| Season Number: | 11 | ||||
| Bgcolour: | lavender | ||||
| Num Episodes: | 11 | ||||
| Network: | Food Network | ||||
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| Prev Season: | Season 10 | ||||
| Next Season: | Season 12 |
The eleventh season of the American reality television series Food Network Star premiered June 7, 2015 on Food Network.[1] Food Network chefs Bobby Flay and Giada de Laurentiis returned to the series as judges, with Alton Brown not returning for undisclosed reasons.[2] This season also continued the inclusion of Star Salvation, a six-week webseries that featured the most recently eliminated contestant competing against the remaining previously eliminated contestants for a chance to re-enter the main Food Network Star competition.
This season also returned to the practice of the winner of the competition being chosen by the Food Network staff, rather than by viewers as in the three previous seasons.[3]
(In order of elimination)
| Contestant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mentor Challenge Winner | Dom | Rue | Eddie | Jay | Alex | Eddie | |||||
| Eddie | HIGH | HIGH | LOW | WIN | HIGH | HIGH | LOW | LOW | HIGH | LOW | WINNER |
| Jay | HIGH | IN | IN | IN | HIGH | HIGH | HIGH | HIGH | HIGH | HIGH | RUNNER-UP |
| Dom | LOW | IN | HIGH | LOW | LOW | LOW | LOW | OUT | IN | RUNNER-UP | |
| Arnold | HIGH | HIGH | HIGH | WIN | LOW | IN | HIGH | LOW | LOW | OUT | |
| Alex | IN | IN | IN | WIN | HIGH | LOW | LOW | HIGH | OUT | ||
| Michelle | IN | IN | WIN | LOW | LOW | IN | |||||
| Emilia | IN | LOW | IN | IN | HIGH | OUT | |||||
| Rue | IN | IN | IN | IN | OUT | ||||||
| Rosa | IN | IN | LOW | OUT | |||||||
| Sita | IN | LOW | OUT | ||||||||
| Matthew | LOW | OUT | |||||||||
| Christina | OUT |
(WINNER) The contestant won the competition and became the next "Food Network Star".
(RUNNER-UP) The contestant made it to the finale, but did not win.
(WIN) The contestant won the challenge for that week.
(RETURNED) The contestant won Star Salvation and returned to the main competition.
(HIGH) The contestant was one of the selection committee's favorites for that week.
(IN) The contestant performed well enough to move on to the next week.
(LOW) The contestant was one of the selection committee's three or four least favorites for that week, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The contestant was the selection committee's least favorite for that week, and was eliminated.
(QUIT) The contestant voluntarily left the competition.
This season of Star Salvation was hosted by Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli and season 7 winner Jeff Mauro.[4]
| Contestant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dom | IN | WIN | ||||
| Rue | IN | IN | IN | IN | OUT | |
| Alex | OUT | |||||
| Emilia | IN | IN | OUT | |||
| Matthew | IN | IN | IN | OUT | ||
| Christina | IN | IN | OUT | |||
| Rosa | IN | OUT | ||||
| Sita | OUT |
Having withdrawn from the competition, Michelle did not compete in Star Salvation this week.
(WIN) The chef won Star Salvation and returned to the main competition.
(IN) The chef continued in the competition.
(OUT) The chef lost in that week's Star Salvation and was eliminated from the competition.
Michelle chose to withdraw from the competition to be with her family. She did not compete in Star Salvation.
Dom returned to the competition, having won Star Salvation.