Name: MasterChef Australia
Genre: Food

In its eighteenth season, not only will the competition embrace much-loved icons of the industry but it will simultaneously usher in a new breed of culinary stars.

MasterChef Australia

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Food • 2026 • U

Forty of the country’s best home cooks are ready to show the judges what they’ve got. Tonight, twenty have 90 minutes to cook their dream dish in order to win one of the ten aprons on offer.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep01

Another twenty home cooks enter the MasterChef kitchen to make their dream dishes. For those who miss out, there will be one final chance to compete for the last four aprons tomorrow.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep02

Following two days of auditions, the twenty remaining hopefuls have a second and final chance to cook their way into the competition. Just who will score themselves one of the last four places?

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep03

Aussie Rock legend Jimmy Barnes and wife Jane set this season’s first mystery box, inspiring the Top 24 competitors with seasonal ingredients they love to cook with from their garden.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep04

In the first elimination round of the competition, twenty-three cooks will show the judges a window into their home life through a favourite dish that they like to cook for their loved ones.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep05

The cooks are excited to discover the Invention Test. In 75 minutes, they must take a pantry staple and turn it into something extraordinary. The bottom five will face an elimination cook-off tomorrow.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep06

The bottom five cooks from yesterday face off in a Pressure Test set by MasterChef favourite Maggie Beer. They must master her signature sour-cream pastry in a high-stakes pie challenge.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep07

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-off, with 60 minutes on the clock.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep08

In a high-stakes elimination challenge, contestants are tasked with reinventing the judges’ quick carb recipes into unique, elevated dishes in a 36-minute cook.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep09

It’s the first team challenge of the competition. Each team must cook a family feast featuring two mains, three sides and one dessert, a big ask in only 75 minutes.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep10

Inspired by the judges’ family food traditions, six contestants face elimination as they must create dishes that represent their own special family food traditions.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep11

Inside each Mystery Box is one of five spectacular fruit shaped desserts made by Aussie content creator, Catherine Zhang. Inspired by the desserts, the Top 20 have 75 minutes to create a fruit dessert.

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The cooks have 75 minutes to make a dish worthy of going viral featuring one of Victoria Minell’s (aka @recipesbyvictoria) five viral ingredients: cucumber, burrata, pistachios, rice paper and gochujang.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep13

Today the contestants will tackle their first ever service challenge. As part of Viral Wonders week, they must create one perfect dish worthy of becoming a viral food sensation, and serve it.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep14

MasterChef alum Khanh Ong returns to the kitchen, challenging the seven cooks to create a bold, out-there sandwich with a banging cross section in an immunity challenge celebrating Viral Wonders Week.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep15

It’s the start of Around the World Week, and global food icon Rick Stein joins to set today’s Mystery Box challenge. The 19 remaining contestants will have access to over 120 spices.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep16

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.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep17

The contestants walk in to find a travel themed postcard display. They learn that today’s challenge is a fusion invention test and they must make a dish featuring the cuisines from two countries.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep18

The cooks responsible for the four bottom dishes in last night’s invention must now face the possibility of Rosheen Kaul’s Pressure Test today being their last cook in the MasterChef kitchen.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep19

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.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep20

Fifteen MasterChef contestants must cook something connected to their heritage. The top dish will win a $10,000 prize courtesy of Ancestry, while the bottom dish will send its maker home.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep21

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.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep22

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

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep23

It’s Perfect Pairings week and today the contestants must choose between two Mystery Boxes: one set by MasterChef legend Matt Sinclair and one by Peli’s head chef Daniel Dobra, aka ‘Dobbers’.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep24

In the second episode of perfect pairs week, the home cooks must select one of five classic flavour pairings as they go head-to-head in an elimination cook-off.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep25

In today’s episode of MasterChef Australia, five cooks in the bottom are facing a Time VS Ingredients elimination challenge and the bottom dish will send its maker home.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep27

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.

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep28

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

MasterChef Australia S18 Ep29

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.