BBQ Pork Recipes

Episode Summary Time or Ingredients Cook-off – Chloe, Samira and Sashi had to gather their ingredients from up to four different hidden pantries, with one pantry being revealed every 15 minutes. Samira and Sashi selected dairy and canned food with 60 minutes left while Chloe waited for root vegetables and cooked in 45 minutes. Sashi’s […]

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 […]

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 Restaurant Takeover Team Challenge – Executive chef Adam D’Sylva was the contestants’ mentor for a lunch service challenge at his two Melbourne restaurants, Coda (Vietnamese cuisine) and Tonka (Indian cuisine) where they had to prep and serve a four-course meal (two sweet main courses and two savoury desserts) in four hours. The Blue […]