With only 18 aprons up for grabs, the nation’s top amateur cooks battle for the MasterChef Australia title and $250,000 prize. Just who will have the secret to success?
Having been hand selected by the judges, 17 brand new talented home cooks arrive at the MasterChef kitchen for the very first time.
In Round One, Jamie Oliver tasks the contestants with making a delicious 15 Minute Meal.
It’s Day 3 of the competition and the contestants know that Jamie has left something for them, in the shape of the four coloured cloches.
It’s the first immunity cook of the season. Four cooks are vying for the chance to be immune from Sunday’s first all-in elimination cook.
Today’s cooks will face a two-round challenge. The first round sees the contestants having to choose one of three ingredients that the judges loved during their childhood.
Only Seven contestants walk through the door for the first Mystery Box of the season.
Emelia gives the contestants her choux recipe and sets the challenge – this is a two round elimination where everyone must put their own spin on the choux pastry and can cook either sweet or savoury.
Contestants arrive at the MasterChef kitchen to discover the space transformed into a restaurant.
Today’s two-round Immunity challenge sees the winning team from yesterday’s team challenge join Malissa to battle it out for immunity.
The judges reveal that today’s Round 2 challenge is to create the most impressive dish in 75 minutes, using only the ingredients in Julie’s stew.
It’s Mystery Box day, and upon arrival, our home cooks are greeted by an enormous Mystery Box, the biggest ever in MasterChef history, marking the start of Big Week.
Three anxious contestants arrive to face the biggest Pressure Test ever mounted at this stage of the competition.
Continuing Big Week, the contestants enter the MasterChef Kitchen and find it empty with a plinth at the top of the room.
The winning team from the huge Grazeland service challenge enter the kitchen, buoyant about their chance to now cook for Immunity.
Contestants have 45 minutes on Day 1 to prepare elements of their dish and leave them overnight for 14 hours. They then have 60 minutes on Day 2 to finish their dish.
For the challenge contestants will have 75 minutes to create a dish using at least one of the cereals from today’s Mystery Box.
It’s Nostalgia week and our three contestants walk in to a Pressure Test set by Gelato Messina’s Donato Toce.
Nostalgia week continues when our contestants find themselves in suburban Melbourne for today’s service challenge – in an old school Chinese restaurant.
The winning team from yesterday’s challenge arrive to find the MasterChef kitchen all lit up!
It’s the final day of Nostalgia Week, and it’s also elimination day. Contestants arrive in the MasterChef kitchen to discover the space has been transformed into a seventies style lounge room.
The judges announce it is the first day of Home Cooks vs Pro Cooks Week!
Three guest chefs from Nu Nu Restaurant in Palm Cove are competing against three MasterChef contestants in a Pressure Test.
It’s day three of Home Cooks versus Pro Cooks. All this week contestants are going head-to-head with professional chefs in classic MasterChef challenges.
Today’s classic MasterChef challenge raises the question of what is more important in this kitchen: time or ingredients?
In Round 1, the contestants have 45 minutes to prepare a dish that heroes fresh squid, with the bottom four dishes sending their makers into Round 2.
It’s the halfway mark of the competition and to celebrate, the 11 remaining contestants will be joined by iconic culinary figures every day this week.
There is a big twist to today’s Pressure Test, and that is there will be no recipe.
Today’s challenge centres around root vegetables, with parsnip, beetroot, sweet potato and turnip on offer to feature across a two-course meal, one savoury course and one sweet course.
In Round One, they have 45 minutes to bring the judges their family’s secret condiment, with the top three then progressing into Round Two.
Each contestant is assigned an ingredient and must make a choice: either take the ingredient they can see to feature in their dish, or take a gamble to select the one they can’t.
In 75 minutes, our Top 9 contestants must create a dish with an unexpected element of surprise. It could be a trick of the eye, the palate, the senses!
It’s Pressure Test time and after plating up the bottom three dishes in yesterday’s surprise Mystery Box challenge, three chefs must now cook for their spot in the Top 8.
Using the Temple of Boom as inspiration today, the contestants must split into two teams to add a contemporary twist to Greek food.
It’s a white apron day in the MasterChef kitchen, and today, the winner of Round 1 will cook against a professional chef in Round 2 for the chance to win an immunity pin.
From today’s challenge, the contestants learn that today’s challenge will span two rounds, the first of which is a taste test, with a twist.
The Top 7 enter the kitchen to find that today’s Mystery Box is the MasterChef classic – the Everything Box, where contestants must cook a dish using all the ingredients in some way.
The judges reveal that today will be a marathon, not a sprint, as the three cooks will have five hours on the clock to compete the dish.
Today, in teams of two, the Top 6 contestants must forage from the farm to pick an ingredient to feature in a course for diners at O.MY.
The judges reveal that in round one, the contestants will have 60 minutes to make a dish with a sound to make the judges salivate.
The contestants must be prepared for both the time and the ingredients to last them two rounds.
Today’s challenge is a Mystery Box with 60 minutes on the clock to create a dish using the Perino tomatoes in the box.
MasterChef hits the road for a three-day surprise adventure in regional Victoria.
Continuing on their Victorian road trip, the contestants find themselves in Cactus Country.
Three chefs will face off for the ultimate Immunity challenge prize: to be the first contestant through to Finals Week, securing their place in the Top 4.
Today will be a two-round elimination, beginning with a ‘Dual Duel’ where two pairs selected at random will cook head-to-head.
The Top 4 enter the kitchen to face a Mystery Box with a big prize attached. The winner of today’s cook is guaranteed the first spot in the Semi Final.
Entering the MasterChef kitchen, three chefs discover that today’s Pressure Test has to be recreated by memory alone; there is no recipe with this Pressure Test.
The judges reveal that today the chefs will need to keep pace with world-renowned chef, Curtis Stone, as he prepares a restaurant-quality dish.
The Semi Finalists enter to find the kitchen decked out for a service challenge.
At the end of today, one of the two chefs will have won $250,000 and earnt the title of MasterChef Australia 2023.
