading to the Faroe Islands and France, Johannes King is heading to Lake Skadar in Montenegro and the USA.

S3 Ep8
7.3
25th Mar 2018
This time, Tim Mälzer and Christian Bau are competing against each other. While Mälzer is heading to Baiersbronn and Amsterdam, Christian Bau is facing an unknown dish in Cologne and one in Ghana in the box.

S10 Ep4
7.5
18th May 2025
Tim Mälzer and Marteria compete against The Duc Ngo in Santorini. They are challenged with innovative Greek dishes and must prove themselves as a team, even though they have never cooked together before.
S4 Ep8
7.5
1st Dec 2019
The black "Kitchen Impossible" box awaits Tim Mälzer in Abbadia San Salvatore (Italy) and Paris (France). Peter Maria Schnurr is served an unknown dish to cook in Bodenmais (Germany) and Poland.

S6 Ep2
7.5
21st Feb 2021
The heart of the Turkish community in Cologne beats on Keupstrasse. Tim Mälzer is accompanied along Keupstrasse by one of the restaurant owners himself and immerses himself in the hustle and bustle of this special street.

S7 Ep2
7.5
6th Feb 2022
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.

S9 Ep7
7.5
14th Apr 2024
In this episode, Tim Mälzer meets two top-class opponents who compete as a team: Alexander Herrmann & Tobias Bätz, who have been awarded 2 Michelin stars! Each of them has to complete a culinary task while Tim Mälzer has to complete two challenges as usual.

S9 Ep3
7.6
10th Mar 2024
The episode between Tim Mälzer and Stefan Wiesner is based on an agreement between the two opponents that every challenge should have to do with fire.

S10 Ep1
7.6
27th Apr 2025
Tim Mälzer and Philipp Vogel compete against each other in the anniversary season of "Kitchen Impossible" and face culinary challenges in Cologne and the surrounding area.

S1 Ep4
7.7
28th Feb 2016
Tim Mälzer in Portugal: The contents of the box that awaits him on the picturesque beach initially delight him: How can a rice dish with seafood taste so good? In Helsinki, Juan Amador receives his dish in a simple backpack.

S2 Ep2
7.7
5th Feb 2017
First, Tim Mälzer goes to Lisbon. There he is confronted with a bloody rooster. Now the chef is challenged to demonstrate all of his skills. Tim Mälzer's second stop is his hometown of Hamburg. Dish number two is a tough one, because the quality is undisputed. For the first time in the history of "Kitchen Impossible", Tim speaks of a task that will push him to his limits. Hans Neuner goes to Tel Aviv. There he is to recreate "Shakshuka". Hans is still not sure: is the merciless Shakshuka fan community or baking bread more worrying? The second task awaits in Sweden: reindeer. The seemingly simple dish turns out to be a real challenge in the end.

S8 Ep7
7.7
26th Mar 2023
Tim Mälzer and his opponent today, Edi Frauneder, are heading to the USA. Tim's tasks: to cook Bengali street food in a food truck and Mac and Cheese with BBQ in a stadium. Will he manage to master this with flying colors?

S1 Ep1
7.9
7th Feb 2016
They push themselves to the limit to achieve the right taste. In 6 episodes, Tim Mälzer and a top-class opponent face a seemingly impossible task in order to defend their cooking honor.

S1 Ep2
7.3
14th Feb 2016
The style of North African cuisine in Paris is not at all Tim's world. Analyzing the dishes is difficult. Meta, who is known for her love of meat, is in for a nasty surprise in Vienna: vegan gourmet snacks await her.

S1 Ep3
8.0
21st Feb 2016
In this episode of "Kitchen Impossible", Tim Mälzer and Alexander Herrmann set each other seemingly impossible tasks. Each of them is supposed to perfectly recreate a local chef's speciality in two countries under the toughest conditions. The top chefs don't have a list of ingredients or the recipe - they just have to discover the secret of the dishes by tasting and smelling.

S1 Ep4
7.7
28th Feb 2016
Tim Mälzer in Portugal: The contents of the box that awaits him on the picturesque beach initially delight him: How can a rice dish with seafood taste so good? In Helsinki, Juan Amador receives his dish in a simple backpack.

S1 Ep5
8.5
6th Mar 2016
While Tim Mälzer is struggling to prepare fish bladder and sea cucumber in Hong Kong, Tim Raue's preparations for the Scottish national dish Haggis are causing the local butcher to shake his head.

S1 Ep6
8.1
13th Mar 2016
Roland Trettl is invited by Tim Mälzer to his hometown of Hamburg, where the box is waiting for him. To his great delight, he is served classic northern German cuisine: kale with cabbage sausage and smoked pork and a meatball with mustard. Simple, hearty, good!
The first episode of Kitchen Impossible aired on February 07, 2016.
The last episode of Kitchen Impossible aired on June 22, 2025.
There are 78 episodes of Kitchen Impossible.
There are 10 seasons of Kitchen Impossible.
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