| Ep#/Wk-Ep# | Original airdate | Episode Title / Event | Viewers (National reach & total) [a] | Nightly Ranking |
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| Week 1 |
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| 1/01-1 | Monday, 22 April 2024 | Series Premiere: Identity Dish — Jamie Oliver, guest judge for two weeks, tasked the contestants with creating a dish that represents them. The majority of the contestants received positive feedback with Savindri and Nat named the top 2. While Savindri's Sri Lankan breakfast (blackened coconut snapper with milk rice, snapper sauce, raw onion sambal and Sri Lankan treacle) received universal praise, it was Nat's kangaroo larb with soy cured egg yolk and toasted rice wafer that won the only immunity pin of the season and a trip to London to work for a week at Jamie's latest restaurant. | 1,423,000 /
776,000 | #6 [5] |
| 2/01-2 | Tuesday, 23 April 2024 | Jamie Oliver's Team Service Challenge — Each team had to cook a three-course meal for 40 previous MasterChef contestants in a service mentored by Jamie. The judges revealed four compulsory ingredients: mushroom for the entree, cashews and peppers for main, and grapefruit for dessert. The purple team led by Mimi served an entree of pork wontons with mushroom broth and a dessert of grapefruit-soaked date sponge with vanilla ice cream. But Mimi's passive leadership style led to a lamb backstrap main course that had tasty elements but lacked cohesion. The burgundy team led by Savindri was a success thanks to her hands-on direct leadership. Their entree of scallops with mushroom dashi sauce, main of red emperor curry and herb rice, and dessert of grapefruit pavlova were all triumphs, making them the winners, and advancing to the next challenge for an opportunity to cook for the single weekly immunity spot. | 1,400,000 /
649,000 | #6 [6] |
| 3/01-3 | Wednesday, 24 April 2024 | Finger Food Invention Test — Sofia set the winning team a challenge to create a dish in 75 minutes that anyone can eat with their hands. Lourdes' lemon choux buns, Savindri's seeni sambol and egg bun, Snezana's krofne with strawberry jam and crème pâtissière, Stephen's pork belly with whiskey tamarind sauce and Sumeet's panipuri were deemed the best dishes and earned the five spots in the immunity challenge. | 1,021,000 /
561,000 | #10 [7] |
| 4/01-4 | Thursday, 25 April 2024 | Time Versus Ingredients Immunity Challenge — Lourdes, Savindri, Snezana, Stephen and Sumeet were given a choice to cook with one ingredient for 90 minutes, or 20 ingredients for 45 minutes. Both Snezana and Stephen selected the 90-minute cook. Snezana chose onion and Stephen chose macadamia nuts, while the rest chose the 20-ingredient challenge. Lourdes struggled the most, and while her corn salsa won praise, her pork chop was overcooked. The judges loved Stephen's macadamia nut gateau, but his rustic cake lost to Savindri's tropical squid ceviche with mango, chilli, coconut and curry leaf, which was deemed more restaurant worthy. She won immunity from the competition's first elimination. | 1,106,000 /
547,000 | #7 [8] |
| Week 2 |
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| 5/02-1 | Sunday, 28 April 2024 | Food Dreams Elimination Challenge — In a one-round elimination challenge, the contestants besides Savindri had 75 minutes to cook a dish inspired by their food dreams. The dishes with the highest praise were David's winter squash soup with cocoa cream, Harry's ocean parcels with green peppercorn sauce, Juan's beef empanadas, Nat's khao soi gai and Snezana's three-course bread and butter. Josh P., Sumeet and James received the most criticism from the judges and were the bottom 3. Josh's dish had good presentation and the vegetable elements were a hit, but his beef was raw. Sumeet's butter chicken curry was tasty, but she tried to do too much and as a result, the other elements suffered. James' feta and green pepper-stuffed squid was raw, the fillings along with the parsley tahini sauce overpowered the squid and the texture was criticized. Ultimately, the judges felt that James' dish had missed the mark, and he was the first contestant to be eliminated this year. | 1,236,000 /
674,000 | #8 [9] |
