MasterChef Australia - Season 13

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.

61 Episodes

Auditions, Day 1

Season 13 - Episode 1

The 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 ti...

Auditions, Day 2

Season 13 - Episode 2

The 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...

Emelia Jackson Mystery Box

Season 13 - Episode 3

This mystery box is selected by MasterChef Australia champion Emelia Jackson. The three best dishes will be awarded an immunity pin that can...

Chicken Or The Egg?

Season 13 - Episode 4

In this two round challenge, contestants must create dishes that feature a chicken or an egg. The contestant with the least impressive dish ...

Superstars Week - Nigella Lawason

Season 13 - Episode 5

Superstars Week kicks off with Nigella Lawson. Contestants must recreate Nigella's favourite dish based on her detailed description, with no...

Superstars Week - Yotam Ottolenghi

Season 13 - Episode 6

Yotam Ottolenghi presents his favourite flavour bombs: numbing oil, fenugreek marinade and chipotle peanuts. Each team must create a meal th...

Superstars Week - Massimo Bottura (Elimination Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 7

The judges reveal this elimination challenge is over two rounds and is set by cooking legend Massimo Bottura. Massimo presents his take on t...

Superstars Week - Clare Smyth (Mystery Box)

Season 13 - Episode 8

Clare Smyth reveals the dish that has inspired her choice of mystery box ingredients. Contestants must create a sweet or savoury dish using ...

Superstars Week - Heston Blumenthal (Immunity Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 9

Heston Blumenthal sets an immunity challenge in which contestants must use a popular breakfast ingredient to create a delicious dessert.

Poh, Callum & Reynold (Elimination Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 10

MasterChef alumni Poh, Callum and Reynold present the contestants with three dishes from their venues. Contestants must create a dish worthy...

Least & Most Comfortable (Team Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 11

Each 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 judge...

Sweet & Savoury Tart (Elimination Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 12

Each contestant must choose the dish they feel most comfortable making: a savoury tart or sweet tart. Jock then switches the dishes and cont...

Staples (Immunity Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 13

Contestants must create a dish using the staple ingredients under their benches as well as two ingredients from the garden for flavour. Cont...

Choose Your Ingredient & Masterclass

Season 13 - Episode 14

Contestants 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 ...

That's The Way The Cookie Crumbles (Elimination Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 15

Keen as mustard, the contestants have to cook a dish that interprets one of the classic food sayings on display. The contestant who fails wi...

Meet The Masters

Season 13 - Episode 16

It's Meet the Masters Week. This opportunity gives the contestants up-close insights into the skills of the best culinary masters in Austral...

Pressure Test

Season 13 - Episode 17

The least impressive team from the master team challenge must cook off in this pressure test.

Mystery Box

Season 13 - Episode 18

The contestants enter the kitchen ready to take on the mystery box challenge set by a Michelin-starred chef.

Cooking With Fire (Immunity Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 19

In a very special challenge, the top four contestants from the previous challenge meet in the kitchen to be taught a lesson in cooking with ...

Meet The Masters (Elimination)

Season 13 - Episode 20

For the final cook of Meet the Masters Week, the bottom four contestants must make a dish that demonstrates how they have mastered a skill, ...

Service Brigade - Tonka (Immunity Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 21

Andy reveals that every challenge this week will be a service challenge and all 16 contestants are in with a chance at winning immunity from...

Service Challenge - Movida (Immunity Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 22

This challenge is all about the ingredients. Each team must feature the same ingredient in each course

Service Challenge - (Immunity Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 23

For 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 ge...

Service Challenge - (Immunity Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 24

Each 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.

Team Challenge

Season 13 - Episode 25

Each team must create a dish that features the ingredient hidden underneath the tablecloth and must also use an allocated electrical applian...

Vegetable Challenge

Season 13 - Episode 26

Contestants must choose from either a potato, broccoli, carrot, brown onion or zucchini, to make a delicious dish featuring the vegetable of...

Pressure Test

Season 13 - Episode 27

In this pressure test, it's a fight to stay in the competition and four contestants must re-create a dish without ever seeing it.

11 Utensils

Season 13 - Episode 28

The 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 ...

Hot Chillies! (Immunity Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 29

The contestants must cook a dish using some of the hottest chillies in the world. The dish that best highlights the heat and flavour of thei...

Game ID (Elimination Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 30

This elimination is played over two rounds. In the first round, contestants must identify the 14 game meats on display. The six contestants ...

Second Chance Week

Season 13 - Episode 31

It's Second Chance Week in the MasterChef kitchen. Across the week, 11 previously eliminated contestants are back with not one, but two chan...

