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Season 13

Judges Jock Zonfrillo, Melissa Leong and Andy Allen are back in the MasterChef Australia kitchen, ready to introduce the next generation of exceptional home cooks. 2021 will be seasoned to perfection with some of the world’s most recognisable and beloved chefs including Nigella Lawson, Yotam Ottolenghi, Heston Blumenthal, Massimo Bottura and Clare Smyth - plus homegrown sensations including Curtis Stone, Kirsten Tibballs, Darren Purchese, Alla Wolf-Tasker, Scott Pickett, Poh Ling Yeow, Callum Hann and Reynold Poernomo, all set to challenge the top 24 contestants. Sacrificing everything to follow their food dreams, this season’s passionate contestants have put their lives on hold to be part of this life-changing experience. With heart, soul and drive, this season’s exceptional contestants will follow their food dreams and make magic happen.

1 Auditions, Day 1

2021-04-19

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

2021-04-20

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

2021-04-21

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?

2021-04-22

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

2021-04-25

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

2021-04-26

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)

2021-04-27

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)

2021-04-28

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)

2021-04-29

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)

2021-05-02

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)

2021-05-03

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)

2021-05-04

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)

2021-05-05

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

2021-05-06

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)

2021-05-09

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

2021-05-10

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

2021-05-11

The least impressive team from the master team challenge must cook off in this pressure test.

18 Mystery Box

2021-05-12

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)

2021-05-13

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)

2021-05-16

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)

2021-05-17

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)

2021-05-18

This challenge is all about the ingredients. Each team must feature the same ingredient in each course

23 Service Challenge - (Immunity Challenge)

2021-05-19

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)

2021-05-20

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

2021-05-23

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.

26 Vegetable Challenge

2021-05-24

Contestants must choose from either a potato, broccoli, carrot, brown onion or zucchini, to make a delicious dish featuring the vegetable of choice, but not necessarily a vegetarian dish.

27 Pressure Test

2021-05-25

In this pressure test, it's a fight to stay in the competition and four contestants must re-create a dish without ever seeing it.

28 11 Utensils

2021-05-26

The contestants must create a dish using only the 11 utensils in the mystery box. The dish can be sweet or savoury, with an open pantry and access to the garden.

29 Hot Chillies! (Immunity Challenge)

2021-05-27

The contestants must cook a dish using some of the hottest chillies in the world. The dish that best highlights the heat and flavour of their chilli will win immunity.

30 Game ID (Elimination Challenge)

2021-05-30

This elimination is played over two rounds. In the first round, contestants must identify the 14 game meats on display. The six contestants with the lowest scores will cook off in round two.

31 Second Chance Week

2021-05-31

It's Second Chance Week in the MasterChef kitchen. Across the week, 11 previously eliminated contestants are back with not one, but two chances to get back in the competition.

32 Second Chance Week (Pressure Test)

2021-06-01

Renowned pastry chef Anthony Hart reveals his pressure test dish: chocolate oasis. The contestants have 2 hours and 15 minutes, plus a further eight minutes to plate up Anthony's creation.

33 Clear Or Hidden (Mystery Box Challenge)

2021-06-02

This episode, the 10 returning contestants can choose between a clear mystery box where the ingredients are visible or a regular mystery box where the ingredients are hidden.

34 It's A Knockout

2021-06-03

Four contestants are told they will have two-and-a-half hours to prepare a three-course menu. But the catch is that after each course is tasted, one contestant will be knocked out of the competition.

35 Murray Cod (Elimination Challenge)

2021-06-06

Josh Niland demonstrates how to make the most of a Murray cod utilising the entire fish. For this challenge, contestants are given one Murray cod and must use the same fish for up to three rounds.

36 Pair Up With Crayfish

2021-06-07

Contestants must pair up with another contestant to form seven teams. Each team must create crayfish two ways, one familiar dish and one inventive dish, utilising the freshly caught crayfish.

37 Vego (Elimination Challenge)

2021-06-08

The four contestants cooking in this elimination challenge discover they will be cooking a vegetarian dish, with all ingredients harvested fresh from Dairy Flat Farm in Daylesford.

38 Melbourne Inspiration (Mystery Box)

2021-06-09

The mystery box reveals a map of Melbourne and a camera phone to take pictures. The contestants must explore the city streets and laneways to take a picture that will inspire their dish.

39 Kate Reid Pastry

2021-06-10

Jock introduces Kate Reid, the mastermind behind Lune Croissanterie. Contestants must use Kate's world-class pastry and turn it into a dish that is not a croissant.

40 90 Minute Cook Time (Elimination Challenge)

2021-06-13

The contestants must decide how much of their 90-minute cook time they use in round one, because they will only have the remainder of that time to cook in round two.

41 Home Delivery (Team Challenge)

2021-06-14

Teams must create a three-course home delivery menu and can choose any theme or cuisine for their menu. Each team has three hours to produce 60 serves.

42 Khanh Nguyen's Pork Wellington

2021-06-15

Guest chef Khanh Nguyen from Sunda has taken South-East Asian food to the next level. The contestants must create Khanh's dish: pork wellington with lattice crackling and flavours of banh mi.

43 4 Ingredient Barter (Mystery Box)

2021-06-16

Jock reveals this mystery box is different. Contestants need to use four ingredients in their final dish, but before the cook starts, they can barter for the ingredients from each other.

44 The Top Four (Immunity Challenge)

2021-06-17

The top four cooks from the latest mystery box challenge battle it out for immunity and a guaranteed spot in the top 10.

45 Nu Nu Ingredient ID (Elimination Challenge)

2021-06-20

Contestants must correctly identify ingredients in three dishes from Nick Holloway's Nu Nu menu. The five contestants who name the least amount of ingredients correctly will cook off in round two.

46 Three Blue Ducks (Service Challenge)

2021-06-21

The top 10 contestants arrive at URBNSURF, the home to Australia's first ever surf park in Melbourne's west to discover they will be running Andy Allen's restaurant, Three Blue Ducks.

47 Darren Purchese (Pressure Test)

2021-06-22

Contestants must cook a sweet pressure test recipe of their own design. Darren Purchese will be running the floor and mentoring the contestants and the judges will do a blind tasting of each dish.

48 Family Messages

2021-06-23

After watching emotional messages from their family members, Melissa explains that contestants must make a dish inspired by their family. The top two dishes will cook in tomorrow's immunity challenge.

49 Keep Up With Curtis & Masterclass

2021-06-24

In today's challenge, the contestants must keep up with Curtis Stone as he cooks his ultimate roast chicken dish. Andy, Jock and chef Nornie Bero show off their skills in a delicious Masterclass.

50 Black Mystery Box or Black Gloche? (Double Elimination)

2021-06-27

Today there is a massive double elimination. Contestants must choose between cooking with the black mystery box or the black cloche, with the ingredients only revealed when they make their choice.