MasterChef Australia: Season 16

Pub Food Service Challenge

49min - Contestants face off in a team service challenge where they are tasked with elevating traditional pub food.

Cook with Curtis Elimination Challenge

48min - Sue, Gillian, Lachlan, Darrsh, and Alex had to follow Curtis Stone as he prepared spice-rubbed pork with smoked beetroot and hasselback potato.

Sauce Immunity Challenge

49min - Today's challenge is to combine two nations' cuisines into a tasty dish, with a huge prize on the line.

Kasvishaaste

Plant-Based Elimination Challenge

59min - Contestants create a well-known meat dish using only plant-based ingredients for their chance to secure the Top 10 of MasterChef 2024.

Jelly Mystery Box Challenge

50min - Adriano Zumbo is here as a guest judge and kicks things off with a wobbly jelly Mystery Box.

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The Croquembouche Invention Test

49min - Sweet Week continues as Adriano Zumbo, sets a challenge that puts a new twist on a classic. The cooks must interpret the croquembouche in their own unique way.

Twins Challenge

54min - Each team must utilize an appliance in their 90-minute dessert cook, aiming for identical dishes, despite only being able to shout instructions at each other.

Coffee Elimination Challenge

56min - Two tough rounds will test our cooks. First, Adriano Zumbo's Macaron Taste Test and then, a coffee-inspired dessert cook, with the risk of elimination.

Nagi Maeheshi's Mega Mystery Box

47min - Tonight's mega Mystery Box features the most ingredients ever and the cooks have just 30 minutes to pull off a winning dish.

Pressure Test: Hugh Allen's Banksia Pod

47min - Hugh Allen returns to the MasterChef kitchen to set a pressure test merging classic French techniques with flavours of the Australian bush.

Reinvention Challenge

51min - The contestants battle it out to reinvent the classic bacon and eggs. The top dish will win an epic mystery prize, but the bottom dish will be eliminated.

Hong Kong Mystery Box

57min - The contestants arrived in Hong Kong and were told there would be no elimination this week.

Vicky Cheng's Immunity Challenge

49min - Three cooks compete for immunity. After a demonstration from Michelin-starred Hong Kong chef Vicky Cheng, they must recreate his dish, from memory alone.

Katuruokaa Hongkongissa

Dai Pai Dong Service Challenge

47min - It’s the final cook in Hong Kong. The six cooks are split into teams, cooking street food in a traditional dai pai dong to win immunity.

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Lucky Dip Immunity Challenge

47min - It’s the chaotic, colourful and oft feared race that is the MasterChef Team Relay! Today in teams of four, cooks will tag-team their way to hopefully plate a cohesive dish and win immunity.

Time Auction Elimination Challenge

57min - Contestants bid against one another, trading time for ingredients in a MasterChef classic.

Poh’s Everything Mystery Box Challenge

50min - Contestants must cook a dish using all nine ingredients in Poh's Everything Mystery Box. The winner will score themselves $5,000 to spend at Harvey Norman.

Pressure Test: Guillaume Brahimi 's Royale of Peas with Duo of Crab

49min - Chef Guillaume Brahimi has brought a pressure test dish that will push the contestants to their limits.

Treasured Photos Immunity Challenge

53min - Emotions run high as the top five open chests revealing treasured photos of their own family food heroes. The cooks fight for their final shot at immunity.

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Extreme Ingredients Elimination Challenge

57min - Tonight, the contestants face off with some of the world's most extreme ingredients.

Golden Ticket to the Semi-Final Mystery Box Challenge

47min - The mystery boxes contain a golden ticket which will fast track the contestant with the top dish into the semi-final.

Pressure Test: Josh Niland's Flounder Kandinsky

51min - Internationally renowned chef Josh Niland pushes the contestants to their limits with a unique dish from his acclaimed restaurant, St. Peter.

The Fun One! Andy Allen, Jean-Christophe Novelli, Poh Ling Yeow and the Final Three

53min - Andy, Poh and Jean Christophe swap roles, becoming the cooks while the Semi-Finalists become the judges'.

Semi Final: Service Challenge

1h 8min - With Curtis Stone's help, our Semi-Finalists must each prepare a three-course meal for 20 diners and the judges.

Grand Finale

1h 30min - Our two Grand Finalists go head-to-head over two rounds to see who will be crowned the winner of MasterChef Australia 2024!