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Episode Summary Immunity Challenge: Jin Choi – Jenny, Khanh, Reece, Samira and Sashi arrived at one of the historic houses of Mount Lofty for the first round of the immunity challenge where they took turns choosing a random cloche and guessing the ingredient. Khanh succeeded in the challenge and cooked against South Australian chef Jin […]

Episode Summary Pressure Test: Brendan Wessels’ Lemon Meringue Pie – Ben, Chloe, Genene and Hoda arrived at the d’Arenberg Cube restaurant in McLaren Vale to recreate a lemon meringue pie by restaurateur Brendan Wessels with the use of a 3D food printer in three hours. Ben cooked with precision to interpret the dish while, despite […]

Episode Summary South Australia Farmers’ Invention Test & Victoria Square Market Stall Service Challenge – The challenges this week took place in South Australia and in the first of the two challenges at Victoria Square, contestants were given 60 minutes to prep a dish with local produce from South Australian farms. Genene, Jess, Sashi, Sarah […]

Episode Summary Butchery Elimination Challenge – The elimination challenge saw the contestants in two rounds set by Curtis Stone and centered on butchering. In the first round, they took turns to identify cuts of meat to avoid landing one of four places in the second round of elimination. Brendan, Chloe, Jess and Sarah were given […]

Episode Summary Two-Course Team Challenge from Memory – The sixteen contestants were divided into two teams to replicate a main course and a dessert from the restaurant Wickens at the Royal Mail Hotel in Dunkeld. The Red team, led by captain Lisa and vice-captain Reece, and the Blue team, led by Sarah and Jess, memorize […]

Episode Summary Immunity Challenge: Jacqui Challinor – Aldo, Jess, Samira, Sarah and Sashi had 45 minutes to cook their chicken wings with a side dish in the first round. The two best dishes belonged to Sarah and Jess, and it was the latter’s first savoury dish that won her the chance to compete against Jacqui […]

Episode Summary Pressure Test: Darren Purchese’s Peach Melba – Brendan, Jenny, Jo and Lisa were given three hours to recreate Darren Purchese’s first dish, peach Melba, with a tempered white chocolate collar and a raspberry tuile encased in a sugar cage. Brendan astonished with his version of Darren’s dish while Jenny’s take also impressed the […]

Episode Summary “20” Box Challenge & Team Relay Invention Test – The Mystery Box challenge required the contestants to shop in 20 minutes with $20 for their choice of ingredients, and cook a dish in 75 minutes. Sarah was named the winner of the first round for the opportunity to compete in the Immunity Challenge. […]

Episode Summary Pressure Test: Matt Abé’s Roast Chicken with Summer Vegetables and Green Herb Consommé – The contestants had to recreate a three-Michelin star chicken dish from Restaurant Gordon Ramsay by chef Matt Abé in the two-and a-half hour Pressure Test. Jo delivered her best interpretation of the dish over Ben’s while the bottom three […]

Episode Summary Three-Course Dinner Service Challenge – Gordon drafted the contestants into two teams and mentored them for the service challenge, where they had to cook a three-course dinner for fifty diners in four hours. In prep time, the communication in Chloe’s Blue team faltered in the cooking and produced technical flaws in the first […]