Please note this post will contain spoilers!
Network 10 has unveiled the cast for Season 12 of MasterChef Australia for a season of Back To Win. All of them are Top 10 contestants (except the winners) from the previous 11 seasons.
We also knew from last year that there will be 3 all new judges for Season 12, including one former winner…
Update March 23, 2020: MasterChef Australia season 12 premieres Easter Monday, April 13, 2020.
Why MasterChef’s Return Is More Important Than Ever Right Now
MasterChef 2020 star Ben Ungermann has been arrested and kicked off the show
Ep 1, Monday, April 13, 2020
Your favourites are back for another crack at the coveted MasterChef title. Up for grabs is this season’s only immunity pin, and joining them all week is chef extraordinaire Gordon Ramsay.
Challenge: Cook a dish that is worthy of winning this competition.
Top 4 dishes: Reynold, Dani, Laura, Emelia
Best Dish & Immunity Pin Winner: Dani
A Taste of Sri Lanka (Dani Venn)
White Noise (Reynold Poernomo)
Native Winter (Laura Sharrad)
Pistachio and Strawberry Eclair (Emelia Jackson)
Abacus Beads In Chicken Anchovy (Ikan Bilis) Broth (Poh Ling Yeow)
Mezze (Rose Adam)
Kangaroo BBQ (Callum Hann)
Duck with Smoked Lentils, Radicchio and Muntries (Lynton Tapp)
Korean Seafood Hot Pot (Amina Elshafei)
Crystal Chicken and Ginger Dumplings, Fragrant Coriander Oil and Spiced Vinegar (Brendan Pang)
Prawn and Ricotta Agnolotti in Tom Kha Broth (Sarah Tiong)
Peas, Tomatoes and Fried Bread (Simon Toohey)
Octopus with Kipfler and Broadbean, Charred Jalapeño Oil, Dill and Tarragon Vinegar (Sarah Clare)
A Taste Of Queensland (Harry Foster)
Lemon and Berries (Reece Hignell)
Russian Set Cream, Roast Almonds, Caramelised White Choc Crumb, Nectarine Sorbet (Tracy Collins)
Pork Cheek, Abalone and Fennel (Ben Milbourne)
Pink Petal (Jess Liemantara)
Beef, Leek, Crunch Friends and Warrigal Greens (Chris Badenoch)
Bun Bo Hue (Khanh Ong)
Rib Eye on the Bone, Potato Gratin, Citrus Scampi, Grilled Broccolini and Tomato Salad (Hayden Quinn)
Campfire On A Beach (Ben Ungermann)
Lemongrass and Turmeric Poached Prawns with Chilli Prawn Oil (Courtney Roulston)
Moreton Bay Bug Mornay with Thyme Brioche Doughnuts (Tessa Boersma)
Ep 2, Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Each team must cook a three-course meal for 120 guests. The judges reveal three ingredients: black garlic, ginger and potatoes. Each team must feature one of the ingredients in each course.
Service Challenge: Losing team goes straight to Sunday’s elimination.
Blue Team: Ben M (C), Emelia (e), Harry (e), Laura (e), Brendan (m), Chris (m), Courtney (m), Dani (m), Jess (d), Reece (d), Reynold (d), Tracy (d)
Green Team: Amina (C), Khanh (e), Sarah C (e), Simon (e), Tessa (e), Ben U (m), Callum (m), Hayden (m), Lynton (m), Poh (d), Rose (d), Sarah T (d)
Winning Team: Green
Smoked Snapper, Potato Cake and Tarama (Green Team)
Lamb Backstrap with Black Garlic Sauce (Green Team)
Spiced Ginger Brûlée (Green Team)
Ep 3, Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Teams must cook a three-course meal in a relay style cook. Each team member starts a course and after 20 minutes must swap to the next course. The most cohesive menu with the best dishes wins.
Team Asian: Khanh, Poh, Tessa
Team Honey: Ben U, Hayden, Sarah T
Team Indigenous: Callum, Lynton, Sarah C
Team Middle-Eastern: Amina, Rose, Simon
Winning Team: Callum, Lynton, Sarah C
Grilled Calamari (Lynton Tapp)
Barbeque Spatchcock (Sarah Clare)
Yoghurt Panna Cotta (Callum Hann)
Ep 4, Thursday, April 16, 2020
After impressing the judges in yesterday’s round robin relay challenge, the winning team are back in the kitchen cooking for immunity and a chance to be safe from the next elimination.
Keeping Up with Gordon: Potato-Crusted Murray Cod with Minestrone and Clams, the 3 contestants have only 10 seconds to finish after Gordon finished his dish.
Best Dish and Immunity from Sunday’s Elimination: Callum
Ep 5, Sunday, April 19, 2020
Every contestant is up for elimination, except the winner of Thursday’s immunity challenge. The pressure mounts for all contestants to deliver delicious dishes and keep their place in the competition.
The box left by Gordon contained a digital clock with 90 minutes set on it. It was revealed by the judges that this is a two-round elimination, with a total of 90 minutes to cook. Use as much time to cook in the first round, and 18 will be safe, the 5 worst dishes will have to use the remaining time left on their clock to cook again.
Callum is safe from elimination, Dani decides to cook and to not use her immunity pin.
Poh was the only one risking all 90 minutes in the first round making a chiffon cake. By the time she finished, she has only 6 minutes left on her clock.
Worst Dishes in the First Round (will have to cook again): Chris, Lynton, Hayden, Rose, Courtney
Eliminated: Lynton
Chinese Beef Pie 牛肉餡餅 (Brendan Pang)
Strawberry and Lychee Cake (Poh Ling Yeow)
Roast Quail, Blackberries and Jus (Reynold Poernomo)
Hand Rolled Pinci, Cacio e Pepe (Laura Sharrad)
Charred Cabbage, Miso Cream and Pickled Onions (Simon Toohey)
Poached Pear, Pistachio Shortbread, Dark Chocolate Sauce with Rosemary Vanilla Ice Cream (Ben Ungermann)
Poached Kingfish, Black Lentils and Anchovy Cream (Ben Milbourne)
Squid Carbonara (Hayden Quinn)
Roasted Cauliflower with Cashew Tarator, Harissa and Fried Chickpeas (Courtney Roulston)
Basque Cheesecake with Orange Caramel and Sherry Cream (Chris Badenoch)
Ep 6, Monday, April 20, 2020
Today the contestants compete in the ultimate BBQ challenge, cooking for a staggering 1200 people. The team who least impresses, will find themselves cooking in tomorrow’s pressure test.
