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Food Network’s Ultimate Recipe Showdown premieres on March 14 at 10:00 p.m., hosted by Guy Fieri. Ultimate Recipe Showdown is a home cooking competition series featuring viewers of Food Network. Over 12,000 recipes were submitted out of which 24 recipes of prospective participants were chosen for this season’s competition. The chosen home cooks have an opportunity to feature their favorite recipe, whether the recipe is an adapted recipe, a recipe passed down from generation to genration or an inspired original recipe that is a favorite of friends and family alike.

The six week competition features recipes in the following categories: Burgers, Cakes, Comfort Food, Desserts, Hot and Spicy, or Hometown Favorites. The top recipes chosen for each category compete each week for top honors, a prize of $25,000 and the chance to have his or her recipe on the menu nationwide at T.G.I. Friday’s® restaurants.

The home cook contestants must recreate their recipe each week for a particular category, with a final winner from that week’s group deemed the winner. Home cooks have a cooking station with all ingredients they need to recreate their recipe. The home cooks face challenging each other by cooking the best dish then face the judges before finding out which of them wins the category and prize. Host Fieri talks with the contestants as they cook their recipe, providing encouragement and tips. In the end, if he’s lucky, Fieri gets a chance to taste the final dishes to judge for himself. Once the contestants finish their recipe, each contestant must face the three professional culinary judges who then give them a critique of their dish. Imagine how difficult it is for professional chefs to receive criticism from professional culinary judges in other Food Network shows like Iron Chef, Chopped and Food Network Challenges, much less home cooks receiving criticism about their cherished home recipes.

Ultimate Recipe Showdown is hosted by chef and popular Food Network personality Guy Fieri (Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives; Guy’s Big Bite; Guy Off the Hook). Fieri’s winning personality and culinary chops are featured as host of this series geared to showcase home cooks from across the nation.

Ultimate Recipe Showdown season 3 premieres on Food Network March 14 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.