At the start of the ninth season, Tim Mälzer meets Richard Rauch. After all, he was once the original chef in the “Kitchen” and served malt testicles and cow udders. Now he wants to beat the king of the “Kitchen” himself and will stop at nothing.

Tim Mälzer in Munich (Germany): Tim goes to the Bavarian capital Munich, where he gets a “makeover” from his opponent Hans Jörg Bachmeier at the beginning. Tim Mälzer's joy about the traditional Bavarian costume is limited and his mood gets even worse. Because an absolutely mammoth task awaits him in the black box: Rumohr sweetbreads with Albufera sauce, developed by Eckart Witzigmann himself. In the legendary restaurant “Tantris DNA”, the old place of work of Hans Jörg Bachmeier and in front of the eyes of the French chef Virginie Protat, Tim Mälzer has to prove whether he can recreate a classic by the great Eckart Witzigmann.

The episode between Tim Mälzer and Stefan Wiesner is based on an agreement between the two opponents that every challenge should have to do with fire.

Tim Mälzer in Östersund (Sweden): Anton Schmaus sends Tim Mälzer to Östersund, Sweden. At the beginning, Tim Mälzer first has to demonstrate his technical skills in order to receive a cookbook as a reward. This comes from a good friend of Anton Schmaus: the Swedish chef Elaine Asp, who specializes in traditional dishes from the Sami, the indigenous people of Scandinavia. Using the cookbook, Tim Mälzer is allowed to choose the dishes for the box and the challenge himself for the first time! But of course there is a catch: the cookbook is in Swedish and he has to choose his challenge based on the pictures. It remains exciting to see how satisfied he is with his own selection. He can't complain about the task.

In the Baltic Edition of Kitchen Impossible, Tim Mälzer and two-Michelin-starred chef Matthias Diether travel through the capitals of the Baltic countries to take on culinary challenges.

Tim Mälzer invites Edi Frauneder to his hometown of Hamburg to cook in "Mälzer's City - Mälzer's Rules". The points from the first two challenges are counted straight away, making for an exciting and emotional episode.

In this episode, Tim Mälzer meets two top-class opponents who compete as a team: Alexander Herrmann & Tobias Bätz, who have been awarded 2 Michelin stars! Each of them has to complete a culinary task while Tim Mälzer has to complete two challenges as usual.

Culinary highlights await viewers in the season finale of “Kitchen Impossible”. In the "Best Friends Edition" Tim Mälzer and two top chefs compete in a very personal competition and push themselves to the limit to get the right taste. The Viennese two-star chef Lukas Mraz makes his friends Tim Mälzer and Juan Amador sweat with the name of one of the most successful chefs of today: Massimo Bottura is an Italian three-star chef who makes both Tim Mälzer and Juan Amador nervous with admiration become.