Second Chance Week (Pressure Test)

Season 13 - Episode 32

Renowned pastry chef Anthony Hart reveals his pressure test dish: chocolate oasis. The contestants have 2 hours and 15 minutes, plus a furth...

Clear Or Hidden (Mystery Box Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 33

This episode, the 10 returning contestants can choose between a clear mystery box where the ingredients are visible or a regular mystery box...

It's A Knockout

Season 13 - Episode 34

Four 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 tas...

Murray Cod (Elimination Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 35

Josh Niland demonstrates how to make the most of a Murray cod utilising the entire fish. For this challenge, contestants are given one Murra...

Pair Up With Crayfish

Season 13 - Episode 36

Contestants must pair up with another contestant to form seven teams. Each team must create crayfish two ways, one familiar dish and one inv...

Vego (Elimination Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 37

The four contestants cooking in this elimination challenge discover they will be cooking a vegetarian dish, with all ingredients harvested f...

Melbourne Inspiration (Mystery Box)

Season 13 - Episode 38

The mystery box reveals a map of Melbourne and a camera phone to take pictures. The contestants must explore the city streets and laneways t...

Kate Reid Pastry

Season 13 - Episode 39

Jock introduces Kate Reid, the mastermind behind Lune Croissanterie. Contestants must use Kate's world-class pastry and turn it into a dish ...

90 Minute Cook Time (Elimination Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 40

The 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 t...

Home Delivery (Team Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 41

Teams 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...

Khanh Nguyen's Pork Wellington

Season 13 - Episode 42

Guest chef Khanh Nguyen from Sunda has taken South-East Asian food to the next level. The contestants must create Khanh's dish: pork welling...

4 Ingredient Barter (Mystery Box)

Season 13 - Episode 43

Jock reveals this mystery box is different. Contestants need to use four ingredients in their final dish, but before the cook starts, they c...

The Top Four (Immunity Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 44

The top four cooks from the latest mystery box challenge battle it out for immunity and a guaranteed spot in the top 10.

Nu Nu Ingredient ID (Elimination Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 45

Contestants must correctly identify ingredients in three dishes from Nick Holloway's Nu Nu menu. The five contestants who name the least amo...

Three Blue Ducks (Service Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 46

The 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...

Darren Purchese (Pressure Test)

Season 13 - Episode 47

Contestants must cook a sweet pressure test recipe of their own design. Darren Purchese will be running the floor and mentoring the contesta...

Family Messages

Season 13 - Episode 48

After watching emotional messages from their family members, Melissa explains that contestants must make a dish inspired by their family. Th...

Keep Up With Curtis & Masterclass

Season 13 - Episode 49

In today's challenge, the contestants must keep up with Curtis Stone as he cooks his ultimate roast chicken dish. Andy, Jock and chef Nornie...

Black Mystery Box or Black Gloche? (Double Elimination)

Season 13 - Episode 50

Today there is a massive double elimination. Contestants must choose between cooking with the black mystery box or the black cloche, with th...

Uluru

Season 13 - Episode 51

Today we are in the spiritual heart of Australia, Uluru. Contestants must create a fine dining three-course meal under the stars at the stun...

Simpson's Gap (Elimination Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 52

The team arrive at Simpson's Gap and judges reveal the contestants must create a dish using a variety of foraged bush foods. The contestant ...

All 7 Ingredients! (Mystery Box Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 53

In the toughest mystery box challenge of the season, the contestants discover they must create a dish using all seven ingredients under the ...

The Cloche Challenge

Season 13 - Episode 54

Each cloche represents an ingredient, a cuisine, food related word, or kitchen equipment. The contestants must choose any two cloches and fe...

Fast Food & Fancy Food (Elimination Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 55

Contestants must choose an ingredient and cook it two ways, in a fast-food and in a fancy food application. The contestants with the three l...

Society (Service & Elimination Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 56

The judges welcome the contestants to Martin Benn's opulent new Melbourne restaurant, Society. The pressure is on as they discover today's s...

Vue Du Monde - Bottlebrush (Pressure Test)

Season 13 - Episode 57

Contestants face a pressure test like no other. Chef Hugh Allen from restaurant Vue Du Monde, challenges contestants to recreate his dish, b...

Finalists (Advantage Challenge)

Season 13 - Episode 58

The finalists enter the MasterChef kitchen to discover the day's advantage challenge, which will see the winner cooking in the Finale.

Semi-Final

Season 13 - Episode 59

Contestants compete in a semifinal service challenge. The contestant with the least impressive menu will leave the competition. Finalists ar...

Grand Finale (Part 1)

Season 13 - Episode 60

It’s here, the MasterChef Australia Grand Finale for 2021. Our three finalists face an incredible three round challenge over two days with a...

Grand Finale (Part 2)

Season 13 - Episode 61

It’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...