MasterChef : Season 1

Cooks share their signature dishes with the judges in hopes of advancing to the next round of the competition.

Auditions continue as amateur cooks try to impress the judges.

The home cooks will have to prove that they have mastered basic kitchen skills such as cutting an onion and cooking an egg perfectly, and at the end fifteen of the thirty will be sent home.

The contestants enter the kitchen for the first time.

The remaining 14 chefs enter the MasterChef kitchen for the first time in order to prepare for their first team challenge: feeding hundreds of Marines at Camp Pendleton. The team that wins is safe from elimination, while the team that loses returns to the kitchen to compete during the first pressure test.

In their first challenge of the day, the chefs are asked to make one cupcake, which turns out to be harder then any of them expect. Cat Cora visits the MasterChef kitchen, and puts the contestants' cooking skills to the test.

The remaining chefs need to feed 100 truckers at a remote California truck stop. The losing team returns to the kitchen to face a pressure test, which consists of naming as many foods as they can from a table of farmer's market ingredients.

In their first challenge of the day, the chefs are asked to make a dish with dungeness crab

The contestants must cater a high-end wedding, and things go awry when the main course goes missing. The losing team goes back to the MasterChef kitchen to face a pressure test, and one more chef will be eliminated.

The contestants undergo a Mystery Box challenge and an Invention Test.

The contestants go fishing, and use their catches for their entrees. Another chef will be eliminated.

The remaining contestants face off for the title of MasterChef USA.

The conclusion to the series finale, the announcement of the winner of the $250,000 prize.