Episode
MasterChef: American Heroes
Overview
The remaining home cooks must serve restaurant-quality dishes to 25 California firefighters.
Details
- Series
- MasterChef
- Season
- Season 9
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 2018-08-29
Episode context
American Heroes is Episode 16 in Season 9 of MasterChef. It aired on 2018-08-29.
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Episode 20: Battle of the Beef
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Episode 11: The Kids Are Alright
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Episode 21: The Semi Final
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Episode 10: Rise or Fall
The remaining home cooks pair up for a skills test to create a restaurant-quality dish featuring five ingredients—only to leave one contestant without a pair. The contestant cooking solo gets a huge advantage in the challenge and gets the opportunity to cook alongside his-her mentor.The chefs who fail to impress the judges will face an elimination challenge and create the ever-challenging cheese soufflé in just 40 minutes.
Episode 22: The Finale (1)
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