MasterChef Australia

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11x1
Auditions Day 1
Episode overview
Each hopeful cook has 60 minutes to produce their dish. If the judges like the dish, they're through to the next stage. If not, sadly, they're heading home.
11x2
Auditions Day 2
Episode overview
It's day two of auditions and 13 contestants return for a second chance to show the judges they deserve to be in the top 24. With 18 aprons given away yesterday, just six aprons are up for grabs.
11x3
Desert Island Dish
Episode overview
The pantry is open, there's 75 minutes on the clock, and the contestants are asked to cook the dish they'd cook every day for the rest of their lives if they found themselves on a desert island.
11x4
Immunity Challenge - Curtis Stone
Episode overview
It's the end of the first week in the kitchen and the winners from the previous challenge will cook for an immunity pin. But it won't be easy: they'll be cooking against chef Curtis Stone.
11x5
Special Ingredient Mystery Box & Black Mystery Box Challenge
Episode overview
It's mystery box time and our cooks must create a delicious dish using at least one of the elected ingredients. Next up is the black mystery box, but this time, whoever cooks the worst dish is going home.
11x6
Pressure Test - Darren Purchese
Episode overview
Those that failed to impress in the previous episode are facing the dreaded pressure test. Our cooks are charged with recreating a Darren Purchese dessert, and whoever doesn't impress the judges will be going home.
11x7
Immunity Challenge - Max Sharrad
Episode overview
The winners of the mystery box and invention test face the immunity challenge. History is made when the judges choose who will cook against Young Chef of the Year, Max Sharrad.
11x8
Off-Site Team Challenge - Briagolong Drought Feast
Episode overview
Contestants cook outside of the kitchen for the first time. Their challenge is to create a feast for volunteers, truckies, farmers and their families impacted by drought in Briagolong.
11x9
Elimination Challenge - Choices! & Masterclass 1
Episode overview
Before each cook sits their favourite and least favourite ingredients. Round one: cook with either. But those that produce the bottom four dishes face round two with their remaining ingredient. Followed by a Masterclass with Billie, Poh and Matt
11x10
Nigella's Mystery Box Challenge & Team Relay Invention Test
Episode overview
It's Nigella Week. MasterChef favourite Nigella Lawson sets the mystery box ingredients. Whoever cooks the best dish heads into immunity, but the rest must compete in a relay invention test.
11x11
Pressure Test - Nigella's Roast Chicken
Episode overview
It's pressure test time for the losing team from the previous challenge. The contestants have 90 minutes to cook Nigella's infamous roast chicken with two sides and gravy. Who will fail to impress and be sent home?
11x12
Immunity Challenge - Coskun Uysal
Episode overview
Nigella week continues, and the four best cooks from her Mystery Box challenge must cook a dish that celebrates custard. The top contestant will compete against Coskun Uysal, of renowned Tulum restaurant.
11x13
Off-Site Team Challenge - State Library of Victoria with Nigella
Episode overview
Nigella and contestants are given historical recipes at the State Library of Victoria to inspire a three-course meal. The team who create the least impressive menu will head into the next elimination.
11x14
Elimination Challenge - Condiments & Masterclass 2 with Nigella
Episode overview
The bottom team from the previous challenge are presented with an array of condiments they must identify correctly. The first five to guess incorrectly head into an elimination cook. Plus, a Masterclass with Nigella.
11x15
Rick Stein's Mystery Box Challenge & Fish and Potatoes Invention Test
Episode overview
It's Legends Week and our cooks have to create a dish using Rick Stein's Mystery Box. Later, a fish and potatoes themed Invention Test determines who will face the Immunity Challenge and Pressure Test.
11x16
Pressure Test - Clare Smyth's Dessert
Episode overview
This episode's Pressure Test has contestants recreating a dessert from culinary legend Clare Smyth. During four hours of preparation time, there are tears and even a dish that collapses before the judges' eyes.
11x17
Immunity Challenge - Donovan Cooke
Episode overview
Matt Sinclair mentors the Immunity cook which uses only equipment from a typical office kitchen. Best dish enters Round 2, where they will compete against culinary legend Donovan Cooke.
11x18
Team Challenge - Street Food for 360!
Episode overview
Joined by Yotam Ottolenghi, our contestants are cooking street food for 360 people. Each team must hero a different cuisine, and the least impressive team will be sent into the next elimination.
11x19
Elimination Challenge - Deli Challenge with Yotam Ottolenghi
Episode overview
Legends week continues as Yotam Ottolenghi hosts a deli item challenge. The first three contestants to incorrectly name a deli item must cook to stay in the competition. Who will be heading home?
11x20
Mystery Box Challenge & Invention Test - Secret's Week
Episode overview
It's Secrets Week, and, after a quick workshop with Din Tai Fung's Edward Yulianto, our cooks must create a tasty dumpling dish and later invent a dish that incorporates a secret. Shh.
