Tag: MasterChef Australia Season 12

Episode Summary Pressure Test: Helly Raichura’s “Pasta Not Pasta” — The Aqua Team were taken to the suburban Indian restaurant Enter Via Laundry by Helly Raichura. The contestants first had to identify the ingredients of “Pasta Not Pasta”, an intricate khandvi dish by Helly. Poh identified the fewest ingredients and was the first into elimination. […]

Episode Summary Series Premiere: Finale-Worthy Dish — Gordon Ramsay, guest judge for the week, tasked the contestants with cooking a dish they felt was worthy of the Grand Finale. All the contestants received positive feedback, and Emelia, Dani, Laura and Reynold were named the Top 4. In a close decision, Dani’s Sri Lankan crab curry […]

Episode Summary Thai Team Service Challenge — This week the challenges took place in various Melbourne suburbs and explored their culinary offerings. For the first challenge, the 19 contestants were split into two teams to cook two entrees and three main dishes for 100 diners in Thai Ute Restaurant. Since the Orange Team had one […]

Episode Summary All-In Textures Elimination — Aside from Jess, who had won Weekly Immunity, all contestants participated in a two-round elimination challenge. Dani, feeling that it was still too early in the competition to use her immunity pin and thinking that her odds of making it through to the next round were good, chose to […]

Episode Summary Curtis Stone’s Time Auction Immunity Challenge — Curtis Stone appeared as a guest judge to set a Time Auction Challenge for Jess, Callum, Sarah T. and Laura. The contestants had 120 minutes to spend. Unlike the usual Time Auction challenge, a clock timer was set to 60 minutes. As the time decreased, the […]

Episode Summary Barter Mystery Box — Each contestant was assigned a different four-ingredient Mystery Box, and had to cook a dish with all four ingredients. However, the contestants were allowed to barter with each other and swap ingredients if they wished. The Top 4 were Jess (parsley, parsnip, chocolate and fennel), Callum (chicken, carrot, ginger […]

Episode Summary Self Pressure Test — The members of the Aqua Team, aside from Khanh, were tasked with writing their own Pressure Test recipe and cooking it for the judges. Sarah T. delivered the dish of the day with her sweet and sour pork, with Amina, Poh and Laura also wowing the judges. Hayden’s dish […]

Episode Summary 3-Round Live Team Showdown — For their second team challenge, the 21 remaining contestants were taken to a warehouse amphitheatre with a live audience. They were split into three teams, and each had to elect one member to cook an ocean-themed dish in the first round. Tessa represented the Grey Team, Harry represented […]

Episode Summary All-In Elimination: Judges’ Ingredients — All contestants aside from Sarah T., who won the Weekly Immunity, had to cook a dish only using ingredients from foods that Jock, Melissa and Andy would eat on a typical day. Reynold, Tessa and Brendan produced the most impressive dishes. Most of the other contestants’ dishes were […]

Episode Summary Immunity Challenge: Judges’ Taste Test — Ben U., Khanh, Laura, Sarah T. and Reynold each chose between Melissa’s pie, Jock’s pasta and Andy’s curry to taste in an ingredient taste test. They then had to cook with the ingredients from the dish they had chosen, with the cooking time determined by how many […]