In "Kitchen Impossible", Tim Mälzer competes against friends and colleagues in a special kind of cookery competition: The two opponents enter into a culinary competition under the toughest conditions and travel separately to two countries, which they determine for each other. Once there, they are each served the favourite dish of a local chef's regular guests. Now they have to taste the right ingredients before buying them and preparing the dish themselves under the watchful eye of the local chef. The regulars act as judges and can award up to ten points.