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Season 18 · Episode 27

Elimination Challenge: Time vs. Ingredients

Today June 3, 2026

Five cooks in the bottom are facing a Time VS Ingredients elimination challenge and the bottom dish will send its maker home.

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Auditions, Day 1: Your Dream on a Plate E1

Auditions, Day 1: Your Dream on a Plate

Aired Apr 19, 2026

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.

105 min ★ 9.50
Auditions, Day 2: Food Dream E2

Auditions, Day 2: Food Dream

Aired Apr 20, 2026

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.

70 min ★ 9.50
Auditions, Day 3: Showstopper Dish E3

Auditions, Day 3: Showstopper Dish

Aired Apr 21, 2026

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?

70 min ★ 9.50
Mystery Box Challenge: Jimmy & Jane Barnes E4

Mystery Box Challenge: Jimmy & Jane Barnes

Aired Apr 26, 2026

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.

95 min ★ 8.30
Elimination Challenge: Favourite Home Dish E5

Elimination Challenge: Favourite Home Dish

Aired Apr 27, 2026

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.

70 min ★ 9.00
Invention Test: Cereal E6

Invention Test: Cereal

Aired Apr 28, 2026

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

70 min ★ 9.00
Pressure Test: Maggie Beer's Sour Cream Pastry E7

Pressure Test: Maggie Beer's Sour Cream Pastry

Aired Apr 29, 2026

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.

70 min ★ 9.50
Immunity Challenge: Ultimate Breakfast E8

Immunity Challenge: Ultimate Breakfast

Aired May 3, 2026

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.

75 min ★ 9.00
Elimination Challenge: Quick Carb Midweek Dinner E9

Elimination Challenge: Quick Carb Midweek Dinner

Aired May 4, 2026

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

70 min ★ 9.00
Team Challenge: Family Feast E10

Team Challenge: Family Feast

Aired May 5, 2026

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.

70 min ★ 9.00
Elimination Challenge: Family Food Traditions E11

Elimination Challenge: Family Food Traditions

Aired May 6, 2026

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

70 min ★ 9.00
Mystery Box Challenge: Catherine Zhang E12

Mystery Box Challenge: Catherine Zhang

Aired May 10, 2026

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.

75 min ★ 9.00
Elimination Challenge: Viral Ingredients E13

Elimination Challenge: Viral Ingredients

Aired May 11, 2026

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.

70 min ★ 9.00
Service Challenge: Viral-worthy Dish E14

Service Challenge: Viral-worthy Dish

Aired May 12, 2026

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.

70 min ★ 8.50
Immunity Pin Challenge: Banging Sandwiches E15

Immunity Pin Challenge: Banging Sandwiches

Aired May 13, 2026

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.

70 min ★ 9.00
Mystery Box Challenge: Rick Stein E16

Mystery Box Challenge: Rick Stein

Aired May 17, 2026

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.

75 min ★ 8.00
Elimination Challenge: Cuisines from Around the World E17

Elimination Challenge: Cuisines from Around the World

Aired May 18, 2026

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.

70 min ★ 8.50
Invention Test: Fusion E18

Invention Test: Fusion

Aired May 19, 2026

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

70 min ★ 8.50
Pressure Test: Rosheen Kaul's Chou Farci E19

Pressure Test: Rosheen Kaul's Chou Farci

Aired May 20, 2026

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

70 min ★ 8.50
Mystery Box Challenge: Dim Sim Lim E20

Mystery Box Challenge: Dim Sim Lim

Aired May 24, 2026

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.

75 min ★ 8.50
Elimination Challenge: Heritage E21

Elimination Challenge: Heritage

Aired May 25, 2026

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

70 min ★ 9.00
Team Challenge: Team Relay E22

Team Challenge: Team Relay

Aired May 26, 2026

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.

70 min ★ 9.00
Immunity Pin Challenge: French Techniques E23

Immunity Pin Challenge: French Techniques

Aired May 27, 2026

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

70 min ★ 9.00
Mystery Box Challenge: Matt Sinclair vs. Daniel Dobra E24

Mystery Box Challenge: Matt Sinclair vs. Daniel Dobra

Aired May 31, 2026

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 his Peli's head chef Daniel Dobra, aka 'Dobbers'.

75 min ★ 8.50
Elimination Challenge: Classic Flavour Pairings E25

Elimination Challenge: Classic Flavour Pairings

Aired Jun 1, 2026

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

68 min
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E26

Pair Challenge: Chocolate and Peanut Desserts

Aired Jun 2, 2026

As perfect pairs week continues, contestants must work in perfect pairs to create four serves of a dessert inspired by the iconic Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.

70 min
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E27

Elimination Challenge: Time vs. Ingredients

Today Jun 3, 2026

Five cooks in the bottom are facing a Time VS Ingredients elimination challenge and the bottom dish will send its maker home.

70 min
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E28

Mystery Box Challenge: Curtis Stone

Sun Jun 7, 2026

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.

75 min
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E29

Elimination Challenge: Pork

Mon Jun 8, 2026

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.

70 min