MasterChef Australia returns with the best group of home cooks the competition has ever seen. Tonight, our amateur cooks are given just one hour to cook their best dish.
Matt Preston and Nigella Lawson arrive at the contestant house in the middle of the night as the 3 best from Nigella's Invention Test are asked to create a midnight snack for a chance at Immunity.
Split into three teams, each team must prepare one savoury dish and two sweet dishes to sell at a fete held in honour of Nigella Lawson, with all proceeds donated to the Royal Children's Hospital.
The contestants have 60 minutes to create a dish using the ingredients in the mystery box. The winner will cook-off for a chance at immunity and the bottom three contestants will face the elimination pressure test.
The bottom three contestants from the invention test now face the elimination pressure test. They have just over three hours to recreate UK chef Jason Atherton's quail afternoon tea dish to avoid elimination.
The bottom 3 from Nigella's Invention Test face elimination in what might be the toughest Pressure Test ever, as contestants have just one hour to recreate Nigella's three-course meal.
It's the challenge that takes the cake, with the contestants needing to name the ones before them to survive. Then it's over to Nigella for a decadent MasterClass.
The bottom three contestants from The Lake House challenge now face elimination and must impress the judges with a dish produced from the ingredients that they each cooked with to get into the competition.
The final three contestants vie for a place in the Grand Final in tonight's service challenge. Each contestant must prepare a main and a dessert for 20 guests plus the three judges.
Grand Final: Who will be crowned the winner of MasterChef Australia 2016? The finalists are competing for a $250,000 cash prize and a column in Australia's leading premium food magazine, Delicious.
Today the contestants are split into teams to run their very own food trucks at the world famous Santa Monica Pier. There is plenty at stake with the winning team guaranteed a place in finals week.
Today, four of the most impressive contestants are cooking for a guaranteed place in finals week at Francis Ford Coppola's Inglenook Estate in the Napa Valley.
The MasterChef Australia competition travels to California for the week. With just a map in hand the contestants must track down today's mystery box ingredients from local San Francisco produce shops.
The three best performers in the Invention Test must now impress the judges in Round One for a chance to cook off against a professional chef and gain immunity.
The losing team from the gourmet cinema challenge are now cooking to save themselves from elimination. If they survive, they will make it into the top 10.
The losing team from the service challenge now faces elimination as the contestants create a dish without any cooking. The bottom three will then cook-off to avoid elimination from the competition.
It's Nigella Lawson Week! Contestants have 75 minutes to create a delicious dish based on Nigella's divine indulgences. The top 3 will have a chance at immunity while the bottom 3 face elimination.
In today's Service Challenge, the contestants are split into two teams. Each team must cook a three-course meal for 30 people, replicating dishes from two celebrated Melbourne restaurants.
The three best performers in the Invention Test must create a dish using popcorn as the core ingredient. The winner will then need to out-cook the professional guest chef for immunity.
The contestants from the losing pub lunch challenge team must correctly name an ingredient to avoid the elimination cook-off challenge, as the contestant with the least impressive dish will go home.
The top 3 contestants from the invention test must make filled pasta with a matching sauce. The winner will then enter a cook-off for immunity against guest chef, Jake Kellie.
Today's challenge is all about the pub lunch. The contestants are split into two teams and must cook three courses for 70 people with Marco Pierre White running the pass.
In a MasterChef Australia first, today's mystery box challenge has been chosen by the viewers. Contestants have 75 minutes to create a dish using at least one ingredient chosen by the viewers.
The three contestants with the least impressive dishes from last night's Invention Test face off in the Pressure Test. The contestant with the least impressive dish will be going home.
In what promises to be one of the toughest pressure tests yet seen in the MasterChef Australia kitchen, the bottom four contestants from the invention test must cook off to survive in the competition.
In an immunity challenge like no other, the two contestants will cook off against two professional chefs in the second round. Do the home cooks have what it takes to out-cook the professionals?
In today's off-site team challenge, the judges reveal the contestants will be preparing a seven-course degustation menu for 40 diners at Circa: The Prince.
The contestants facing elimination will take part in a time auction. Each contestant begins with 100 minutes to bid for items in three categories. The more they spend the less time they have to cook.
With no recipe and no clock, three contestants must cook along with Marco Pierre White. He will cook a classic dish and they must cook at the same time and the same pace.
The best performing contestants from Marco Pierre White's service challenge have the chance to cook for immunity. It is the last immunity pin up for grabs before finals week.
In today's challenge the contestants can choose their own cuisine and whether it's sweet or savoury, however they must decide on the cooking time together.
The judges reveal to the contestants that they will be running service in The Press Club, and will be cooking a four-course meal for 35 of the finest chefs and restaurateurs in the country.
While one contestant has safely made it through to the semi-final, the remaining three are fighting it out to stay in the competition in a pressure test that will stretch them to their limits.
In today's French challenge the contestants are split into two teams and will be responsible for every aspect of the restaurant: planning the menu, creating dishes with no recipes and much more.
Grand Final: Tonight, the winner of MasterChef Australia will be crowned. The finalists are competing for a $250,000 prize, a monthly column in Australia's leading food magazine, plus more!
The stakes are high as the three remaining contestants fight it out for the two places in the finale. One contestant will cook their last dish in the MasterChef Australia kitchen.
MasterChef Australia travels to the land of the cherry blossom, Japan. Contestants must explore Tokyo to find ingredients for the mystery box challenge.
Each of the eight contestants will have to conceive, cook and deliver one course as part of an eight-course Kappo-style degustation for some of Tokyo's food elite.
The winning contestants from the invention test and the Kappo challenge now have a chance to fight it out for immunity in view of Mount Fuji at the Obuchi Tea Plantation.
The contestants arrive at the food stalls of Shinjuku where they were divided into teams of three to cook three Japanese street foods to be served to 100 diners.
In today's elimination challenge, Sarah faces a game changing choice; play it safe and use her immunity pin or take the risk of fighting it out against Tamara and Callan in elimination.
The top six contestants now face a mystery box challenge containing some of the hottest ingredients being used in the world right now. The winner will gain the advantage going into the invention test.
The losing team from the Food Truck Challenge now faces elimination. Under the mentorship of Curtis Stone, they must cook a dish that symbolises what they're going to do once the competition is over.
The top five contestants must cook five dishes from the menu of The Lake House in Daylesford under the guidance of legendary chef and owner, Alla Wolf-Tasker.
In today's Quarter Final mystery box challenge and invention test, contestants cook off for a place in the Semi Final using ingredients chosen by their loved ones.