Masterchef AU

It’s Meet the Masters Week. This opportunity gives the contestants up-close insights into the skills of the best culinary masters in Australia.

Keen as mustard, the contestants have to cook a dish that interprets one of the classic food sayings on display. The contestant who fails will be going home. That’s the way the cookie crumbles.

Contestants must choose an ingredient they would like to feature in a dish, but they won’t know the ingredient they must pair it with until they have locked in their choice. A Masterclass follows.

Contestants must create a dish using the staple ingredients under their benches as well as two ingredients from the garden for flavour. Contestants with the top 5 dishes will compete for immunity.

Elimination Challenge: Sweet & Savoury Tart. Each contestant must choose the dish they feel most comfortable making: a savoury tart or sweet tart. Jock then switches the dishes and contestants must cook the dish they’re least comfortable with.

Team Challenge: Least & Most Comfortable. Each team must cook the same six dishes within the time allocated. Each contestant on the team will cook one of the dishes and will be judged against the same dish made by the other two teams.

MasterChef alumni Poh, Callum and Reynold present the contestants with three dishes from their venues. Contestants must create a dish worthy of a place on the menu at any of these establishments.

Immunity Challenge. Heston Blumenthal sets an immunity challenge in which contestants must use a popular breakfast ingredient to create a delicious dessert.

Clare Smyth reveals the dish that has inspired her choice of mystery box ingredients. Contestants must create a sweet or savoury dish using the ingredients that Clare has chosen for the mystery box.

The judges reveal this elimination challenge is over two rounds and is set by cooking legend Massimo Bottura. Massimo presents his take on the classic dish: mac and cheese.