Episode 1
Aired Apr 19, 2021
Judges Auditions: Signature Dish
The best home cooks from around Australia face a series of challenges to see who will rise to the top and take home the coveted title of Australia's next MasterChef.
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Episode 2
Aired Apr 20, 2021
Judges Auditions: Time or Ingredients
There are only five spots left to fill in the top 24; home cooks are given a second chance to battle it out.
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Episode 3
Aired Apr 21, 2021
Top 24: Emelia Box
MasterChef Australia champion Emelia Jackson sets the contents of the mystery box; the three best dishes will be awarded an immunity pin.
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Episode 4
Aired Apr 22, 2021
Top 24: Chicken or The Egg
Contestants are challenged to create dishes that feature a chicken or an egg. The one with the least impressive dish will be sent home.
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Episode 5
Aired Apr 25, 2021
Elimination: Biscuit Taste & Nigella Pressure Test
Amateur cooks from around Australia compete in a series of unique challenges judged by culinary experts and world famous chefs.
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Episode 6
Aired Apr 26, 2021
Team Challenge: Yotam's Flavour Bomb Team Challenge
Yotam Ottolenghi likes to mix things up with numbing oil, fenugreek marinade, and chipotle peanuts. The teams are challenged to feature one of these unusual ingridients in their dish.
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Episode 7
Aired Apr 27, 2021
Pressure Test: Massimo's Kitchen Quarantine
Cooking legend Massimo Bottura presents his take on the classic dish, mac and cheese, for the elimination challenge.
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Episode 8
Aired Apr 28, 2021
Mystery Box: Clare Smyth - Dish in a Box
Clare Smyth shows off the dish that inspired her choice of mystery box ingredients, tasking contestants with using the provided ingredients in a sweet or savoury dish.
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Episode 9
Aired Apr 29, 2021
Guaranteed Immunity: Heston's Potluck Screens
With immunity on the line, Heston Blumenthal challenges the contestants to make a dessert with a popular breakfast ingredient.
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Episode 10
Aired May 2, 2021
Elimination: On the Menu with Reynold, Poh and Callum
Contestants are challenged by former contestants, Poh, Callum and Reynold, to create a dish worthy of a place on their restaurant menus.
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Episode 11
Aired May 3, 2021
Team Challenge MCK: Play to your Strengths + Choose your Champion
The contestants are split into three teams and challenged to cook the same six dishes, with each contestant responsible for a single dish to be judged against the other two teams.
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Episode 12
Aired May 4, 2021
Pressure Test: Out of Your Comfort Zone and Tart vs. Tart With Jock
Each of the contestants choose the dish they feel most comfortable with, a sweet tart or a savoury tart, but Jock gives them a surprise by then switching the dishes.
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Episode 13
Aired May 5, 2021
Mystery Box: Cooking With Limited Ingredients
The contestants use staple ingredients from under their benches to create a dish, adding a couple of ingredients from the garden for flavour.
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Episode 14
Aired May 6, 2021
GUARANTEED IMMUNITY: Complimenting Flavours/Surprise Non-Surprise Pairings
Contestants must select an ingredient they would like to feature in a dish, but they are unaware of the ingredient they must pair it with until they have locked in their choice.
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Episode 15
Aired May 9, 2021
Elimination: Meet The Brief; Food Sayings
The contestants interpret one of the classic food sayings on display to create a dish, with the contestant who fails going home.
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Episode 16
Aired May 10, 2021
Team Challenge: Pasta Master
Meet the Masters Week arrives and the contestants get the opportunity to gain up-close insights into the skills of the country's best culinary masters.
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Episode 17
Aired May 11, 2021
Pressure Test: Kirsten Tibbals' Tricks
After the master team challenge, the least impressive team must cook off in a pressure test.
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Episode 18
Aired May 12, 2021
Mystery Box: Japanese Masters Bento Box
The contestants arrive and are prepared for a mystery box challenge set by a Michelin-starred chef.
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Episode 19
Aired May 13, 2021
Guaranteed Immunity: Scott Pickett Fire as Flavour
Those who made it into the top four in the previous challenge meet in the kitchen for a lesson in cooking with fire. They will then compete in the hope of gaining immunity going forward.
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Episode 20
Aired May 16, 2021
Elimination Round 1: Curtis Stone and the MeatAuction; Round 2: What do you Master?
For the last 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.
