The BEST episodes written by Esi Bartels
#1 - Elimination Challenge & MasterClass 5
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 60
Three contestants must create a dish worthy of a place in the semifinal. The final MasterClass of the season sees the tables turned on Gary, George and Shannon, who compete in a mystery box challenge. Later, Curtis Stone drops by to take part in an invention test relay.
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#2 - Semi Final
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 61
The stakes are high as the three remaining contestants fight it out for the two places in the finale and the chance of winning the coveted prize.
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#3 - Elimination Challenge
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 50
The losing team from the Yokocho street stall challenge must cook off to stay in the competition. Contestants must cook a dish that celebrates where they have come from and where they are going.
#4 - Grand Final
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 62
Who will be crowned the winner of 2017? The finalists are competing for a $250,000 cash prize and a column in Australia's leading premium food magazine, Delicious.
#5 - Immunity Challenge: Waffle Iron
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 13
The three best performers from the invention test are now vying for a chance at immunity. Does the amateur cook have what it takes to out-cook the professional?
#6 - Elimination Challenge
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 58
The top five contestants must create either a sweet or savoury dish and present seven plates of food for the judges as well as four of Australia's top chefs to avoid elimination from the competition.
#7 - Auditions Part 1
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 1
The heat is on. A fresh group of home cooks from around the country will eagerly tackle challenges that will see one of them take home the title and $250,000.
#8 - Elimination Challenge
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 55
The three least impressive contestants from the service challenge must cook to stay in the competition and earn their place in finals week. Who will be the next to leave?
#9 - Mystery Box Challenge & Invention Test
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 51
Contestants have an hour to create a dish from four mystery ingredients to gain advantage in the invention test. Later, contestants must recreate a classic dish and avoid facing elimination.
#10 - Elimination Challenge & MasterClass 3
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 40
Contestants have 75 minutes to cook a delicious dish to avoid elimination. Later, Heston Blumenthal's MasterClass shows how to cook a tasty BBQ leg of Mallee lamb.
#11 - Service Challenge: Dinner by Heston
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 59
The pressure is on as the top four contestants enter one of Melbourne's top restaurants, Dinner By Heston, for a service challenge. Who will be the first semifinalist?
#12 - Immunity Challenge
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 18
The three best-performing contestants from the invention test compete for immunity. Each contestant has 90 minutes to create a dessert while the professional chefs will only have 75 minutes.
#13 - Elimination Challenge & MasterClass
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 30
The seven members of the losing team from the vegetarian feast challenge are facing elimination. Which favourite will be going home? Plus, a very special Yotam Ottolenghi MasterClass.
#14 - Immunity Challenge
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 48
The winning contestants from the invention test and the Kappo challenge now have a chance to fight it out for immunity in view of Mount Fuji at the Obuchi Tea Plantation.
#15 - Mystery Box Challenge & Invention Test
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 56
It's finals week. The top six contestants enter the kitchen to face a mystery box challenge to prove to the judges just how far they have come in the competition.
#16 - Kappo-style Degustation Menu
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 47
Each of the eight contestants will have to conceive, cook and deliver one course as part of an eight-course Kappo-style degustation for some of Tokyo's food elite.
#17 - Auditions Part 3
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 3
In the third and final round of the judge's auditions, six contestants are vying for the final apron, which will secure them a place in the top 24.
#18 - Mystery Box Challenge: Yotam Ottolenghi & Invention Test
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 26
Master of Mediterranean cuisine, Yotam Ottolenghi's mystery box challenge gives contestants 75 minutes to create a delicious dish to gain an advantage going into the invention test.
#19 - Service Challenge: 50 Hungry Customers
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 54
The judges reveal that each contestant will be in charge of either an entree, main or dessert to serve 50 hungry customers. The bottom three contestants will then be up for elimination.
#20 - Heston Blumenthal Road Trip
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 36
It's Heston Blumenthal week. Heston takes the top 12 contestants on a road trip through regional Victoria; the first stop is the mighty Murray River in Swan Hill.
#21 - Team Challenge: Identical Plates
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 44
Split into pairs, each team must make two plates of the same dish and they must be identical, but they will not be able to see or taste what their team mate is cooking.
#22 - Off-site Challenge: Shinjuku
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 49
The judges welcome contestants to the heart of Shinjuku, where Tokyo comes alive at night. Contestants will be cooking at a local alleyway packed with street stalls to feed hundreds of hungry diners.
#23 - Auditions Part 2
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 2
After a record-breaking first-round cook that saw an extraordinary 20 aprons handed out, only four aprons remain. Who will have what it takes to impress the judges?
#24 - Mystery Box Challenge & Invention Test
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 41
Contestants have an hour to create a dish from the Mystery Box ingredients, with only three dishes to be tasted. The maker of the winning dish will receive an advantage in the invention test.
#25 - Elimination Challenge
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 35
The six members of the losing team from the pop-up restaurant challenge enter the kitchen facing elimination. Who will be the next contestant to leave the competition?
