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7 episodes

The Great Food Truck Race - Season 3

First aired Aug 19, 2012Season 3

Browse all 7 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

3,559 Miles to a Dream

NR
Aug 19, 201260 min

Eight teams of aspiring food-truck owners arrive in Los Angeles and begin competing for their own food truck and $50,000 of seed money to start their business in the Season 3 opener.

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Episode 2

Attitude at High Altitude

NR
Aug 26, 201260 min

The seven remaining trucks arrive in Flagstaff, Ariz., and the teams are tasked with creating a dish featuring prickly-pear cactus, a local delicacy. Chef Beau MacMillan is a guest judge.

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Episode 3

Even Food Trucks Are Bigger in Texas

NR
Sep 2, 201260 min

Ballpark-inspired fare is made when the teams visit the Amarillo National Bank Sox Stadium, home of the Amarillo Sox, a minor-league baseball team.

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Episode 4

Baby Got Razorback

NR
Sep 9, 201260 min

The five remaining teams head to the college town of Fayetteville, Ark., and are tasked with using Pop-Tarts to create breakfast dishes for hungry college students. Acclaimed teen chef Jeremy Salamon is a guest judge.

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Episode 5

Music City Madness

NR
Sep 16, 201260 min

The four remaining teams arrive in Nashville and prepare a picnic for the country-music duo Joey + Rory. Later, two members of each team must sit out of a challenge while their other teammates train culinary students to do their jobs.

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Episode 6

Mistake by the Lake?

NR
Sep 23, 201260 min

The teams create gourmet dishes using tomatoes. Outback Steakhouse cofounder Tim Gannon serves as a guest judge. Later, the food trucks are taken in to be serviced, and the teams must sell their dishes from golf carts.

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Episode 7

Where in the World is Lubec?

NR
Sep 30, 201260 min

The final two teams race to Boston in the Season 3 finale. Once they arrive, they are tasked with adding an authentic New England lobster dish to their menu. Two lobstermen rate the dishes and award the winner a head start to Maine, where they'll sell head-to-head one last time before host Tyler Florence counts their money and reveals the winners.