Masterchef AU

Mystery Box Challenge. The judges reveal that the contestants need to use all the ingredients in their mystery box to create two dishes – a sweet and savoury dish – in 75 minutes.

Every five minutes an ingredient that can be used in their cook is revealed to our contestants. They can start cooking at any time but only have access to the ingredients revealed up to that point.

In this episode’s golden box mystery box challenge, the contestants have to create a dish using one or more of the golden ingredients. The top four dishes will battle it out in the next immunity challenge.

Charlie Carrington of Melbourne restaurant, Atlas sets today’s elimination challenge focusing on food from different countries. But will a big risk send one contestant home?

Today’s immunity challenge is all about resourcefulness. The contestants are each presented with a pumpkin and have 90 minutes to cook three dishes that feature the pumpkin in some way.

Today’s mystery box is all about smoke. Contestants can use any method of smoking as long as one element has been smoked with a smoking gun.

Benjamin Cooper, Executive Chef of Chin Chin Melbourne, sets tonight’s pressure test where contestants must recreate his jungle curry with rice and roti without a recipe.

Teams of two must create two dishes using a chosen ingredient. Dishes must be identical in taste and appearance, but they will not be able to see each other while they cook, so communication is key.