| 6/02-2 | Monday, 29 April 2024 | Jamie Oliver's Parents Mystery Box Challenge — The judges announced that Stephen was unwell and as a result, he must compete in the next elimination. The remaining contestants faced a mystery box challenge set by Jamie's parents. They were given 75 minutes to make a dish using one or more of the following ingredients: rainbow trout, potatoes, sultanas, radicchio, lemons, Hula Hoops crisps, sorrel, peeled prawns, golden syrup and custard powder. Harry's rainbow trout with chip roasted potatoes and prawn sorrel bechamel, Darrsh's sticky toffee pudding with custard and Nat's rainbow trout and prawn savoury tart received the highest praise from the judges and were the top 3 dishes. Josh P's sultana cake with golden syrup crumble (Lazy Daisy cake) and custard was also praised. However, the meringue for Josh C's lemon tart was split; Lily's lemon custard tart was not set and the pastry was not baked well; Steph's rainbow trout and prawn ravioli was overtaken by her burnt radicchio, and Sumeet's rainbow trout with pomme puree had bones and her three sauces overpowered the flavour. As a result, the latter four joined Stephen in the pressure test. | 1,152,000 /
687,000 | #11 [10] |
| 7/02-3 | Tuesday, 30 April 2024 | Cook with Jamie Elimination Challenge - The elimination challenge included the four contestants whose dishes were weakest in the previous episode, plus Stephen, who had missed that episode due to illness. The challenge was to cook alongside Jamie Oliver as he prepared a dish from his family's pub: chicken breast stuffed with duxelles, baked in puff pastry with a mustard cream sauce, and served with a celeriac and potato mash and steamed vegetables. Stephen struggled to keep up with Jamie, but he repeatedly tasted from Jamie's dish to ensure correct flavours. Steph rushed and incorrectly removed the breast tenderloin, meaning her chicken breast was under-stuffed and too dry. Lily also had trouble keeping up with Jamie, and her chicken was also under-stuffed and dry. Josh C. and Sumeet followed well and prepared good matches to Jamie's dish. In the end, Steph's dish was deemed the worst match to Jamie's. Because the chicken was the foundation of Jamie's dish, the judges felt that Steph had missed the brief, and she was eliminated. | 1,191,000 /
655,000 | #9 [11] |
| 8/02-4 | Wednesday, 1 May 2024 | Queen Victoria Market Street Food Immunity Team Challenge - The 20 contestants were taken to the Queen Victoria Market for a team challenge, where they were split into four teams. The blue team (Darrsh, Harry, Lily, Nat and captain Khristian), the red team (Mimi, Stephen, Sue, Sumeet and captain Josh P.), the yellow team (David, Lourdes, Savindri, Snezana and captain Jonathan) and the pink team (Alex, Josh C., Juan, Lachlan and captain Gillian) were given five hours to prepare a street food menu for 1000 people. Each team had to feature one protein dish (blue-fish, red-beef, yellow-chicken and pink-pork) and one vegetarian dish. The yellow team chose a Greek-style menu but struggled due to the team's lack of knowledge of Greek food as well as Jonathan's chaotic leadership. As a result both of their dishes, while tasty, were too confusing and did not celebrate Greek cuisine. The pink team's sticky glazed pork belly received praise but their yakitori mushroom skewers were underwhelming and seemed like a snack rather than a dish. The blue team had an ambitious menu of seafood stew, which received unanimous praise. Though the eggplant dish was nice it needed more seasoning and sweetness. The red team's tandoori beef skewers, biryani rice with a spicy curry sauce and raita received positive comments though Andy wished they didn't hold back on the spices. But it was their vegetarian dish of spicy eggplant dip, semolina bread and raita that was hailed the best veggie dish of the day, making the red team the winners of the challenge and saving them from elimination. | 1,346,000 /
651,000 | #7 [12] |
| Week 3 |