Orange Team: Simon (C), Amina, Dani, Harry, Hayden, Reynold, Sarah T (short by one member, so advantage of picking proteins first)
Purple Team: Tracy (C), Ben M, Callum, Emelia, Jess, Poh, Rose, Sarah C
Yellow Team: Laura (C), Ben U, Brendan, Chris, Courtney, Khanh, Reece, Tessa
Best Menu and Winning Team: Orange Team
Going into Pressure Test: Yellow Team
Barbecued Prawns with Salsa Verde (Orange Team)
Grilled Lamb, Baba Ganoush and Cabbage Herb Salad (Orange Team)
Caramelised Bananas With Dulce Cream and Passionfruit (Orange Team)
Chargrilled Corn (Purple Team)
Porterhouse Steak, Chilli Coriander Sauce and Mexican Crema (Purple Team)
Spanish Donut, Grilled Mango and Syrup (Purple Team)
Ep 7, Tuesday, April 21, 2020
In the first pressure test of the season contestants must cook three dishes from Judge Jock Zonfrillo’s three-hatted, award-winning restaurant, Orana. The least impressive dish will send someone home.
Round 1: Recreate 3 snack dishes from Jock
Best Dishes: Tessa, Chris
Worst Dishes (Going into Round 2): Reece, Courtney, Ben U
Round 2: Recreate 2 more dishes from Jock
Eliminated: Courtney
Scarlet Prawns with Boab (Jock Zonfrillo)
Bunya Nut Chawanmushi (Jock Zonfrillo)
Riberry Crumpets with Whipped Butter and Sugarbag Honey (Jock Zonfrillo)
Pickled Kohlrabi Salad (Jock Zonfrillo)
Damper Cooked on the Coals with Lamb Fat Butter (Jock Zonfrillo)
Ep 8, Wednesday, April 22, 2020
In the first mystery box challenge of the season, the 22 remaining contestants discover the ingredients have been chosen from all corners of the globe, by Judge Melissa Leong.
This year, the judges are tasting all the dishes in Mystery Box challenge. The best 5 dishes go into tomorrow’s Immunity Challenge.
Mystery Box: Chicken Feet, Taro, Cherries, Coriander, Manuka Honey, Chinese Black Vinegar, Spring Onions, Chinese Five-Spice, King George Whitings, Galangal
Best Dishes: Reynold, Ben U, Laura, Sarah T, Khanh
Whiting with Smoked Butter Emulsion (Reynold Poernomo)
Honey Galangal Ice Cream with Chicken Fat Caramel (Ben Ungermann)
King George Whiting With Spring Onions and Black Vinegar (Laura Sharrad)
Whiting Stuffed Taro Deep Fried (Sarah Tiong)
Egg Noodles in a Chicken Feet Broth (Khanh Ong)
Ep 9, Thursday, April 23, 2020
The five contestants with the most impressive dishes from yesterday’s challenge find themselves back in the kitchen ready to cook off in an immunity challenge. Plus, MasterClass with Andy and Jock.
Round 1: Taste Test – Each judge has a cloche in front of them with a dish with 24 ingredients each, the contestants have to choose a cloche before knowing what the dish under the cloche is…
Andy’s cloche (Curry) – Reynold, Ben U
Jock’s cloche (Pasta) – Laura
Melissa’s cloche (Pie) – Sarah T, Khanh
Round 2: Cook a dish using the 24 ingredients from the dish the contestant chose to taste test…
Blue-Eye Curry’s ingredients – Reynold, Ben U
Pasta e Fagioli’s ingredients – Laura
Beef Rendang Pie’s ingredients – Sarah T, Khanh
Time to Cook based on how many correct ingredients they guessed:
Khanh 16/24 – 75 minutes
Sarah T 15/24 – 60 minutes
Laura 14/24 – 50 minutes
Reynold 14/24 – 50 minutes
Ben U 8/24 – 40 minutes
Best Dish and Immunity from Sunday’s Elimination: Sarah T
Lemongrass Coriander Beef, Coconut Sambal and Tomatoes (Sarah Tiong)
MasterClass:
Hibachi King George Whiting with Taro and Shallot Cake (Jock Zonfrillo)
XO Pipis with Crispy Egg Noodles (Louis Tikaram)
BBQ Octopus, Burnt Eggplant Yoghurt and Freekeh Tabouli (Andy Allen)
Ep 10, Sunday, April 26, 2020
In today’s elimination challenge, every contestant bar one, the winner of the immunity challenge, is up for elimination. The contestant with the least impressive dish will be going home.
Videos of the three judges showing what they eat in a typical day begin the episode…
The challenge is for the contestants to use those ingredients that the judges used to cook their dishes to cook a dish.
Dani again decided to cook instead of using her immunity pin.
Best Dishes: Reynold, Tessa, Brendan
Worst Dishes: Rose, Ben M
Eliminated: Ben M
Whipped Chocolate Ganache with a Coffee Ice Cream and Lemon Jam (Reynold Poernomo)
Flathead, Brown Butter Sauce with Anchovies (Tessa Boersma)
BiangBiang Noodles with Cumin Beef 陝西油潑扯麵 (Brendan Pang)
Ep 11, Monday, April 27, 2020
The contestants are split into three teams of seven and compete in a three-round cook-off. After the third round the bottom six contestants are revealed and will cook off in tomorrow’s pressure test.
Grey Team: Tessa (R1), Ben U, Brendan, Callum, Dani, Jess, Tracy
Pink Team: Reynold (R1), Simon (R2), Chris, Emelia, Reece, Rose, Sarah C
Teal Team: Harry (R1), Poh (R2), Amina, Hayden, Khanh, Laura, Sarah T,
Round 1 winner: Tessa, Grey Team safe
Round 2 winner: Simon, Pink Team safe
Round 3: Individual challenge by Teal Team, cook a dish using berries, the best dish will be safe, the other 6 contestants go into tomorrow’s pressure test.
Best Dishes: Khanh, Amina
Best Dish and Safe from Pressure Test: Khanh
Calamari and Scallops with Pickled Cauliflower (Tessa Boersma)
Burnt Cucumber with Preserved Lemon Caramel and Smoked Cream (Simon Toohey)
Coral Trout Rasam (Khanh Ong)
Ep 12, Tuesday, April 28, 2020
It’s a pressure test with a difference. Each contestant has written their own pressure test recipe and has to create a dish to wow the judges. The least impressive dish will send its maker home.
Best Dishes: Poh, Amina, Laura
Dish of the Day: Sarah T
Eliminated: Harry
Sweet and Sour Pork (Sarah Tiong)
Stout-Braised Beef Pie with Blue Cheese Crust (Poh Ling Yeow)
Dondurma Semolina Biscuits and Apricot Jam (Amina Elshafei)
Ravioli Doppio with Ricotta and Kangaroo Tail (Laura Sharrad)
Ep 13, Wednesday, April 29, 2020
The judges reveal that each contestant’s mystery box, contains four ingredients which they can barter with one another for. The top four dishes will see their makers cook for immunity tomorrow.
