Episode
MasterChef: Top 22 Compete
Overview
The contestants must prepare a unique dish in the first mystery box challenge -- which features ingredients typically used in desserts; in the next round, the contestants prepare a classic American dish.
Details
- Series
- MasterChef
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2014-06-02
Episode context
Top 22 Compete is Episode 2 in Season 5 of MasterChef. It aired on 2014-06-02.
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Episode 1: Top 30 Compete
Host award-winning chef Gordon Ramsay, along with fellow judges restaurateur Joe Bastianich and acclaimed chef Graham Elliot return for Season Five, putting the latest group of contestants through a series of challenging elimination rounds and turning one home cook into a culinary master.
Episode 3: Top 20 Compete
The cooks compete to feed 500 male and female troops on a desert Army base; the losing team faces a pressure test featuring blueberry pie.
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Episode 4: Top 18 Compete
The contestants tackle a seafood challenge, with the winner choosing what dessert the others will prepare in the elimination round.
Episode 5: Top 17 Compete
The contestants prepare a seafood menu for a beachfront wedding; one team faces a challenge featuring a meal with steak and fries.
Episode 6: Top 16 Compete
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Episode 7: Top 15 Compete
The contestants must put aside their difference as they pair up to create a surf-and-turf dish; the challenge losers face a pressure test featuring spring rolls.
Episode 8: Top 14 Compete
The remaining 14 cooks work in two sets of teams at a busy, iconic diner in Los Angeles; the members of the losing team must make a three-layer red velvet cake during a pressure test.
Episode 9: Top 13 Compete
The cooks must create a dish using Alaskan king salmon; during the elimination round, the cooks create a dish using one judge's favorite ingredients.
Episode 10: Top 12 Compete
The cooks prepare romantic dinners for couples celebrating anniversaries; Ramsay's wife joins him for dinner; the losing team create their own truffle recipes for a box of chocolates.
Episode 11: Top 11 Compete
For the first time, the contestants get to choose between two mystery boxes: one filled with high-end ingredients and one containing ordinary items; the winner of the challenge chooses which type of stuffed pasta the remaining cooks make.
Episode 12: Top 10 Compete
The home cooks split into two teams and create menus of healthy football game concessions for an entire stadium; the cooks on the losing team must create three unique prawn dishes in a pressure test.
Episode 13: Top 8 Compete
The cooks split into teams of two and prepare a poultry dish using different parts of the chicken; two pairs face a pressure test with eggs.