Every Chef That Has Been Eliminated From Season 3 of 'Next Level Chef'

Spoiler alert: This article contains major spoilers for Season 3 of Next Level Chef.

Most of us can agree that Fox’s Next Level Chef is food television gold! Aside from having British restaurateur Gordon Ramsay at the helm with Nyesha Arrington and Richard Blais who all serve as mentors and judges, the competition series spotlights proficient chefs from across the country.

Interestingly, the competition set consists of various floors with different kitchens that are meant to test the chef's ability to adapt and thrive in undesirable conditions.

Season 3 of the series features chefs ranging from home cooks to notable social media chefs. And since the competition is stiff, folks wonder who could cook for the occasion and who fell flat.

So, who was eliminated from Next Level Chef in Thursday's episode? Here's what to know.

This week's elimination challenge sees the bottom three chefs, Izahya, Mada, and Zach, create a picture perfect dish of risotto. Each dish is paired with a seafood twist, whether it be shrimp, lobster, or scallops. And although Mada is immediately confident in his shrimp and risotto and the dish has strong flavors, it doesn't stand up against Izahya's scallops and risotto dish or Zach's risotto with butter-poached lobster. Mada is eliminated. That leaves five chefs left in the competition.

With the teams being narrowed down and the pressure on, all three teams go into Episode 12 ready to fight tooth and nail to stay in the competition. And in a first for the season, we have three people competing in the elimination round — Gabi, Izahya, and Nicole.

They each have to use Wagyu beef to create the best Japanese-style dish. Nyesha and Richard both opt to send Nicole home because of her fatty steak that didn't quite hit the mark. Going into Episode 13, we have six contestants left.

In a shocking turn of events, frontrunner Ryan "Von" Smith has been eliminated from Season 3 of Next Level Chef. His performance during the team challenge was marred by serving a dry and overcooked fried halibut.

As a result, Nyesha Arrington decides to send him to the elimination cookoff with a task to elevate the classic comfort food dish: Chicken and waffles! Unfortunately, Von's chicken turns out to be overcooked, sealing his fate as the judges bid him farewell from the competition.

Following an unsuccessful attempt at a Greek dish, Richard sends Angela Pagan to cook a perfect rack of lamb in the elimination challenge. Despite her efforts, the judges unanimously favor her opponent, Christina, leading to Angela's departure from the Next Level Chef competition.

"I am leaving very proud of myself. My journey keeps evolving," Angela reflects as she exits the kitchen. "You've got to keep going. You've got one life to live, so don't be afraid to try a new journey."

After a pizza challenge, the judges chose Nicole’s lamb’s tongue pizza as the best pizza of the night, ultimately sending Team Ramsay and Team Arrington into elimination. Gordon sends in Chris, and Nyesha nominates Christina, who hands the judge her immunity pin. Nyesha then replaces her with Mada, making her fight for her spot for a second week in a row.

Challenged to make a perfect parm dish in the elimination challenge, Mada serves up some bone-in veal parm, while Chris makes chicken parm. Gordon decides to eliminate the chicken parm. Nyesha votes to send home the veal parm, meaning Richard must serve as tie breaker. He ultimately chooses Chris and his chicken parm.

After Nyesha chooses Gabi's dish as the best of the evening, Team Ramsay is on top again. Richard sends Lauren and Nyesha sends Mada into elimination. Due to Lauren's poached lobster being just "90 seconds" shy of done, she goes home. This means Team Blais is headed to the basement in Episode 9.

After a street food challenge, Nyeshia sends Alexandra to cook chicken wings in the elimination cookoff. She plays it safe, preparing classic sweet and spicy buffalo wings. Meanwhile, her opponent, Jordan takes a bolder approach by serving garlic parmesan wings.

Ultimately, Jordan emerges as the victor, resulting in Alexandra's elimination from the competition. Reflecting on her journey, she says, "I was honestly not expecting to be here as long as I was, so to get this far was a great thing."

After a tropical dish competition, Richard sends Angela into the elimination. Gordon chooses Jordan to battle her, but when Jordan uses his immunity pin, Gordon sends in Wendy. The two of them have to make a country pork dish. Due to Wendy's "overcooked" pork chop, she is eliminated.

After Izahya's dish wins Team Ramsay's team safety for the night, Lauren and Ari are put into the elimination round. Despite judges Nyesha and Richard liking the taste of Ari's butter chicken dish, it doesn't hold up against Lauren's, and Ari goes home.

Up until now, the eliminations have been from the audition stage. Now, things are heating up, and in Episode 4, we have just one eliminated contestant, Matt. After the draft divides up the chefs into three teams — Gordon's, Richard's, and Nyesha's — they all get to cooking. Matt from Richard's team, and Chris from Gordon's team face off in the elimination challenge at the end of the episode. Unfortunately, Matt doesn't make it through, and he goes home.

After serving an "unpleasant" chicken liver pasta, Jennie heads open early in the third episode of Season 3. Summer, who is six months pregnant, leaves the episode second after a less than successful attempt at clams with cauliflower puree lands her a one-way ticket back home. Charity leaves last, after she "overcooks" her prawns.

Things are still intense in Season 3, Episode 2 of Next Level Chef. And even after wowing the judges for part of the episode, multiple people go home. Daniel fails to impress Nyesha with his cauliflower soup with poached shrimp, so he's sent home early on. Then, Monika delivers an "underwhelming" turkey breast Bok choy to Gordon and she heads home. The third and final contestant to get the boot in Episode 2 is Joe.

As we all know, the premiere episode of any reality competition show is like a massacre in terms of eliminations. And during the third season premiere of Next Level Chef, we see 24 chefs start out at the ground floor of the multi-level kitchen scenes. This time around, there are a handful of social media chefs who are also competing. They’ve wowed Gordon in some way prior to the show, and now they’re here to prove themselves.

Sadly, one of those social media chefs, Brittany, goes home before the episode is over. And at the end of the premiere, another Brittnee (though spelled differently, clearly) is eliminated. We also see TikTok Chef Tim get the ax.

At the end of the season, only one winner can take home a one-year mentorship and $250,000 cash prize. So yeah, we’d say the stakes (steaks?) are pretty high.

Who will get eliminated next? Come back for weekly updates and watch Next Level Chef Thursdays at 8 p.m. EST on FOX.