The BEST episodes of MasterChef Australia season 14
Every episode of MasterChef Australia season 14, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of MasterChef Australia season 14!
MasterChef Australia is an Australian competitive cooking game show based on the original British version of MasterChef. Chef Andy Allen, restaurateur and chef Jean-Christophe Novelli, Poh Ling Yeow and food critic Sofia Levin serve as the show's hosts and judges.
#1 - Cooking For Your Loved Ones
Season 14 - Episode 48 - Aired 6/22/2022
In today's service challenge, contestants are cooking for their loved ones, and must serve an entree, main and dessert. The team with the best menu will win a shot at tomorrow's immunity challenge.
#2 - Creative Service Challenge
Season 14 - Episode 33 - Aired 6/1/2022
Contestants become artists for a creative service challenge, and the judges expect three-course masterpieces as they take inspiration from a virtual forest at digital art gallery The LUME.
#3 - Marco Pierre White Pressure Test & MasterClass
Season 14 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/2/2022
An imposing figure appears in the kitchen: iconic chef Marco Pierre White. Contestants face a pressure test to win immunity by recreating his panache of sea scallops, calamari and ink sauce.
#4 - Marco Pierre White Elimination
Season 14 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/5/2022
Contestants must create a dish using ingredients from culinary king Marco Pierre White's array of pantry items that he uses at home. The least impressive dish will ensure elimination for its maker.
#5 - Smoking Mystery Box Challenge
Season 14 - Episode 36 - Aired 6/6/2022
Contestants enter the kitchen for a smoking mystery box challenge. They must create a dish that incorporates a burnt element or has the flavour of fire, for a shot at a huge advantage.
#6 - Elimination Pressure Test
Season 14 - Episode 37 - Aired 6/7/2022
It's an elimination pressure test with a difference. The contestants won't see or taste the dish, and they won't be given a recipe. All they have to go on is a review written by judge Melissa Leong.
#7 - Immunity 3 Course Service Challenge
Season 14 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/8/2022
Vying for a shot at immunity, contestants are split into two teams for a service challenge. Each team must curate a three-course menu for either the Japanese or Italian restaurant they are cooking in.
#8 - Movie Food Immunity
Season 14 - Episode 39 - Aired 6/9/2022
You have a ticket to the silver screen for a movie food immunity challenge. After a popcorn taste test, the remaining competitors must create a blockbuster flavour choc-top that will thrill filmgoers.
#9 - Rick Stein Elimination
Season 14 - Episode 40 - Aired 6/12/2022
Someone will be eliminated and miss out on the top 10 as contestants attempt to create an entrancing dish that transports the judges and legendary guest chef Rick Stein to a special place.
#10 - Top Ten Week Mystery Box
Season 14 - Episode 41 - Aired 6/13/2022
Top 10 Week kicks off with one tough mystery box: it's the everything box, and all ingredients inside must be used. Plus, anyone who cooks a top dish this week will be safe from elimination.
#11 - Own Pressure Test
Season 14 - Episode 42 - Aired 6/14/2022
Contestants have been asked to write their own Pressure Test overnight. Now, they must handle their own pressure and exceed the high bar they have set for themselves and bring their best dish yet.
#12 - Classic Invention Test
Season 14 - Episode 43 - Aired 6/15/2022
This challenge is the classic invention test. Our cooks must be inventive, creative and able to think outside the box as they reimagine a classic we all grew up with: the humble fruit salad.
#13 - Time Auction
Season 14 - Episode 44 - Aired 6/16/2022
The cooks with the four top dishes this week have won immunity from Sunday's elimination. Now they battle it out to win the final immunity pin, but only if they can ace the infamous Time Auction!
#14 - 3 Round Elimination Challenge
Season 14 - Episode 45 - Aired 6/19/2022
Six contestants are cooking to survive in a challenge played out over three rounds, where they can only pick one ingredient to use: pumpkin, chicken or fish. What would you cook to stay in the game?
#15 - Mystery Box Challenge
Season 14 - Episode 46 - Aired 6/20/2022
In a Mystery Box challenge that focuses on detail, plating and using what's available from a choice of tiny ingredients, cooks must plate up a winning entree-sized dish to avoid a Pressure Test.
#16 - 99 Ingredient Pressure Test
Season 14 - Episode 47 - Aired 6/21/2022
Chef Khanh Nguyen reveals his seafood plate for today's Pressure Test, and there are 99 ingredients, 143 steps and 13 pages in the recipe! The chef whose dish least resembles Khanh's will go home.
#17 - 'Honey' Pressure Test
Season 14 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/31/2022
Gelato master Donny Toce presents his intricate dessert, Honey, comprising a honey tuille, gelato honeycomb, and blown sugar beehive for this Pressure Test, and failure will send someone home.
#18 - Immunity Challenge: Prickly Ingredients
Season 14 - Episode 49 - Aired 6/23/2022
This episode's challenge is to tame one of these very prickly ingredients: chestnuts, stinging nettle, prickly pear or sea urchin. The best dish will win its maker immunity from the week's elimination.
#19 - Hugh Allen Elimination Challenge
Season 14 - Episode 50 - Aired 6/26/2022
Seven contestants cook to avoid elimination. Over two rounds, using ingredients selected by guest chef Hugh Allen, competitors must create dishes impressive enough to see them through to safety.
#20 - Rainbow Mystery Box
Season 14 - Episode 51 - Aired 6/27/2022
Contestants cook from a rainbow mystery box including painted crayfish, scampi caviar, Fruit Loops, dragon fruit, coloured corn, mukhwas, flowering pineapple sage, rainbow chard, and dried turmeric.
#21 - Kirsten Tibballs' Pressure Test
Season 14 - Episode 52 - Aired 6/28/2022
For this pressure test, Chocolate Queen Kirsten Tibballs presents her intricate cherry on top dessert. The dish that least replicates Kirsten's delicious dessert will send its maker home.
#22 - The TWO Challenge
Season 14 - Episode 53 - Aired 6/29/2022
Split into teams of two, contestants select two ingredients from two pantries, but can't see what their teammate is choosing. Teams will cook a dish using their four ingredients for a shot at immunity.
#23 - Ingredient Purchase Immunity Challenge
Season 14 - Episode 54 - Aired 6/30/2022
Contestants purchase their ingredients, using time as their currency. The more ingredients they purchase, the less time on the clock. For an immunity taste, they have no time to waste.
#24 - Finals Week - Oyster Challenge
Season 14 - Episode 55 - Aired 7/3/2022
Finals Week sees our six finalists travel to Oyster Bay in Tasmania, where they will face a two-round oyster challenge. They'll need to be super creative to avoid being shucked out of the competition.
#25 - Finals Week - Truffle Immunity
Season 14 - Episode 56 - Aired 7/4/2022
As their Tassie tour rolls on, the final five visit Deloraine for a truffle hunt. They'll then use the black diamonds they dug out of the ground to cook the most delicious dish worthy of immunity.