Chopped Season 40 Episode 8 Chopped Champs Throwdown: Battle 2 ( Air Date 2019-02-19 ) Genre Reality category. Overview "Four Chopped champions come back fiercer than ever with their sights set on the tournament's $50,000 grand finale. The chefs create wildly different appetizers from a basket that includes black garlic. A novelty candy in the second basket requires a hammer and some culinary imagination, and plenty of competing flavors in the dessert basket leave the chefs with some decisions to make.".