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Episode Summary Mini Box Challenge & Condiment Invention Test – The remaining contestants faced five consecutive challenges where losing contestants would be sent to elimination at the end of the week. To celebrate the tenth season, the surviving contestant would receive a special advantage after the last challenge. The first challenge was a Mystery Box […]

Episode Summary Bread Box Challenge & Re-invention Test – Contestants were given 60 minutes to make a dish with one loaf of bread as the Mystery Box ingredient. Aldo, Gina and Ben delivered the Top 3 dishes with Gina advancing to the Immunity Challenge. A re-invention test required the remaining contestants to re-create a dish […]

Episode Summary Pressure Test: Alla Wolf-Tasker’s Autumn Harvest – In two hours and forty-five minutes, the bottom three contestants had to recreate Alla Wolf-Tasker’s Autumn-inspired duck dish. During the verdicts, Hoda’s carrots were raw and Sarah forgot to plate her chestnut purée after the cook. While Lisa’s presentation of the dish was too large, her […]

Episode Summary Immunity Challenge: Andy Harmer – Gina, Khanh, Reece and Sashi faced a three-round sudden death skills challenge: dice vegetables in brunoise cut, prep a hollandaise sauce and cook a salted caramel sauce. After Reece and Gina are eliminated in the first two rounds, Sashi beat Khanh for an opportunity to face executive chef […]

Episode Summary Dandenong Ranges Team Challenge – The contestants arrived at the Dandenong Ranges for the team challenge, set by the judges and guest chef Lennox Hastie, where they had to prep a three-course meal using open-fire cooking in two hours for 60 Victorian firefighters. Hoda’s Blue team was assigned to cook dishes with seafood […]

Episode Summary World Cuisine Elimination Challenge and Second Chance Cook-Off – Aldo, Ben, Chloe, Gina, Jess and Sarah each had 45 minutes to cook a prawn dish with their assigned cuisine: French, Greek, Mexican, Spanish, Thai and Vietnamese. Jess won overall praise from the judges for her dish and she was first to be announced […]

Episode Summary Adriano Zumbo’s Mystery Box Challenge & Croquembouche Invention Test – On the first day of challenges centering on desserts, the twelve contestants were tasked to cook their dishes in 30 minutes with ingredients from the Mystery Box chosen by Adriano Zumbo. Ben, Jess, Sashi, Sarah & Reece are tasted for the Top 5. […]

Episode Summary Pressure Test: Katherine Sabbath’s Birthday Cake – Cake artist Katherine Sabbath was welcomed as the guest judge to introduce one of her cake designs: a raspberry white vanilla layered cake with tempered white chocolate raspberry bark as the Pressure Test dish. After Sashi used one of his immunity pins, the others had 75 […]

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 Immunity Challenge: Alice Wright – Ben, Chloe, Kristen and Reece took turns naming one of 36 flavours of gelato where a lone contestant would advance to compete in the second round of the Immunity Challenge. Kristen succeeded to compete against pastry chef Alice Wright and, from a neapolitan ice cream, chose chocolate (over […]