Fox and Gordon Ramsay team for reality series ‘Master Chef’

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Fox has ordered up ‘Master Chef,’ a new reality show that will pit amateur cooks against one another in a battle for culinary supremacy.

Gordon Ramsay, star of the network’s other food-centric hours, ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ and ‘Kitchen Nightmares,’ will co-produce and headline ‘Master Chef,’ which is based on a format that originated in the U.K. but more recently shattered ratings records in Australia.

In the Australian version of the show, according to the Hollywood Reporter, contestants -- home cooks, not professional chefs -- audition by creating a dish for a panel of three judges to earn spots as semifinalists. The remaining contestants compete each week by way of team-based and individual cooking challenges until only one remains.

A premiere date has not yet been set. Reveille and Ramsay’s One Potato Two Potato will produce.

-- Denise Martin