Best Dishes: Callum, Jess, Laura, Sarah T
Carrot and Ginger Okonomiyaki (Callum Hann)
Into The Woods (Jess Liemantara)
Gnocchi with Ricotta, Peas, Apple Caramel and Mint (Laura Sharrad)
Coconut Mango Chilli Ice Cream (Sarah Tiong)
Ep 14, Thursday, April 30, 2020
Today’s immunity challenge sees four contestants compete in a MasterChef time auction. The more time they spend on buying ingredients, the less time they have to cook.
Jess (100 minutes to cook): eggs, rice, stone fruit, middle-eastern spices
Callum (75 minutes to cook): chicken, corns, nightshades, European herbs
Sarah T (60 minutes to cook): coral trout, citrus, root vegetables, Asian herbs
Laura (45 minutes to cook): tofu, vinegars, greens, Indian spices
Best Dish and Immunity from Sunday’s Elimination: Jess
65-Degree Egg with Turmeric Noodles and Chilli Oil (Jess Liemantara)
Ep 15, Sunday, May 3, 2020
Today’s challenge is all about texture. In round one contestants must cook a dish with the best crunch. Round two is all about a gooey texture. The least impressive gooey dish will send its chef home.
Round 1 Bottom 5: Hayden, Khanh, Callum, Brendan, Dani
Eliminated: Dani (with Immunity Pin)
Babi Kecap (Ben Ungermann)
South-East Fried Chicken (Sarah Tiong)
Caramelised Milk Chocolate Ganache with Isomalt Tuile and Brown Butter Ice Cream (Reynold Poernomo)
Potato Skins With Chicken Skin and Fried Shallot (Tracy Collins)
Chip Butty with Smoked Whipped Butter (Simon Toohey)
Egg Yolk Raviolo with Ricotta with Parmesan Foam (Hayden Quinn)
Cheesy Korean Fire Pockets (Brendan Pang)
Molten Chocolate Cake (Khanh Ong)
Ep 16, Monday, May 4, 2020
The MasterChef contestants leave the kitchen for a week of off-site challenges. Teams must make two entrees and three mains for 50 diners. The least impressive team faces a pressure test.
Team Challenge: Thai cuisine
Aqua Team: Tessa (C), Amina, Ben U, Emelia, Laura, Poh, Reece, Rose, Simon
Orange Team: Khanh (C), Brendan, Callum, Chris, Hayden, Jess, Reynold, Sarah T, Tracy, Sarah C* – Sarah C sitting out of the challenge as there is an uneven team number.
Winning Team: Orange
Kingfish Betel Leaves with Ginger Nam Jim Sauce (Orange Team)
Deep Fried Soft-Shell Crab with Red Nam Jim (Orange Team)
Eggplant Green Curry (Orange Team)
Spatchcock Chicken with Nam Jim Gai (Orange Team)
Whole Fried Bream with Tamarind Sauce (Orange Team)
Ep 17, Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Helly Raichura, of Enter Via Laundry bases tonight’s taste test on her popular dish pasta not pasta. Contestants who guess the least ingredients correctly must replicate the dish in a challenge.
Taste Test: Pasta Not Pasta
Safe: Tessa, Simon, Emelia, Amina, Laura
Ben U, Rose, Reece both got 6 correct answers, so they go into sudden-death second round taste test of a savoury snack.
Bottom 3: Poh, Rose, Ben U
Eliminated: Rose
Enter via Laundry website crashes during episode
Ep 18, Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Today’s ingredients are sourced by locals who grow fruit and vegetables in their yards. The three most impressive dishes from today’s mystery box challenge will cook in an immunity challenge.
Homegrown Mystery Box: Shiitake mushrooms, brown rice miso, blue cheese, basil, yellow zucchini, apples, garlic
Plus they can each get one more ingredient from Coles.
Best Dishes: Amina, Emelia, Tracy
Lobster Stuffed Tortellini with Lobster Miso Bisque (Amina Elshafei)
Pan Fried Quail, Apple and Shiitake (Emelia Jackson)
Duck Neck Sausage with Apple, Mushroom and Miso Purée (Tracy Collins)
Ep 19, Thursday, May 7, 2020
Three contestants are told they must prepare 100 small plates each, consisting of five different dishes. Dishes are then coloured-coded and served to the judges on a sushi train in this blind tasting.
Best Dishes and Immunity from Sunday’s Elimination: Amina
Tuna Chirashi Salad (Amina Elshafei)
Rice Balls with Geotjeori (Amina Elshafei)
Bulgogi Cups (Amina Elshafei)
Deep Fried Tofu with Gochujang Vinaigrette (Amina Elshafei)
Scallops and Wakame (Amina Elshafei)
Ep 20, Sunday, May 10, 2020
In today’s take-away elimination challenge, contestants must make a dish that will stand the home delivery test. Contestants have 90 minutes from the start of the cook to completed delivery.
Round 1: Name the Dish and the Country that put the dish on the culinary map.
- Pizza, Italy
- Pho, Vietnam
- Peking Duck Pancakes, China (Ben U into Round 2)
- Laksa, Malaysia/Singapore (Tracy, Tessa, Chris into Round 2, all got country wrong)
Round 2: Make a Take-Away Dish (70 minutes) and Deliver it to Melissa’s house (20 minutes)
Best Dish: Ben U
Eliminated: Chris
Nasi Goreng with Pickled Cucumber and Sambal (Ben Ungermann)
Thai Green Chicken Curry (Tracy Collins)
South East Indian Fish Curry with Lachha Paratha (Tessa Boersma)
Ep 21, Monday, May 11, 2020
Contestants learn that there will be a twist with every challenge this week, so they must think on their feet to survive another week in the MasterChef kitchen. Tonight two twists really stir the pot.
Brown Team: Sarah T (C), Ben U, Brendan, Emelia, Khanh, Reece, Simon, Tessa
Grey Team: Poh (C), Amina, Callum, Jess, Laura, Reynold, Sarah C, Tracy, Hayden*
*Hayden sitting out of the challenge as there is an uneven team number.
First Twist: Switch kitchens, Brown Team now has to cook Grey Team menu, and vice versa.
Second Twist: 10 diners are vegetarians…
Winning Team: Brown Team
Scallop and Prawn Tortellini with Seafood Bisque (Brown Team)
Goats’ Cheese and Herb Tortellini with Burnt Butter, Almonds and Currants (Brown Team) – vegetarian option
Kingfish with Kipfler Potatoes and Baby Fennel (Brown Team)
Pan-Fried Cauliflower with Cashew Cream and Agrodolce (Brown Team) – vegetarian option
Wattleseed Caramel Cake with Honey Syrup, Mascarpone Cream and Roast Apricots (Brown Team)
Ep 22, Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Contestants have three hours to complete a simply stunning Darren Purchese dish but in the final hour of the cook, a twist which no one could anticipate is thrown at the contestants.
Pressure Test: Passionfruit Pavlova
Twist: With one hour to go, the recipe for the pressure test is taken away from the contestants!
