Gordon Ramsay’s BAFTA-nominated food show opens its doors for another night of mouth-watering food, with every dish something you can cook at home, plus recipe-based challenges and fast food that won’t make you feel guilty. In tonight’s second programme Top Gear’s James May takes on Gordon in the recipe challenge, and in the restaurant Gordon confronts him with a culinary test of his manhood.

Denise Van Outen joins the diners in the restaurant to enjoy a delicious starter of duck egg with tapenade and anchovy fingers, a spicy main course of tandoori spiced halibut with cucumber raita, and a heavenly dessert of scotch pancakes with caramelised bananas. Tonight’s brigade of passionate amateur cooks are four feisty country girls from Lancashire, and they’re willing to do whatever’s necessary to produce food the 50 diners will be willing to pay for.

This series, the stakes are higher than ever: the best performing brigade will return to cook once more with Gordon in the kitchen of his Mayfair restaurant, Claridges. Plus Gordon’s baby lambs are about to arrive but in a shocking development the Ramsay family have some painful lessons to learn when there’s trouble during the birth. To find out how to dine at the restaurant, to apply to be in a brigade in Gordon’s kitchen or if you think you could be Gordon’s new female TV cook, go to www.channel4.com/fword.

Channel 4, Tuesday 15th May 9PM