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Episode 21
Aired May 17, 2021
Beat The Brigade Heat 1: Tonka at MCK
Andy reveals that each challenge this week will be a service challenge; all 16 contestants have the chance of winning immunity from elimination.
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Episode 22
Aired May 18, 2021
Beat The Brigade (Offsite) Heat 2: Movida at Movida
Four more contestants must go up against a team of professional chefs, where the challenge is to use the same ingredient in each course.
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Episode 23
Aired May 19, 2021
Beat The Brigade Heat 3: Lucy Liu at MCK
The contestants are faced with two pantries on offer: a European pantry and an Eastern pantry. The team that win a toss of the coin get to choose their desired pantry.
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Episode 24
Aired May 20, 2021
Beat The Brigade (Offsite) Heat 4: Stokehouse at Stokehouse
Team have two-and-a-half hours to create a three-course meal, with each course championing a colour determined by a coin toss.
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Episode 25
Aired May 23, 2021
Relay Challenge (Elimination)
Teams must create a dish that uses a hidden ingredient and must also use a specific electrical appliance at some stage.
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Episode 26
Aired May 24, 2021
Invention Test: Vegetables
Contestants must select either a potato, broccoli, carrot, brown onion, or zucchini to create a delicious meal featuring the vegetable of choice.
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Episode 27
Aired May 25, 2021
Blind Taste (Pressure Test)
The contestants are faced with a pressure test, where they must fight to stay in the competition, with four contestants re-creating a dish without ever seeing it.
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Episode 28
Aired May 26, 2021
Mystery Box: Utensil Mystery Box
The contestants are tasked with creating a sweet or savoury dish using only the 11 utensils that appear in the mystery box.
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Episode 29
Aired May 27, 2021
Hot Chillies! (Immunity Challenge)
With immunity on the line, the contestants are tasked with creating a dish using some of the hottest chillies in the world.
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Episode 30
Aired May 30, 2021
Game ID (Elimination Challenge)
The contestants face an elimination challenge over two rounds. In the first round, the contestants must name 14 game meats, with the six contestants with the lowest scores facing off in round two.
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Episode 31
Aired May 31, 2021
Team Challenge (MCK) Choose Your Hero: Coles Shop (Returning Contestants)
Second Chance Week kicks off as eliminated contestants return with two chances to get back into the competition.
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Episode 32
Aired Jun 1, 2021
Second Chance Week (Pressure Test)
Pastry chef Anthony Hart reveals his dish for the pressure test: a chocolate oasis. The contestants have just 2 hours and 15 minutes to create and eight more minutes to plate up Anthony's masterpiece.
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Episode 33
Aired Jun 2, 2021
Clear Or Hidden (Mystery Box Challenge)
The 10 returning contestants must select between a clear mystery box where the ingredients are visible, or a regular mystery box where the ingredients are concealed.
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Episode 34
Aired Jun 3, 2021
It's A Knockout!
Four contestants are given two-and-a-half hours to make a three-course menu, but they have the chance to be knocked out after each course is tasted.
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Episode 35
Aired Jun 6, 2021
Elimination: How Far Will Your Fish Go?: Josh Niland
Josh Niland showcases how to make the most of a Murray cod utilising the entire fish. For this challenge, contestants are given a single Murray cod and must use the same fish for up to three rounds of dishes.
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Episode 36
Aired Jun 7, 2021
Pair Up With Crayfish (Team Challenge)
Contestants pair up to form seven teams. Each team must create crayfish two ways, one familiar dish and one inventive dish, utilising the freshly caught crayfish.
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Episode 37
Aired Jun 8, 2021
Vego (Elimination Challenge)
The four contestants up for elimination discover they will be cooking a vegetarian dish, with all ingredients harvested fresh from Dairy Flat Farm in Daylesford.
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Episode 38
Aired Jun 9, 2021
Melbourne Inspiration (Mystery Box)
The mystery box reveals a map of Melbourne and a camera phone to take pictures. The contestants must explore the city streets to take a picture that will inspire their local dish.
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Episode 39
Aired Jun 10, 2021
Kate Reid Pastry (Immunity)
Jock introduces Kate Reid, the mastermind behind Lune Croissanterie. Contestants must utilise Kate's world-class pastry and turn it into a dish that is anything but a croissant.
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Episode 40
Aired Jun 13, 2021
90 Minute Cook Time (Elimination Challenge)
The contestants must choose how to split their time between two rounds of cooking, with their leftover time from round one being the only time they have to use in the second round.
