• Air date: 19 Apr '21 61 episodes
      MasterChef Australia is a Logie Award-winning Australian competitive cooking game show based on the original British MasterChef. It is produced by Shine Australia and screens on Network Ten. Restaurateur and chef Gary Mehigan, chef George Calombaris and food critic Matt Preston serve as the show's main judges. Journalist Sarah Wilson hosted the first series, however her role was dropped at the end of the series.
  • List of Episodes (61)
    • 1. Auditions, Day 1

      19 Apr '21
      The best home cooks from around the country will face challenge after challenge to see who will rise to the top and take home the coveted title of Australia's next MasterChef.
    • 2. Auditions, Day 2

      20 Apr '21
      The judges are looking for just five more cooks to round out the top 24. The home cooks who are given a second chance will battle it out for the remaining aprons.
    • 3. Emelia Jackson Mystery Box

      21 Apr '21
      This mystery box is selected by MasterChef Australia champion Emelia Jackson. The three best dishes will be awarded an immunity pin that can be played at any time during an elimination cook.
    • 4. Chicken Or The Egg?

      22 Apr '21
      In this two round challenge, contestants must create dishes that feature a chicken or an egg. The contestant with the least impressive dish will be the first sent home.
    • 5. Superstars Week - Nigella Lawason

      25 Apr '21
      Superstars Week kicks off with Nigella Lawson. Contestants must recreate Nigella's favourite dish based on her detailed description, with no ingredient list, recipe or visual reference to work from.
    • 6. Superstars Week - Yotam Ottolenghi

      26 Apr '21
      Yotam Ottolenghi presents his favourite flavour bombs: numbing oil, fenugreek marinade and chipotle peanuts. Each team must create a meal that features one of Yotam's flavour bombs.
    • 7. Superstars Week - Massimo Bottura (Elimination Challenge)

      27 Apr '21
      The judges reveal this elimination challenge is over two rounds and is set by cooking legend Massimo Bottura. Massimo presents his take on the classic dish: mac and cheese.
    • 8. Superstars Week - Clare Smyth (Mystery Box)

      28 Apr '21
      Clare Smyth reveals the dish that has inspired her choice of mystery box ingredients. Contestants must create a sweet or savoury dish using the ingredients that Clare has chosen for the mystery box.
    • 9. Superstars Week - Heston Blumenthal (Immunity Challenge)

      29 Apr '21
      Heston Blumenthal sets an immunity challenge in which contestants must use a popular breakfast ingredient to create a delicious dessert.
    • 10. Poh, Callum & Reynold (Elimination Challenge)

      02 May '21
      MasterChef alumni Poh, Callum and Reynold present the contestants with three dishes from their venues. Contestants must create a dish worthy of a place on the menu at any of these establishments.
    • 11. Least & Most Comfortable (Team Challenge)

      03 May '21
      Each team must cook the same six dishes within the time allocated. Each contestant on the team will cook one of the dishes and will be judged against the same dish made by the other two teams.
    • 12. Sweet & Savoury Tart (Elimination Challenge)

      04 May '21
      Each contestant must choose the dish they feel most comfortable making: a savoury tart or sweet tart. Jock then switches the dishes and contestants must cook the dish they're least comfortable with.
    • 13. Staples (Immunity Challenge)

      05 May '21
      Contestants must create a dish using the staple ingredients under their benches as well as two ingredients from the garden for flavour. Contestants with the top five dishes will compete for immunity.
    • 14. Choose Your Ingredient & Masterclass

      06 May '21
      Contestants must choose an ingredient they would like to feature in a dish, but they won't know the ingredient they must pair it with until they have locked in their choice. A Masterclass follows.
    • 15. That's The Way The Cookie Crumbles (Elimination Challenge)

      09 May '21
      Keen as mustard, the contestants have to cook a dish that interprets one of the classic food sayings on display. The contestant who fails will be going home. That's the way the cookie crumbles.
    • 16. Meet The Masters

      10 May '21
      It's Meet the Masters Week. This opportunity gives the contestants up-close insights into the skills of the best culinary masters in Australia.
    • 17. Pressure Test

      11 May '21
      The least impressive team from the master team challenge must cook off in this pressure test.
    • 18. Mystery Box

      12 May '21
      The contestants enter the kitchen ready to take on the mystery box challenge set by a Michelin-starred chef.
    • 19. Cooking With Fire (Immunity Challenge)

      13 May '21
      In a very special challenge, the top four contestants from the previous challenge meet in the kitchen to be taught a lesson in cooking with fire. The most impressive cook wins immunity.
    • 20. Meet The Masters (Elimination)

      16 May '21
      For the final cook of Meet the Masters Week, the bottom four contestants must make a dish that demonstrates how they have mastered a skill, flavour or technique they have learnt across the week.
    • 21. Service Brigade - Tonka (Immunity Challenge)

      17 May '21
      Andy reveals that every challenge this week will be a service challenge and all 16 contestants are in with a chance at winning immunity from Sunday's elimination.
    • 22. Service Challenge - Movida (Immunity Challenge)

      18 May '21
      This challenge is all about the ingredients. Each team must feature the same ingredient in each course
    • 23. Service Challenge - (Immunity Challenge)

      19 May '21
      For this challenge, two pantries are on offer: a European pantry and an Eastern pantry. By the toss of a coin, the team that win the toss get to choose their desired pantry.
    • 24. Service Challenge - (Immunity Challenge)

      20 May '21
      Each team has two-and-a-half hours to cook a three-course meal and each course must champion a colour chosen by the toss of a coin.
    • 25. Team Challenge

      23 May '21
      Each team must create a dish that features the ingredient hidden underneath the tablecloth and must also use an allocated electrical appliance at some stage during the cook.