Episode 1 | Top 40 Compete

Top 40 compete in a head to head challenge, to narrow it down to the top 20.

Episode 2 | Top 22 Compete

In order to move to the next round, the home cooks must have an immense passion for food and be determined to out-cook their rivals in a series of head-to-head battles to earn a coveted white apron and compete for a chance to win ...

Episode 3 | You're the Apple of My Eye

After the Battle for the Apron concludes, the Top 20 home cooks in America will face their first Mystery Box Challenge. Each contestant is given 20 staple ingredients that anyone could find in their home and tasked with preparing ...

Episode 4 | Cinnamon Roll-er Coaster

After the apple pie elimination test, the remaining 22 home cooks will face their first team challenge of the season at an amusement park. Once teams are decided, each team will be tasked with creating its version of an amusement ...

Episode 5 | Clawing to Victory

In the next mystery box challenge, the home cooks will have to come out of their shells when they must prepare unique crab dishes for the judges. The home cook who prepares the best crab dish will receive a significant advantage b...

Episode 6 | What Happens in Vegas Steaks in Vegas

In the second field challenge of the season, the home cooks will take a surprise trip to Las Vegas, where they will be split into two teams to take over Drai's Nightclub and feed 101 Las Vegas performers. The team who receives the...

Episode 7 | Bring Home the Bacon

In the next challenge, it's proven that Breakfast is indeed the most important meal of the day when the home cooks are each tasked to create an elevated breakfast dish in 45 minutes. Not only will the winner have immunity in the n...

Episode 8 | Happy Birthday MasterChef

In the next team challenge, the remaining home cooks will celebrate a MASTERCHEF milestone, the 100th episode! Each team will prepare a two-course menu for the 100th episode celebration, during which VIP guests will dine on oyster...

Episode 9 | Gordon's Greatest Hits

In the next challenge, the remaining home cooks will learn from the best as they enter a special taste-it-and-make-it challenge. Each contestant must recreate Gordon Ramsay's signature Beef Wellington. The home cooks with the wors...

Episode 10 | Rice Rice Baby

In the next mystery box challenge, the remaining home cooks will be faced with an assortment of rice. Each contestant must create a rice dish in 60 minutes. The contestant with the winning dish will be featured in Family Circle Ma...

Episode 11 | Moo-vers and Bakers

The Top 10 home cooks enter the Wild West when they face their next team challenge and create steak meals for 101 cowboys and ranchers. The team that receives the most winning votes will moo-ve on in the competition, while the rem...

Episode 12 | Family Reunion

The Top 10 home cooks will cook family style when they face their next team challenge and create family style meals for VIP diners. After each team prepares their family style meals, they are greeted by the dinner guests, their fa...

Episode 13 | A Little Southern Flare

In the next mystery box challenge, the remaining home cooks must prepare a flambe. The winner of the challenge will not only be safe from the next elimination challenge, but will also determine which Southern dish the contestants ...

Episode 14 | Getting A-Head in the Competition

In the next team challenge, the remaining home cooks will split into teams to prepare vegetarian meals for guests of the MASTERCHEF restaurant. Teams will have access to any ingredients that they choose in the MASTERCHEF pantry, a...

Episode 15 | A Storm's a Brewing

In the next mystery box challenge, the remaining home cooks must create a dish using coffee as one of the main ingredients. The winner of the challenge will receive a significant advantage in the next pressure test and will be saf...

Episode 16 | The Restaurant Takeover

In the next team challenge, the Top Six home cooks will face the wildly popular restaurant takeover. Each team must complete two appetizer and two entree dishes for the dining guests in a downtown Los Angeles restaurant. The winni...

Episode 17 | Return of the Champions

In the next mystery box challenge, the Top Five home cooks must create a dish using pear, blue cheese, tomato, portabella mushroom and chocolate. The winner of the challenge receives two advantages: first, he/she will be safe from...

Episode 18 | Think Inside the Box

After learning from past champions in last week's episode, the four remaining contestants put that knowledge to use in the next team challenge. Using special ingredients provided by judges Gordon Ramsay and Graham Elliot, each tea...

Episode 19 | Team Gordon Ramsay

The home cook with the most number of votes will move on in the competition, while the remaining two home cooks will face the next pressure test, during which they must complete three classic MASTERCHEF dishes. The home cook with ...

Episode 20 | The Finale

In the final challenge in the MASTERCHEF kitchen, the Top Two home cooks will have one last chance to prove to the judges that they deserve the MASTERCHEF title by creating a three-course meal. After evaluating the final dishes, t...