CRUEL, CRUEL, CRUEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Best Dishes: Jess, Laura, Reynold
Eliminated: Amina
Mango Passionfruit Pavlova (Darren Purchese)
Ep 23, Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Contestants have 75 minutes to cook a dish using one or more of the eight ingredients in the mystery box. The contestants are pushed to the limit when a twist is delivered to their benches.
Mystery Box: wild rice, scampi, peanuts, shallots, turnips with top, worchestershire sauce, duck breast, leg & wings, mangoes
Twist: With 45 minutes to go, out came a Small Mystery box – figs (must use in their dishes) and a Mini Mystery Box (to be revealed in 15 minutes time)… With 30 minutes to go, Mini Mystery Box – lemon myrtle (must use)
Best Dishes: Poh, Reece, Simon, Reynold, Sarah T
Fig and Scampi Carpaccio (Poh Ling Yeow)
Scampi with Mango Gazpacho (Reece Hignell)
Chargrilled Scampi Wrapped in Pickled Turnip and Turnip Top Sauce (Simon Toohey)
Seared Scampi with Turnip Scallops and Barbequed Figs (Reynold Poernomo)
Duck with Wild Rice, Turnip Greens and Toasted Peanuts (Sarah Tiong)
Ep 24, Thursday, May 14, 2020
Katy Perry guest judges a very special Hot N Cold challenge to honour the iconic MasterChef theme song. The contestant with the best dish will find themselves safe from Sunday’s elimination.
Immunity Challenge: Hot dish with a cold element
Twist: Guest judge Katy Perry
Best Dish and Immunity from Sunday’s Elimination: Poh
Duck Rendang with Coconut Pandan Lace Crepe and Chillied Pickle (Poh Ling Yeow)
MasterClass:
Apple Tarte Tatin with Brown Bread Ice Cream and Salted Apple Caramel (Jock Zonfrillo)
Sticky Tamarind Pork Hock with Pineapple Apple Salsa and Banh Tieu (Jerry Mai)
Triple Hog Corn ‘n’ Cheese (Jock Zonfrillo)
Ep 25, Sunday, May 17, 2020
Contestants are cooking off against the other contestant on their bench. The best dish from each bench will be safe, while the remaining contestants must cook in the elimination round.
Judges announced that Ben U has left the competition due to personal reason.
Round 1: Head to head, winners safe, losers go into round 2
Callum vs Simon: French cuisine
Jess vs Tessa: Vietnamese cuisine
Emelia vs Laura: Japanese cuisine
Khanh vs Sarah T: Italian cuisine
Reynold vs Sarah C: American cuisine
Hayden vs Tracy: Chinese cuisine
Brendan vs Reece: Spanish cuisine
Going into Round 2 – Brendan, Hayden, Tessa, Laura, Callum, Sarah T, Sarah C
Round 2: Pairing ingredients
Choices of apple & cinnamon, tomato & basil, ginger & lemon grass, walnut & dates, or beetroot & horseradish
Twist: No twist
Eliminated: Hayden
Stir Fried Swimmer Crab with Black Bean (Tracy Collins)
Apple Pie and Cinnamon Parfait (Reynold Poernomo)
Tofu Tomato Salad (Emelia Jackson)
Snapper and Lentils (Simon Toohey)
Prawn Sugo Pasta (Khanh Ong)
Prawn Noodle Soup (Jess Liemantara)
Crème Catalan, Figs and Almond Shortbread (Reece Hignell)
Seared Bonito with Lemongrass and Ginger Granita and Avocado and Ginger Puree (Tessa Boersma)
Hand Rolled Cavatelli with Tomato Sugo (Laura Sharrad)
Pork Belly Rice Paper Rolls (Brendan Pang)
Thai Style Prawns with Lemongrass and Ginger Caramel (Sarah Tiong)
Apple and Cinnamon Cake, Cinnamon Ice cream and Apple Caramel (Callum Hann)
Ep 26, Monday, May 18, 2020
Jo Barrett and Matt Stone from Oakridge Wines mentor today’s service challenge with each team cooking a sweet or savoury menu. The team with the least impressive menu face tomorrow’s pressure test.
Contestants are allowed to choose their own teams. One team have to make 3 savoury courses, the other team 3 sweet courses.
Pink Team (Sweet mentor Jo): Reece (C), Callum, Emelia, Jess, Poh, Reynold, Tracy
Yellow Team (Savoury mentor Matt): Brendan (C), Khanh, Laura, Sarah C, Sarah T, Simon, Tessa
Winning Team: Pink Team
Apple and Fennel Sorbet with Rhubarb and Bay Leaf Oil (Pink Team – Emelia Jackson)
Passionfruit and Yuzu Chiboust with Pineapple and Coriander Granita (Pink Team – Jess Liemantara)
Chocolate Sponge Cake with Earl Grey Ice Cream and Native Marmalade (Pink Team – Reynold Poernomo)
Ep 27, Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Contestants must replicate chef Peter Gunn’s Black Box from his restaurant Ides. The contestant with the least impressive dish will be going home.
Eliminated: Sarah C
Ep 28, Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Contestants must create a vegan dish using at least one ingredient from the mystery box set by vegan chef, Shannon Martinez. The top four dishes will cook off in tomorrow’s immunity challenge.
Vegan Mystery Box: baby cos, radish, beetroot, asparagus, Dutch carrots, pencil leeks, petit capsicums, thyme, celeriac, pine mushrooms, sweet potato, garlic
+ vegan staples under the bench
Best Dishes: Poh, Simon, Jess, Reece
Sweet Potato Pastry with Chilli Beetroot Ketchup & Seitan Stir-Fry (Poh Ling Yeow)
Celeriac Tacos with Grilled Pine Mushrooms and Aquafaba Skin (Simon Toohey)
Celeriac Sorbet with Vegan Cream Cheese, Apple Cider Vinegar Beetroot Gel, Thyme Tuile & Dehydrated Mushroom Powder (Jess Liemantara)
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Ice Cream and Beetroot Caramel (Reece Hignell)
Ep 29, Thursday, May 21, 2020
Tonight’s immunity challenge is fought in two rounds. In one round contestants must create a delicious dish using instant noodles. The top two from round one must make a nostalgic and comforting dish.
Round 1: 15 minutes to pimp up instant noodles, best two dishes go into round 2
Best Dishes: Jess, Poh
Round 2: Your ultimate comfort food
Best Dish and Immunity from Sunday’s Elimination: Jess
Khao Soi Noodles (Jess Liemantara)
Seafood Noodles (Poh Ling Yeow)
Thai Red Duck Curry with Roti Canai and Coconut Rice (Jess Liemantara)
Ep 30, Sunday, May 24, 2020
Josh Niland of The Fish Butchery breaks down a kingfish for each of the contestants to choose a cut to cook with. The contestant with the least impressive dish will be going home.