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| 9/03-1 | Sunday, 5 May 2024 | Inspired by Family Elimination Challenge - The three losing teams faced a two-round elimination challenge. In round one, they had 75 minutes to create a dish inspired by one of Andy's mum's dishes. Savindri's pine and swine pastry dish and Snezana's carrot and three veg dish received the highest praise while Darrsh, Gillian, Harry, Jonathan and Nat's dishes had a few issues, and they had 75 minutes to cook another dish inspired by their own families. Darrsh's brinjal curry with yoghurt raita, Gillian's thịt kho, and Nat's moo palo received high praise and were safe. Harry's nonna's ravioli was cooked well, but his pasta filling and broth lacked depth of flavour. The ragu for Jonathan's pappardelle was tasty but undercooked, and because it was too thick, the meat had not caramelized properly. The judges felt that both Jonathan and Harry had flaws with their dishes, but when it came down to the pasta, they felt that Jonathan's dish lacked refinement, and he was eliminated. | 1,228,000 /
624,000 | #9 [13] |
| 10/03-2 | Monday, 6 May 2024 | Mystery Box Challenge with a Twist! - All of the contestants competed in a mystery box challenge that contained six visible ingredients (quail, spring onion, nectarine, nduja, parsnip and thyme) in a 75-minute cook. There were four small boxes as well, that contained an ingredient that each of the judges had chosen (Andy chose vino cotto, Jean-Christophe chose vanilla, Sophia chose fennel and Poh chose lychees). The top dishes of the day were Josh C's quail and nduja empandanas with lychee sauce, Lachlan's 'Lochy pops', Nat's quail and nectarine dumplings, and Lily's spicy quail with parsnip puree, nectarines and vino cotto. However, Mimi forgot to put the vino cotto element on her plate, Sumeet's quail was undercooked, Snezana's dumplings were delicious, but her quail was also undercooked, and Khristian's sauces overpowered the dish. Having cooked the bottom four dishes, Khristian, Mimi, Snezana and Sumeet were sent to the pressure test. | 1,171,000 /
655,000 | #10 [14] |
| 11/03-3 | Tuesday, 7 May 2024 | Pressure Test: Jean-Christophe Novelli's Jack in a Box - Khristian, Mimi, Snezana and Sumeet were given three hours to recreate Jean-Christophe's intricate dessert Jack in a Box, the dish that earned him a Michelin star in 1992. Snezana started off very stressed but ended up creating a great rendition of the dessert and was lauded for her efforts, deeming her safe. Sumeet did well throughout the challenge and that showed in her finished dish, and she was also safe from elimination. Mimi's chocolate mousse was grainy. While Khristian's brownie was lovely, there were too many pieces of it missing, and he was eliminated. | 1,247,000 /
646,000 | #9 [15] |
| 12/03-4 | Wednesday, 8 May 2024 | Two Round Team Immunity Challenge - There are two cooktops and three cloches per bench as the 18 contestants enter the MasterChef kitchen. When they open their cloches, they reveal an everyday ingredient and a coloured team apron. To win immunity, the groups of three select one member to cook with the ingredient. Lourdes and Lachlan select Mimi. Alex and Nat select Josh C; David and Harry select Sumee; Lily and Gill select Sav; Josh P and Stephen select Darrsh; and Snezana and Juan select Sue. Sumeet made chilli tofu which was way too spicy and overpowered by chilli. Darrsh made a chickpea curry which had a beautiful texture and the roti was wonderful, but it was bland. Josh C's panna cotta didn't hold its shape. It was tasty but lacked minor flavourings. Sav's rasam was delicious and had wonderful flavours and textures, the judges lauding her. Sue made swede gnocchi that was criticised for being slightly flavourless but it was beautifully presented. Mimi's honey crisps with corn ice cream completely blew the judges away and they thought it was one of the best dishes of the competition. Overall, the judges agreed that Mimi had produced the best dish, which meant that she sent herself, Lourdes and Lachlan through to round two for an immunity cook-off, where they have to cook a sweet barbeque dish. Lachie made sweet barbequed roti, which was deemed 'pretty good' but lacked the proper layering. Mimi's mochi pancake flavours were good, but slightly bland. Lourdes nailed her BBQ banana buttermilk pancakes, which were deemed simple but perfect, winning her immunity from Sunday's elimination. | 1,235,000 /
645,000 | #9 [16] |
| Week 4 |
