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Aspiring chefs draw their weapons for a culinary showdown judged by world-renowned experts. At the end of a series of challenges, there remains a survivor who is crowned the best in Australia.
Kicking off the competition is the one and only Jamie Oliver! 18 contestants have 90 minutes to create a secret weapon dish - and the winner gets the biggest advantage ever seen in MasterChef.
Jamie Oliver returns to present the contestants with two difficult challenges: a 15-minute meal and his mushroom and spinach rotolo.
It's a race for the last spot in the immunity cook! There are four coloured cloches with secret flavour bombs left by Jamie Oliver - but they won't be revealed until 15 minutes into the task.
Four cooks vie for the chance to sit out Sunday's elimination. In the first round, contestants must produce a dish using the ingredients found in mentor Shannon Bennett's fridge.
Contestants must choose one of three ingredients that have inspired the judges during their childhood, including Andy's Vegemite, Mel's cumquats or Jock's panettone.
Today's Mystery Box has been set by pastry queen and MasterChef legend Poh Ling Yeow.
In today's challenge, each contest must put their own spin on choux pastry - sweet or savoury.
The cooks are divided into green and blue teams for the first team service challenge, with two and a half hours to serve entrees and showcase an ingredient from the judges' table.
Today's challenge sees the previous day's winning team battle it out for immunity. They have 45 minutes to turn the humble roast chicken into an elevated dish.
Today's challenge is set by MasterChef legend Julie Goodwin, who has brought in a pot of her seafood stew.
The home cooks are presented with a shipping container-sized mystery box - the biggest ever in MasterChef history - marking the start of Big Week.
Celebrity chef Eddie Stewart sets the Pressure Test: to recreate his five-level high Tokyo Lamington Tower.
Today's service challenge is in Melbourne's Spotswood, a huge park filled with street food outlets. Every team must create two dishes, surf and turf, each to be sold for $10.
Immunity is up for grabs, as well as a $10,000 prize! Plus, the winning contestant gets to take part in a cook-off against professional chef Sergio Perera.
It's the final day of Big Week and judge Mel reveals that today's challenge is an overnight cook.
Contestants try to bowl the judges over by elevating humble breakfast cereals into nostalgic classics.
Guest chef Donato Toce reveals his superb Viennetta ice cream cake, and contestants must replicate the nostalgic dessert or risk being frozen out of the kitchen.
Two teams work hard to create a sumptuous banquet at a suburban Chinese restaurant as they hope to takeaway a crack at Immunity. Will their plates of fortune to be sweet ... or sour?
It's an Immunity Pin fracas as a field of faves fan the flames in a flipping flambe free-for-all. Who will face fab French foodie Gabriel Gate in a fierce fight to the finish?
It's a final trip down memory lane for a '70s-themed dinner party, and later some time travel for the taste buds leads to a tearful farewell to one contestant.
It's the first day of Home Cooks vs Pros Week! If any of the home cooks win top dish, all three home cooks will be safe from elimination.
Chefs Nick, Melanie and Chris from Nu Nu Restaurant are competing against three contestants, re-creating Khanh Nguyen's three-course meal.
The Stanley Restaurant team sprint to the kitchen for a blind relay against three MasterChef contestants. With no handovers and zero communication - who will be the runaway winners?
Who can knock Jock's socks off in a shock rock around the clock? Three cooks face the chopping block against Serai's flock.
Our home cooks are wading into treacherous waters as seafood superstar Rick Stein brings his best squid game. Who will end up sleeping with the fishes in a chaotic aquatic challenge?
Contestants must hook the catch of the day as Australia's top chef Josh Niland reels them in with his unique skills, before setting a gnarly Mystery Box challenge.
A saucy twist with a standout ingredient ensures stiff competition between the bottom three, who must replicate iconic chef Luke Nguyen's zesty pho without a recipe.
Australia's homegrown superstar Curtis Stone visits the MasterChef kitchen to motivate two teams facing off in a massive Service Challenge to create next-level root vegetable dishes.
It's Curtis' Condiment Cook-off, and today's tastiest condiment wins its maker immunity - plus, their creation will be on Coles Supermarket shelves, Australia-wide!
Beloved Australian food icon Maggie Beer is in the Masterchef kitchen to inspire a full field of black apron contestants as they compete in a 2-round Elimination Challenge.
The cooks must create a dish with an unexpected element of surprise. Will it be a taste surprise, a hidden surprise, or a trick of the eye?
In a pressure test set by Nelly Robinson of Nel in Surrey Hills, the contestants have to recreate his whimsical Mr. McGregor Garden - a dish inspired by The Tales of Peter Rabbit.
At the National Gallery, the Final 8 walk into the Temple of Boom, a re-imagined ancient Greek Acropolis, for a team service challenge.
The winner of Round 1 goes up against pro chef Kay-Lene Tan from the Ritz Carlton Melbourne for the chance to win an immunity pin.
New. It's Elimination Day and the contestants have a two-round challenge that includes a taste test. The winners receive a colour that they must use as inspiration for their dish.
New. The Everything Mystery Box contains lamb, sugar snap peas, labneh, Pedro Jimenez sherry, fenugreek, parsley, bacon and garlic.
New. Internationally renowned trailblazer chef Clare Smyth from Oncore in Sydney tests the contestants with a beef and oyster dish.
New. Today's service challenge is set on a stunning farm in Victoria, which grows produce for the menu of restaurant O.MY.
New. The stakes are high as today's winner will be the first contestant through to the Top 5.
New. Pastry chef Kirsten Tibballs brings in a dessert pantry for today's challenge.
New. Today, Fresh Is Best! The Top 5 have 60 minutes to create a dish using Perino tomatoes and at least two ingredients from the MasterChef garden.
New. The Top 5 hit the road for a three-day surprise adventure in regional Victoria. First stop is the stunning All Saints Estate for a classic MasterChef time auction.
New. Continuing their Victorian road trip, in Cactus Country the contestants must cook a dish that takes them to Mexico.
New. Today it's a 3-course service challenge, featuring their chosen grain from the Murtoa Stick Shed, the impressive heritage grain storage facility they're cooking in.
New. With one contestant safe, it's time for the others to fight for the final 3 spots in a 'Dual Duel' - where two make a dish with Dijon mustard, and two compete to create an anchovy dish.
New. For this family Mystery Box challenge, the cooks have 75 minutes to recreate a dish chosen by their family.
New. The cooks travel to Sydney to meet Peter Gilmore and watch him create squid, scallops and pipis on crispy eggplant with XO sauce - and then recreate the dish from memory.
New. Today the contestants must keep up with world-renowned chef Curtis Stone to win a 30-minute advantage in the semi-final.
New. It's nearing the end and all that stands between the semi-finalists and the Grand Finale is an epic three-course service challenge battle.
New. That gleaming gold trophy is finally within reach... the Grand Finale of MasterChef 2023 is here!