The BEST episodes written by Esi Bartels
#1 - 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.
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#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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?
#6 - Elimination Challenge: Blind Taste Test
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 20
The losing team from the greenhouse challenge now face elimination. The first three to fail the blind-fold taste test will have 75 minutes to prepare an impressive dish to stay in the competition.
#7 - Immunity Challenge
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 43
The three best performers from the invention test now compete for a chance at immunity. Will our amateur cook have what it takes to out-perform one of Australia's best chefs?
#8 - Pressure Test: Andy Bowdy's Rita cake
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 12
The bottom three contestants from the invention test now face a pressure test to recreate Andy Bowdy's Rita cake to avoid elimination. Who will be the next to leave the competition?
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - Elimination Challenge: Hidden Pairs
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 5
Hidden Pairs Elimination Challenge Bottom 4 cooking of in the mystery pairs elimination challenge.
#12 - 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?
#13 - 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.
#14 - Team Challenge: Earth
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 37
Contestants split into pairs have 75 minutes to cook one main and one dessert that must incorporate the element of earth. The least impressive team will then need to cook off to avoid elimination.
#15 - Elimination Challenge: Potato & Masterclass
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 10
Episode Ten and MasterClass 1: The losing team from the Italian service challenge face elimination. Who will be the next to leave the competition? Plus, don't miss the first MasterClass of 2017 led by judges Gary, George and Matt.
#16 - 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.
#17 - Pressure Test: Josue Lopez's After the Eucalypt Fire
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 22
The bottom three contestants from the invention test now cook off in a three hour pressure test set by 2016's Chef of the Year. Who will impress and who has cooked their last dish in the competition?
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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?
#25 - 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?
#26 - 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.
#27 - 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?
#28 - 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.
#29 - 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.
#30 - 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.
#31 - 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.
#32 - 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?
#33 - 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.
#34 - 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.
#35 - 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.
#36 - 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.
#37 - 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.
#38 - 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.
#39 - 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.
#40 - 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?
#41 - Mystery Box Challenge
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 46
This program is about to get even bigger as the competition travels to the land of the cherry blossom, Japan. Contestants must explore Tokyo to find ingredients for the mystery box challenge.
#42 - 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.
#43 - 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.
#44 - 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?
#45 - 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?
#46 - 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.
#47 - 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?
#48 - Immunity Challenge: Jarrod Di Blasi
MasterChef Australia - Season 9 - Episode 8
The top three contestants from the invention test now compete in creating a family meal for four in half-an-hour. The winner will then take on a professional chef for a chance at immunity.
#49 - 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.
#50 - 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.