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| 13/04-1 | Sunday, 12 May 2024 | One Inch Cube Elimination Challenge - In round one of a two-round elimination challenge, the contestants except Lourdes faced the one-inch cube challenge, having to blindly identify cubes of food by taste and smell. The first six to guess incorrectly went into the second round; Josh C., Juan, Lily, Mimi, Stephen and Sumeet were given 75 minutes to cook a dish using the ingredients that were guessed correctly in the first round. Mimi's tonkotsu oatmeal, Josh C.'s prawn & lobster bisque, and Sumeet's beetroot and pumpkin soup with prawns received high praise. Stephen also impressed the judges with his beetroot ravioli. Juan's take on assado Argentino was criticised for lacking herbs. However, Lily's dish was too simple as her chicken Maryland was cooked inconsistently, and her leeks were crunchy and undercooked. The judges felt that Lily's dish was the wrong choice for today's pantry limitations, and she was eliminated. | 1,313,000 /
709,000 | #6 [17] |
| 14/04-2 | Monday, 13 May 2024 | French Mystery Box Challenge - The contestants visited the Bendigo Art Gallery for a French themed mystery box (mussels, shallots, apples, Dijon mustard, peas, croissant, duck leg, prunes, bouquet garni and apple cider) as well as under-bench staples from the local area in a 75-minute cook at the Bendigo Town Hall. Most of the contestants did well embracing the French theme. The dishes with the highest praise were Sumeet's choux au craquelin with thyme crème patisserie and apple in salted caramel sauce, David's rosemary and prune ice cream with caramelised croissant and Stephen's 'duck by the sea'. Harry's mussel pie and Juan's duck ravioli also received praise. However, Lourdes olive oil ice cream sandwiches were not set. Gillian spent too much time making her butter, did not remove the beards from her mussels properly and her flat bread was hard. Nat's croissant vol au vents were nice but not really better than regular vol au vent, and Alex's mussels fettuccine pasta was undercooked. Having cooked the bottom four dishes, Alex, Gillian, Lourdes and Nat were sent to the pressure test. | 1,391,000 /
710,000 | #10 [18] |
| 15/04-3 | Tuesday, 14 May 2024 | Pressure Test: Liam Downes' Smoked Egg Yolk Raviolo, Truffle & Asparagus - Alex, Gillian, Lourdes and Nat traveled to Black Cat Truffles Farm in Wattle Flat. They were given four hours to re-create chef Liam Downes' smoked egg yolk raviolo with truffle and asparagus. Alex injured herself twice while making her pasta dough, forcing her to restart the process, but she recovered and produced a near-perfect dish. Nat performed well throughout the challenge and while she forgot the crispy chicken skin, the rest of her dish more than made up for it, and she was also safe from elimination. While Lourdes' pasta and asparagus purée were lovely and all of her elements were plated, her chicken jus was over-reduced, and the texture of it was firm and grainy which affected the balance of the dish. Gillian had trouble with the pasta, which set her behind, and as a result, she left the asparagus, chicken skin and truffles off the plate. Although Lourdes' and Gillian's dishes had flaws, there was one marked difference between their plates and that was the oozy egg yolk. Because the egg yolk was the foundation of Liam's dish, the judges felt that Lourdes had missed the brief, and she was eliminated. | 1,189,000 /
632,000 | #12 [19] |
| 16/04-4 | Wednesday, 15 May 2024 | Heirloom Tomato Team Relay - The 16 remaining contestants were divided into four teams and asked to cook a dish featuring heirloom tomatoes in a team relay, given 20 minutes each to cook and 30 seconds to transfer information to the next cook. Josh P., who was captain of the blue team, decided to cook red emperor fish on potato rosti with tomato and seafood sauce. Juan (green team) decided to make a simple tomato pasta dish. Darrsh (red team) opted to cook lamb shanks with polenta and Italian tomato sauce and Harry (grey team) selected a seafood curry. The red team's lamb shank was praised, but Lachlan's decision to change the sauce to a South American chili sauce and over-reduce it made the dish unbalanced; the dish was also lacking seasoning. The green team's 'herlouminous pasta' was tasty and balanced but the crumb was criticized for being too oily and the judges felt that it was more of a 45-minute dish rather than an 80-minute dish. While the grey team's seafood curry was praised for the cooking of the seafood and flavours, it was the blue team's red emperor dish that featured the heirloom tomatoes the best, making the blue team the winners of the challenge and gaining them immunity from elimination. | 1,149,000 /
