About this season
MasterChef Australia is a Logie Award-winning Australian competitive cooking game show based on the original British MasterChef. It is produced by Shine Australia and screens on Network Ten.
Episodes (31)
1. Auditions: Group 1
Aired 19 April 2026 • 79 min
MasterChef Australia returns with auditions and 40 of the country's best home cooks are ready. Tonight 20 cooks have 90 minutes to cook their dream dish in order to win one of the 10 aprons on offer.
2. Auditions: Group 2
Aired 20 April 2026 • 58 min
Another 20 home cooks enter the MasterChef kitchen to compete for 10 aprons on offer. For those who miss out, they learn there will be one final chance to cook for the last four aprons tomorrow.
3. Auditions: Second Chance
Aired 21 April 2026 • 53 min
Tonight, the 20 remaining hopefuls have a second and final chance to cook their way into the competition. Just who will score themselves one of the final four places?
4. Mystery Box: Jimmy Barnes
Aired 26 April 2026 • 75 min
Aussie Rock legend Jimmy Barnes set this season's first mystery box, inspiring the Top 24 with seasonal ingredients they love to cook with. Dish of the day will see its maker safe from elimination.
5. Elimination Challenge: Family Favourites
Aired 27 April 2026 • 50 min
In the first elimination of the competition, 23 cooks will show the judges a window into their homelife, through a favourite dish that they cook at home for their loved ones.
6. Invention Test: Cereal
Aired 28 April 2026 • 48 min
It's the return of a MasterChef classic with an Invention Test challenging cooks to create an inventive dish using cereal.
7. Pressure Test: Maggie Beer
Aired 29 April 2026 • 52 min
The bottom five cooks from the Invention Test face off in a Pressure Test set by MasterChef favourite Maggie Beer, tasked with mastering her signature sour cream pastry in a high-stakes pie challenge.
8. Immunity Challenge: Andy Cooks
Aired 3 May 2026 • 63 min
It's Family Favourites week and social media sensation Andy Cooks (chef Andy Hearnden) is on the hunt for the ultimate breakfast, in an immunity challenge cook with 60 minutes on the clock.
9. Elimination Challenge: Reinventing Carbs
Aired 4 May 2026 • 49 min
In an elimination challenge centred on reinventing the judges' quick carb midweek dinner recipes, mistakes and time pressure sends one cook home.
10. Team Challenge: Family Feast
Aired 5 May 2026 • 49 min
It is the first team challenge of the series, and the contestants are all eager to see how well they can work together. The bottom two teams will find themselves in the elimination the following day.
11. Elimination Challenge: Family Traditions
Aired 6 May 2026 • 46 min
Six contestants face elimination as they must create a dish that represent their family food traditions to fight for their place in the competition.
12. Mystery Box Challenge: Catherine Zhang
Aired 10 May 2026 • 59 min
The Top 20 compete for Immunity from tomorrow's Elimination in a fruity Mystery Box challenge set by Catherine Zhang, marking the start of Viral Wonders Week
13. Elimination Challenge: Viral Ingredients
Aired 11 May 2026 • 49 min
Viral sensation Victoria Minell (aka @recipesbyvictoria) sets a challenge to use one of her five viral ingredients in a 75-minute cook to save their place in the competition
14. Team Service Challenge: Viral-worthy Dish
Aired 12 May 2026 • 49 min
Six teams will compete in their first service challenge, tasked with creating one perfect viral-worthy dish to serve to hundreds of diners, and impress a mystery social media-star critic
15. Immunity Pin Challenge: Khanh Ong
Aired 13 May 2026 • 52 min
MasterChef alum and social media star Khanh Ong sets an epic challenge to create a bold, out-there sandwich with a banging cross section, to win the first immunity pin of the season
16. Mystery Box Challenge: Rick Stein
Aired 17 May 2026 • 59 min
It's the start of Around the World Week, and global food icon Rick Stein joins the MasterChef Kitchen to set an extra spicy Mystery Box challenge
17. Elimination Challenge: Cuisines from Around the World
9.5Aired 18 May 2026 • 49 min
In an Around the World elimination challenge, MasterChef contestants must create a dish inspired by a chosen cuisine, featuring a surprise hero ingredient revealed only after they commit
18. Invention Test: Fusion
10.0Aired 19 May 2026 • 49 min
It's a fusion invention test today with the contestants having to make dish featuring cuisines from two countries
19. Pressure Test: Rosheen Kaul
10.0Aired 20 May 2026 • 51 min
Chef Rosheen Kaul sets the first full Pressure Test for the season, with an intense, three-hour challenge
20. Mystery Box Challenge: Dim Sim Lim
Aired 24 May 2026 • 62 min
Kicking off nostalgia-themed week in the MasterChef kitchen, social media sensation chef Dim Sim Lim sets a 60-minute mystery box challenge requiring a steamed element. English
21. Elimination Challenge: Heritage
Aired 25 May 2026 • 49 min
The MasterChef contestants must cook something connected to their heritage to avoid being eliminated.
22. Team Challenge: Team Relay
Aired 26 May 2026 • 49 min
In MasterChef's most notorious team challenge, four teams will navigate the chaos of the Team Relay to compete for a chance to cook for Immunity.
23. Immunity Pin Challenge: French Techniques
Aired 27 May 2026 • 50 min
Guided by MasterChef Alumna Justine Schofield, four contestants put their French techniques to the test for a chance to win a coveted immunity pin.
24. Mystery Box Challenge: Matt Sinclair & Daniel Dobra
Aired 31 May 2026 • 62 min
25. Classic Pairs Elimination Challenge
Aired 1 June 2026 • 50 min
26. Invention Test: Reese's Peanut Butter Cup
Aired 2 June 2026 • 47 min
27. Elimination Challenge: Time or Ingredients?
Aired 3 June 2026 • 50 min
28. Mystery Box Challenge: Curtis Stone
Aired 7 June 2026 • 62 min
Curtis Stone kicks off Aussie Classics week, with a once-in-a-lifetime chance for the cooks to have their dish stocked in Coles, as they are challenged to whip up nostalgic Pie and Ice-cream flavours.
29. Elimination Challenge: Pork
Aired 8 June 2026 • 48 min
With Curtis Stone back in the kitchen, the MasterChef contestants are challenged with cooking a dish that features pork to save their place in the competition.
30. Comeback Challenge
Aired 9 June 2026 • 50 min
It's Aussie Classics Week, and there's nothing Aussies love more than a great comeback story. Today, the previously eliminated contestants return for a chance to earn their place back in the competition.
31. Elimination Challenge: Aussie Native Ingredients
Aired 10 June 2026 • 58 min
Aussie Classics week draws to a close with an exciting day in the MasterChef Kitchen as guest judge and Aussie icon Robert Irwin sets an Aussie Native Ingredients Elimination Challenge.