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After months of blood, sweat, tears and umami, the MasterChef winner is crowned
It’s Nat versus Pezza cooking up a 113-step dessert storm in the MasterChef grand final. Who fluffs things up and who gets to hold up the big shiny plate?
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Cranky Curtis returns for the semi-final and the worst cook (who isn’t Nat) is eliminated
Pezza, Nat and Sav frantically cook off for a place in the grand finale. Bet you didn’t see this finalist combo coming.
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Poh and co show the amateurs how it’s done in a chaotic and pointless challenge
It’s the return of chaotic energy Poh, and a whole lot of hysterical ex-contestants, as the judges and amateurs whoop it up for no good reason.
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Ingredient ‘beasts’ are unleashed and an unpopular decision sends a fan favourite packing
The MasterChef finalists take things to extremes in their quests to make the top four.
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A scene so heartfelt and moving that it is, annoyingly, (almost) impossible to make fun of
The final five must cook a dish inspired by the person who inspired them in their food journey. Best dish wins immunity. Cue the tears.
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After the perennially popular ‘time auction’, one of these four wannabes bids farewell
Josh, Harry, Lochie and Sav gamble with ingredients in the quest to survive another dramatically drawn-out elimination. Only three succeed.
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Fish fights, hot woks and a chipped tooth: That’s what Hong Kong street food is all about
The amateurs pair up to run dai pai dong stalls, serving authentic Australian reality television food to the Hong Kong locals.
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Who has the nicest buns? Bao down to the winners of the Hong Kong mystery box
The top seven, sans Sav, head overseas. First up: a cook-out at Victoria “Beckham” Harbour and plenty of gratuitous skyline shots from a rooftop.
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A favourite cracks under the pressure of this ‘devastating’ bacon-and-eggs themed shock elimination
Will pepper ice-cream and stuffed peppers prevail in an invention test that leaves us all feeling less than sunny-side-up?
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Nagi swaps her RecipeTin for a MysteryBox and sets the clock
Can the contestants negotiate the near-impossible task of cooking in 30 minutes, like a normal human being?
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