#26 - Team Challenge: Air
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 38
The judges and Heston Blumenthal welcome the eight contestants to the Mildura salt pan. The contestants must cook dishes inspired by 'air' in teams of four.
#27 - Pressure Test: Kylie Millar
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 52
The three least impressive contestants from the invention test cook off in a pressure test set by MasterChef alumni, Kylie Millar. Who has cooked their last dish in the kitchen?
#28 - Mystery Box Challenge & Invention Test: Curtis Stone
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 31
Contestants have an hour to create a delicious dish from ingredients found in the Mystery Box set by international celebrity chef Curtis Stone.
#29 - Invention Test: Fire
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 39
Contestants have 60 minutes to cook a savoury dish inspired by fire. The two least impressive dishes must then cook off to avoid the elimination challenge.
#30 - Team Challenge: South Melbourne Market
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 24
Each team must serve two dishes in one of four market-friendly ways at the famous South Melbourne Market. The two teams that make the least amount of money will face off in an elimination challenge.
#31 - Elimination Challenge
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 45
The bottom four contestants from the team challenge now must cook off and produce a spectacular dish to stay alive in the competition.
#32 - Mystery Box: Elena Duggan
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 4
Top 24 Mystery Box Challenge: Elena Duggan The top 24 contestants enter the kitchen for their first mystery box challenge.
#33 - Elimination Challenge
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 25
Eight contestants now face elimination and must survive three rounds if they are to keep their food dream alive. Will one of the top contenders fail to impress the judges?
#34 - Second Chance
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 33
Twelve of the previously eliminated contestants now have a chance to cook their way back into the competition. Which one of the home cooks will secure themselves a second chance?
#35 - Pressure Test: Gary Mehigan's Roast Chicken, Peas and Potatoes
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 7
The three contestants with the least impressive dishes from the invention test face off in the pressure test. To survive they must keep up with Gary Mehigan as he prepares his classic roast chicken.
#36 - Mystery Box: Ben Shewry
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 11
Contestants have 75 minutes to create a dish using ingredients from the mystery box with the winner gaining the advantage in the invention test.
#37 - Team Challenge: Vegetarian Feast
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 29
Split into two teams, each group must prepare a Yotam Ottolenghi-style vegetarian feast for a group of meat lovers. The team that serves the least impressive feast will be up for elimination.
#38 - Mystery Box Challenge & Invention Test
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 21
Contestants have 75 minutes to create a delicious dish from the mystery box of traditional Thai ingredients to gain advantage in the invention test.
#39 - Immunity Challenge
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 23
The three best performers in the invention test battle it out for the chance to cook for an immunity pin. Will the amateur contestant have what it takes to out-cook a professional?
#40 - Pressure Test: Christy Tania's Ice Cream Float
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 17
The bottom three contestants from the invention test now face off in the pressure test elimination. The contestants have to recreate an ice cream float with helium-filled toffee balloon.
#41 - Mystery Box: Delicious Dessert
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 16
Contestants have 90 minutes to create a delicious dessert from the mystery box ingredients however, only five dishes will be tasted and only three will move on to the immunity challenge.
#42 - Elimination Challenge: Time Auction
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 15
The losing team from the relay challenge now face elimination and the contestants have 90 minutes which they can use to buy ingredients. Who will be the next to leave the competition?
#43 - Immunity Challenge
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 28
The three best performers in the invention test must first face off for a chance to cook against a professional chef for immunity. Does an amateur have what it takes to defeat a professional?
#44 - Team Challenge: Relay
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 14
The contestants are split into teams of four in a relay challenge as each member has 15 minutes to cook and only 45 seconds to hand over to the next cook in the relay.
#45 - Pressure Test: Paul Carmichael's Bajan Fish Fry
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 42
The contestants have three hours and 45 minutes to recreate Paul Carmichael's Bajan fish fry from Momofuku Seiobo. The contestant with the least impressive dish will be eliminated from the competition.
#46 - Pressure Test: Yotam's Mezze Feast
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 27
The three contestants with the least impressive dishes from the invention test must cook off to avoid elimination in a pressure test set by the master of Mediterranean cuisine, Yotam Ottolenghi.
#47 - 400 Gradi Team Challenge
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 9
The contestants gather at Gradi, one of Melbourne's leading Italian restaurants before being split into two teams who must prepare four dishes for 250 hungry diners to avoid the elimination challenge.
#48 - Team Challenge: Edible Art Installation
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 19
Contestants will be working in teams to build an edible art installation in a specially constructed greenhouse. With just 7 hours to impress the judges which team will be safe from elimination?
#49 - Team Challenge: Pop-Up Restaurant
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 34
MasterChef Australia 2016 runner-up Matt Sinclair is on hand to mentor contestants in a pop-up restaurant team challenge to create a three-course menu for 100 diners.
#50 - Pressure Test: Deniz Karaca's Passion for Caramel
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 32
The bottom four contestants from the invention test must now cook off in the Pressure Test set by one of the world's top chocolatiers to avoid elimination. Who will be next to leave the competition?