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MasterChef Recap

The MasterChef finalists and judge and their big shiny plate.

After months of blood, sweat, tears and umami, the MasterChef winner is crowned

It’s Nat versus Pezza cooking up a 113-step dessert storm in the MasterChef grand final. Who fluffs things up and who gets to hold up the big shiny plate?

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Masterchef finalists with Curtis

Cranky Curtis returns for the semi-final and the worst cook (who isn’t Nat) is eliminated

Pezza, Nat and Sav frantically cook off for a place in the grand finale. Bet you didn’t see this finalist combo coming.

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MasterChef judges get cooking

Poh and co show the amateurs how it’s done in a chaotic and pointless challenge

It’s the return of chaotic energy Poh, and a whole lot of hysterical ex-contestants, as the judges and amateurs whoop it up for no good reason.

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Sav, Pezza, Mimi and Harry are up for elimination.

Ingredient ‘beasts’ are unleashed and an unpopular decision sends a fan favourite packing

The MasterChef finalists take things to extremes in their quests to make the top four.

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MasterChef top 5

A scene so heartfelt and moving that it is, annoyingly, (almost) impossible to make fun of

The final five must cook a dish inspired by the person who inspired them in their food journey. Best dish wins immunity. Cue the tears.

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Who’s going home?

After the perennially popular ‘time auction’, one of these four wannabes bids farewell

Josh, Harry, Lochie and Sav gamble with ingredients in the quest to survive another dramatically drawn-out elimination. Only three succeed.

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The MasterChef judges hit the streets of Hong Kong.

Fish fights, hot woks and a chipped tooth: That’s what Hong Kong street food is all about

The amateurs pair up to run dai pai dong stalls, serving authentic Australian reality television food to the Hong Kong locals.

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Are the judges assembled on a rooftop for a late-night heist?

Who has the nicest buns? Bao down to the winners of the Hong Kong mystery box

The top seven, sans Sav, head overseas. First up: a cook-out at Victoria “Beckham” Harbour and plenty of gratuitous skyline shots from a rooftop.

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Is it eggs and bacon or bacon and eggs, Sofia (pictured right)?

A favourite cracks under the pressure of this ‘devastating’ bacon-and-eggs themed shock elimination

Will pepper ice-cream and stuffed peppers prevail in an invention test that leaves us all feeling less than sunny-side-up?

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Nagi Maehashi aka RecipeTin Eats with her mystery box for  MasterChef Australia.

Nagi swaps her RecipeTin for a MysteryBox and sets the clock

Can the contestants negotiate the near-impossible task of cooking in 30 minutes, like a normal human being?

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