MasterChef: The Professionals

  • Premiered: Aug 2008
  • Episodes: 373
  • Followers: 62
  • Running
  • BBC Two
  • Monday at 21
  • Food Home and garden Reality

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Season 18
18x1
Episode 1
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 10, 2026
2016 winner Gary Maclean, who has gone on to become the first National Chef of Scotland, sets the challenges for four chefs seeking to make it through to the quarter-finals.
18x2
Episode 2
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 11, 2026
The challenges for another group of contestants aiming for a place in the quarter-finals include preparing a dish of steamed razor clams and a dessert with authentic cranachan cream.
18x3
Episode 3
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 12, 2026
It's the first quarter-final, and the chefs face an invention test demanding that they do something magical with an ingredient they will all have probably worked with before – king prawns!
18x4
Episode 4
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 16, 2026
2020 professional finalist Philli Armitage-Mattin sets the contestants a Korean-inspired skills test to make it through to the quarter-finals.
18x5
Episode 5
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 17, 2026
Philli Armitage-Mattin sets the chefs a skills test challenge using her own recipes. Two must recreate chicken wings stuffed with pork mince, the other chefs, souffle pancakes with sake-poached plums.
18x6
Episode 6
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 18, 2026
The chefs are challenged to create their own special twist on rice pudding, before serving up two plates of food to impress restaurant critics Jimi Famurewa, Jay Rayner and William Sitwell.

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