Round 1: Name That Fish
First five to identify the wrong fish (into Round 2): Khanh, Emelia, Reece, Laura, Tracy
Round 2: Cook That Cut of the Kingfish (after Josh did a masterclass on breaking down the fish)
Best Dishes: Laura, Khanh
Eliminated: Tracy
Kingfish Tail with Smoked Pipi Broth, Crème Fraiche and Wakame Oil (Laura Sharrad)
Canh Chua Ca – Southern Vietnamese Sour Fish Soup (Khanh Ong)
Ep 31, Monday, May 25, 2020
Each team must cook two dishes – one main and one dessert. Each contestant has 20 minutes to cook and they have just 45 seconds to hand over the dish to the next contestant in the relay.
The judges announced that there will only be one elimination this week, and two contestants will get immunity from next Sunday’s elimination challenge.
Green Team: Simon, Emelia, Khanh, Brendan
Navy Team: Sarah T, Poh, Jess, Callum
Red Team: Reynold, Tessa, Laura, Reece
Winning Team: Green Team (going for one of the immunities tomorrow)
Grilled Prawns with Bulgur Wheat Salad (Green Team)
Blueberry Galette with Crème Fraîche Ice Cream (Green Team)
Ep 32, Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Queen of chocolate and guest chef, Kirsten Tibballs reveals for today’s pressure test, the contestants must create her wow-factor dessert, the meljito.
Best Dish and Immunity from Sunday’s Elimination: Emelia
Ep 33, Wednesday, May 27, 2020
The contestants lift the lids of their mystery box to find a photo sent by their loved ones. The contestants have 60 minutes to create a dish inspired by the memory in their family photo.
Jock announced that there was not a single bad dish tonight, so the judges were unable to pick just the top 4 dishes. So there will be top 5 dishes.
Best Dishes: Jess, Poh, Brendan, Reynold, Khanh
Hazelnut Chocolate Crack with Dark Chocolate Tia Maria Mousse (Jess Liemantara)
Vegetarian Dan Dan Noodles 素食擔擔麵 (Poh Ling Yeow)
Dan Dan Noodles 擔擔麵 (Brendan Pang)
Bali Sunrise (Reynold Poernomo)
Chao Ga Dau Chao Quay – Vietnamese Chicken Congee with Fried Breadsticks (Khanh Ong)
Ep 34, Thursday, May 28, 2020
Contestants must create a dish inspired by one of seven classic fairytales. With an open pantry and garden, the contestant with the best dish and the strongest concept will win immunity.
Choices of the seven fairytales (contestants may choose any one of choices to get inspiration from):
Goldilocks and the Three Bears – Jess
Alice in Wonderland – Reynold
Beauty and the Beast – Khanh, Brendan
The Ugly Duckling – Poh
Hansel and Gretel
Little Red Riding Hood
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Best Dish and Immunity from Sunday’s Elimination: Reynold
Down the Rabbit Hole (Reynold Poernomo)
Historic moment from MasterChef Australia
Ep 35, Sunday, May 31, 2020
Contestants must make a dish that has two different flavoured ice-creams that only work when they are eaten together. In round two, they must make a dish using one of five unusual flavour pairings.
Round 1: Unusual flavour combination ice creams
Bottom 5 Dishes: Brendan, Jess, Callum, Simon, Poh
Round 2: Unusual flavour pairings
Pairing Choices:
Lamb & Coffee – Simon
Basil & Peanut Butter – Brendan
Dark Chocolate & Soy
Mustard & Mint – Callum, Poh
Carrot & Raspberry – Jess
Best Dishes: Brendan, Callum, Poh
Eliminated: Jess
Get your tissue ready if you want to watch the clip below, the devastating effect of social distancing…
Mandarin and Tarragon Ice Cream, Caramelised White Chocolate and Miso Parfait with Verjuice Granita (Reece Hignell)
Vanilla Cardamom Ice Cream, Smoked Rhubarb Ice Cream with Bay Leaf and a Bitter Dark Chocolate Mousse with a Salted Crumb (Khanh Ong)
Roasted Fig & Wattleseed Ice Cream, Honey Milk Skins and Prickly Pear Jelly (Laura Sharrad)
Sweet Corn Ice Cream, Miso Ice Cream with Miso Caramel Popcorn, Candied Nori, Sesame Praline Dust (Sarah Tiong)
Beetroot Anise Ice Cream, Tamarind Ice Cream, Meringue and Blackberries (Tessa Boersma)
Thai Style Bang Bang Chicken (Brendan Pang) – a.k.a. Pang Pang Chicken
Turmeric Roasted Cauliflower, Dhal Mustard and Mint Chutney (Callum Hann)
Tortelli di Zucca (Poh Ling Yeow)
Ep 36, Monday, June 1, 2020
Contestants cook a sweet or savoury style dish championing a citrus fruit of their choice. In round two, they use the same fruit but their dish must be in the opposite style.
The judges announced that there will only be one elimination this week (again!). There will be three heats, one heat per episode, this week to find a winner from each heat who will go into immunity challenge.
Heat 1: Brendan, Callum, Reynold
Round 1: Best two dishes will go into round 2
Brendan (Navel oranges – savoury)
Callum (mandarins – sweet)
Reynold (Tahitian limes – sweet)
Best Dishes: Reynold, Callum
Round 2: Callum (mandarins – savoury), Reynold (Tahitian limes – savoury)
Best Dish and Going into Immunity Challenge: Callum
Mandarin & Chocolate Bavarois, Mandarin Puree and Earl Grey Ice Cream (Callum Hann)
Lime Curd, Feijoa and Lime Ganache (Reynold Poernomo)
Mandarin Glazed Duck Breast with Chilli Mandarin Oil Noodles and Mandarin Master Stock (Callum Hann)
Boxing Chicken (Brendan Pang) – recipe from season 10, 2018
Ep 37, Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Contestants discover they must create a dish inspired by chef Coskun Uysal’s chicken rice pudding dessert. With this in mind, they must create their own dessert featuring a meat or protein.
Heat 2: Emelia, Khanh, Reece, Tessa
Challenge: Make a dessert with a protein in it
Best Dishes: Khanh, Emelia
Best Dish and Going into Immunity Challenge: Khanh
Anchovies, Nuts and Beer (Khanh Ong)
Ep 38, Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Today’s mystery box ingredients are decided entirely by the luck of the draw, with numbered lottery balls corresponding to 25 ingredients on display.
Heat 3: Laura, Poh, Sarah T, Simon
Bingo Mystery Box – Luck of the draw, each numbered ball corresponds to a numbered ingredient, the draw results in the 8 ingredients for the mystery box:
9 – plums, 18 – durian, 23 – brown onions, 10 – Kipfler potatoes, 17 – Champagne, 21 – grapes, 19 – kale, 13 – lemons
NO Protein drawn! It will be a very interesting challenge…
Best Dish and Going into Immunity Challenge: Poh
Lemon Sponge with Lemon Curd and Italian Meringue (Poh Ling Yeow)
Ep 39, Thursday, June 4, 2020
Each round in today’s immunity challenge is worth 10 points and the contestant with the highest score at the end of round three will win immunity and be free from elimination on Sunday.
