The best episodes of MasterChef Australia
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- 01
Auditions, Day 1: Your Dream on a Plate
MasterChef Australia returns with auditions and 40 of the country's best home cooks are ready. Tonight 20 cooks have 90 minutes to cook their dream dish in order to win one of the 10 aprons on offer.
- 02
Another 20 home cooks enter the MasterChef kitchen to compete for 10 aprons on offer. For those who miss out, they learn there will be one final chance to cook for the last four aprons tomorrow.
- 03
Auditions, Day 3: Showstopper Dish
Tonight, the 20 remaining hopefuls have a second and final chance to cook their way into the competition. Just who will score themselves one of the final four places?
- 04
Pressure Test: Maggie Beer's Sour Cream Pastry
The bottom five cooks from the Invention Test face off in a Pressure Test set by MasterChef favourite Maggie Beer, tasked with mastering her signature sour cream pastry in a high-stakes pie challenge.
- 05
The amateur cooks are given one hour to recreate their signature dish for the first of the two judges' auditions. The judges introduce the nine past winners of the program, who are there to cheer them on.
- 06
Mystery Box Challenge: Gordon Ramsay & Invention Test: Burgers
In one of the biggest surprises of the season so far, and in a program first, Gordon Ramsay enters the kitchen for a mystery box challenge.
- 07
Pressure Test: Saransh Goila's Butter Chicken
The bottom three contestants from the previous invention test face elimination in a pressure test. One little mistake can turn into a royal disaster.
- 08
Immunity Challenge: Ashley Davis
The mystery box winner and the top three contestants from the invention test compete for immunity. The contestants only have 10 minutes to create a spectacular dish. In a royal race for immunity, who will do the impossible?
- 09
Mystery Box Challenge: Surprise Ingredient & Invention Test: Oil, Salt, and Pepper
The judges have a surprise: it's survival week and the contestants will be cooking for their lives every day. By the end of the week, one of them will win the most powerful advantage.
- 10
It is the semi-final of 2018. Our top three contestants are told that they will be cooking for some very special guests.
- 11
It's the grand finale of 2018 and our top 24 has been whittled down to two home cooks battling it out in one final day in the kitchen.
- 12
Each hopeful cook has 60 minutes to produce their dish. If the judges like the dish, they're through to the next stage. If not, sadly, they're heading home.
- 13
It's day two of auditions and 13 contestants return for a second chance to show the judges they deserve to be in the top 24. With 18 aprons given away yesterday, just six aprons are up for grabs.
- 14
Gordon Ramsay's Team Service Challenge
It's back to win and 23 returning contestants are back for another shot at the trophy. Gordon Ramsay greets them to announce that they are splitting into three teams and taking on a service challenge!
- 15
Immunity Pin Challenge: Keeping Up with Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay is in the kitchen to put 8 cooks through a Keeping Up with Challenge. They'll work at record pace to deliver TWO of Gordon's dishes, in a fight for the only immunity pin of the season.
- 16
Immunity Challenge: Late-night Snacks
To win immunity and a chance to see their creation added to Gordon Ramsay's new London restaurant's menu at 22 Bishopsgate, they must cook and elevate their favourite late-night snack!
- 17
Elimination Challenge: Who Are You Now?
Inspired by watching an emotional video on their MasterChef journeys, the contestants must cook a dish that represents who they are now. But this will result in the first elimination for the season.
- 18
Pressure Test: Curtis Stone's Pork Loin with Citrus Beurre Monté
Immunity is up for grabs today. The contestants have one hour to recreate a Curtis Stone dish. But with a twist: they'll have to do it without the recipe!
- 19
Elimination Challenge: Keeping Up with Curtis Stone
Aussie legend Curtis Stone returns for a slow cooked lamb raviolo cook-along.
- 20
Immunity Challenge: Ultimate Breakfast
It's Family Favourites week and social media sensation Andy Cooks (chef Andy Hearnden) is on the hunt for the ultimate breakfast, in an immunity challenge cook with 60 minutes on the clock.
- 21
Immunity Pin Challenge: French Techniques
Guided by MasterChef Alumni Justine Schofield, four contestants put their French techniques to the test for a chance to win a coveted immunity pin.
- 22
Elimination Challenge: Native Ingredients
Aussie Classics week draws to a close with an exciting day in the MasterChef Kitchen as guest judge and Aussie icon Robert Irwin sets an Aussie Native Ingredients Elimination Challenge.
- 23
Team Challenge: Brunch Service
In a team service challenge, it will be a battle of the brunches, as in two groups of 10, they take over two cafes. Contestants will have real customers, with real orders and real dockets.
- 24
Elimination Challenge: Dessert Taste Test & MasterClass 1
The contestants in the losing team are in the kitchen for what will be the last time for one of them. Plus, the first Masterclass of the season with Nigella Lawson.
- 25
Service Challenge: Three-Course Menu for 50
The contestants enter the kitchen only to find Gordon Ramsay, who is already yelling at them to hurry up. Divided into two teams, they prepare a three-course meal for 50 diners.
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