Season
MasterChef Australia: Season 16
Overview
This season feature 4 judges. Andy Allen, Sofia Levin, Jean-Christophe Novelli and Poh Ling Yeow. The number of contestants increased from 18 to 22. Like the previous 2 seasons, the season omitted the broadcast of the audition stage. Only one Immunity Pin is up for grabs this season.
Details
- Series
- MasterChef Australia
- Season
- Season 16
- Air date
- 2024-04-22
- Episodes
- 50 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Series Premiere: Identity Dish
It's a new era for MasterChef Australia as Andy Allen welcomes three new judges: Sofia Levin, Poh Ling Yeow and Jean-Christophe Novelli, plus guest judge Jamie Oliver. The contestants were tasked to create a dish that represents them. The winner will win the only immunity pin of the season and a trip to London to work at Jamie Oliver's latest restaurant for a week.
Episode 2: Jamie Oliver's Team Service Challenge
It's Day Two in the MasterChef Kitchen and already the 22 contestants are thrown into their first big Service Challenge, with Jamie Oliver running the kitchen.
Episode 3: Finger Food Invention Test
Before our contestants can cook for immunity, they must get through Sofia's 'wrap your hands around this' challenge.
Episode 4: Time Versus Ingredients Immunity Challenge
The first immunity challenge and it's a battle of time vs. ingredients. Five contestants must choose between one ingredient and a 90-minute cook, OR up to 20 ingredients but only 45 minutes to cook.
Episode 5: Food Dreams Elimination Challenge
The first elimination of the season tasks the cooks with 75 minutes on the clock to create a dish representing their food dream.
Episode 6: Jamie Oliver's Parents Mystery Box Challenge
Our cooks are set for the challenge of making a dish from Mystery Box ingredients chosen by Jamie Oliver's parents, with the four weakest dishes set to send their makers into tomorrow's elimination.
Episode 7: Cook with Jamie Elimination Challenge
In this elimination cook the contestants are challenged to 'Keeping Up With Jamie' on an Oliver Family recipe in order to keep their place in the competition.
Episode 8: Queen Victoria Market Street Food Immunity Team Challenge
The contestants cook for Immunity in a Team Challenge at the iconic Queen Victoria Night Market.
Episode 9: Inspired by Family Elimination Challenge
Andy's mum Maree is in the kitchen to set an elimination challenge inspired by some of the Allen household's classic retro dishes. Contestants must make them MasterChef worthy, or risk going home.
Episode 10: Mystery Box Challenge with a Twist!
Today's Mystery Box comes with a twist, as our four judges throw in a secret ingredient that our cooks will have to wrangle.
Episode 11: Pressure Test: Jack In The Box
Judge Jean-Christophe Novelli sets the first Pressure Test of the competition with his 1992 dessert, 'Jack in the Box'.
Episode 12: Two Round Team Immunity Challenge
In Round 1, one 'champion' per team cooks, with the winner of Round 1 then taking their teammates into Round 2, and out into the garden to cook for Immunity.
Episode 13: One Inch Cube Elimination Challenge
In today's two round elimination, our contestants' palettes are challenged with the classic One-inch cube taste test, which sees six favorites, cook for their spot in the competition.
Episode 14: French Mystery Box Challenge
A French-themed Mystery Box in Bendigo, regional Victoria, challenges the contestants to create 'magnifique' dishes.
Episode 15: Pressure Test: Liam Downes' Smoked Egg Yolk Raviolo, Truffle & Asparagus
Nat, Gillian, Alex and Lourdes battle it out in a Pressure Test set by Chef Liam Downes at Black Cat Truffles just outside Ballarat.
Episode 16: Heirloom Tomato Team Relay
It's the chaotic, colourful and 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.
Episode 17: Luke Nguyen Ingredient Gamble Elimination Challenge
The three losing teams faced a two-round elimination challenge set by Luke Nguyen. In round one each contestant was assigned a pair of ingredients, one visible and the other hidden underneath a cloche, and 75 minutes to cook a dish with the ingredient of their choosing.
Episode 18: Vincent Yeow Lim Wok Mystery Box Challenge
All of the contestants competed in a mystery box challenge set by guest judge, chef and social media presenter Vincent Yeow Lim, who asked them to create a dish in 75 minutes using a wok.
Episode 19: Pressure Test: Anna Polyviou's Sunny Side Up
The bottom four contestants were given three hours to re-create chef Anna Polyviou's sunny side up dessert.
Episode 20: Microwave Hack Immunity Challenge
The judges task our contestants to create an immunity worthy dish in 75 minutes, using one of their four microwave hacks.
Episode 21: Egg Elimination Challenge
Inspired by a visit from viral sensation Mikiko Terasaki, contestants must creatively use eggs in a dish to avoid elimination.
Episode 22: Asian Sauces Mystery Box Challenge
A mystery box challenge with a saucy twist. The cooks must use at least one of six Asian sauces to cook a showstopping dish, with the bottom four headed for tomorrow's pressure test.
Episode 23: Pressure Test: Darren Purchese's Cherry Blossom
MasterChef legend Darren Purchese returns with another diabolical dessert, which will spell the end of the competition for one talented cook.