Round 1: Toasties (15 minutes)
Callum – A8 M7 J8 = 23
Khanh – A7 M8 J9 = 24
Poh – A7 M9 J9 = 25
Round 2: Dinner (20 minutes)
Callum – A9 M8 J9 + 23 = 49
Khanh – A10 M9 J10 + 24 = 53
Poh – A9 M9 J10 + 25 = 53
Round 3: Dessert (30 minutes)
Callum – A10 M10 J10 + 49 =79
Khanh – A6 M6 J6 + 53 = 71
Poh – A7 M7 J8 + 53 = 75
Immunity from Sunday’s Elimination: Callum
Fruit Bread Toastie with Prosciutto Honey, Gruyere, Rocket and Spiced Butter (Poh Ling Yeow)
Banh Xeo with Nuoc Mam (Khanh Ong)
Pork and Cabbage Potstickers (Poh Ling Yeow)
Gin and Lime Mousse with Desert Lime and Orange Marmalade, Gin and Tonic Granita (Callum Hann)
Sour Cherry Clafoutis (Poh Ling Yeow) – recipe from SBS
Ep 40, Sunday, June 7, 2020
Who will make the MasterChef Australia top 10 in this Australia-themed pressure test?
Round 1: Savoury Pie and Sauce
Worst Dishes and Going into Round 2: Tessa, Simon, Sarah T, Reynold
Round 2: Create a Dish that Represents Your Australia
Eliminated: Simon
Coq Au Vin Pie with Smoked Cheddar Crust, Pea and Mint Sauce (Poh Ling Yeow)
Chicken, Pancetta and Leek Pie with Tomato and Apple Chutney (Emelia Jackson)
Mauritian Beef Curry Pie with Coriander Mint Yoghurt Sauce (Brendan Pang)
Pork and Fennel Pie with a Tomato Chilli Relish (Laura Sharrad)
Wallaby and Pepperberry Pie with Davidson Plum Ketchup (Reece Hignell)
Coconut and Chicken Pie with Pickled Chilli Sauce (Khanh Ong)
Chocolate Mousse, Coconut Gelato with Blood Lime and Cherry Compote, and Native Citrus (Reynold Poernomo)
Charcoal Chicken (Sarah Tiong)
Braised Pork Belly with Pickled Cucumber and Ginger (Tessa Boersma)
Top 10 MasterChef Australia 2020
Ep 41, Monday, June 8, 2020
What’s behind the wall?
Twin Challenge: Ten cloches with one ingredient inside, a total of 5 different core ingredients (every two cloches will have the same ingredient) that contestants have to use, each contestant choose a cloche to pair up and use the same ingredient they picked as the main ingredient in their dish.
Corns – Reece, Poh (Terracotta Twin)
Celeriac – Brendan, Sarah T (Grey Twin)
Peas – Khanh, Laura (Blue Twin)
Sweet Potatoes – Tessa, Reynold (Green Twin)
Fennel – Emelia, Callum (Red Twin)
Most Identical and Best Dishes: Khanh, Laura
Going into Pressure Test: Reece, Poh, Brendan, Sarah T
Butter Poached Squid, Peas and Cucumber (Blue Team)
Roasted Sweet Potato, Salsa Verde and a Sweet Potato Nest (Green Team)
Creme Fraiche Mousse with Fennel Granita and Candied Fennel (Red Team)
Ep 42, Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Benjamin Cooper, Executive Chef of Chin Chin Melbourne sets tonight’s pressure test where contestants must recreate his jungle curry with rice and roti… without a recipe.
Best Dish: Reece
Eliminated: Sarah T
Jungle Curry (Benjamin Cooper) – แกงป่า Kaeng Pa
Bonus recipe – Jungle Curry of Pork Braised in Hay, Turmeric, Krachai and Peanuts (Benjamin Cooper) – recipe from PorkStar
Bonus recipe – Jungle Curry Paste recipe from New Thai Food (Martin Boetz)
Bonus recipe – Jungle Curry of Coral Trout and Flat-Leaf Coriander recipe from New Thai Food (Martin Boetz)
Ep 43, Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Today’s mystery box is all about smoke. Contestants can use any method of smoking as long as one element has been smoked with a smoking gun.
Best Dishes and going into immunity challenge: Reece, Emelia
Also going into immunity challenge: Laura, Poh
Smoked Chocolate Mousse with Smoked Salt Macadamia Ice Cream (Reece Hignell)
Smoked Chocolate Mousse with Dark Fruit (Emelia Jackson)
Smoked Yoghurt Sorbet with Rhubarb and Cinnamon Myrtle Granita (Laura Sharrad)
Sichuan Pepper Crusted Duck with Pickled Radish, Beetroot, Mint and Riberries (Poh Ling Yeow)
Ep 44, Thursday, June 11, 2020
Today’s immunity challenge is all about resourcefulness. The contestants are each presented with a pumpkin and have 90 minutes to cook three dishes that feature the pumpkin in some way.
Least Impressive First Dish (out of challenge): Poh
Least Impressive Second Dish (out of challenge): Laura
Best Dish and Immunity from Sunday’s Elimination: Reece
Pan-Seared Pumpkin with Mushrooms and Chestnut Purée (Reece Hignell)
Butter Poached Bug with Pumpkin Salad (Emelia Jackson)
Roasted Pumpkin with Smoked Buttermilk and Roasted Pepitas (Laura Sharrad)
Mascarpone Ice Cream and Spiced Pumpkin Cake (Reece Hignell)
Pumpkin Cake with Creme Fraiche and Pine Nut Caramel (Emelia Jackson)
Pumpkin and Eggplant Penang Curry (Reece Hignell)
From this week on, only 3 episodes per week, no more team challenges!
MasterChef, The Voice pulling back episodes
Ep 45, Sunday, June 14, 2020
Charlie Carrington of Melbourne restaurant, Atlas sets today’s elimination challenge focusing on food from different countries. The contestant with the least impressive dish will be sent home.
Round 1: Street Food – cooking in pairs, best two teams safe
Orange (Indian cuisine): Emelia, Laura
Red (Chinese cuisine): Khanh, Reynold
Terracotta (Lebanese cuisine): Callum, Poh
Yellow (Mexican cuisine): Brendan, Tessa
Least Impressive Dishes: Team China, Team India
Round 2: A fine dining dish from one of the 11 countries that Charlie visited
Eliminated: Khanh
Prawns with Coriander, Chilli and Pistachio Hummus (Team Lebanese Food)
Charred Slow Cooked Lamb Shoulder, Sesame Flatbread, Baba Ganoush and Lebanese Salad (Team Lebanese Food)
Charred Quail, Charred Corn and Grilled Jalapenos (Team Mexican Food)
Crispy Fish Taco, Beer Battered Fish, Salsa, Hot Sauce, Spiced Mayo, Crispy Refried Beans (Team Mexican Food)
Confit Blue Eye with Celeriac, Peas and White Wine Sauce (Reynold Poernomo)
Paris-Brest Petit Fours (Emelia Jackson)
Ep 46, Monday, June 15, 2020
In today’s golden box mystery box challenge, the contestants have to create a dish using one or more of the golden ingredients. The top four dishes will battle it out in tomorrow’s immunity challenge.
