Tag: MasterChef Australia

Episode Summary In the first round Tessa, Nicole and Simon had to cook with Beluga Caviar, the world’s best ingredient. All three made standout dishes but Tessa won the first round and was given a choice of food pairings for both her and Phil Wood. She chose beef and onion. Her dish wowed the judges […]

Episode Summary The contestants cooked the last service in George’s flagship restaurant, The Press Club, for all former and present employees. They had to cook a five-course tasting menu using George’s favourite ingredients. Since Larissa won the previous challenge, she got to choose which course and ingredient she wanted to cook with. Tessa cooked the […]

Episode Summary The contestants, led by Christina of the Green team and Larissa of the Yellow, had to cook a four-course meal for 40 diners featuring Delicious magazine’s 2018 picks for Australia’s best produce: Holy Goat Cheese’s goat and cow milk cheese, coral trout from Mark Eather Seafood, Wagyu beef from Mayura Station, and Golden […]

Episode Summary Tim, Tessa, Simon and Nicole had to cook off against each other in pairs. Having won 2nd and 3rd place, respectively, in the last challenge, Tessa and Tim got to pick a pantry. Tessa picked the Asian pantry and Nicole cooked off against her. Tim chose the farmhouse pantry cooked against Simon. Simon […]

Episode Summary Anushka, Ben, Larissa, Simon and Tati faced a challenge set by Massimo Bottura on minimising waste cooking with the four most-discarded ingredients in Australian homes. Tati, Simon and Larissa made the three best dishes, and the bottom two were Ben and Anushka. Anushka did not showcase technique in her dish and it did […]

Episode Summary Tim, Tessa, Simon and Larissa had two hours to recreate Peter Gilmore’s white coral dessert, which replaced the snow egg dessert at his restaurant after 10 years, and the three contestants with the best dishes moved into the Grand Finale. Tessa struggled during the cook, but in the tasting, her dessert was considered […]

Episode Summary The Top 9 were each given one of the previous mystery boxes at random to use for their mystery box challenge. Simon, Larissa and Derek were chosen as the top-3 and all had perfect dishes but Derek stood out and won after using the Everything box from Week 7. In the invention test […]

Episode Summary Anushka, Tati and Tim had three and a half hours to recreate Kirsten Tibballs’ apple pie. All three struggled but Tim’s pie was the dish of the day, and the final verdict was between Tati and Anushka. They both overcooked their crust, but it was Tati who took her caramel too far and […]

Episode Summary Derek, Christina, Larissa and Simon had to create a dish with chicken as the main ingredient using an assigned cuisine: Simon (Spanish), Christina (French), Derek (Vietnamese) and Larissa (Japanese). Larissa and Derek had the two best dishes with Larissa advancing to the second round to cook off against Adam D’Sylva. Her advantage was […]

Episode Summary The eight contestants had to cook in a Q Train Challenge, with Larissa and Anushka (Purple Team), Derek and Simon (Green Team), Nicole and Christina (Yellow Team), and Tessa and Tim (Maroon Team). They each had to cook one course of a 4-course vegetarian meal with fresh produce for 30 diners, to be […]