Episode 24: Second Chance Cook
Eight eliminated contestants return for the chance to cook their way back into the competition.
Episode 25: Rick Stein's Seafood Elimination Challenge
King of the sea, Rick Stein is here, and the contestants are excited cooking for such an icon. Over two rounds, seafood is on the menu but for one cook, it will be their last time in the kitchen.
Episode 26: Pub Food Service Challenge
Contestants face off in a team service challenge where they are tasked with elevating traditional pub food.
Episode 27: Cook with Curtis Elimination Challenge
The losing team from the pub challenge must cook along with legendary chef Curtis Stone as he creates his Spice Rubbed Pork, Smoked Beetroot and Hasselback Potatoes.
Episode 28: Sauce Immunity Challenge
Today's challenge is to combine two nations' cuisines into a tasty dish. There is a huge prize on the line: the winning sauce will be made available to buy in Coles stores around the country.
Episode 29: Plant-Based Elimination Challenge
Tonight's elimination is a plant-based challenge. Contestants create a well-known meat dish using only plant-based ingredients for their chance to secure the Top 10 of MasterChef 2024.
Episode 30: Adriano Zumbo's Jelly Mystery Box Challenge
Sweet Week has arrived! Adriano Zumbo is here as a guest judge and kicks things off with a wobbly jelly Mystery Box. Contestants compete to make a perfect shaky sweet to win precious immunity.
Episode 31: The Croquembouche Invention Test
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.
Episode 32: Twins Challenge
It's the iconic twin's challenge. 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.
Episode 33: Elimination Challenge: Taste Test
Two tough rounds will test our cooks. First, Adriano Zumbo's Macaron Taste Test, and then a coffee-inspired dessert cook, with the weakest dish seeing its maker eliminated from the competition.
Episode 34: Mystery Box Challenge: Most Ingredients Ever
Tonight's mega Mystery Box features the most ingredients ever, the cooks have just 30 minutes to pull off a winning dish, with the bottom three sending their makers into tomorrow's Pressure Test
Episode 35: Pressure Test: Hugh Allen
Hugh Allen returns to the MasterChef kitchen to set a pressure test merging classic French techniques with flavours of the Australian bush
Episode 36: Elimination Challenge: Bacon & Eggs
The contestants battle it out to reinvent the classic bacon and eggs. The stakes are high today, the top dish will win an epic mystery prize, but the bottom dish will be eliminated
Episode 37: Mystery Box: Hong Kong
MasterChef Australia is in Hong Kong! The first challenge is a Hong Kong style Mystery Box. Today the judges are looking for the top three cooks to progress into tomorrow's immunity challenge
Episode 38: Immunity Challenge: Vicky Cheng
After a demonstration from Michelin starred chef Vicky Cheng, three cooks must recreate his dish, from memory alone, the winner claiming immunity from this week's elimination
Episode 39: Service Challenge: Street Food
The cooks are split into three teams, cooking street food in a traditional dai pai dong. They must prepare a two-dish menu, using either a wok, steamer or deep fryer, catering for 120 hungry locals
Episode 40: Immunity Challenge: Lucky Dip
Today's Hong Kong Immunity Challenge. A Lucky Dip proves fortunate for some, challenging for others. With two randomly picked ingredients, each contestant must perfectly pair them to create a dish
Episode 41: Elimination Challenge: Ingredient Auction
Contestants bid against one another, trading time for ingredients in a MasterChef classic. Four contestants compete to cook a dish that helps them avoid elimination and secure their place in the top 6.
Episode 42: Mystery Box: Poh's Everything
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.
Episode 43: Pressure Test: Guillaume Brahimi
Chef Guillaume Brahimi has brought a pressure test dish that will push the contestants to their limits. They need to replicate the dish as closely as possible... but they must plate up 5 serves.
Episode 44: Immunity Challenge: Family Food Heroes
Emotions run high as the top five open chests, revealing treasured photos of their family food heroes. Inspired by their photos, each cook fights for their final shot at immunity.
Episode 45: Elimination Challenge: The World's Most Extreme Ingredients
Tonight, the contestants face off with some of the world's most extreme ingredients. These ingredient 'beasts' are the spiciest, sweetest, most sour, most bitter and most pungent on offer.
Episode 46: Mystery Box: Golden Ticket
The mystery boxes contain a golden ticket which will fast track the contestant with the top dish into the semi-final, while the other three will have to battle it out in tomorrow's pressure test.
Episode 47: Pressure Test: Josh Niland
Internationally renowned chef Josh Niland pushes the contestants to their limits with a unique dish from his acclaimed restaurant, St. Peter. They must each recreate his dish as closely as possible.
Episode 48: The Judges Become The Cooks!
Andy, Poh and Jean Christophe swap roles, becoming the cooks while the Semi-Finalists become the judges'. The fun doesn't stop there, as our Semi-Finalists must then take on the judges in a relay
Episode 49: Final 3 - Service Challenge
With Curtis Stone's help, our Semi-Finalists must each prepare a three-course meal for 20 diners and the judges.
Episode 50
Our two Grand Finalists go head-to-head over two rounds to see who will be crowned the winner of MasterChef Australia 2024!