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Episode 41
Aired Jun 14, 2021
Home Delivery (Team Challenge)
Each team has three hours to produce 60 servings of whatever cuisine they choose in a home delivery food challenge.
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Episode 42
Aired Jun 15, 2021
Khanh Nguyen's Pork Wellington
Guest chef Khanh Nguyen from Sunda challenges contestants to recreate his dish: pork wellington with lattice crackling and flavours of banh mi.
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Episode 43
Aired Jun 16, 2021
4 Ingredient Barter (Mystery Box)
Contestants must use four ingredients in their final dish, but before the cooking begins, they can barter for the ingredients from each other.
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Episode 44
Aired Jun 17, 2021
The Top Four (Immunity Challenge)
The top four cooks from the mystery box challenge compete for immunity and a guaranteed spot in the top 10.
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Episode 45
Aired Jun 20, 2021
Nu Nu Ingredient ID (Elimination Challenge)
Contestants try to identify ingredients in dishes from Nick Holloway's Nu Nu menu, with those who name the least forced to face off in a cook-off.
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Episode 46
Aired Jun 21, 2021
Three Blue Ducks (Service Challenge)
The contestants arrive at URBNSURF, the home to Australia's first surf park in Melbourne, to discover they will be running Andy Allen's restaurant, Three Blue Ducks.
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Episode 47
Aired Jun 22, 2021
Write Your Own (Pressure Test)
Contestants are tasked with cooking a sweet pressure test recipe of their own design. Darren Purchese runs the floor and mentors the contestants, as the judges do a blind tasting of each dish.
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Episode 48
Aired Jun 23, 2021
Family Messages
Melissa explains that contestants must make a dish inspired by their family, after watching emotional messages from home. The top two dishes will cook in an immunity challenge.
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Episode 49
Aired Jun 24, 2021
Keep Up With Curtis Stone & Masterclass
The contestants must keep up with Curtis Stone as he cooks his delicious roast chicken dish; Andy, Jock and chef Nornie Bero show off their extraordinary skills in a Masterclass.
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Episode 50
Aired Jun 27, 2021
Black Mystery Box or Black Cloche (Double Elimination)
In a double elimination challenge, the contestants must choose between the black mystery box or the black cloche, the ingredients only revealed after they make their choice.
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Episode 51
Aired Jun 28, 2021
Uluru (Team Service Challenge)
The contestants head to Uluru, where they are tasked with making a fine dining three-course meal at the Field of Light installation for 25 diners as well as the judges.
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Episode 52
Aired Jun 29, 2021
Simpson's Gap (Elimination Challenge)
The contestants head to Simpsons Gap where they must make a dish using foraged bush foods, and the least impressive dish will lead to an elimination.
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Episode 53
Aired Jun 30, 2021
All 7 Ingredients (Mystery Box Challenge)
The contestants face a tough mystery box challenge, where they must use all seven ingredients provided to them.
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Episode 54
Aired Jul 1, 2021
The Cloche Challenge
The contestants adaptability will be put to the test when they much choose two cloches that represent an ingredient, a cuisine, food-related word, or kitchen equipment, and use that as the feature of their dish.
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Episode 55
Aired Jul 4, 2021
Fast Food and Fancy Food (Elimination Challenge)
The contestants are tasked with cooking one ingredient in two different ways. One preparation of the ingredient will be fast food style and the other as a find dining, restaurant-quality dish.
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Episode 56
Aired Jul 5, 2021
Society (Service and Elimination Challenge)
The contestants take on a service challenge at Martin Benn's opulent Melbourne restaurant, Society, and an elimination awaits.
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Episode 57
Aired Jul 6, 2021
Vue De Monde (Pressure Test)
Chef Hugh Allen from Vue Du Monde challenges the contestants to recreate his dishes: bottlebrush, mum's gum nuts and billy buttons.
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Episode 58
Aired Jul 7, 2021
Finalists (Advantage Challenge)
The finalists enter the kitchen to take part in the advantage challenge, with the winner making their way to the finale.
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Episode 59
Aired Jul 11, 2021
Semi Final (Service Challenge)
The contestants face off in a semi-final service challenge, with the worst performer leaving the competition.
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Episode 60
Aired Jul 12, 2021
Grand Finale: Part 1
Three become two in the semi-final after facing a three-round challenge over two days, with a total of 140 points up for grabs.
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Episode 61
Aired Jul 13, 2021
Grand Finale: Part 2
It's day two of the grand finale, and the contestant who scores the most points overall wins the title and walks away with $250,000.
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