Season 13
61 episodes · Apr 19, 2021
Judges Jock Zonfrillo, Melissa Leong and Andy Allen are back in the MasterChef Australia kitchen, ready to introduce the next generation of exceptional home cooks. 2021 will be seasoned to perfection with some of the world’s most recognisable and beloved chefs including Nigella Lawson, Yotam Ottolenghi, Heston Blumenthal, Massimo Bottura and Clare Smyth - plus homegrown sensations including Curtis Stone, Kirsten Tibballs, Darren Purchese, Alla Wolf-Tasker, Scott Pickett, Poh Ling Yeow, Callum Hann and Reynold Poernomo, all set to challenge the top 24 contestants. Sacrificing everything to follow their food dreams, this season’s passionate contestants have put their lives on hold to be part of this life-changing experience. With heart, soul and drive, this season’s exceptional contestants will follow their food dreams and make magic happen.
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S13E1Auditions, Day 1
Apr 19, 202175mThe best home cooks from around the country will face challenge after challenge to see who will rise to the top and take home the coveted title of Australia's next MasterChef.
S13E2Auditions, Day 2
Apr 20, 202175mThe judges are looking for just five more cooks to round out the top 24. The home cooks who are given a second chance will battle it out for the remaining aprons.
S13E3Emelia Jackson Mystery Box
Apr 21, 202175mThis mystery box is selected by MasterChef Australia champion Emelia Jackson. The three best dishes will be awarded an immunity pin that can be played at any time during an elimination cook.
S13E4Chicken Or The Egg?
Apr 22, 202175mIn this two round challenge, contestants must create dishes that feature a chicken or an egg. The contestant with the least impressive dish will be the first sent home.
S13E5Superstars Week - Nigella Lawason
Apr 25, 202175mSuperstars Week kicks off with Nigella Lawson. Contestants must recreate Nigella's favourite dish based on her detailed description, with no ingredient list, recipe or visual reference to work from.
S13E6Superstars Week - Yotam Ottolenghi
Apr 26, 202175mYotam Ottolenghi presents his favourite flavour bombs: numbing oil, fenugreek marinade and chipotle peanuts. Each team must create a meal that features one of Yotam's flavour bombs.
S13E7Superstars Week - Massimo Bottura (Elimination Challenge)
Apr 27, 202175mThe judges reveal this elimination challenge is over two rounds and is set by cooking legend Massimo Bottura. Massimo presents his take on the classic dish: mac and cheese.
S13E8Superstars Week - Clare Smyth (Mystery Box)
Apr 28, 202175mClare Smyth reveals the dish that has inspired her choice of mystery box ingredients. Contestants must create a sweet or savoury dish using the ingredients that Clare has chosen for the mystery box.
S13E9Superstars Week - Heston Blumenthal (Immunity Challenge)
Apr 29, 202175mHeston Blumenthal sets an immunity challenge in which contestants must use a popular breakfast ingredient to create a delicious dessert.
S13E10Poh, Callum & Reynold (Elimination Challenge)
May 2, 202175mMasterChef alumni Poh, Callum and Reynold present the contestants with three dishes from their venues. Contestants must create a dish worthy of a place on the menu at any of these establishments.
S13E11Least & Most Comfortable (Team Challenge)
May 3, 202175mEach team must cook the same six dishes within the time allocated. Each contestant on the team will cook one of the dishes and will be judged against the same dish made by the other two teams.
S13E12Sweet & Savoury Tart (Elimination Challenge)
May 4, 202175mEach contestant must choose the dish they feel most comfortable making: a savoury tart or sweet tart. Jock then switches the dishes and contestants must cook the dish they're least comfortable with.
S13E13Staples (Immunity Challenge)
May 5, 202175mContestants must create a dish using the staple ingredients under their benches as well as two ingredients from the garden for flavour. Contestants with the top five dishes will compete for immunity.
S13E14Choose Your Ingredient & Masterclass
May 6, 202175mContestants must choose an ingredient they would like to feature in a dish, but they won't know the ingredient they must pair it with until they have locked in their choice. A Masterclass follows.
S13E15That's The Way The Cookie Crumbles (Elimination Challenge)
May 9, 202175mKeen as mustard, the contestants have to cook a dish that interprets one of the classic food sayings on display. The contestant who fails will be going home. That's the way the cookie crumbles.
S13E16Meet The Masters
May 10, 202175mIt's Meet the Masters Week. This opportunity gives the contestants up-close insights into the skills of the best culinary masters in Australia.
S13E17Pressure Test
May 11, 202175mThe least impressive team from the master team challenge must cook off in this pressure test.
S13E18Mystery Box
May 12, 202175mThe contestants enter the kitchen ready to take on the mystery box challenge set by a Michelin-starred chef.
