MasterChef Australia 2009 (2009) (2009)

EP 1 ⏱ 79 min

Auditions: Group 1

MasterChef Australia returns with auditions and 40 of the country's best home cooks are ready. Tonight 20 cooks have 90 minutes to cook their dream dish in order to win one of the 10 aprons on offer.

Season 18

S18 • E1

EP 2 ⏱ 58 min

Auditions: Group 2

Another 20 home cooks enter the MasterChef kitchen to compete for 10 aprons on offer. For those who miss out, they learn there will be one final chance to cook for the last four aprons tomorrow.

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EP 3 ⏱ 53 min

Auditions: Second Chance

Tonight, the 20 remaining hopefuls have a second and final chance to cook their way into the competition. Just who will score themselves one of the final four places?

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EP 4 ⏱ 75 min

Mystery Box: Jimmy Barnes

Aussie Rock legend Jimmy Barnes set this season's first mystery box, inspiring the Top 24 with seasonal ingredients they love to cook with. Dish of the day will see its maker safe from elimination.

Season 18

S18 • E4

EP 5 ⏱ 50 min

Elimination Challenge: Family Favourites

In the first elimination of the competition, 23 cooks will show the judges a window into their homelife, through a favourite dish that they cook at home for their loved ones.

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EP 6 ⏱ 48 min

Invention Test: Cereal

It's the return of a MasterChef classic with an Invention Test challenging cooks to create an inventive dish using cereal.

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S18 • E6

EP 7 ⏱ 52 min

Pressure Test: Maggie Beer

The bottom five cooks from the Invention Test face off in a Pressure Test set by MasterChef favourite Maggie Beer, tasked with mastering her signature sour cream pastry in a high-stakes pie challenge.

Season 18

S18 • E7

EP 8 ⏱ 63 min

Immunity Challenge: Andy Cooks

It's Family Favourites week and social media sensation Andy Cooks (chef Andy Hearnden) is on the hunt for the ultimate breakfast, in an immunity challenge cook with 60 minutes on the clock.

Season 18

S18 • E8

EP 9 ⏱ 49 min

Elimination Challenge: Reinventing Carbs

In an elimination challenge centred on reinventing the judges' quick carb midweek dinner recipes, mistakes and time pressure sends one cook home.

Season 18

S18 • E9

EP 10 ⏱ 49 min

Team Challenge: Family Feast

It is the first team challenge of the series, and the contestants are all eager to see how well they can work together. The bottom two teams will find themselves in the elimination the following day.

Season 18

S18 • E10

EP 11 ⏱ 46 min

Elimination Challenge: Family Traditions

Six contestants face elimination as they must create a dish that represent their family food traditions to fight for their place in the competition.

Season 18

S18 • E11

EP 12 ⏱ 59 min

Mystery Box Challenge: Catherine Zhang

The Top 20 compete for Immunity from tomorrow's Elimination in a fruity Mystery Box challenge set by Catherine Zhang, marking the start of Viral Wonders Week

Season 18

S18 • E12

EP 13 ⏱ 49 min

Elimination Challenge: Viral Ingredients

Viral sensation Victoria Minell (aka @recipesbyvictoria) sets a challenge to use one of her five viral ingredients in a 75-minute cook to save their place in the competition

Season 18

S18 • E13

EP 14 ⏱ 49 min

Team Service Challenge: Viral-worthy Dish

Six teams will compete in their first service challenge, tasked with creating one perfect viral-worthy dish to serve to hundreds of diners, and impress a mystery social media-star critic

Season 18

S18 • E14

EP 15 ⏱ 52 min

Immunity Pin Challenge: Khanh Ong

MasterChef alum and social media star Khanh Ong sets an epic challenge to create a bold, out-there sandwich with a banging cross section, to win the first immunity pin of the season

Season 18

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EP 16 ⏱ 59 min

Mystery Box Challenge: Rick Stein

It's the start of Around the World Week, and global food icon Rick Stein joins the MasterChef Kitchen to set an extra spicy Mystery Box challenge

Season 18

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EP 17 ★ 9.5 ⏱ 49 min

Elimination Challenge: Cuisines from Around the World

In an Around the World elimination challenge, MasterChef contestants must create a dish inspired by a chosen cuisine, featuring a surprise hero ingredient revealed only after they commit

