MasterChef: The Professionals

20084 seriesEntertainment / Cooking
Available on
BBC One

In a spin-off from the original `MasterChef' series, professional chefs undertake a weekly gauntlet of gastronomic challenges. An initial 32 ambitious working chefs compete over seven weeks for a chance at lifting the MasterChef trophy, breaking into face-off heats and opportunities to cook for some of the nation's finest restaurateurs. Each week their efforts are presided over by Michelin-starred Marcus Wareing, celebrated `MasterChef' judge, Gregg Wallace and returning chef Monica Galetti.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 1MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 1. New judge Anna Haugh joins the UK’s most revered cooking competition.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 2MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 2. Four more chefs face Skills Tests and prepare their signature menus.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 3MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 3. The first quarter-final features the strongest five chefs from the first two heats.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 4MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 4. Four more contenders face skills tests involving ravioli and rainbow trout.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 5MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 5. Today's skills tests involve butchering a rabbit and removing the meat from a crab.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 6MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 6. In this quarter-final, the four chefs must create dishes that showcase different textures.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 7MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 7. Four more chefs are challenged to prepare pork chops and tempura vegetables.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 8MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 8. Four contenders prepare sweet potato gnocchi and poached apricots with chantilly cream.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 9MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 9. The quarter-finalists cook for critics Tom Parker Bowles, Tracy MacLeod and Grace Dent.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 10MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 10. The chefs prepare steamed sea bream and beetroot tortellini with a goat's cheese filling.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 11MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 11. In the final heat, the chefs cook pigeon in Madeira sauce and a filo pastry mille feuille.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 12MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 12. The quarter-finalists design a savoury pastry dish and then cook for three food critics.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 13MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 13. The semi-finalists create showstopping dishes based on their favourite food memories.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 14MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 14. Four of the remaining semi-finalists cook for the UK's top pop-up food entrepreneurs.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 15MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 15. The semi-finals conclude with the second group of four cooking for 20 top pop-up chefs.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 16MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 16. It’s Finals Week, featuring the Chef's Table event at London's Lanesborough Hotel.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 17MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 17. The last four chefs cook for some of the UK’s top food critics.

MasterChef: The Professionals: Episode Image
Episode 18MasterChef: The Professionals

Episode 18. The three finalists try to cook the three most spectacular courses of their lives.

How to watch MasterChef: The Professionals