S13E19Cooking With Fire (Immunity Challenge)
May 13, 202175mIn a very special challenge, the top four contestants from the previous challenge meet in the kitchen to be taught a lesson in cooking with fire. The most impressive cook wins immunity.
S13E20Meet The Masters (Elimination)
May 16, 202175mFor the final cook of Meet the Masters Week, the bottom four contestants must make a dish that demonstrates how they have mastered a skill, flavour or technique they have learnt across the week.
S13E21Service Brigade - Tonka (Immunity Challenge)
May 17, 202175mAndy reveals that every challenge this week will be a service challenge and all 16 contestants are in with a chance at winning immunity from Sunday's elimination.
S13E22Service Challenge - Movida (Immunity Challenge)
May 18, 202175mThis challenge is all about the ingredients. Each team must feature the same ingredient in each course
S13E23Service Challenge - (Immunity Challenge)
May 19, 202175mFor this challenge, two pantries are on offer: a European pantry and an Eastern pantry. By the toss of a coin, the team that win the toss get to choose their desired pantry.
S13E24Service Challenge - (Immunity Challenge)
May 20, 202175mEach team has two-and-a-half hours to cook a three-course meal and each course must champion a colour chosen by the toss of a coin.
S13E25Team Challenge
May 23, 202175mEach team must create a dish that features the ingredient hidden underneath the tablecloth and must also use an allocated electrical appliance at some stage during the cook.
S13E26Vegetable Challenge
May 24, 202175mContestants must choose from either a potato, broccoli, carrot, brown onion or zucchini, to make a delicious dish featuring the vegetable of choice, but not necessarily a vegetarian dish.
S13E27Pressure Test
May 25, 202175mIn this pressure test, it's a fight to stay in the competition and four contestants must re-create a dish without ever seeing it.
S13E2811 Utensils
May 26, 202175mThe contestants must create a dish using only the 11 utensils in the mystery box. The dish can be sweet or savoury, with an open pantry and access to the garden.
S13E29Hot Chillies! (Immunity Challenge)
May 27, 202175mThe contestants must cook a dish using some of the hottest chillies in the world. The dish that best highlights the heat and flavour of their chilli will win immunity.
S13E30Game ID (Elimination Challenge)
May 30, 202175mThis elimination is played over two rounds. In the first round, contestants must identify the 14 game meats on display. The six contestants with the lowest scores will cook off in round two.
S13E31Second Chance Week
May 31, 202175mIt's Second Chance Week in the MasterChef kitchen. Across the week, 11 previously eliminated contestants are back with not one, but two chances to get back in the competition.
S13E32Second Chance Week (Pressure Test)
Jun 1, 202175mRenowned pastry chef Anthony Hart reveals his pressure test dish: chocolate oasis. The contestants have 2 hours and 15 minutes, plus a further eight minutes to plate up Anthony's creation.
S13E33Clear Or Hidden (Mystery Box Challenge)
Jun 2, 202175mThis episode, the 10 returning contestants can choose between a clear mystery box where the ingredients are visible or a regular mystery box where the ingredients are hidden.
S13E34It's A Knockout
Jun 3, 202175mFour contestants are told they will have two-and-a-half hours to prepare a three-course menu. But the catch is that after each course is tasted, one contestant will be knocked out of the competition.
S13E35Murray Cod (Elimination Challenge)
Jun 6, 202175mJosh Niland demonstrates how to make the most of a Murray cod utilising the entire fish. For this challenge, contestants are given one Murray cod and must use the same fish for up to three rounds.
S13E36Pair Up With Crayfish
Jun 7, 202175mContestants must pair up with another contestant to form seven teams. Each team must create crayfish two ways, one familiar dish and one inventive dish, utilising the freshly caught crayfish.
S13E37Vego (Elimination Challenge)
Jun 8, 202175mThe four contestants cooking in this elimination challenge discover they will be cooking a vegetarian dish, with all ingredients harvested fresh from Dairy Flat Farm in Daylesford.
S13E38Melbourne Inspiration (Mystery Box)
Jun 9, 202175mThe mystery box reveals a map of Melbourne and a camera phone to take pictures. The contestants must explore the city streets and laneways to take a picture that will inspire their dish.
S13E39Kate Reid Pastry
Jun 10, 202175mJock introduces Kate Reid, the mastermind behind Lune Croissanterie. Contestants must use Kate's world-class pastry and turn it into a dish that is not a croissant.
S13E4090 Minute Cook Time (Elimination Challenge)
Jun 13, 202175mThe contestants must decide how much of their 90-minute cook time they use in round one, because they will only have the remainder of that time to cook in round two.
