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Talented home chefs from across South Africa compete to impress expert judges. Each week they face a gauntlet of culinary tasks and challenges in order to remain in the competition and avoid elimination.
Chefs Zola Nene and Gregory Czarnecki and food editor Justine Drake judge the culinary skills of the contestants competing for R1-million prize and the coveted title of MasterChef.
In this episode the contestants are tasked with cooking a dish personal to the judges and a technical challenge.
The 16 remaining cooks battle to impress judges Zola Nene, Gregory Czarnecki and Justine Drake and avoid elimination.
The contestants face the first team challenge of the series, with the cooks on the losing team subjected to a pressure test to avoid elimination.
The contestants have to show the judges what they could do with a few South African classics.
The chefs perform a pressure test as a tribute to famous chef Dorah Sitole.
The aspiring chefs face a hot pressure test, using different varieties of chilli.
The remaining 12 cooks face another team challenge. Which team will come out on top?
The six cooks on the losing team face a pressure test to avoid elimination.
The chefs face an individual elimination challenge in order to make it into the top 10.
The remaining ten cooks battle to impress judges Zola Nene, Gregory Czarnecki and Justine Drake.
Ten becomes nine as five cooks must face a dreaded pressure test in order to survive in the competition.
Guest chef Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen gives the contestant a heritage French food challange.
Contestants are faced with an eggcellent challenge for a chance to go straight to the semi-finals.
Using inspiration from Mmabatho Molefe's divine Zulu cuisine, the contestants are split into two teams and face an offal challenge.
As the competition heats up, three cooks face an elimination challenge.
Battling for a place in the semi-finals, the contestants are thrown a plant-based curveball.
The four remaining cooks have to recreate chef Michael Cooke's dessert using grape bio products.
The cooks are set the challenge to make a fine dining roast dinner featuring seven colours.
The three finalists meet award-winning chef Kobus van der Merwe, and then face their final challenge.