MasterChef AU – Season 16

Season Finale. Our two Grand Finalists go head-to-head over two rounds to see who will be crowned the winner of MasterChef Australia 2024!

With Curtis Stone’s help, our Semi-Finalists must each prepare a three-course meal for 20 diners and the judges.

Andy, Poh and Jean Christophe swap roles, becoming the cooks while the Semi-Finalists become the judges’. The fun doesn’t stop there, as our Semi-Finalists must then take on the judges in a relay.

Internationally renowned chef Josh Niland pushes the contestants to their limits with a unique dish from his acclaimed restaurant, St. Peter. They must each recreate his dish as closely as possible.

The mystery boxes contain a golden ticket which will fast track the contestant with the top dish into the semi-final, while the other three will have to battle it out in tomorrow’s pressure test.

The contestants face off with some of the world’s most extreme ingredients. These ingredient ‘beasts’ are the spiciest, sweetest, most sour, most bitter and most pungent on offer.

Emotions run high as the top five open chests revealing treasured photos of their own family food heroes. each cook, inspired by their photos are fighting for their final shot at immunity.

Chef Guillaume Brahimi has brought a pressure test dish that will push the contestants to their limits. They need to replicate the dish as closely as possible… but they must plate up 5 serves.

Contestants must cook a dish using all nine ingredients in Poh’s Everything Mystery Box. The winner will score themselves $5,000 to spend at Harvey Norman.

Contestants bid against one another, trading time for ingredients in a MasterChef classic. Up for grabs is a place in the top six.