11x21
Pressure Test - Paella by Leno Lattarulo
Episode overview
Three contestants face a pressure test and will cook a paella based on an award-winning dish by Leno Lattarulo from Melbourne's Simply Spanish. Simple, right? Wrong. It is Secrets Week, after all.
11x22
Immunity Challenge - Sauce, Secrets and Citrus
Episode overview
These immunity rounds involve sauce, secrets and citrus. A contestant will face off against an established chef that will be kept secret from everyone, including the judges, until the very end.
11x23
Team Challenge - Secret Weapons
Episode overview
Each team is allocated a 'secret weapon' and must create a four-course Italian meal for 40 diners. Whichever team serves the least impressive meal will go into the next pressure test.
11x24
Elimination Challenge - Blindfold Taste Test & One Last Secret
Episode overview
Secrets Week closes with the previous episode's losing team facing a blindfolded taste test. The first five to guess incorrectly have a 60-minute open pantry cook, but one last secret will ruffle some feathers.
11x25
Mystery Box Challenge & Invention Test - Queensland
Episode overview
This episode's mystery box challenge has contestants creating dishes using Queensland's finest ingredients. The judges will taste the five most appealing dishes and the winner will head into an immunity challenge.
11x26
Pressure Test - Shannon Kellam
Episode overview
Contestants must re-create one of Shannon Kellam's signature dishes, but without a recipe. The contestant who re-creates the dish least like Shannon's will be going home.
11x27
Immunity Challenge - Ginger & Ben Williamson
Episode overview
In round one, contestants must prepare a sweet or savoury dish with one of Queensland's finest ingredients - ginger. The winner will cook off against chef Ben Williamson for an immunity pin.
11x28
Team Challenge - BBQ For 150 Noosa Locals
Episode overview
The Queensland trip continues and the teams must cook a barbecue feast to serve 150 Noosa locals. The team that serves the least impressive feast will go into the next elimination.
11x29
Elimination Challenge - Skills Test/ Seafood Platter Challenge & Masterclass with Ash Martin
Episode overview
In this episode's elimination, contestants undergo a skills test followed by a seafood platter challenge including raw, fried and steamed elements. MasterClass with judges and Homage restaurant's Ash Martin.
11x30
Mystery Box Challenge & Invention Test - The Dreaded Everything Box
Episode overview
It is the dreaded Everything Box, where contestants must use every one of the eight ingredients. They will have to be extra creative if they want to win a place in the next immunity challenge.
11x31
Pressure Test - The Surprise Twist!
Episode overview
Three contestants will face the chopping block in an elimination challenge with a surprise twist.
11x32
Immunity Challenge - Letters from home & Jessie McTavish
Episode overview
Contestants awake with letters from home containing special instructions for round one of the immunity cook. The winner will cook off against chef Jessie McTavish from North Bondi Fish.
11x33
Team Challenge - A Picnic At Hanging Rock with Maggie Bear
Episode overview
Contestants find themselves in the Macedon Ranges for this team challenge: a picnic at Hanging Rock. What will be a surprise is who is the guest chef - none other than the beloved Maggie Beer.
11x34
Elimination Challenge - with Maggie Beer
Episode overview
Maggie Beer is back for the elimination challenge which will take place over two rounds. In round one, the contestants must celebrate herbs from the garden. In round two, they must feature spices.
11x35
Mystery Box Challenge & Invention Test with Heston Blumenthal - Sweet Week
Episode overview
Kicking off Sweet Week, molecular master Heston Blumenthal enters the kitchen with a mystery box for the contestants.
11x36
Pressure Test - Kate Reid
Episode overview
In a surprise twist, our bottom three contestants from the cereal invention test have been thrown straight into a pressure test. Aprons on: it's time to cook a unique creation by Kate Reid.
11x37
Immunity Challenge - Ice Cream Challenge & Alice Wright
Episode overview
Sweet Week continues with an immunity ice cream challenge. In round two, the best cook will go up against chef Alice Wright.
11x38
Team Challenge - Identical!
Episode overview
The team challenge requires contestants to create a delicious, sweet dish that is identical in look, texture and flavour to their teammate's dish. Communication is key.
11x39
Elimination Challenge - The Dessert With No Sugar!
Episode overview
In a very challenging cook, the contestants must make a sweet dish without using refined sugar.
11x40
Mystery Box Challenge & Invention Test - Best Selling And Australia's Most Popular Ingredients
Episode overview
This episode's mystery box holds some of the best-selling ingredients from Coles and along with these, contestants must cook with some of Australia's favourite ingredients: Vegemite, tomato sauce or Milo.
