Claudia Sandoval

The competition brews as the remaining home cooks create dishes using coffee as one of the main ingredients.

After a dramatic elimination, the remaining 17 home cooks are greeted by Chef Ramsay and Tosi, as well as special guests Season Six winner Claudia Sandoval and guest culinary judge Aaron Sanchez, as they reveal the next mystery box challenge. Each contestant will have 60 minutes to create his/her own unique dish using a number of Sandoval’s favorite ingredients. The winner of the challenge will not only be safe from the next elimination round, but will also help in deciding the fate of three other contestants in the elimination. Find out who is saved and who survives elimination.

The Top Six home cooks are in charge of a downtown Los Angeles eatery in the wildly popular "Restaurant Takeover" challenge.

After the Battle for the Apron concludes, the Top 20 home cooks in America will face their first Mystery Box Challenge. Each contestant is given 20 staple ingredients that anyone could find in their home and tasked with preparing a dish for the judges -- were the judges to show up at their homes for dinner. The winner of the Mystery Box Challenge will receive a significant advantage in the season’s first pressure test, during which contestants must make their versions of an apple pie.

In the next mystery box challenge, the home cooks will have to come out of their shells when they must prepare unique crab dishes for the judges.