618,000 | #11 [20] |
| Week 5 |
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| 17/05-1 | Sunday, 19 May 2024 | Luke Nguyen Ingredient Gamble Elimination Challenge - The three losing teams faced a two-round elimination challenge set by Luke Nguyen. In round one each contestant was assigned a pair of ingredients, one visible and the other hidden underneath a cloche, and 75 minutes to cook a dish with the ingredient of their choosing. Gillian's sweet and sour prawns with bisque and crispy stuffed prawn heads, Savindri's chilli crab curry with coconut sambal, and Sumeet's star anise and cardamom ras malai cake cups were highly praised, while Darrsh's tropical durian trifle was considered a standout dish. Harry, Juan, Lachlan, Nat and Stephen were the bottom five; and in round two were given 75 minutes to cook another dish with the ingredient they did not select in the previous round. The judges felt that Nat redeemed herself with her miang kham, wrapped in betel leaves, while Lachlan's pan-seared kingfish with winged bean pickle and Harry's Asian-inspired seafood chowder with lemongrass were good enough to save them from elimination. The concept and flavours of Stephen's prawn-stuffed bitter melon with red curry were praised, but the bitter melon was undercooked. Juan's chicken, orange and soybean empanadas were cooked nicely but the filling was too sweet, which overtook the flavour of the salted soybeans, and he was eliminated. | 1,152,000 /
619,000 | #8 [21] |
| 18/05-2 | Monday, 20 May 2024 | Vincent Yeow Lim Wok Mystery Box Challenge - All of the contestants competed in a mystery box challenge set by guest judge, chef and social media presenter Vincent Yeow Lim, who asked them to create a dish in 75 minutes using a wok. Lachlan's sweet and sour barramundi, Mimi's turnip cake eggs benedict and Josh P.'s lobster omelette received the highest praise from the judges. The tofu custard for Harry's Szechuan pork hot pot did not set so he didn't serve it, and his dish was too salty and incomplete. Snezana's jasmine rice and fragrant sauce were bland and underwhelming. Darrsh's chicken katsu curry was not crispy enough and David's fish and chips was too oily, and his chips were burnt. Having cooked the bottom four dishes, Darrsh, David, Harry and Snezana were sent to the pressure test. | 1,227,000 /
659,000 | #10 [22] |
| 19/05-3 | Tuesday, 21 May 2024 | Pressure Test: Anna Polyviou's Sunny Side Up - Darrsh, David, Harry and Snezana were given three hours to re-create chef Anna Polyviou's sunny side up dessert. Harry's dish was almost identical to Anna's. David performed well and his efforts were praised. While Darrsh's flavours and textures were perfect, his performance was erratic with his workspace being messy, which caused him to fall behind, and he didn't set his toast mould long enough, resulting in it looking messy on the plate. Snezana had trouble with the passion fruit curd and had to remake it, which set her behind. She managed to catch up by multi-tasking, but in the process, she over-mixed her sourdough mousse, making it heavy and affecting the flavour. Although Snezana's dish looked very similar to Anna's, it tasted very different, and she was eliminated. | 1,170,000 /
614,000 | #10 [23] |
| 20/05-4 | Wednesday, 22 May 2024 | Microwave Hack Immunity Challenge - The 14 remaining contestants had 75 minutes to prepare a dish using one of the judges' microwave hacks of their choice (Andy's three-minute crispy chicken skin, Jean-Christophe's two-minute crispy sweet potatoes, Sofia's quick caramelised white chocolate crumb or Poh's under three-minute marshmallow meringue). Sue accidentally mixed up the onion soubise for her crispy cups of chicken skin with chicken roulade with Mimi's banana cremeux, so the dish did not work. While the judges loved the flavours of Alex's fig leaf ice cream, white chocolate and macadamia crumb with olive oil, and Darrsh's roasted chicken and mushroom dessert for the combination of savoury flavours, they were amazed by David's spiced pumpkin banoffee tart, and he won immunity from elimination. | 1,183,000 /
597,000 | #10 [24] |
| Week 6 |
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| 21/06-1 | Sunday, 26 May 2024 | | | |
