Masterchef AU

The race to finals week is on! The makers of the top three dishes from the mystery box challenge will battle it out for one last chance at winning immunity this season.

Phil Wood, from two of Victoria’s finest restaurants, reveals that round one is a pressure test. Contestants have 75 minutes to replicate his dish: potatoes duchess with shiitake mushrooms and cauliflower.

In the battle for top five, contestants must choose two cloches and cook with the ingredients underneath. They can give up one cloche and select a third, however they must cook with the third ingredient.

This episode’s mystery box is inspired by colour. The dish can be sweet or savoury, and contestants can access the pantry with the garden also in play. So why is Melissa so emotional?

In this episode’s elimination, contestants are challenged to cook a classic dish. Could this be Reynold’s final cook in the kitchen?

Immunity Challenge. Three heavy hitters of the competition go head-to-head. Who will make top six?

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.

This elimination will take place over two rounds, the first of which is the classic blind taste test. The first four contestants who guess incorrectly will go into round two.

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.