With the Season 5 premiere set to air in just a few days, the celebrity judges of FOX's MasterChef are promising a season that is "five times better" than the seasons that came before it.

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Some ways Graham Elliot, Joe Bastianich and Gordon Ramsay promise the season will be the best yet include the challenges the 30 new contestants will face, as well as the critiques they will be given.

"The fact that the contestants are on fire, the judges are coming in hard, hitting hard, raising the bar, making the challenges exciting...we're very hands-on and it's going to be intense," Elliot says in a preview video for the season.

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The intensity will trickle down to the very competitive nature the contestants will all exhibit, Joe Bastianch said.

"The competition is very, very fierce, and it gets personal this year," he said.

The video shows clips of the chefs fighting, and they face one of the biggest challenges yet, one which Bastianich refers to as either the "biggest challenge or biggest disaster," by serving a meal on an Army base. The tension will be extremely high on this challenge, and result in some big mistakes being made, including the chefs almost serving chicken that wasn't fully cooked.

Still, despite the intensity, the judges do admit that the talent the chefs will exhibit this season will be unlike what fans of the show have seen before.

"The stuff that they create independently, on their own, without any help, is pretty extraordinary," Elliot said.

"Based on the level of the talent that we're seeing now on MasterChef, we have to increase the ante with the challenges," Ramsay added.

Masterchef Season 5 premieres Monday, May 26 at 8 p.m. on FOX.


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