11x41
Pressure Test - Jock Zonfrillo
Episode overview
This episode's challenge has been set by special guest Jock Zonfrillo from Restaurant Orana. Contestants must create dishes that showcase one of his favourite native ingredients.
11x42
Immunity Challenge - Beluga Caviar & Phil Wood
Episode overview
The three winners of the challenges must create a dish featuring Beluga caviar. The best dish will see its maker compete for an immunity pin against Pt Leo Estate chef Phil Wood.
11x43
Team Challenge - Best Diners & Best Ingredients
Episode overview
The contestants must cook a four-course meal for the Best Diners In The World while showcasing the Best Ingredients In The Country. Little do they know, the diners are their loved ones.
11x44
Elimination Challenge - Massimo Bottura
Episode overview
The top 10 are joined by the world's top chef Massimo Bottura and asked to cook with ingredients that are very close to Massimo's heart: ones that are frequently disposed of.
11x45
Mystery Box Challenge & Invention Test: Deja Vu
Episode overview
This episode's mystery box involves some deja vu and later, in the invention test, contestants have 60 minutes to create a dish that takes the judges to a moment in time that evokes a particular memory.
11x46
Pressure Test - Kirsten Tibballs
Episode overview
Champion chocolatier Kirsten Tibballs is in the MasterChef kitchen for this episode's pressure test. Three contestants from the previous invention test must recreate Kirsten's apple pie. Who will be going home?
11x47
Immunity Challenge - Same Ingredients/Different Styles & Adam D'Sylva
Episode overview
All contestants will cook with the same ingredient but in a different style. The winner of round one will be cooking against renowned chef Adam D'Sylva for the illustrious immunity pin.
11x48
Team Challenge - Q Train Vegetarian Course
Episode overview
Aboard the Q Train travelling restaurant our contestants, in teams, must prepare a vegetarian course using oyster mushrooms, baby zucchini, eggplant or figs. The bottom two teams face elimination.
11x49
Elimination Challenge - Time Auction
Episode overview
This episode is the return of the time auction where contestants bid for ingredients with time rather than money. The more time they spend buying ingredients, the less time they have to cook.
11x50
Mystery Box Challenge & Invention Test - WA
Episode overview
The remaining contestants fly to Western Australia for a mystery box challenge and later an invention test, using all the great produce WA has to offer.
11x51
Team Challenge - Wildflower 5 Course Degustation
Episode overview
At Wildflower Restaurant in Perth, contestants will cook a five-course degustation featuring an ingredient that chef Matt Sartori has selected.
11x52
Immunity Challenge - Fast Track to Finals Week
Episode overview
The winners from the previous two days now cook for an opportunity to fast-track themselves into Finals Week. Round two comes down to the wire as contestants are hungry for the win.
11x53
Team Challenge - Leeuwin Estate Safari Club
Episode overview
This episode's setting is the beautiful Leeuwin Estate Safari Club in Margaret River. Guided by head chef Dan Gedge, our contestants will battle it out in a team challenge.
11x54
Elimination Challenge - Santiago Fernandez & Masterclass
Episode overview
This pressure test is set by Santiago Fernandez and it's a doozy. The stakes are high and the least impressive cook will be sent home. Plus, catch a masterclass showing off delicious recipes.
11x55
Mystery Box Challenge & Invention Test - The Loved One's Selection
Episode overview
Each contestant has an ingredient chosen for them by a loved one, with the note explaining their choice. Later, the judges select an ingredient for each contestant to cook with in the invention test.
11x56
Pressure Test - The Lamington
Episode overview
The chef director behind Dinner by Heston in Melbourne and London, Ashley Palmer-Watts, sets a lamington-themed pressure test. One contestant will be sent home with only days remaining in the competition.
11x57
Advantage Challenge - Top 5
Episode overview
Our top five are battling to win an advantage for the next challenge, which could secure them a spot in the semifinal. Contestants can cook whatever they want and decide how much time is on the clock.
11x58
Top 5 Challenge - The Press Club
Episode overview
Contestants are cooking at Press Club, the brainchild of judge George Calombaris. With the Press Club announcing it will soon close, the top five take to the kitchen to prepare one of the final meals.
11x59
Grand Final Week - Elimination Challenge
Episode overview
By the end of the episode, five will become four as the trophy beckons. In a special MasterClass, contestants set their very own mystery box challenge for the judges and Curtis Stone.
11x60
Semi Final with Peter Gilmore
Episode overview
This semifinal is a pressure test set by acclaimed Quay executive chef Peter Gilmore. The three contestants who do the most impressive job recreating the dish will earn their spot in the grand finale.
11x61
Grand Final
Episode overview
It's been months of nail-biting challenges, but there can only be one winner to walk away with the life-changing title of Australia's MasterChef 2019.

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