Tag: MasterChef Australia

Episode Summary Tessa, Simon, Derek and Tim competed in the MasterChef time auction where they had to bid for ingredients with time rather than money. The more time they spent buying ingredients, the less time they had to cook. Tessa spent 50 minutes on John Dory fish, citrus and herbs, Simon spent 75 minutes on […]

Episode Summary The Top 7 traveled to Western Australia, where they were then taken to the Optus Stadium in Perth, for the mystery box challenge, in which they had one hour to make a dish using nine famous ingredients from WA, and Anushka won the Mystery Box. In the invention test, the other contestants had […]

Episode Summary The five remaining contestants had to cook one course of a five-course degustation meal at the Wildflower, under its head chef, with an assigned ingredient. Nicole cooked the first course with baby beetroots, Simon cooked the second course with marron, Christina made the third course with duck, Tim made the fourth course with […]

Episode Summary In the first round, each contestant was given a car and the address of a local shop to choose their feature ingredient. Nicole chose honey, Christina picked almonds, Anushka selected blue cheese and Tessa chose 70% dark chocolate. Nicole and Tessa beat Anushka and Christina to advance the second round. Tessa cooked the […]

Episode Summary The other six contestants were split into two teams and had to cook a main course and dessert for 25 diners. The Yellow Team was faster in service while the Green Team forgot to serve 12 plates of their main course. The lamb in the Yellow Team’s main was perfectly cooked but insufficiently […]

Episode Summary The judges presented their favorite sauces for Derek, Larissa, Sandeep and Tati to use with their dishes in the 60-minute first round. Sandeep’s used Matt Preston’s tamarind and chipotle ketchup for his lobster masala to win and cook against the guest chef, who was revealed during the 60-minute cook. Lemons were chosen from […]

Episode Summary The remaining contestants (minus Tim who already secured his place in the Top 10) had to cook in pairs with a wall dividing each pair. Their challenge was to cook two identical dishes in look and taste. The teams were the Green Team (Tati & Tessa), Red Team (Nicole & Christina), Blue Team […]

Episode Summary The two teams had to cook a four-course Italian menu for 80 guests led by Rosa Mitchell of Rosa’s Cantina for Abbey’s Red team (Abbey, Anushka, Derek, Nicole, Sandeep, Tati, Tessa and Tim) and Olimpia Bortolotto from Cecconi’s for Christina’s Green team (Christina, Larissa, Steph, Ben, Joe, Kyle, Simon, Ben and Walleed). During […]

Episode Summary Anushka, Derek, Simon, Sandeep and Tati had to create a dessert without sugar after Tessa used her pin to advance to the Top 10. Sandeep cooked a rice kheer with puri but the dish was average. The judges found the saffron overpowered the pudding while the bread was uncooked and Tati’s dish was […]

Episode Summary The contestants had to guess an ingredient while blindfolded. Ben, Joe, Kyle, Simon and Steph had 60 minutes to cook their dishes in the second round while the judges tasted each dish blindly after the cook. Simon’s lamb dish earned praise in its technicality, Joe’s dish earned praise in the flavours despite his […]