Episode
MasterChef: Critics Choice
Overview
The 4 remaining contestants are given 90 minutes to prepare either a halibut or duck entrée for VIP food critics in the Studio Box challenge. The winning team will be exempt from the elimination challenge and the losing team will face the Pressure Test to recreate three pork dishes.
Details
- Series
- MasterChef
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 2016-09-07
Episode context
Critics Choice is Episode 17 in Season 7 of MasterChef. It aired on 2016-09-07.
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Episode 16: Family Drama
The 5 remaining contestants are introduced to special culinary guest judge Richard Blais – chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author – who reveals the seventh Mystery Box challenge. The winner will avoid competing in the elimination challenge and the remaining contestants are given five minutes to shop for a basket full of twenty ingredients. With an unexpected twist in the competition, one is eliminated.
Episode 18: The Finale (1)
In the next challenge, with help from some familiar home cooks, the remaining 3 will have one hour to prepare an amazing appetizer dish. The contestants will then have one hour to create entrees and one hour to create a dessert. After evaluating the final dishes, the judges will reveal America's next MasterChef, and the deserving home cook will walk away with the trophy, a book deal, and the $250,000 grand prize.
More episodes from this season
Episode 15: Pop-Up Restaurant
The 6 remaining contestants compete in the series' classic pop-up restaurant challenge.
Episode 19: The Finale (2)
The contestants will have one hour to create entrees and an hour to create a dessert. After evaluating the final dishes, the judges will reveal America's next MASTERCHEF, and the deserving home cook will walk away with a MASTERCHEF trophy, a book deal and the $250,000 grand prize.
Episode 14: Tag Team
Three basic utensils are used by the Top 7 contestants in a mystery-box challenge.
Episode 13: Hot Potato
The Top Eight remaining contenders must battle through a three-part potato proficiency challenge.. Guest judge Kevin Sbraga.
Episode 12: 5 Star Food
Guest judge Kevin Sbraga cooks alongside the Top 9 in the next Mystery Box Challenge, as they create an impressive dish using unique upscale ingredients. The contestants then go head-to-head in the elimination challenge, cooking with either fresh salmon or canned salmon.
Episode 11: Sweet Surprise
The Top 10 cooks have one hour to make breakfast using a chocolate-hazelnut spread, and the winner gets to choose the dish for the next elimination challenge.
Episode 10: The Weakest Links
The losing sweet-16 team members must bake a three-layer birthday cake in 90 minutes, and then the remaining contestants are taken to a vegetable patch for their next team challenge, where they'll cook for and serve 100 farmers.
Episode 9: A Piece of Cake
The remaining 12 contestants are broken up into two teams to prep, cook and plate 30 dishes for teenagers celebrating their Sweet 16 birthdays.
Episode 8: The Good, the Bad and the Offal
The contestants are introduced to special culinary guest judge Edward Lee, chef and owner of 610 Magnolia in Louisville, KY.
Episode 7: Vets, Jets, and Home Cooks
The Top 15 home cooks are challenged to serve 101 hungry veterans!