Seasons & episodes
S13 · E1Auditions, Day 1 2021-04-19 · 75 min
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 title of Australia's next MasterChef.
S13 · E2Auditions, Day 2 2021-04-20 · 75 min
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 the remaining aprons.
S13 · E3Emelia Jackson Mystery Box 2021-04-21 · 75 min
This mystery box is selected by MasterChef Australia champion Emelia Jackson. The three best dishes will be awarded an immunity pin that can be played at any time during an elimination cook.
S13 · E4Chicken Or The Egg? 2021-04-22 · 75 min
In this two round challenge, contestants must create dishes that feature a chicken or an egg. The contestant with the least impressive dish will be the first sent home.
S13 · E5Superstars Week - Nigella Lawason 2021-04-25 · 75 min
Superstars Week kicks off with Nigella Lawson. Contestants must recreate Nigella's favourite dish based on her detailed description, with no ingredient list, recipe or visual reference to work from.
S13 · E6Superstars Week - Yotam Ottolenghi 2021-04-26 · 75 min
Yotam Ottolenghi presents his favourite flavour bombs: numbing oil, fenugreek marinade and chipotle peanuts. Each team must create a meal that features one of Yotam's flavour bombs.
S13 · E7Superstars Week - Massimo Bottura (Elimination Challenge) 2021-04-27 · 75 min
The judges reveal this elimination challenge is over two rounds and is set by cooking legend Massimo Bottura. Massimo presents his take on the classic dish: mac and cheese.
S13 · E8Superstars Week - Clare Smyth (Mystery Box) 2021-04-28 · 75 min
Clare Smyth reveals the dish that has inspired her choice of mystery box ingredients. Contestants must create a sweet or savoury dish using the ingredients that Clare has chosen for the mystery box.
S13 · E9Superstars Week - Heston Blumenthal (Immunity Challenge) 2021-04-29 · 75 min
Heston Blumenthal sets an immunity challenge in which contestants must use a popular breakfast ingredient to create a delicious dessert.
S13 · E10Poh, Callum & Reynold (Elimination Challenge) 2021-05-02 · 75 min
MasterChef alumni Poh, Callum and Reynold present the contestants with three dishes from their venues. Contestants must create a dish worthy of a place on the menu at any of these establishments.
S13 · E11Least & Most Comfortable (Team Challenge) 2021-05-03 · 75 min
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 judged against the same dish made by the other two teams.
S13 · E12Sweet & Savoury Tart (Elimination Challenge) 2021-05-04 · 75 min
Each contestant must choose the dish they feel most comfortable making: a savoury tart or sweet tart. Jock then switches the dishes and contestants must cook the dish they're least comfortable with.
S13 · E13Staples (Immunity Challenge) 2021-05-05 · 75 min
Contestants must create a dish using the staple ingredients under their benches as well as two ingredients from the garden for flavour. Contestants with the top five dishes will compete for immunity.
S13 · E14Choose Your Ingredient & Masterclass 2021-05-06 · 75 min
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 they have locked in their choice. A Masterclass follows.
S13 · E15That's The Way The Cookie Crumbles (Elimination Challenge) 2021-05-09 · 75 min
Keen as mustard, the contestants have to cook a dish that interprets one of the classic food sayings on display. The contestant who fails will be going home. That's the way the cookie crumbles.
S13 · E16Meet The Masters 2021-05-10 · 75 min
It's Meet the Masters Week. This opportunity gives the contestants up-close insights into the skills of the best culinary masters in Australia.
S13 · E17Pressure Test 2021-05-11 · 75 min
The least impressive team from the master team challenge must cook off in this pressure test.
S13 · E18Mystery Box 2021-05-12 · 75 min
The contestants enter the kitchen ready to take on the mystery box challenge set by a Michelin-starred chef.
S13 · E19Cooking With Fire (Immunity Challenge) 2021-05-13 · 75 min
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 fire. The most impressive cook wins immunity.
S13 · E20Meet The Masters (Elimination) 2021-05-16 · 75 min
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, flavour or technique they have learnt across the week.
S13 · E21Service Brigade - Tonka (Immunity Challenge) 2021-05-17 · 75 min
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 Sunday's elimination.
S13 · E22Service Challenge - Movida (Immunity Challenge) 2021-05-18 · 75 min
This challenge is all about the ingredients. Each team must feature the same ingredient in each course
S13 · E23Service Challenge - (Immunity Challenge) 2021-05-19 · 75 min
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 get to choose their desired pantry.
S13 · E24Service Challenge - (Immunity Challenge) 2021-05-20 · 75 min
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.