Jamie's Kitchen Episode Guide

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Episode Guide

  • Season 1 Episode 5: EPISODE: 5

    In the final programme, Jamie Oliver faces his biggest challenge yet as the launch of the restaurant looms and the trainees are put through their paces in the newly completed kitchen. Despite lots of teething troubles, all the practice and dress rehearsals seem to be paying off : but will they be ready in time for the big night?

  • Season 1 Episode 4: EPISODE: 4

    Jamie Oliver sends the trainees on placements to work alongside professional chefs for a month : an exercise which ends in goodbyes for some. With the grand opening approaching, major building problems are not the only thing Jamie has to worry about as the remaining students struggle to cope with their next assignment : serving dishes to 30 diners

  • Season 1 Episode 3: EPISODE: 3

    Jamie Oliver tries to train a group of unemployed 16 to 24-year-olds, turning them into chefs capable of running a restaurant, but problems arise as 11 of the 15 trainees fail their first exam. To make matters worse, a trip to a free-range pig farm, designed to instil an understanding of the importance of quality ingredients, proves equally disastrous

  • Season 1 Episode 2: EPISODE: 2

    Jamie Oliver whittles the applicants down from over 1,000 wannabe chefs, and announces the final 15 : who immediately begin training while Jamie and his business team make plans for the project's restaurant. In the middle of all this, the popular chef rushes to hospital as his wife Jools gives birth to their first baby

  • Season 1 Episode 1: EPISODE: 1

    Jamie Oliver heads an ambitious experiment in which he attempts to train a group of unemployed 16 to 24-year-olds, turning them into chefs capable of running a restaurant. His first task is the selection process, which includes testing the palate of potential participants and drumming up interest for the experiment on the radio. The last test for candidates is to copy Jamie's seared salmon and vegetable dish, but fortunately restaurateurs Ruth Watson and Gennaro Contaldo are on hand to help with the difficult final selection