To find the winner to be the head of the kitchen in a real restaurant, Heliconia H Group purchased the rights from ITV Studios.
[2] This means that each week the contestants must cook and serve four different dishes, which rotate according to the Head Chef in charge of the kitchen that week: The competition format of Hell's Kitchen Thailand is mostly based on the US format, which is to invite competitors from all professions with cooking experience, including culinary students and professional chefs to join the competition.
Prior to the dinner service competition, contestants study a menu from the Executive Chef's cookbook for that week.
They are then assigned to a specific kitchen section (appetizer, meat, seafood, sauce, garnish or side dish, and dessert) and are given two hours to prepare their meal, working with their teammates, to ensure that the food quality and presentation meet Hell's Kitchen's high standards, and are ready to serve dinner to 100 paying guests who have made reservations expecting an appetizer, main course, and dessert.
However, if one or both teams have serious problems and do not meet Hell's Kitchen standards, the head chef will close the kitchen early and send all competitors out of the kitchen and back to their rooms, which will end the dinner service of that team immediately (in this case, customers who received orders from the closed team will receive rice, Phat kaphrao, fried eggs, or other menus instead and receive a full refund of the reservation).
When the season is more than half over and the number of contestants left as required by the Executive Chefs, there will be a Black Jacket Round.
Before opening the restaurant in this round, the Executive Chefs will make sure that all menus from both teams meet Hell's Kitchen standards.
They and their sous chefs will also oversee service to ensure that the two Executive Chefs maintain the restaurant's high quality standards, but will not interfere, allowing the contestants to fully demonstrate their ability to control the kitchen (except in rare cases where the contestants do not resolve the issues with the teams appropriately).
After the judging, the executive chefs’ office has two doors leading out to a balcony above the Hell’s Kitchen dining room.
After the executive chefs instruct both contestants to turn the doorknobs at the same time, the one who opens the door is declared the season’s winner, who receives 1,000,000 Thai baht (฿) in prize money and the opportunity to work with the Hell’s Kitchen chain of restaurants in Thailand.