Episode
MasterChef: Top 16 Revealed
Overview
The contestants have one hour to make a dish using mystery ingredients. The winner picks the main ingredient in the elimination round.
Details
- Series
- MasterChef
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2011-06-20
Episode context
Top 16 Revealed is Episode 5 in Season 2 of MasterChef. It aired on 2011-06-20.
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Episode 4: Top 18 Revealed
The contestants must show the judges that they can pass two culinary stress tests before moving onto the next round. First, slicing apples consistently, and with as little waste as possible, and second, creating the best chicken dish they can in order to impress the judges, and move onto the next round.
Episode 6: Top 16 Compete
The contestants are split into two teams, each team creating a five course meal. One person is eliminated.
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Episode 3: Audition 3 & Top 38 Revealed
The field has been narrowed down, and the top 38 are revealed.
Episode 7: Top 15 Compete
The contestants compete, and try to advance to the next round.
Episode 2: Audition 2
Round 2 begins with the amateur chefs trying to impress the judges with their signature dishes. Contestants compete for a chance to win the MasterChef apron which guarantees them a spot in the next round.
Episode 8: Top 14 Compete
The remaining contestants compete in order to advance to the next round.
Episode 1: Audition 1
100 amateur chefs are flown to Los Angeles to see if they have what it takes to be the next MasterChef. The contestants prepare their signature dishes for the panel of judges. Only those who impress the judges with their presentation, creativity, and originality will get an apron and move onto the next round.
Episode 9: Top 13 Compete
Vegetarian meals are made by the 13 remaining hopefuls. Then, Season 1 winner Whitney Miller shows up and challenges the wannabe chefs to prepare a dish from her cookbook.
Episode 10: Top 12 Compete
The Top 12 prepare food for a celebrity cocktail party
Episode 11: Top 11 Compete
The hopefuls cook lobsters. Later, they compete in an aphrodisiac challenge.
Episode 12: Top 10 Compete
The Top 10 cook for the judges' mothers. Later, they must prepare eggs Benedict.
Episode 13: Top 9 Compete
The Top 9 home cooks flex their culinary muscles in another grueling challenge to prove to the judges they have the passion and skill it takes to advance to the next round. Find out which contestants wow the judges and who winds up on the chopping block in the next elimination round.