Golden Mystery Box: golden raisins, golden Swiss chard, golden beetroots, golden trout, golden syrup, gold leaf, Golden Delicious apples, gold mustard
Best Dishes: Brendan, Reece, Callum, Tessa
Cured Golden Trout with Apple Granita and Sour Milk Dressing (Brendan Pang)
Brown Butter & Apple Tart with Caramelised Golden Raisin Ice Cream (Reece Hignell)
Golden Beetroot Ice Cream with Granita, Mousse and Golden Praline (Callum Hann)
Smoked Golden Trout with Chard and Apple Brown Butter Vinaigrette (Tessa Boersma)
Ep 47, Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Every five minutes an ingredient that can be used in their cook is revealed to our contestants. They can start cooking at any time but only have access to the ingredients revealed up to that point.
Tick Tock Challenge: Time or Ingredients
90 minutes reveal: Pantry Staples
85 minutes reveal: Beef and Bones
80 minutes reveal: Gin and Juniper
75 minutes reveal: Roots and Alliums
70 minutes reveal: Orchard Fruits – Reece starts cooking, using quince and gin to make tart
65 minutes reveal: Leafy Greens
60 minutes reveal: Grains – Tessa starts cooking, making rib-eye with 3 vegs
55 minutes reveal: Herbs
50 minutes reveal: Quails – Brendan starts cooking, he was waiting for spices, but couldn’t wait anymore, making beef & coriander dumplings
45 minutes reveal: Shellfish – Callum starts cooking, making mussel escabeche
40 minutes reveal: Garden in Play
Best Dishes: Callum, Reece
Best Dish and Immunity from Sunday’s Elimination: Reece
Gin Tart with Ginger Ice Cream, Juniper Meringue and Quince Puree (Reece Hignell)
Ep 48, Sunday, June 21, 2020
Tonight’s elimination will take place over two rounds, the first of which is the classic blind taste test. The first four contestants who guess incorrectly will go into round two.
Round 1: One-Inch Cubes Taste Test
Drawing number from a bag for the order of blind tasting, from easiest to hardest… (note: not all the tasting was shown)
- Callum – carrot, pineapple, rockmelon, chicken, lemon, radish, ?, grapefruit, starfruit, horseradish
- Brendan – apple, zucchini, cucumber, salmon, tuna, lime (wrong guess, said pomelo) 3rd into round 2
- Poh – banana, pumpkin, bacon, blue cheese, salami, liquorice, Brussels sprout, durian, persimmon, feijao
- Laura – beetroot, cauliflower, avocado, cheddar cheese, pear, parmigiano, kiwi fruit, ?, (fried) tofu, honeydew melon
- Reynold – orange, lamb, feta cheese, ham (wrong guess, said turkey) 2nd into round 2
- Tessa – celery (wrong guess, said celeriac) 1st into round 2
- Emelia – tomato, beef, radicchio, broccoli, strawberry, paw paw, pork belly, cream cheese, parsnip, kohlrabi (wrong guess, said daikon) 4th into round 2
Only 2 cubes left out of 60 used for the blindtasting – bitter melon (cube 59), jicama (cube 60)
Round 2: Cook a balance dish, using at least one ingredient from each of the 5 pantries (bitter, salty, sweet, sour, umami)
Best Dish: Tessa
Eliminated: Brendan
Scarlet Prawn Crudo with Beef Fat (Tessa Boersma)
Ep 49, Monday, June 22, 2020
The judges reveal that today, contestants need to use ALL the ingredients in their mystery box to create two dishes – a sweet and savoury dish in 75 minutes.
2-Dish Everything Mystery Box: milk, wattle seeds, thyme, hazelnuts, parsnip, ribeye steak, caulini, prickly pears
Best Dishes and Going into Immunity Challenge: Callum, Poh, Laura
Beef Tartare with Smoked Caulini, Parsnip Puree and Lavosh (Callum Hann)
Frozen Prickly Pear Mousse with Hazelnut Beef Fat Praline (Callum Hann)
Charred Beef, Caulini and Prickly Pear Dressing (Poh Ling Yeow)
Fried Souffle, Hazelnut Praline & Wattleseed Custard 高力豆沙卡士達 (Poh Ling Yeow)
Rib Eye Steak, Parsnip Ribbons and Pickled Caulini (Laura Sharrad)
Burnt Parsnip Caramel, Salted Hazelnut & Wattleseed Ice Cream (Laura Sharrad)
Ep 50, Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Three heavy hitters of the competition go head to head. Who will make top 6?
Alphabet Challenge: Each contestant has 7 guesses of ingredient under each alphabet cloche, keep the ingredient with each correct guess, lose the ingredient with the wrong guess, no main pantry or garden in play, only cook with the ingredients (need to use at least one of their ingredients) they got with only basic underbench pantry.
Callum – Q quark (accidentedly guessed by Poh, LOL), S sawtooth coriander, G gochujang, K kangaroo, R rabbit, E eggplant, N nashi pears
Laura – M moreton bay bug, F flaxseeds, L longan, J Jerusalem artichoke, H halva, A amaranth, W watercress
Poh – P persimmons, (B barberries x), (C caraway seeds x), D duck, T tarragon, O octopus, Y yuzu
Best Dishes: Poh, Laura
Best Dish and Immunity from Sunday’s Elimination: Laura
Brown Butter Bugs, Jerusalem Artichoke, Watercress and Roasted Bug Oil (Laura Sharrad)
Ep 51, Sunday, June 28, 2020
Today’s all-in elimination, is a two round cook and the contestant with the least impressive dish will be going home. Will this be Reynold’s final cook in the MasterChef kitchen?
Round 1: Cook a classic dish, contestants need to choose one of the classic dishes listed on the board, no deviation of the dish allowed
Savoury:
Carbonara (60 minutes)
Fish and Chips with Tartare Sauce (60 minutes) – Tessa
Seafood Paella (75 minutes)
Beef Vindaloo with Naan and Basmati Rice (75 minutes)
Bouillabaisse with Rouille (90 minutes)
Sweet:
Crème Caramel (60 minutes) – Reece, Poh
Chocolate Soufflé (60 minutes) – Callum
Apple Tarte Tatin with Vanilla Ice-Cream (75 minutes)
Bombe Alaska (90 minutes) – Reynold, Emelia
Croquembouche (90 minutes)
Least Impressive Dishes: Poh, Reynold, Tessa
Round 2: Cook an Inventive, Innovative, Imaginative dish
Best Dish: Poh
Eliminated: Tessa
Chocolate Souffle (Callum Hann)
Crème Caramel (Reece Hignell)
Bombe Alaska (Emelia Jackson)
Lettuce Cups with Sago Dumplings and Rempah Udang + Kuih Koci (Poh Ling Yeow)
Ep 52, Monday, June 29, 2020
Today’s mystery box is inspired by colour. The dish can be sweet or savoury and contestants can access the pantry with the garden also in play. So why is Melissa so emotional?
