Tag: MasterChef Australia

Episode Summary TV Dinner Re-invention Cook-off – The six remaining contestants competed in the third challenge where three of the six picked their choice of the three frozen dinner meals to pit against their rivals and re-invent the dish in 75 minutes. Sashi picked fish ‘n’ chips to pit against Khanh, Chloe cooked against Jess […]

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 Panama Dining Room Service Challenge – Chloe and Sashi at the Panama Dining Room in Melbourne to cook a two-course meal for 30 customers under mentorship from Gary. For the main course, Sashi had to cook seafood while Chloe was assigned meat. After service, Chloe and Sashi had noticeable flaws in their dishes […]

Episode Summary Pressure Test: Peter Gilmore’s Snow Egg – The losing contestants from each challenge, except Reece who used his immunity pin, had to recreate three servings of Peter Gilmore’s Snow Egg from season 2 in two-and-a-half hours and plate the dish in ten minutes. Jess produced a faultless replication of the dish, and was […]

Episode Summary Family Box Challenge & Vue De Monde Invention Test – The seven contestants received their ingredients in the Mystery Box from relatives or friends to cook their dishes. Sashi won the challenge over Jess and Reece to compete for a fast-track to Finals Week. With 75 minutes in the Invention Test set by […]

Episode Summary Cryptic Pressure Test: Joe Grbac’s Imperial Mandarin – Ben, Jess and Samira had to decipher Matt Preston’s critic’s review of the guest chef’s dish to recreate it in three hours. The dish was Joe Grbac’s yoghurt panna cotta and almond sponge with seven mandarin elements. All three succeeded with their dishes but Ben’s […]

Episode Summary Fast-Track to Finals Immunity Challenge: Reynold Poernomo and Matt Sinclair – Sashi and Khanh battled in the first round where they had an open pantry from the garden to make a dish. Khanh succeeded as he selected between the two pantries to face off against one of the two former contestants for an […]

Episode Summary SecondBite’s Six-Course Degustation Challenge – The six contestants took responsibility of a six-course vegetarian degustation menu, supervised by George, at Melbourne’s Luminare to raise funds for SecondBite, The winning dish would advance the contestant into the Finals. Chloe got the first course to highlight cucumber with smoked labneh. Khanh made a charred broccolini […]

Episode Summary Sudden Death Elimination Challenge – Ben, Chloe, Jess, Khanh and Reece competed in three rounds for places in the Finals. The first round was to identify the ingredients of Gary Mehigan’s Moroccan tajine where Chloe and Khanh succeeded to advance. The next round was the one-inch cube challenge from season 8 where they […]

Episode Summary Finals Mystery Box Challenge & Invention Test – The finalists were assigned ingredients in a Mystery Box from past seasons: Ben (with the Burn Box from season 2), Chloe (with the Small Box from season 6), Jess (with the Molecular Gastronomy Box from season 5), Khanh (with the Big Box from season 7) […]