Plot Synopsis

Hosted by Joel McHale, CRIME SCENE KITCHEN is a culinary guessing game in which bakers are tasked with decoding what type of dessert was made, when all that's left are the crumbs, flour trails, and a few elusive clues. They must then recreate the recipe for celebrity judges, chef Curtis Stone and cake artist Yolanda Gampp, who determine how closely their sweet treat matches the missing dessert -- and how good it tastes. Each episode begins at the scene of the crime - a kitchen that was just used to make an amazing mouth-watering dessert that has since disappeared. The chef teams of two are challenged to scour the kitchen for clues and ingredients to figure out what was baked. Next, each team must duplicate the recipe based on their guess. To take the $100,000 prize, the competing dessert makers will need to prove they have the technical know-how, imagination and problem-solving skills needed to decode and re-create incredible desserts and cakes from across the world! The 12 baking duos competing in Season 1 include:

Group A (entering the kitchen on May 26): Nathan Winner & Anthony Silvestri (Brooklyn, NY); Erinn Roth & Amanda Carter (Washington, DC & Waldorf, MD); Luis Flores & Natalie Collins-Fish (Las Vegas, NV); Jay Clifton & Thuy-Linh Carroll (Dallas, TX); Carolyn Tunon & Caroline Schmidt (Miami, FL); and Cathy Jacobson & Thomas McCurdy (Devil's Lake, ND & Irasburg, VT).

Group B (entering the kitchen on June 2): Cory Powell & Donte Fassett (Philadelphia, PA & Smyrna, DE); Natasha Babchak & Anthony Damelio (New York, NY & Wolcott, CT); Rebecca Miller & Jean Plumley (Columbia, MO); Shania Thomas-Floyd & Hope Marrero (Jersey City, NJ & Elizabeth, NJ); Leslie Milton & Emma Rosenthal (Williamstown, MA & Chicago, IL); and Lorie Burcham & Jason Burcham (Nashville, TN).



The sophomore season of CRIME SCENE KITCHEN premiered on Monday, June 5, 2023 at 9pm ET/PT on FOX, with Joel McHale returning as host and chef Curtis Stone and cake artist Yolanda Gampp coming back as celebrity judges. New this season, the bakers are divided into two groups -- self-taught and classically trained -- and the rivalries are fierce. Season 2 guest judges include: NeNe Leakes, Martina McBride, Richard Blais, Dwight Howard, and more. In the season opener, "Welcome Self-Taught Bakers," six self-taught baking teams arrive at the Crime Scene Kitchen to start their hunt for clues, leading them to the mystery dessert. The teams with the best crime-solving technique advance to the next week, and the duo with the poorest performance of the night heads home.
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Season 3 of CRIME SCENE KITCHEN debuted on Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 9pm ET/PT on FOX. Hosted again by Joel McHale and one again featuring chef Curtis Stone and cake artist Yolanda Gampp as judges, the series returns with an all-new theme. This season, six pairs of family members and six pairs of friends go head-to-head to see who works better together in the kitchen. In this culinary guessing game, these baking duos must decode and decipher what was made in their kitchen with only crumbs, food trails and humorous hints as clues, and then they must recreate the tasty treat, attempting to best capture its original form and flavor in order to win a $100,000 grand prize. The competitors in Season 3 are split between six pairs of family members and six pairs of friends:

THE FAMILY MEMBERS
Siblings Anyatta Ward & Sonjii Ward-Jones (Hometown: Fort Worth, TX)
Siblings Becky Rosales & Daniel Rosales (Hometowns: Miami, FL and Dallas, TX)
Son/Mother Nigel Batchelor & Karen Russell (Hometown: Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Spouses Katelyn Allen & Ronan Allen (Hometown: Murray, UT)
Starlett Simmons & Kai Taalib (Hometown: Detroit, MI)
Uncle/Niece Courtney Rice & Danielle Peoples (Hometowns: Placentia, CA and Orange, CA)

THE FRIENDS
Janusz Domagala & Keiron George Murphy (Hometowns: Brighton, UK and London, England)
Cliff Butler & Adam Martinez (Hometown: Austin, TX and San Marcos, TX)
Brando Wallace & Nikki Pensabene (Hometown: Brooklyn, NY)
Jesse Gilhula & Justin De Jesus (Hometowns: Houston, TX and Calgary, Alberta)
Jessica Harrison & Lenore Johnson (Hometown: Kitchener, Ontario)
April Saldana Rodriguez & Samantha Garza (Hometowns: Pflugerville, TX and Austin, TX)