Rubik’s Cube Mystery Box: Choose a Rubik’s Cube colour to inspire a dish
Blue
Green – Reynold
Orange – Callum
Red – Emelia, Poh
White – Laura
Yellow – Reece
Top 2 Dishes: Poh, Laura + 3rd Best Dish: Reynold
Nyonya Chicken Curry, Nasi Ulam, Fried Whitebait and Roti (Poh Ling Yeow)
Yoghurt & Bay (Laura Sharrad)
Moss (Reynold Poernomo)
Ep 53, Tuesday, June 30, 2020
In the battle for top 5, contestants must choose two cloches and cook with the ingredients underneath. They can give up one cloche and select a third, however they must cook with the third ingredient.
Lucky Dip Challenge: 60 cloches, 2 dishes, one savoury, one sweet
Reynold – C1 Madeira Wine, C2 Fennel x, C3 Dates
Laura – C1 Red Miso, C2 Vanilla
Poh – C1 Bergamot Orange x, C2 Ruby Grapefruit, C3 Olives
Best Dishes and Immunity from Sunday’s Elimination: Reynold
Shiitake Mushrooms with Date Puree and Brown Butter Potato Foam (Reynold Poernomo)
Chocolate Brownie with Madeira Gelato and Madeira Veil (Reynold Poernomo)
Ep 54, Sunday, July 5, 2020
Phil Wood from two of Victoria’s finest restaurants, reveals that round one is a pressure test. Contestants have 75 minutes to replicate his dish, potatoes duchess with shiitakes and cauliflower.
Round 1: Potatoes Duchess with Shiitakes and Cauliflower
Best Dishes and safe: Emelia, Laura
Round 2: Potatoes, Mushrooms and Cauliflower – use at least one of these three core ingredients to cook a dish
Eliminated: Poh
Potato Duchess with Shiitake, Cauliflower and Salmon Roe (Phil Wood)
Mushroom and Bonito Broth with Buckwheat Noodles and Pancetta Furikake (Callum Hann)
Potato Stack with Raspberry and Beetroot Granita and Smoked Salted Chocolate Ice Cream (Reece Hignell)
Ep 55, Monday, July 6, 2020
The race to finals week is on! The makers of the top three dishes from the mystery box challenge will battle it out tomorrow for one last chance at winning immunity this season.
Terrarium Mystery Box: Cooks a dish inspired by nature
Best Dishes: Reynold, Callum, Laura
Mushroom (Reynold Poernomo)
Start Of Autumn with Wild Fennel Ice Cream, Strawberry Sorbet & Chocolate Leaves (Callum Hann)
Mushroom Tortellini En Brodo (Laura Sharrad)
Ep 56, Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Who will make the finals? With no set rules in place, the contestants must mutually decide the cook time to create a dish, sweet or savoury, that best proves to the judges they have come back to win.
They all decided to have 2 hours to cook…
Best Dish and Immunity from Sunday’s Elimination: Reynold
Finals Week…
Ep 57, Sunday, July 12, 2020
In today’s mammoth elimination challenge, the contestants discover not only will they be cooking a four-course meal for the MasterChef judges, but for six of the hottest chefs in the country.
Service Challenge Elimination: 45-minute stagger between courses, draw to decide which course each contestant will cook, 2 hours cooking time, 9 plates per course
1st course (Vegetable) – Reece
2nd course (Fish) – Emelia
3rd course (Meat) – Laura
4th course (Dessert) – Callum
Best Dishes: Emelia, Laura
Eliminated: Reece
Crispy Skin Barramundi with Wilted Fennel, Fish Head and a Sake Reduced Broth (Emelia Jackson)
Lamb, Peas and Mint (Laura Sharrad)
Ep 58, Monday, July 13, 2020
The contestants discover today’s mystery box, covered in a Union Jack flag, has been set by guest chef Gordon Ramsay.
Best Dishes: Reynold, Emelia
Best Dish and advancing straight into Semi-Final: Emelia
Compressed Choux with Strawberry Gum and Rhubarb (Emelia Jackson)
Ep 59, Tuesday, July 14, 2020
In tonight’s elimination challenge contestants must choose to use either ingredients from an ordinary pantry or an extraordinary pantry.
Round 1: One contestant will be safe, the two remaining contestants will go into round 2 where they must use the other pantry that they did not use in round 1
All 3 contestants chose to use the extraordinary pantry in round 1…
Best Dish and safe: Reynold
Round 2: Both contestants must now use the ordinary pantry…
Eliminated: Callum
Barbequed Bonito with Bonito Tartare, Kohlrabi Flower and Bonito Wine Sauce (Reynold Poernomo)
Strawberries & Cream (Laura Sharrad)
Toffee apple 10 years in creation becomes MasterChef semi-final challenge
Ep 60, Sunday, July 19, 2020
In today’s Semi-Final challenge, our top three contestants compete for a place in the Grand Final. At the end of today’s challenge, three become two.
Pressure Test: Toffee Apple by Martin Benn
Best Dish: Emelia
Eliminated: Reynold
Ep 61, Monday, July 20, 2020
After a long culinary journey, the two finalists are competing for a $250,000 cash prize and the title of MasterChef Australia 2020.
Service Challenge – Emelia vs Laura
Oh, yay, Junior MasterChef Australia S3 sneak peek was shown during the ad break…
No scores this year…
MasterChef Australia 2020 Champion is Emelia!
Scallops with Turnips and Celeriac Cream and Fresh Apple (Emelia Jackson)
Beef Short Rib with Pepper and Onion (Emelia Jackson)
Pistachio Financier, Davidson Plum and Raspberry Sorbet and Meringue (Emelia Jackson)
Bonito with Lilly Pilly and Saltbush (Laura Sharrad)
Wessex Saddleback Pork with Turnips, Muntries and Trio of Sauces (Laura Sharrad)
Jerusalem Artichoke Gelato with Caramel, Crispy Skin and Cumquat Gel (Laura Sharrad)
Coming Soon… Junior MasterChef Australia season 3…
Corner Café 
Is Roland out of master chef
Comment by Emily pinnell — June 27, 2020 @ 11:52 pm |
You mean Reynold? The promo for tonight’s episode is showing he’s in all sort of trouble, but it could just be round one that he’s in trouble. It would be too obvious. I don’t think he is leaving tonight.
Comment by SeaDragon — June 28, 2020 @ 5:49 am |