S13E41Home Delivery (Team Challenge)
Jun 14, 202175mTeams must create a three-course home delivery menu and can choose any theme or cuisine for their menu. Each team has three hours to produce 60 serves.
S13E42Khanh Nguyen's Pork Wellington
Jun 15, 202175mGuest chef Khanh Nguyen from Sunda has taken South-East Asian food to the next level. The contestants must create Khanh's dish: pork wellington with lattice crackling and flavours of banh mi.
S13E434 Ingredient Barter (Mystery Box)
Jun 16, 202175mJock reveals this mystery box is different. Contestants need to use four ingredients in their final dish, but before the cook starts, they can barter for the ingredients from each other.
S13E44The Top Four (Immunity Challenge)
Jun 17, 202175mThe top four cooks from the latest mystery box challenge battle it out for immunity and a guaranteed spot in the top 10.
S13E45Nu Nu Ingredient ID (Elimination Challenge)
Jun 20, 202175mContestants must correctly identify ingredients in three dishes from Nick Holloway's Nu Nu menu. The five contestants who name the least amount of ingredients correctly will cook off in round two.
S13E46Three Blue Ducks (Service Challenge)
Jun 21, 202175mThe top 10 contestants arrive at URBNSURF, the home to Australia's first ever surf park in Melbourne's west to discover they will be running Andy Allen's restaurant, Three Blue Ducks.
S13E47Darren Purchese (Pressure Test)
Jun 22, 202175mContestants must cook a sweet pressure test recipe of their own design. Darren Purchese will be running the floor and mentoring the contestants and the judges will do a blind tasting of each dish.
S13E48Family Messages
Jun 23, 202175mAfter watching emotional messages from their family members, Melissa explains that contestants must make a dish inspired by their family. The top two dishes will cook in tomorrow's immunity challenge.
S13E49Keep Up With Curtis & Masterclass
Jun 24, 202175mIn today's challenge, the contestants must keep up with Curtis Stone as he cooks his ultimate roast chicken dish. Andy, Jock and chef Nornie Bero show off their skills in a delicious Masterclass.
S13E50Black Mystery Box or Black Gloche? (Double Elimination)
Jun 27, 202175mToday there is a massive double elimination. Contestants must choose between cooking with the black mystery box or the black cloche, with the ingredients only revealed when they make their choice.
S13E51Uluru
Jun 28, 202175mToday we are in the spiritual heart of Australia, Uluru. Contestants must create a fine dining three-course meal under the stars at the stunning Field of Light installation for 25 diners plus judges.
S13E52Simpson's Gap (Elimination Challenge)
Jun 29, 202175mThe team arrive at Simpson's Gap and judges reveal the contestants must create a dish using a variety of foraged bush foods. The contestant with the least impressive dish will be sent home.
S13E53All 7 Ingredients! (Mystery Box Challenge)
Jun 30, 202175mIn the toughest mystery box challenge of the season, the contestants discover they must create a dish using all seven ingredients under the mystery box.
S13E54The Cloche Challenge
Jul 1, 202175mEach cloche represents an ingredient, a cuisine, food related word, or kitchen equipment. The contestants must choose any two cloches and feature whatever is under the cloche in their dish.
S13E55Fast Food & Fancy Food (Elimination Challenge)
Jul 4, 202175mContestants must choose an ingredient and cook it two ways, in a fast-food and in a fancy food application. The contestants with the three least impressive fast-food dishes will cook in round two.
S13E56Society (Service & Elimination Challenge)
Jul 5, 202175mThe judges welcome the contestants to Martin Benn's opulent new Melbourne restaurant, Society. The pressure is on as they discover today's service challenge is also an elimination.
S13E57Vue Du Monde - Bottlebrush (Pressure Test)
Jul 6, 202175mContestants face a pressure test like no other. Chef Hugh Allen from restaurant Vue Du Monde, challenges contestants to recreate his dish, bottlebrush, mum's gum nuts and billy buttons.
S13E58Finalists (Advantage Challenge)
Jul 7, 202175mThe finalists enter the MasterChef kitchen to discover the day's advantage challenge, which will see the winner cooking in the Finale.
S13E59Semi-Final
Jul 11, 202175mContestants compete in a semifinal service challenge. The contestant with the least impressive menu will leave the competition. Finalists are joined by returning contestants for the final MasterClass.
S13E60Grand Finale (Part 1)
Jul 12, 202175mIt’s here, the MasterChef Australia Grand Finale for 2021. Our three finalists face an incredible three round challenge over two days with a total of 140 points up for grabs.
S13E61Grand Finale (Part 2)
Jul 13, 202175mIt’s day two of the epic MasterChef Australia Grand Finale for 2021 and the contestant who scores the most points overall will win the title of MasterChef 2021 and walk away with $250,000.