MasterChef

Secrets Week closes with the previous episode’s losing team facing a blindfolded taste test. The first five to guess incorrectly have a 60-minute open pantry cook, but one last secret will ruffle feathers.

Each team is allocated a ‘secret weapon’ and must create a four-course Italian meal for 40 diners. Whichever team serves the least impressive meal will go into the next pressure test.

These immunity rounds involve sauce, secrets and citrus. A contestant will face off against an established chef that [sic] will be kept secret from everyone, including the judges, until the very end. A secret chef? Please tell me it’s Peter… Continue Reading →

Three contestants face a pressure test and will cook a paella based on an award-winning dish by Leno Lattarulo from Melbourne’s Simply Spanish. Simple, right? Wrong. It is Secrets Week, after all.

It’s Secrets Week, and, after a quick workshop with Din Tai Fung’s Edward Yulianto, our cooks must create a tasty dumpling dish and later invent a dish that incorporates a secret. Shh. I will be watching this one as I… Continue Reading →

Legends week continues as Yotam Ottolenghi hosts a deli item challenge. The first three contestants to incorrectly name a deli item must cook to stay in the competition. Who will be heading home? Hmm, this seems to be another one… Continue Reading →

Matt Sinclair mentors the Immunity cook which uses only equipment from a typical office kitchen. Best dish enters Round 2, where they will compete against culinary legend Donovan Cooke. Hmm, if this was based on my old office, they would… Continue Reading →

This episode’s Pressure Test has contestants recreating a dessert from culinary legend Clare Smyth. During four hours of preparation time, there are tears and even a dish that collapses before the judges’ eyes. I had to google Clare. She’s an… Continue Reading →