Season 18

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EP 18 ★ 10.0 ⏱ 49 min

Invention Test: Fusion

It's a fusion invention test today with the contestants having to make dish featuring cuisines from two countries

Season 18

S18 • E18

EP 19 ★ 10.0 ⏱ 51 min

Pressure Test: Rosheen Kaul

Chef Rosheen Kaul sets the first full Pressure Test for the season, with an intense, three-hour challenge

Season 18

S18 • E19

EP 20 ⏱ 62 min

Mystery Box Challenge: Dim Sim Lim

Kicking off nostalgia-themed week in the MasterChef kitchen, social media sensation chef Dim Sim Lim sets a 60-minute mystery box challenge requiring a steamed element. English

Season 18

S18 • E20

EP 21 ⏱ 49 min

Elimination Challenge: Heritage

The MasterChef contestants must cook something connected to their heritage to avoid being eliminated.

Season 18

S18 • E21

EP 22 ⏱ 49 min

Team Challenge: Team Relay

In MasterChef's most notorious team challenge, four teams will navigate the chaos of the Team Relay to compete for a chance to cook for Immunity.

Season 18

S18 • E22

EP 23 ⏱ 50 min

Immunity Pin Challenge: French Techniques

Guided by MasterChef Alumna Justine Schofield, four contestants put their French techniques to the test for a chance to win a coveted immunity pin.

Season 18

S18 • E23

EP 24 ⏱ 62 min

Mystery Box Challenge: Matt Sinclair & Daniel Dobra

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EP 25 ⏱ 50 min

Classic Pairs Elimination Challenge

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EP 26 ⏱ 47 min

Invention Test: Reese's Peanut Butter Cup

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EP 27 ⏱ 50 min

Elimination Challenge: Time or Ingredients?

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EP 28 ⏱ 62 min

Mystery Box Challenge: Curtis Stone

Curtis Stone kicks off Aussie Classics week, with a once-in-a-lifetime chance for the cooks to have their dish stocked in Coles, as they are challenged to whip up nostalgic Pie and Ice-cream flavours.

Season 18

S18 • E28

EP 29 ⏱ 48 min

Elimination Challenge: Pork

With Curtis Stone back in the kitchen, the MasterChef contestants are challenged with cooking a dish that features pork to save their place in the competition.

Season 18

S18 • E29

EP 30 ⏱ 50 min

Comeback Challenge

It's Aussie Classics Week, and there's nothing Aussies love more than a great comeback story. Today, the previously eliminated contestants return for a chance to earn their place back in the competition.

Season 18

S18 • E30

EP 31 ⏱ 58 min

Elimination Challenge: Aussie Native Ingredients

Aussie Classics week draws to a close with an exciting day in the MasterChef Kitchen as guest judge and Aussie icon Robert Irwin sets an Aussie Native Ingredients Elimination Challenge.

Season 18

S18 • E31

EP 32 ⏱ 61 min

Mystery Box Challenge: Adriano Zumbo

It's the start of Sweet Week, and confectionery king Adriano Zumbo challenges the cooks to hero a mystery ingredient in a dessert. The top three dishes will win immunity from tomorrow's elimination.

Season 18

S18 • E32

EP 33 ★ 10.0 ⏱ 48 min

Elimination Challenge: Ice Cream Taste Test

As Sweet Week continues, the contestants take part in an Ice Cream Taste Test. The first four who guess incorrectly will land in the Round Two cook, after which someone will be sent home.

Season 18

S18 • E33

EP 34 ⏱ 48 min

Invention Test: Air Fryer

It's Sweet Week, and today's challenge is an Air Fryer Invention Test, with the top four dishes going into tomorrow's Immunity Challenge. Dish of the day will claim a $5,000 Harvey Norman voucher!

Season 18

S18 • E34

EP 35 ⏱ 51 min

Immunity Pin Challenge: Beat the Chef

On Sweet Week's final day, four contestants face dessert powerhouse Jess Lemon in a 'Beat the Chef' Immunity Pin challenge, attempting to outcook one of the MasterChef kitchen's pastry prodigies.

Season 18

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EP 36

Episode 36

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